This Juice Reduces Pain with Anti-inflammatory ingredients (Recipe Inside)

Posted on August 24, 2017 Written by Astrid Leave a Comment

Today’s Healing Juice–

Most of these vegetables are from my garden. This juice combination is with a purpose. I am a feeling a flare up coming (herniated disk) if you don’t know pain..this is it. So, I’ve been drinking my golden milk. And today made this alkalinizing anti-inflammatory juice. Ginger was a must in order to help me reduce the inflammation.

Leafy greens aid the lymphatic system do its job which is to move toxins out which in turn help reduce pain.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a juice so here’s today’s yummy concoction.

- Ingredients:
- Cucumber
- Carrots
- tomato
- Lettuce
- Kale
- Mango
- Ginger
- Radish.

Based on past experiences and advised by my back pain management Doctor, this time I had to get a potent muscle relaxer and anti-inflammatory in order to avoid a visit to the ER. As you can imagine I absolutely dislike taking medication but it is what it is.

My plan is to continue to go strong with an anti-inflammatory diet, golden milk (turmeric, pepper, coconut oil). It is great for its anti-inflammatory properties plus it wards off other diseases.

I also like to supplement with my natural muscle relaxers (Valerian, and chamomile) so I can stop the synthetic version ASAP.

This juice, of course, can help anyone dealing with any type of pain or injury, while nourishing your body.

Do you deal with any type of pain or have you had any experiences with back pain? I would love to hear your experiences below.

Cheers to health!!!

The Benefits Of Juicing Vegetables

Posted on August 28, 2014 Written by Astrid Leave a Comment

I have been getting a lot of questions about vegetable juicing. Is juicing really that good? Is it a hype or are there benefits to healing? How often do you juice and why?

I have updated this post to answer your questions and other concerns. Juicing has been around for a long time. However, a recent trend for juicing has picked up in the last few years, and with good reason. Every vegetable and fruit juice combination strengthens our immune system in one way or another, which in turn helps your body do its job of healing itself naturally.

Juicing vegetables has the benefits of preventing, curing and reversing diseases ranging from skin, auto immune and neurological disorders. So, here are some of the reason I love juicing as much and often as I can:

Should You Juice?

Compelling research link chronic inflammation and nutrient deficiencies as the top reasons and most of the times; the root cause to many diseases. Environmental toxicity, life stressors, an a poor diet are also part of the equation. If you’ve experienced years of mineral or nutrient deficiency due to an unbalanced or poor diet, this will cause and perpetuate chronic illness. By contrast, fruit and vegetable juices, help prevent them.

My ratio for juicing is pretty much 90:10 (vegetables:fruit), but alter it for my son with a little more fruit to make it more palatable for him.

How Diseases Are Caused By Nutrient Deficiency

All of the cells in our body are scheduled to consume internal energy and nutrients that the blood and lymphatic system supply us with externally. But, how can a cell perform its job if it lacks the essential minerals to function properly or to form the protein that it was supposed to produce? Simply put, it does not.

The worst of this is that when a cell lacks these nutrients it is easy to master by other processes that may lead to a fragmentation of the DNA, or any other deterioration in its performance. As time goes by, these cellular disorders are situated or arise in physically weaker areas of our body, where a slight change can bring serious health consequences such as chronic or degenerative diseases including: asthma, kidney failure, emphysema, cancer, osteoarthritis or cardiovascular disease such as, plaque high blood pressure.

It is here when juicing comes in. Juicing is an excellent preventive measure, especially green juices as they are loaded with Chlorophyll. They are even an antidote for all health problems-literally; beginning with a deficiency in minerals and/or vitamins. Juices or Smoothies have all the ideal ingredients to prevent and counteract a disease for many reasons especially because of one particular super nutrient– Chlorophyll.

Here are some of my favorite healing juices:

6 Ingredient Juice For an Immediate Boost of Vitamins A,C,B6 and Minerals
Probiotic- Ulcer Healing and Mineral Boost Juice
Anti-Inflammatory, Flavonoids Boost Spinach Juice
Lower Inflammation Nourish Your Body In 10 Minutes or Less
This Juice is for YOU Women: Uterine Tonic, Cleanser and Hormone Balancing
6 Ingredient Juice For an Immediate Boost of Vitamins A,C,B6 and Minerals

As always thanks for reading and sharing my articles.

