Why You Should Make This Energizing Liver and Blood Building SmoothieThe best part of experimenting with smoothie recipes is discovering the perfect combination that allows you to have more energy, focus and stamina for hours, without necessarily consuming a whole meal. Below are the ingredients I used with an explanation of the benefits. I use a NutriBullet to blast the ingredients but you could use a quality high speed blender if it can pulverize carrots and beets. If using a juicer, simply use more of the vegetables but blend other ingredients afterward in a blender. Easy blood and liver building smoothie serves one Ingredients Chop beet and carrot into smaller pieces. Add all ingredients to NutriBullet or blender. I shake the cup first to better mix the powders and coconut oil. Blend for 20-30 seconds. Enjoy. What if you only have a New York minute to make a smoothie? Then just use the carrot, beet, berries whey, juice and chia if possible. Still a hearty, healing drink. My original recipe included papaya which I like to include for the helpful enzymes. That might have put it over the max line, though it depends on how much the beet fills out the drink. Any chance of adding dark, leafy greens makes it even more powerful and fulfilling. Why these ingredients? Beets major liver and blood building food. Contains betaine for helping with stomach acid that dissolves pathogens. Rejuvenating the liver helps energize and relieve sluggishness. Red whole foods tend to support blood and cardiovascular health. Beet tops have naturally occurring hydrochloric acid which help to break down protein. Carrots helps with phase II liver detox. Builds blood. Helps with bile secretion. Bile is a badly needed detoxifier! Carrots help the liver with the hormone cycle which further lightens the load for the endrocrine and reproductive system. Eat them every day! The roughage from the beets and carrots make you go regularly and that helps with energy too. Frozen raspberries Blood builder. Sweetness. Red foods can be grounding is it any wonder why the color associated with the root chakra is red? Berries are high in antioxidants without too much sugar, and raspberries are among the best, although strawberries and cherries would make a good substitute too. Whey why whey protein? Healthy proteins are nourishing to the body, skin, blood sugar, and liver. Whey in particular is known as a liver cleanser. Its also high in amino acid L-cysteine, which your body converts into glutathione for detox purposes. Gently help your liver throw off heavy metals.Whey to take a load off, Manny youll feel better when you can tell the liver is unloading again. Its no wonder that ginger and turmeric show up in liver function smoothies they both contain compounds that are shown to ward off cancer and aid in detox. Ginger helps with digestion and bile (which explains why it is so helpful with nausea), and turmeric has been heavily studied for reversing liver disease. Coconut oil The healthy saturated fats clean out the dirty oil filter and restore the crucial bile process so that toxins can be carried out and nutrients can be rightly processed. Chia seeds are loaded with components the liver needs to detox, as well as protein and more Omega-3 fatty acids than salmon. They are proven to help with glucose and make you feel full. The Nutribullet (or a Ninja) blasts them into an easily digested liquid. Know what the best part is? I found out that all of the above ingredients have different methods of fighting inflammation the precursor to disease. You dont need rigorous and harsh liver cleanses that cause deprivation of nutrients. Dont skip out on feeding the liver; feeding the blood. Need more substitute ideas? Check out this list of foods that the liver loves! Thanks to Dr. Scott Graves for providing the information on beets. Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work atNaturalBlaze.com and selfnewsPost.com. Like at Facebook. Recent posts byHeather Callaghan: Beets are virtually all GMO. How about that? Whey protein? Are you sure about that? I think your recipe is a bit unnatural. Many of the small carrots are GMO as well but not to hard to find natural ones. Tell you what, substitute lentils for the whey and beets. BTW.the HCl amount in beets is miniscule relative to protein digestion. Anything else I can do for ya freedom food activist? Actually only sugar beets are GMO. Table beets are not. Also if youre There are numerous health CRITIQUE of your Smoothie Recipe is this: no reason whatsoever to not use fresh ginger root non-China sourced, peel to remove mold, and gain back the phytochemicals lost by processing. Second suggestion is: Why would you ever want to not use some kind of Tea as liquid? For this recipe Hibiscus Tea would be a perfect liquifier FULL of antioxidants at incredible levels, brilliant red, and improves flavor of any smoothie. Other ideas include Green Tea, Blackberry, Rooibos, Hawthorn, etc. Another really important idea would be to throw in a little probiotics; the reason is that with any fruit you are automatically introducing fungus it is unavoidable. In addition, fruit sugar feeds preexisting gut parasites and when we innoculate our guts with the Good Guys, we are actually feeding our brains, immune function, and energy, so dont forget the Gut-Brain connection. Last but not least: there is a final category of additions to any smoothie which will exponentially improve medicinal quality of your recipe, and that is the berry powders. Try ordering the highest quality at a great price through THRIVE (no, I dont work for them) and consider acai, maqui, acerola, etc. This may thicken it a little, will intensify the taste a little, but will deliver so much more brain power that you wont forget to do it. 