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March 16, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Amazing breakfast superfood smoothie recipe shared by the Health Ranger
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Welcome to Q&A with the Health Ranger.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, lab science director here at cwclabs.com and author of the new book, Food Forensics.
You can find it at foodforensics.com.
Check out my website too, naturalnews.com if you want.
So people ask me all the time, hey, Mike, what do you eat?
For breakfast.
Since I'm filming this at night, I don't actually have my breakfast here to show you, but many of you have probably seen it.
It's a big jar full of a green smoothie.
And people are always asking me, what's in that green smoothie and why do you choose those ingredients?
Well, that recipe has changed over the years, but for the last, I'd say about two years, it's been pretty consistent.
So here it is.
Now, I'll just ask, when you hear this, Don't go eww or yuck or you can't imagine drinking it.
It's actually very delicious.
It's sweet.
To me, it's like drinking a chocolate smoothie, like a chocolate milkshake.
Of course, there's no milk in it.
To me, it's delicious.
It's like dessert for breakfast every day.
But, I know for a lot of people it might take time to get used to that taste, so I'll give you some tips on some things you can do.
So here's how it works for me.
Number one ingredient, avocado.
A whole, fresh, raw avocado.
Second ingredient, a banana.
Organic, of course, if you can get it.
Third ingredient, a massive bunch of salad greens that's either organic from the store, or better yet, greens that you grow yourself.
And I grow my own greens using the food rising growth system that I invented.
You know, it's the non-electric, non-circulating hydroponic system.
No soil, no weeding.
It grows all the food at waist height, so I just go over there, I take a pair of scissors, I cut all the lettuce greens, I cut the beet greens, I cut the parsley greens, whatever.
Take all that, slam it into the Vitamix.
Seriously, maybe it sounds strange, but this is what I do.
So we have the avocado, the banana, and the salad greens.
Then I take coconut water.
Now, if you don't have coconut water, this adds a lot of sweetness to it, but if you don't have coconut water, you can use filtered water and coconut sugar or palm sugar, which is super delicious.
So either one of those.
I like coconut water because, well, it's sort of Mother Nature's energy drink.
Let's see.
Then I put in about a half a teaspoon of turmeric powder.
And this is, I think we sell this in our store, I'm pretty sure we do, but what I actually did is, when we were sourcing turmeric, this is a funny story, So turmeric tends to be very high in lead.
It's a root crop typically grown in India.
And a lot of turmeric has too high of lead where we can't buy it or sell it because it's over our lead limit.
And here in the lab, one of the things that we do with the ICP-MS back there is we test everything for lead.
So a lot of turmeric that we see when we're trying to buy turmeric Or turmeric, however you want to say it.
It's got high lead, and we reject it.
Anyway, one day, we had a sample come in, a raw material of turmeric, and we tested it in the ICP, and it was super, super low lead.
I mean, it was like under 50 parts per billion lead, which is very clean, especially for turmeric, because we've seen over 10 times that in other samples.
So we go back to the seller, an importer, sort of a bulk ingredient supplier, and we go back to them and we say, okay, we want a big order.
I don't remember what it was, 500 kilos or 1,000 kilos or whatever.
Whatever we normally order.
And they said, sorry, we just sold that lot to somebody else, except we have left nine kilos.
Nine kilos?!
We can't work with 9 kilos in our manufacturing facility.
It's too small.
It's not even worth warming up the bottling machinery to do 9 kilos because you have to clean everything after that, especially with turmeric.
It's a big cleanup job.
So I ended up buying the 9 kilos for my own personal supply.
So I have 9 kilos of ultra-clean turmeric in my freezer.
And I use about half a teaspoon every day in my smoothie.
That's the true story about how I ended up with 9 kilos of ultra-clean turmeric in my freezer.
When you find the good stuff, you've got to get it.
Just jump on it.
I mean, there are times, I kid you not, there are times that we find really clean batches of goji berries that, even though they're from China, we test them and they're very, very clean because they're grown up in the highlands, more like the Tibet areas of China.
And like once a year we get our hand on a batch like that and that sells in like 48 hours.