Did you know about all of the benefits of juicing? What is your favorite juice combination and how often do you juice?

To your best health,

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Anti Inflammatory Super Healing Juice

Posted on May 12, 2014 Written by Astrid 3 Comments

Anti Inflammatory Super Healing Juice

If you are looking for ways to reduce inflammation in your body, this juice will definitely be a great addition to your list of healthy juices and of course, diet. Illnesses such us Fibromyalgia, cardiovascular disease, gout, acne, colitis, arthritis, herniated discs or diabetes are usually connected with chronic inflammation . This juice along with healthy life style changes, a decent diet, some form of exercise and stress management will contribute to your overall wellness.

Key Ingredient Aloe Vera~

Healing properties: Glucomannan, a mannose-rich polysaccharide, and gibberellin, a growth hormone, interacts with growth factor receptors on the fibroblast, thereby stimulating its activity and proliferation, which in turn significantly increases collagen synthesis after topical and oral Aloe vera.9 Aloe gel not only increased collagen content of the wound but also changed collagen composition (more type III) and increased the degree of collagen cross linking. Due to this, it accelerated wound contraction and increased the breaking strength of resulting scar tissue. An increased synthesis of hyaluronic acid and dermatan sulfate in the granulation tissue of a healing wound following oral or topical treatment has been reported.

Effects on skin exposure to UV and gamma radiation: Aloe vera gel has been reported to have a protective effect against radiation damage to the skin. Exact role is not known, but following the administration of aloe vera gel, an antioxidant protein, metallothionein, is generated in the skin, which scavenges hydroxyl radicals and prevents suppression of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase in the skin. It reduces the production and release of skin keratinocyte-derived immunosuppressive cytokines such as interleukin-10 (IL-10) and hence prevents UV-induced suppression of delayed type hypersensitivity.

Anti-inflammatory action: Aloe vera inhibits the cyclooxygenase pathway and reduces prostaglandin E2 production from arachidonic acid. Recently, the novel anti-inflammatory compound called C-glucosyl chromone was isolated from gel extracts.
Effects on the immune system: Alprogen inhibit calcium influx into mast cells, thereby inhibiting the antigen-antibody-mediated release of histamine and leukotriene from mast cells.7In a study on mice that had previously been implanted with murine sarcoma cells, acemannan stimulates the synthesis and release of interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor from macrophages in mice, which in turn initiated an immune attack that resulted in necrosis and regression of the cancerous cells. Several low-molecular-weight compounds are also capable of inhibiting the release of reactive oxygen free radicals from activated human neutrophils.

Laxative effects: Anthraquinones present in latex are a potent laxative. It increases intestinal water content, stimulates mucus secretion and increases intestinal peristalsis.

Antiviral and antitumor activity: These actions may be due to indirect or direct effects. Indirect effect is due to stimulation of the immune system and direct effect is due to anthraquinones. The anthraquinone aloin inactivates various enveloped viruses such as herpes simplex, varicella zoster and influenza. In recent studies, a polysaccharide fraction has shown to inhibit the binding of benzopyrene to primary rat hepatocytes, thereby preventing the formation of potentially cancer-initiating benzopyrene-DNA adducts. An induction of glutathione S-transferase and an inhibition of the tumor-promoting effects of phorbol myristic acetate has also been reported which suggest a possible benefit of using aloe gel in cancer chemoprevention.

Moisturizing and anti-aging effect: Mucopolysaccharides help in binding moisture into the skin. Aloe stimulates fibroblast which produces the collagen and elastin fibers making the skin more elastic and less wrinkled. It also has cohesive effects on the superficial flaking epidermal cells by sticking them together, which softens the skin. The amino acids also soften hardened skin cells and zinc acts as an astringent to tighten pores. Its moisturizing effects has also been studied in treatment of dry skin associated with occupational exposure where aloe vera gel gloves improved the skin integrity, decreases appearance of fine wrinkle and decreases erythema. It also has anti-acne effect.

Antiseptic effect: Aloe vera contains 6 antiseptic agents: Lupeol, salicylic acid, urea nitrogen, cinnamonic acid, phenols and sulfur. They all have inhibitory action on fungi, bacteria and viruses. (Source)

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