Juicing vs Blending - Which Is Better?

Juicing versus Blending. What is it? What's it good for and when would you do

one or the other? Coming right up.

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Both blending and juicing are getting more and more popular but there is some

confusion so I thought I'd clear up a few things first of all if you blend

something it doesn't make it juice just because it's liquid in juicing we remove

the fiber and we keep the sugar and the nutrients in blending we put the whole

thing in there and you keep all the fiber so it's a whole food still in that

sense obviously and with blending use a blender in a juicing you use a juicer so

a juicer is something that can separate the fiber from the liquid it shreds it

puts pressure on it and you get the liquid out there so why would we want to

do one or the other because it's about vegetables it's about fruits and

vegetables and this is a convenient way of consuming them however in blending

it's difficult to consume more than maybe one pound or so a day and inducing

however we can consume as much as 10 15 maybe even 20 pounds of fruits and

vegetables in a single day and we're getting all of those nutrients into our

bodies everything except the fiber because vegetables are cleansing that

means that this is a cleansing method it's super charging your body with

nutrients you're assisting of your liver and getting rid of toxins so this is

most suitable for people with a chronic disease someone who might be too weak to

digest food at all day they don't have much of an appetite

they eat something but it doesn't know good because they don't have the energy

to break it down digestion is very expensive it takes a lot of energy for

the body to process the food and it when we juice then it's

predigested it's extremely simple for the body the nutrients basically just

flow across the intestinal membrane and they're in the bloodstream and we're

done very very toxic people people with cancer and autoimmunity and degenerative

disease they're prime candidates for this because if you're toxic you need

cleansing primarily so juice provides concentrated nutrients you can't get

that much nutrients in you from real food unless you remove the fiber so here

it tastes it juices taste very good even things that you don't think of a sweet

per se like lettuce and cucumber and things like that

they turn out sweet when you juice them because you're concentrating nutrients

and you're concentrating the sugar so you're getting the vitamins minerals and

enzymes everything that you need to process these foods you're getting all

its nutrients in their natural form but it is also important to not heat the

juice and don't let it sit too long if possible you want to use a low speed

juicer that doesn't heat or fling the juice around too much so it gets exposed

to a lot of oxygen so low speed juicer and drink it as fresh as possible within

minutes or a couple of hours don't drink it the next day because a lot of the

nutrients will be gone by then the concentrated sugar can be a good

thing and a bad thing if you're really weak people who don't have a lot of

energy they don't have the energy to digest things that sugar is a great

energy source they can get get some energy they can get some blood sugar

that's an easy energy for them but if you are more just trying to do this

because you're overweight and you're extremely insulin resistant then juicing

may not be the way to go because if you're working with ketosis and

intermittent fasting this will definitely throw you out of ketosis

there is however a place there's a Gerson Institute founded by

Maxie Gerson and he started treating chronic disease and cancer and severe

cases of different things back in 20s and 30s and he found that he had great

success with cancer and and several degenerative diseases but he also had

success with diabetes so I don't know all of the factors that are involved

there but it seems like just loading supercharging the body with nutrients

could have such a beneficial effect that you could even overcome and heal the

body and help it heal from diabetes as well but I would primarily suggest this

for people who have the chronic disease the cancer the who are too weak to

digest etc for most people I would suggest for the most part stick with

blending because here you keep the fiber it's an everyday habit something that

you can do every day for a long long time it's a great meal replacement you

can put some nuts you can put some protein into the blending and you have a

whole meal it is a raw food that provides enzymes so you're getting a lot

of the natural things from whole food you're getting raw plant fiber that is

the raw materials it's the food for the healthy portion of your gut flora the

sugar and the starch the processed food feeds the opportunistic bad flora but

the raw plant fiber the whole food feeds the good flora so that's a way of

helping your body rebalance that gut flora and because you want to emphasize

mostly vegetables and not so much fruits maybe a few berries in here you can get

this very low in sugar so that even if there's a few grams of sugar it's not

gonna throw you out of ketosis you can maintain this with a very low

carbohydrate lifestyle as well this is more of a temporary thing or more of an

extreme measure to supercharge your body this is more of an ongoing

lifestyle habits hope that was helpful and if you're new to this channel and

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