The adjustment to daily smoothies only takes a few days of dizziness and a
gurgley tummy. Drinking ginger root tea might set the dizziness problem straight.
Also to avoid initial dizziness you might need to balance the extra detoxification
and super-nutrition of the smoothie with more greens and bitters. Perhaps finding
local wild plants like dandelion leaves or watercress to put into your salads. If you
are not doing fresh wheatgrass juice shots, then you may want to add dried green
powder such as Barley greens to the smoothie base. One smoothie in the morning
and one salad in the afternoon/evening is all the food I can handle.
If you feel your energy is too sympathetically activated (eg: palpitations, heat,
sweating, tingles, high blood pressure, insomnia etc...) then put some kava kava,
valerian leaf, chamomile, raspberry leaf powders into your smoothie base mix. This
way you can take your superfood smoothie and your calming agents at the same
time. When our sympathetic nervous system is activated there are periods in our
awaking when our immune system is weaker, making us vulnerable to yeast and
urinary tract infections etc... You might want to add D-mannose to your smoothie
base or add a couple of teaspoons of D-Mannose powder to your smoothie if
you are going through radical kundalini events, especially when there is a lot of
pressure or electrical activity going on in the head. D-Mannose helps to provide
the neurons with extra energy and thereby reduces neuron death from excitotoxic
damage by inadequate reuptake of the neurotransmitter glutamate and calcium.
D-Mannose is a sugar that is used to alleviate urinary tract infections by binding to
and eliminating bacteria. If you have a urinary tract infection don’t drink cranberry
juice as it has too high a sugar content...go buy some D-Mannose powder from
a health food store...and put it into your smoothie. Fortunately D-Mannose does
not raise blood sugar or cause yeast infection.
WHY raW cHocolate PoWDer
Cacao or raw chocolate powder contains flavanols that increase blood flow
to the brain for a two to three-hour period and may hold promise for treating
some vascular impairments and cognitive function. The increase in brain blood
supply should improve nutrition to the brain and consequent cognitive function.
The flavonols in chocolate help the body to produce nitric oxide, a compound
essential for proper cardiac function, muscle building and sexuality. Over 955
ORAC Units (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) of antioxidants are found
in each gram of raw organic cacao powder! Compared with goji (wolfberries),
another high antioxidant food which have only 253 ORAC Units per gram. Raw
cacao improves the body’s ability to metabolize sugar. It also contains Arginine,
Tryptophan, phenylethylamine (PEA), and the most magnesium of any common
food. As well as the mood enhancing PEA, cacao also increases serotonin, making
raw cacao a fabulous natural antidepressant.
The best quality raw chocolate powder is produced by David Wolfe’s Nature’s
First Law and Wilderness Family Naturals as they make sure the processing
temperature never gets high enough to destroy the nutrients and create bitterness.