If you drink green smoothies, do you still need supplements, wheatgrass etc?

[Dirkg]

If you have a clean diet which consists only of raw foods, mostly green smoothies, then do these extra products help? There are so many of them it's hard to understand - wheatgrass, acai berry, spirulina, various green drink powders, multivitamins etc.But from my simple understanding, a variety of fresh organic produce rich in greens gives you every nutrient, except maybe for sea algae. All these products are good and will help people on bad diets, but are they really needed on top of a raw diet? And they aren't cheap either.

[MysticTree]

supplements are mostly just a waste of money but they can be dangerous as well. If your diet is varied and raw then you will be getting everything you need with the exception maybe of vit B12.

Cheaper supplements are not good. They are usually made of compounds that are unavailable to the body. Avoid those for sure.

[Meat_Juice]

supplements are mostly just a waste of money but they can be dangerous as well. If your diet is varied and raw then you will be getting everything you need with the exception maybe of vit B12.

Cheaper supplements are not good. They are usually made of compounds that are unavailable to the body. Avoid those for sure.




Unless they are herbs. The original pharmaceutical drugs were dried herbs.

[MysticTree]

Unless they are herbs. The original pharmaceutical drugs were dried herbs.
we aren't talking about herbs here but many of those are dangerous too because people fail to realise their potency or toxicity.

[Raw Angel Mom]

Base from my own experience, i find that after doing several detox, i don't eat as much and i seem to absorb nutrient easily.

Maybe in the beginning of your journey, you could go with whole food style supplement if you feel more comfortable.

I no longer supplement and i check my blood work on occasion and no deficiency. In the past i had to supplement with nano b-complex for the b12 and i felt a difference after taking this. Prior to raw food, i was chronically iron deficient. Now, i no longer needed to supplement because my body restore the balance in my digestive system. Gojji berries are pack with iron and vitamin C.

If you go 100% raw food, you will absorb your food much easier. It is a journey. If i was you, i wouldn't supplement and keep a close eye on my blood work instead.

Doing wheat grass juice, is without question a good practice because it contains so much minerals and nutrients. I would do greens, fruits and take the time to chew my food until it is water in your mouth for proper digestion.

Everyone is different and you may be the one that need to supplement. DON'T do vitamin. It will clog your liver and nothing good can come from this, seek for whole food supplementation instead such spirulina, chlorella (has B12 that can be absorb by your body), e3live, maca, etc.... Be careful with not getting carry away with supplementation. There are a lot of fear of lack which is a great tactic to sell supplements.

[robh]

B12 and Vitamin D are the two things that are hard for us to get - hard, not impossible.

For Vitamin D, I try to spend 30 minutes a day in the sun.

For B12, I eat nutritional yeast. Raw Angel Mom mentioned some as well.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

supplements are mostly just a waste of money but they can be dangerous as well.
Yep.


If your diet is varied and raw then you will be getting everything you need with the exception maybe of vit B12.
Yes B12 is usually a problem, but to get all the other nutrients the diet must consist of very high quality food and always FRESH. The problem is that most of the foods available today are not fit to eat beacuse:
* most commercially available vegetables are grown on depleted soil that resembles nothing like 150 years ago. That's the consequence of big population growth.
* most nuts and seeds/superfoods are rancid and not fit to eat. l know this because l sprout the foods and know they go rancid very quickly, yet we have folks eating chia (superfood) thinking they are getting good nutrition, but in most cases they couldn't be more wrong.

Then there is the problem of blending...it changes the electrical frequency of food so in effect it is similar to radiating your food if the blending is done for a couple of minutes (proof of this soon). Then there is the oxidisation of the food and the destruction of nutrients.

They way to overcome many of these issues is to juice wheatgrass, weeds and sprouts in a slow turning juicer. .



Cheaper supplements are not good. They are usually made of compounds that are unavailable to the body. Avoid those for sure.
Yes. l am reading an amazing book all about this called `supplements exposed' by Dr Brain. A real eye opener.