Better Than Coffee Morning Green Drink

Better Than Coffee Morning Green Drink

I don’t drink coffee…never have. The level of caffeine is just too intense for me. When I went mostly raw, my body also started rejecting caffeinated tea. It’s not like anything bad happened, instead, while I would be fixing it I also have a strong resistance to it…so strong that my hand was unwilling to put the tea bag into the water. These sorts of things start happening once you go raw, even after only a few days or weeks of high raw. You will actually be able to start to understand and listen to the very clear messages that your body is sending you.

So, since I hardly ever drink caffeine, I usually have a green juice first thing in the morning. And as I experimented with different combinations of vegetables and fruits, I came up with this one that actually had my legs moving while I was drinking it…so much so that I had to start dancing! It was crazy. Why did that happen? Here is my theory: this juice combination is very cleansing, and stimulating, at the same time. When your body is stimulated to cleanse, it will go into overdrive figuring out how to remove the toxins that are going to be released. Your lymphatic system is one of the quickest ways to remove toxins since it exits through the urine. The only catch is that your lymphatic system does NOT have a pump of its own, like your blood has the heart. The lymphatic system depends on body movement, and muscular contractions to move the lymph through the filters (lymph nodes), kidneys, and into the bladder. So, that explains my dancing…either that or the Bee-Gees came on Pandora..I can’t remember!

You will need some sort of a juicer for this drink. It is not a blender drink…

I call for organic in all the ingredients because freshly prepared juice is literally medicine. It would be completely counterproductive to juice non-organic produce and expect the same results. I also do not thoroughly wash most organic produce. Dirt is full of natural, beneficial bacteria that we need to have normal bowel function, especially absorption. I don’t believe the hype that the pharmaceutical companies and cleaning product companies would like us to believe about the ‘dangers ‘ of bacteria either. I haven’t been sick since I went raw and I don’t use any anti-bacterial anything in my house.

Ingredients:

1 head organic celery stalks
2 organic green apples
3-4 organic kale leaves
1 organic cucumber
1 organic lemon
1″ organic ginger
1/3 bunch organic cilantro

Instructions:

Core the apples, peel the lemon, wash the cilantro well (cilantro tends to be really sandy) and run everything through your centrifugal, twin-gear, or other type juicer. Drink immediately. Put on some music and start dancing!

Makes about 1 quart.