It's gone.
Because we can only get like 400 kilos or 500 kilos at a time and it's just gone.
So if you subscribe to my newsletter, and if I ever email you and say, we got an ultra-clean batch, you better get some now, I'm not kidding.
Jump on it, or it's gone.
Because finding clean food in a polluted world is a very difficult task.
And so my freezer is full of...
Lots of different specially selected imported foods that are really the cleanest that anybody can ever get anywhere on the planet.
So that's just, I guess, one of the fringe benefits of having my own laboratory.
But back to the smoothie.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get too distracted on that.
The smoothie.
All right, so we've got the avocado, the banana, the coconut oil, the turmeric, and the salad greens, right?
Yeah.
We're not done yet.
We're not done yet.
Organic cacao powder.
Cacao has a problem with cadmium.
Often.
Often.
There are sources that are very high cadmium and other sources that are low cadmium.
So of course, we only sell cacao powders that are low cadmium.
Very, very low.
That's one of the main metals that we test for here.
In fact, the masses of cadmium are 111 and 114.
Those are the two isotopes that we look for.
Actually, does cadmium have more than two isotopes?
Let me see.
Cadmium, one...
Yeah, there's some at 113 as well.
And...
Look at that.
Wow!
Cadmium is a multi-isotopic element.
Check this out.
There's cadmium at 106.
This is the atomic mass units.
108, 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114.
The recommended mass to track in the ICP-MS is 111, which we look for, but we also run 114 because that's 28.73% of the relative isotopic abundance.
In other words, a lot of cadmium shows up at 114.
Anyway, sorry to geek out on you there for a second.
Back to the cacao.
You've got to get cacao that's low cadmium, right?
Especially if you're drinking it every day.
You know, the thing about heavy metals is you can get a big dose of it, like, just occasionally.
And it's not necessarily going to hurt you.
But if you're taking it every single day, you need to have super clean, super pure foods.
And that's our specialty.
I mean, we're the best in the world at it.
We test everything here before we sell it in our online store, the Natural News store.
Go to store.naturalnews.com.
And everything you buy there, you can be absolutely sure that it has been tested for heavy metals and microbiology and other tests as well because we just reject things that don't pass our stringent controls.
So if you're taking something every day, make sure it's ultra clean because you don't want like a daily lead burden on your heart and your liver and your bones and your kidneys and all that.
You want clean food every single day.
All right, so let me get back to the recipe.
What else goes in there?
Let's see.
Occasionally, this is seasonal for me, I have a small orchard of pears.
And I love pears.
They grow very well in Texas.
And so I freeze the pears at harvest time.
And then I like to put half of a frozen pear into my avocado, chocolate, turmeric, salad green, organic banana smoothie.
The pear, to me, it makes the taste just so amazing.
It's totally different from an apple.
An apple, for me, kind of ruins this formula.
It doesn't taste right.
But a pear, oh, a pear is a totally different ballgame.
A good pear that you grew yourself, where you know what went into it.
I mean, I put the nutrients into it, and I only use ultra-clean fertilizers, too, because I'm into clean food, right?
Have you noticed?
To grow my own pears and then take that pear and put it in the smoothie with my own salad greens and the cacao that I've lab tested here and the turmeric that I've specially acquired, nine kilos of turmeric.
I mean, this is like the best food on the planet.
You would be...
I wish I could invite you all to come join me for a breakfast smoothie buffet, the best, cleanest food on the planet.
Bar none.
Nobody eats this good.
Nobody.
And so for me, it's like just a great honor and privilege to be able to do this.
It's super delicious.
And it just makes my brain work so well.
It allows me to learn all of this instrumentation.
It allows me to brush up on organic chemistry.
It allows me to, you know, I speak three languages, not totally fluently in all three, but conversationally in three languages.
If you count English.
So two other languages other than English.
I'm able to function with peak focus and learning and adaptability because of that breakfast.
To me, that breakfast is anti-cancer.
It's anti-diabetes.
It's anti-heart disease.
It is brain boosting.
It boosts creativity.
