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hi, and welcome to ancient medicine today. i'm dr. josh axe. today, we got a great episode of me talkingabout meal replacements and really how to create a smoothie or shake to help improveyour health, but also, i'll be talking about the dangers.

healthy food for picky eaters pinterest, and a lot of these additives that are in mealreplacements shakes that a lot of athletes are taking today, people in hospitals, a lotof kids, and people that are just trying to lose weight as well. unfortunately, it's not working.

but, hey, do me a favor right now. we're going to be talking about how to usefood as real medicine and get the poison out of your diet. so take a minute right how, punch that sharebutton, click that love button, let's spread the word that food should be medicine. all right, and we're going to be talking aboutsix unbelievable ingredients that people are adding in the meal replacements today thatare toxic for your health and your body. and number one here, synthetic vitamins andminerals. do you know, i read an article on these yearsago that a lot of our vitamins and supplements

today actually come from mineral salts? they come from rock like limestone, in fact,calcium carbonate today and a lot of our calcium supplements are actually rocks, or come fromrocks extracted from salts and they're really not absorbable by our body. in fact, did you know that taking certainforms of calcium can actually cause calcification of your arteries because your body isn't absorbing? in fact, there are several medical studiespublished on pubmed showing that taking certain vitamins and supplements can actually be detrimentalto your health. and the reason is they're not real.

they're synthetic. we should be getting our vitamins and mineralsfrom fruits, from vegetables, organic meat, sprouted nuts and seeds from real food aswell as you can get them from whole food based certified organic vitamins but today a lotof people are just getting their vitamins and supplements certain grocery stores orreally not paying much. they're really just getting synthetic vitaminsand what it's actually doing is there are side effects. it's very hard on the kidneys. it's very hard on the interior walls.

it can be very hard on the small intestineand the gut lining. and so you want to stay away from syntheticvitamin and minerals but here's the truth a lot of synthetic vitamins and minerals areadded to meal replacements today. they are not healthy, and by the way i loveto hear it from you right now on facebook live and youtube live if you are a personthat takes whole food-based vitamins and supplements certified organic, hey, let me know rightnow on facebook live here, and youtube live. here's another big thing that's added intoa lot of these meal replacements today, and listen i'm not saying any specific brandshere today, but whether those shake forms that you can drink down fast or it's a powder,again, a lot of these are not organic that

they come with really junky ingredients. and one of the things that are added to theseare sugar. okay? sugar, we know feeds yeast within the bodyand candida. we know sugar actually can feed cancer cellsin certain instances. and sugar overall will zap your energy, increasingyour risk of diabetes. so excess sugar, one of the most dangerousthings you could consume on a daily basis. so you absolutely want to get sugar completelyout of your diet. but listen, sugar is in everywhere.

it's in chips. it's in pasta sauces. it's in sandwich meats. it's like it's all over. but it can be found in especially high amountsin meal replacement powders and even certain protein powders today. now, here's another big one, artificial ingredientsespecially aspartame and sucralose. so those are two you want to stay away fromis aspartame and sucralose. these toxic artificial sweeteners may actuallycause tumor growth within the body.

they may cause short term memory loss. they may actually also cause weight gain. and sucralose, something a lot of people consumetoday and is found on a good majority of meal replacement powders and protein powders. sucralose actually has a chlorine attachedonto it from a chemical standpoint. and when chlorine is attached, chlorine hasan antibacterial properties and so what it can do it actually kill off probiotics inthe gut. in fact, there was a study done on sucralosesaying that even though it's a no calorie sweetener, because here is what people think,they think, "okay, i'm drinking a diet soda,"

or, "i'm drinking a protein powder or a mealreplacement and, hey, they're zero grams of sugar." but it still has some of that sweetness toit especially that artificial sweetness and that aftertaste. well, those artificial sweeteners we knowtoday may actually affect your blood sugar level. so doing them in large amounts can actuallybe detrimental to your body. so i would recommend staying away from allartificial sweeteners and artificial ingredients. you know, there's a lot of pesticides andchemicals that from if you're doing a certain

grain protein powders such as a brown riceprotein that's not certified organic and sprouted, well, that brown rice protein is typicallyvery high in arsenic and other chemicals as well, but you want to stay away from any artificialingredients. remember this, if you don't know what theword is, it's probably not healthy. you know, this morning i did a bone brothsmoothie and i did some bone broth powdered protein. i did some other things. and when i flip over the back it was a verysimple ingredients. it was like bone broth powder, stevia, andcacao powder, and that was like that was it.

you know, monk fruit i think was another thingin there, very simple ingredient list. if you can't spell or if it has like numbersin front of it, don't drink it. all right, number four here, low protein/highfiber. you know, i think, or low protein . . . imean low fiber, both, low protein/low fiber. when you're consuming a meal replacement here'swhat you want to look for. you want to look for a good healthy amountof natural organic protein that comes from something like bone broth or nuts and seedslike hemp seeds or something like that. so you want a good amount of protein. you want some good healthy fiber from berries,and seeds like flax and chia, maybe some green

super foods like spirulina, things like that. so you want to get, should be high proteinhigh fiber, maybe some healthy fat as well from things like coconut milk powder in coconutand then antioxidants. you know, herbs, things like that. well, a lot of these meal replacements todaythey're low protein and low fiber. maybe the just have one of the two. when you're doing a meal replacement you reallywant to be getting good quality protein and good quality fiber, because if not, most ofthose other ingredients are going to imbalance your blood sugar levels causing you to gainweight.

