Juicing Versus Smoothies, Which Is Healthier?

start with the first about the red kidney beans yes in order to destroy the lectins which are probably the most toxic lectins and red kidney beans it is recommended that they be boiled and crock pots often don’t hit the temperature you need to destroy them in the only studies that I know of that a showed sort of negative outcomes are often there was one where they served undercooked kidney beans and I believe they were cooked in a crock pot and the entire the whole Hospital all the patients were death their kidneys yeah they were you know you vomit for four or five hours and it’s a it’s like a horrible food poisoning with undercooked red kidney beans okay and once you sprout them they’re much more volatile and vulnerable to heat so I don’t know it might yeah but when you sprout anything it becomes easier to cook and kill oh yeah with everything always try and that’s what you’re doing yeah I do that a lot i I mean I do I definitely I sprout what I can

and then the other questions the smoothies versus the the juices I you’ll definitely want to weigh in on this I’ll just tell you what my perspective is it may be very different I see the juicing you’re you’re taking out a lot of the plant cell walls so of course the fiber is is a lot lower in inducing but what you’re also doing is the plant cell walls you’re taking out a lot of the substances that inhibit the absorption of things so you’re making the phytochemicals and antioxidants that you’re downing a super absorbable and so for use in in treatment of cancer or in treatment of disease where you really want to boost antioxidant status there’s probably no better way to do it than with juicing greens and sprouts and so forth so so I think that there’s I think there’s a very good therapeutic reason to do juicing

now with the smoothie you’re getting the whole thing you’re you’re blending the whole thing and some people believe you get some destruction happening of nutrients and so forth I know dr. Esselstyn is highly anti smoothie because he believes that it destroys endothelial cells and so on my take on smoothies are it’s a way better for people who are running out the door in the morning to take a green smoothie and slowly sip it you know to have something of value to consume and you can you can put some hemp seeds to give a little bit extra protein and so on and and have us a reasonable meal

my preference I never drink smoothies because I like to eat too much food I don’t want it down my my breakfast like that I just I love I really enjoy eating so that’s why I don’t have smoothies but like I can see for athletes or for people trying you know trying to to get quick nutrition when they’re on the go that it could be a reasonable option for some people I would never recommend it for someone with diabetes because things are absorbed so quickly and there’s a lot of calories there often and so I think it’s better for them to chew and eat their food so it depends on the individual situation but I’ll let you

let me preface this once again like I did with fruit to say congratulations if you’re taking smoothies rather than coffee and alcohol and sodas um so it’s certainly a step in the right direction now let’s give you a little bit about anatomical science chemistry biochemistry when you’re eating a healthy diet like this a vegan diet of plant-based diet and certainly a raw diet 80% of your food is digested in the saliva the enzymes in your mouth now this is not an opinion this is a fact so and I should listen to this one – because I don’t chew well enough I teach you to chew and I’m on the run and I notice I’m chewing a few times and swallowing and it is horrible to do that so no matter how much we’re spending on organic food and big and food and plant-based food and raw food and all this great stuff if you don’t chew well you’re not going to get nearly the benefit out of it you should why because it doesn’t interact with the enzymes in the mouth and you can’t digest it

number one juice is used completely therapeutically so I can take two pounds of an incredibly nutritious food juice it and drink it as long as it doesn’t sit because if it sits it loses more than the 90% that we discovered from a colleague of mine who was a research medical physician at University of Miami when this bad came out where he was can he reverse liver cancer with us he literally discovered that 90 percent of the nutrients were gone within 90 seconds how that was pretty easy to do took 3 4 ounces of food knew what the nutrient value was put it in analyze the food after and that was it and the cheaper blenders the $30 blenders were 3 or 4 percent better and the Vitamix is the ones really fast that we all love and own that killed 3 or 4 percent more in that short period of time

the big the biggest problem we have and I completely concur with you on this is forget only diabetes when people don’t chew the food and I have a hard time chewing solid food no less a blended food and you swallow it now you bypass the whole digestion process and if you happen to be a slow metabolizer you’re gonna get heavy from doing this and that’s why I see so many overweight people who are taking these smoothys these blender blender blender things every single day and if you’re a fast metabolizer you’re gonna be emaciated you’re gonna look like you have anorexic conditions so this is not only a scientific understanding it’s what I see so people are coming to us and say I’m eating healthy I’m eating a raw food diet and they’re taking 2 or 3