It It does everything.
It reduces inflammation in the body.
I don't have any pain.
I don't have any joint pain.
I don't have any sitting pain or sleeping pain or anything.
I function at a very, very high level because, I believe, because of that daily smoothie and that turmeric that goes into it and the salad greens and the avocado, the healthy fats.
And because of those healthy fats, it just keeps me going for hours and hours.
Oh, sometimes I will throw chia seeds into that smoothie.
I currently don't have a chia pouch open, but sometimes I'll throw chia into it.
That's very good as well.
Is there anything else that can go in there?
No?
I mean, that pretty much nails it.
I used to use like, oh no, wait a minute, wait, I'm sorry, I forgot, I totally forgot.
The protein.
I use my own protein, a whey protein, Heritage Whey.
It's the most delicious protein.
It has been meticulously tested and documented, tested for hormones, tested for GMOs, tested for pesticides, tested for bacteria, tested for heavy metals, verified country of origin, all these things.
It's just insane the amount of paperwork we went through on that.
I put two big spoons of that in there.
And there's another product that I like called Raw Power.
All their protein is from different nuts, like Brazil nuts.
And they have a chocolate Brazil nut protein.
And I put a scoop of that in there too.
It's super delicious.
But you know what I stay away from these days?
I don't put grass powders in it anymore because I don't trust grass powders anymore.
I've seen too much lead in that stuff.
Running it through my lab here.
Every time I get an off-the-shelf grass powder, it's got lead in it.
I don't trust it.
There's a lot of stuff that I don't trust anymore in terms of superfood concentrates, raw green powders.
I don't trust them because I know what's in them now.
It's not something that I want to eat.
That's why I grow my own food.
That's why I cut the veggies.
I stuff the veggies into the blender.
Frankly, you should grow your own food.
If you can grow avocados and bananas, if you live in Hawaii or maybe Florida or South Texas, for example, or Southern California, if you can do that, do it.
Don't buy that stuff.
Grow it.
Don't buy anything that I'm even talking about.
If you can grow it, grow it yourself.
That's always the number one choice.
The only time you should buy something to put in a smoothie is if you absolutely can't grow it yourself, like whey protein.
You probably don't have a cow.
You probably don't have a whey processing facility.
I don't either.
So we have somebody else do it, and then we test it and verify it.
But if you can grow something yourself, that's always number one.
And I say that as someone who even, you know, my store carries turmeric.
And I'll tell you right up front, you are better off to grow your own turmeric and use the raw root in your blender.
Buying powder is a distant second to fresh turmeric root that you grow yourself.
You should be growing all this.
If you want, use my grow system, Food Rising Grow System, foodrising.org.
That's where you can find that, or suppliesource.com.
Or just grow it in the ground.
You can buy turmeric on amazon.com.
The roots.
Or maybe you can find them at your grocery store.
Stick them in the ground.
You're going to have turmeric plants.
If you have the right climate and the right soils and so on, that's the best way.
That's what you should be doing with all this.
Hey, if you live in Central America, grow your own cacao.
Do your own raw cacao nibs if you can, or get them locally.
It's always the best choice.
The best food, the most rewarding and healthiest food that you can possibly get is food that you grow yourself right there in your own garden, bring it into your kitchen, put it into your body.
That's the best food, period.
Even going to the grocery store is a distant second to that, and buying it online is a distant second to that.
Any food that has to be made into a powder loses some percentage of its vitality.
Raw turmeric and raw ginger and raw garlic is more potent than dried turmeric and dried ginger and dried garlic.
It's a law of nature.
So, you know, eat raw when you can.
Blend raw.
You know, get the living greens into your smoothie.
And by the way, I don't overly blend it.
I kind of like to leave some of those leaves intact.
So I blend it a little bit.
But it's kind of like little green flakes, you know?
Leaf chunks, I guess, in the smoothie.
Maybe that doesn't sound awesome to you, but I love it.
It's great.
I would never think of having a breakfast of, I don't know, what do people eat?
Bacon causes cancer because of the sodium nitride in it.
What, jelly?
