Barley Grass Juice?

First off, I love this stuff. Incorporating a high amount of green foods in our diet is super important. Barley Grass is a superfood PACKED with multiple nutrients and vitamins that I find incredibly easy to include at least once daily by adding it to my Green Smoothies..

Some of these vitamins and minerals include potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, phosphorus, manganese, zinc, beta carotene, B1, B2, B6, C, folic acid, and pantothenic acid.

When I originally wrote this post, I was not a regular multi-vitamin user, because I had not yet found a WHOLE FOOD multi-vitamin I believed in that I wanted to incorporate into my daily rouine. As as side note, I now have, and you can find that here with GEM Health. Though, I am a firm believer that it is ideal to try to get your vitamins and minerals more naturally from whole foods, and foods you enjoy in your regular lifestyle.

When you eat a whole food, it has a whole range of nutrients that synergize together in your body for optimal use and absorption. Single synthetic nutrients provided in a supplement are not used and processed in the body in the same way as a whole food is. What I found amazing about Barley Grass, is the combination of so many nutrients and enzymes crammed into one food.. without (or on top of) your daily multi-vitamin.

If you’re still feeling better about taking a multi-vitamin, you want to assure you’re taking a WHOLE FOOD multi-vitamin, and checking your “Other Ingredients” List to steer clear of many binders, fillers, and other bulk additives that are harmful to your body.. read more on my post Supplements and Harmful Ingredients. I recommend GEM Whole Food Multi-Vitamin which can be found here, and if you use my link you save 50% off your first order!

I first started using Barley Grass Juice Powder in my smoothies during pregnancy for the amazing nutritional benefits of this superfood to help build the healthiest baby I possibly could. Until just recently, I actually discovered that Barley grass not only provides all those nutrients, but has also proven valuable in the treatment of certain digestive disorders, diseases, and helps detox our bodies by eliminating harmful waste materials like heavy metals with the trace amounts of zinc, selenium and copper found in Barley Grass.

Before pregnancy, I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, my Mercury levels were a bit on the higher side, and I’ve now been able to get ahold and take control back of my health. Sometimes its amazing some of the things that can stumble into your life at just the right moment when you need it, even if you weren’t aware that you did. I’m blessed to have gained the knowledge I have and found a product like this to not only benefit my own life and health  but to be able to share it with many others I know currently and continue to meet struggling with problems like this.

I’ve been reading a book written by a neurologist that talks about how your over-all health, including diseases all the way to your brain, starts from within your gut, and how important it is to maintain a heathy Gut Microbiome (I will go more into depth about this in a later post). Though basically what it boils down to, with what we are eating, we can be either be nourishing our beneficial gut flora with Prebiotics, Probiotics, Fermented and raw high-fiber foods.. Or, we are feeding the bad bacteria (Like Sugar) which is altering our bacteria to produce more ill-health effects throughout the rest of our bodies.

Anyway, Barley Grass is one of the many foods you can include in your diet to reverse the accumulation of bad bacteria and toxins in your gut and bowels. This stabilization from the Barley Grass allows the growth and nourishment of good bacteria, which can helps lower the inflammation and other symptoms associated with issues like Ulcerative Colitis. Which, by the way the doctors will never even mention the imbalance of your gut flora to ever be as the issue of causation.. they would rather prescribe some medication as a temporary fix. This is such a shame, because it leaves those of us struggling with digestive, auto-immune and other disorders on our own in this journey thats taking me over 2 years.. and still on-going to learn how to live and thrive without the use of medication or specialists.

I feel very blessed to have found Barley Grass on this journey, as well as everything else I’ve eliminated and learned to incorporate in my diet and LIFESTYLE change to help aide in the optimal health of my gut, mind, and overall complete health of my entire being. I’m very lucky to have had the time, and open-mind to discover these things so early on so that I am able to live without suffering the rest of my life and potentially developing any other long-term health effects I may have accrued over more years of living in my chemically-fogged-lethargic mind and body I was housing before opening my eyes to see behind this world of fake food we live in.

I am very happy to be able to gain this knowledge, and try to share it with the rest of the world whom is willing to see it. I have hopes you may gain something here that may take with you on your journey, so you can then share it with someone you meet along the way on their journey, so we can all begin to start an upscale trend in living with a healthier, clean mindset, body, and whole life.

Oh! Another perk, that I actually just started learning about recently! I had no idea there was two different kinds of cholesterol. LDL (bad) & HDL (good), which.. I will be making a post later on about once I gather a bit more on the subject. Though, Barley Grass contains no bad cholesterol and can actually help to lower your LDL.

If you’re interested in getting your hands on some Barley Grass Juice Powder, I’ve found my favorite source to be Daily Green Boost - I love supporting smaller businesses, and the story behind the founder and his journey that lead him to create and offer the highest quality product for the genuine care and health of himself and his consumers. Daily Green Boost is raw, vegan, non-GMO, gluten free and certified organic. I feel like I’m still supporting my farmers markets and smaller businesses, but since you can’t always find the highest quality of everything you need locally.. this is just my way of doing it online!