and I can tell you if that thing became a fad when I started this I would have put a half a gallon of coconut oil in there I would have put honey in there I would have put three apples in there or would have put a mango in there the dried pineapples I’m telling you what I would have done not what you would have done I’m telling you what I would have done and what many people listening would have done and thought it was healthy and boy that would have been a disaster for everything in my body and that other people do bad combining they take leaves of kale and kales a great food unless you have a thyroid problem you have a thyroid problem you don’t want to touch kale you don’t want to touch the cruciferous family and then they put an apple in there then they put a mango in there and they put some kind of a sweetener in there it’s problematic in my mind but I also concur with what you said that’s why I preface it I’d much rather have you do that then I would soda I’d much rather have you do that

well carrot juice isn’t cake carrot juice has not been part of carrot and beet juice has not been part of the program since 1980 when I became the director well let’s explain sweet verses not so sweet if you take one quart a liter little over a liter of carrot juice it has about a cup and a half of sugar in it so if I distilled it out I could have crystallized sugar there a cup and a half beats are worse in Europe but a lot of these people are from Europe here they get their sugar from beets so why we love carrots and beets why I used to drink a gallon of it a day because it was healthy it’s because I was a flaming sugar addict that’s simpler but then I discovered mango and it was actually sweeter than that okay okay

so when you take when you take a carrot and put it in a high-speed blender it’s indigestible it’s still what doesn’t break down is a high sugar fructose content so you still have the fructose con it’s indigestible you’ve oxidized a lot of it you’re taking could you take a carrot think of this logically again could I take a carrot especially these juice carrots put it in my mouth not chew it and swallow it that’s virtually what you’re doing when you blend it up and swallow it now just cause it smooshed up doesn’t mean it’s not the same kind of a broth your body smart enough say I’m gagging it out you can’t do this don’t do it but when you blend it up the body doesn’t say that you don’t shoe it it’s not your meal you don’t sit in the ball and eat it with a teaspoon juice is different it doesn’t come with the fiber it sits like a blood transfusion so it’s totally different when it comes in

you know what we see for example with wheatgrass you know 2 ounces a week rest it’s like 5 pounds of food if I put that in the blender first of all we’ve just we could never digest in a blender but let’s say that we did I would never get that amount of nourishment out so you deoxygenated much faster in a blender things you can do in a smoothie like you can take your some good protein like hemp protein or fermented rice protein and add your chia seeds and add blue-green algae and show you you can have a smoothie like that on the go a lot of a lot of big athletes come through the Institute and they they want something to keep them especially before and after X exercise so that’s what they do

okay so let me wrap up with three minutes left and let me just ask one final question so the final question is couldn’t you make the argument that we should ignore everything the you said tonight because in reality it’s so hard to change people that we’re better off just saying go eat quinoa eat chickpeas eat sweet potatoes cook food is good have some pasta and that a raw food diet is too ambitious and even though it might actually scientifically be healthier we’re gonna we’re gonna we’re not gonna convert enough people because it’s not everyone not enough people are gonna want to sprout where everyone could open up a can of chickpeas pouring some salsa put a little salad dressing and they would do it so even though you might be saying the best information maybe it’s too good the information we should and we should just take a simpler approach that would bring more people on board and we only have two and a half minutes

dancing well my approach has never been to try to seduce more people to do the right thing my approach and hippocrates approach since 1956 has been teaching people what the right thing is so no I don’t think this is extreme I think it’s extreme the way people or moderate I think it’s extreme that people are willing to do half way things I think it’s extreme that people are comfortable you know not doing their best I think that’s all extreme and it’s not scientific in our although we can give you the science as I right now every one of my books and I can quote but the reality is it’s practical we see the difference people get on raw plant-based diets that are organic they get better when they don’t they don’t get better in every case when you get on a vegan diet you’re going to be better than the Western diet but not as well and I haven’t seen people on vegan diets recover from catastrophic cancers the same way I do on a raw food diet so to us it’s very practical its historic it’s decades we’re in our seventh decade now of doing this you know we’re two years in our seventh decade of doing this so this is an experiment that seems to be working so we keep doing it