It's all corn syrup.
Garbage.
Toast?
White bread?
Are you kidding me?
Glyphosate-soaked wheat that's bleached to remove all the nutrition?
Give me a break.
What do people, oh, homogenized cow's milk?
What, you want to die of a heart attack?
No, no thanks.
What else?
Processed cereals?
You know, Lucky Charms?
Come on.
Just call it diabetes.
Diabetes Charms.
Give me a break.
What do people eat?
I don't even really know.
Well, eggs.
Eggs can be healthy, but I don't even eat commercial eggs because I raise my own eggs.
Gosh, I really am kind of a foodie, aren't I? Okay.
Well, that's been my goal, you know, to raise more and more of my own food, so...
It's a smart strategy to follow.
But yeah, we've got a lot of chickens and we harvest our own eggs.
Occasionally, I have put a raw egg in that smoothie, by the way.
When I felt the need to detoxify after traveling, and I know that the sulfur in the egg yolk really helps with methylation processes inside the body and elimination of toxic chemicals, I'll throw a raw egg in there.
But I wouldn't do that if you bought that egg at the grocery store.
Might have salmonella in it or something.
Who knows?
But I only do that if it's my own chicken eggs.
You know what I mean?
It's incredible what you can accomplish if you choose to grow your own food and eat your own food.
Your life will change.
You can reverse serious disease.
You can reverse cancer if you put your mind to it.
And you get informed and you make those changes.
Just through food.
And maybe a few simple changes in your lifestyle.
You can do amazing things.
So anyway, I don't mean to drag this out too long, but I hope that's been helpful.
That's my recipe.
It's a big, big smoothie.
I make a full Vitamix pitcher with that.
It's all the way full.
I'm kind of a big guy, so you might not need that much, but I drink that for several hours all the way from the morning into 1 o'clock in the afternoon or something like that, and then I go eat something else.
I consume a lot of calories because I'm using a lot of calories.
I'm using a lot of brain power.
Your brain actually consumes a lot of energy, or it should.
If it doesn't...
Engage it a little more.
Your brain uses a lot of calories.
Plus, I'm pretty active.
I live on a ranch.
I'm doing things.
I'm taking care of animals.
I'm moving bags of grain and carrying buckets of water and things like that.
So I'm pretty active.
I actually consume a lot of calories.
I'm just burning the calories through my activities.
I don't try to watch my weight.
I really don't.
I don't like to be hungry.
Frankly, if I'm hungry, I eat.
I just eat healthy.
That's it.
That's my secret, if there's any secret.
I guess somebody might try to write a whole book on that.
What's your food secret?
Grow your own food.
Eat what you grow.
Eat healthy.
Get rid of processed food.
That's it.
That's like the whole freaking book.
You can fit the whole book on one page.
How to be healthy, prevent cancer, prevent diabetes, boost cognitive function, have better moods, better energy, all that stuff.
It fits on one page, folks.
And it's like grow your own food.
Practice permaculture.
Stop buying garbage at the grocery store.
Get the toxic chemicals out of your laundry and your personal care products.
Don't put poison on your skin because you think it smells good.
It's perfume or cologne or something.
Give me a break.
Get the toxic poisons out of your shampoos and deodorants and all these things.
Lastly, I will plug our store, the Natural News Store, because we sell a super clean shampoo, a super clean deodorant.
Frankly, a lot of these things, we sell them because I need to buy them.
I wanted a super clean shampoo.
And I just don't trust most of the other brands out there.
Half of the stuff that we do is stuff that I demanded we develop because I want to be my own customer.
It's funny.
Some of the stuff, it's like it's not even worth the effort commercially to do it, but it's just I want that product, period.
I want it.
So we develop it.
In any case, I'll let you go, but thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy our lab.
Check it out, cwclabs.com is the website.
My new book's coming out, foodforensics.com is the website for that book, and I'm going to be bringing you a lot of really amazing results out of this laboratory all through 2016 and beyond.
Thank you for watching.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, the editor of naturalnews.com.
Try my breakfast recipe.
You'll love it.
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