so, again, make sure it's got a good amountof protein and a healthy amount of fiber. typically 10 grams of protein or more at leastat the very, very minimum, ideally too close to the 20 plus and then at least 5 grams offiber but closer to 8 plus would be better there. all right, here's another big things you'llsee in these meal replacements, and by the way, i'd love to hear from you. do you know what i'm talking about? there are so many of these meal replacementsand protein powders and things like that that people are taking today for weight loss andthey're not working.

they're full of synthetic ingredients. we'd love to hear from you. if you know of any brands out there or peoplethat have taken these stuff but you know they're toxic. and here's the thing you need to know as well,by the way, if you're enjoying this live training on things not to consume in your meal replacementand protein powder, take a minute right now, punch that share button, click that love button. there are so many people especially peoplein the fitness industry that are consuming this stuff and they think, "hey, i'm lookinggood.

i'm putting on some muscle, or i'm toningout. i'm losing weight." but they don't realize that these foods, thesetoxins are destroying their health. all right, inflammatory ingredients. you know, inflammation is the root cause ofmost disease today. if you think about anything with an "-itis,"that's inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, even heart disease. you know, high cholesterol, that's becauseyou're having inflammation in your body. in fact, even most autoimmune disease startswith inflammation to the gut lining then goes

and affects other areas of the body. so autoimmune disease, heart disease, diabetes,weight gain, ulcerative colitis, and digestive issues, they're all inflammation-related. well, there's a lot of inflammatory ingredientsand additives found in meal replacement powders today. and especially if you're looking at certaintypes of isolated white whey protein or hydrolyzed whey protein, those are very inflammatory. oftentimes especially if somebody has a foodallergy to dairy they don't do well with that. if there's any type of gluten or wheat productsor corn products, those are highly inflammatory.

most grains in general especially if they'reprocesses at all are going to be very inflammatory to the body. sugar is inflammatory. bad fats, many artificial sweeteners are inflammatory. pesticides, and dairy products, those areinflammatory ingredients you want to stay away from protein powders and meal replacements. and then hydrogenated oils. you know, it is shocking to see how oftenthey sneak in soybean oil into meal replacement powders and other ingredients.

you know, when you're looking at salad dressingsthat are supposedly healthy and other things, they sneak soybean oil and canola oil intoa lot of products. those are partially hydrogenated oils thatare very inflammatory to the body. so you want to stay away from all hydrogenatedoils and look for a healthier oils instead which we'll about to talk about here rightnow. so let's talk about the better options ofwhat you should be getting in your diet on a daily basis, and listen, these things i'mabout to talk about they're going to help you tone and lean out, they're going to helpbring your energy through the roof and they're going to help your body in naturally healingitself.

so let's talk about, number one, green smoothieshere. now, this is something when my mom was reallyill, i mean now she's doing fantastic. this was10 plus years ago. but when my mom was sick, she was diagnosedwith issues of chronic fatigue and hashimoto's thyroiditis and tumors in her body and a numberof other issues, and one of the things she started doing was juicing vegetables. but also she would do greens smoothies. so what we would do for breakfast is she woulddo green smoothies where she would like to throw in like a cucumber.

we would do like a big can full of spinachor kale. and then we would do like a pear in there. and then we would add in like a big scoopof like a super green powder that have spirulina, and chlorella, and wheatgrass juice and vegetables. you know, one of those super food powdersthat were greens. she would add that in powder form but shewould drink that almost every morning. so, again, for the most part if was cucumbers,and celery, and maybe a little bit of ginger root and things like that, so there's a lotof things that were very green. and then she would add in some of that greensuper food powder.

and then maybe a little bit of fruit to sweetenit up like a pineapple or a pear or both. so just a little bit of like pineapple andpear and . . . but it really taste great. sometimes you throw some grapes in there aswell, but a green smoothie in the morning, talk about naturally bringing your energythrough the roof. it's packed with chlorophyll. it's lower in calories. and so doing a green smoothie is a great option. if you want to up the protein, you could doa bone broth powdered protein. you can do a sprouted brown rice protein.

you could also do like just add some hempseeds in there as well. that's another option there to do, but greensmoothies are a great option. by the way i'd love to hear from you. do you ever do green smoothies? i'd love to hear from your guys, if you dogreen smoothies or have done them, or juice vegetables, and how it makes you feel. all right, pureed healthy soups. now, this is something i've had a lot of mypatients do who have leaky gut syndrome. if a patient has candida or any type of inflammatorybowel disease.

you know, we tend to think of soup being maybelike a lunch thing. you know, you do soup during lunch but i thinkyou can do sort of healthy soups for breakfast. and i love doing a healthy pumpkin soup orcarrot soup for breakfast or for lunch or as a meal replacement. so one of the things i did recently is i doa warm pumpkin smoothie for breakfast, which is like a soup. i do about a cup of pumpkin, so just regularorganic canned pumpkin, i'll add in about a cup of coconut milk. i'll then add in some pumpkin pie spice likesome cinnamon and ginger and cloves in there.

and then i'll add in about a scoop of a bonebroth powder and then a little bit of honey or maple syrup. and i drink that and it tastes amazing butit's like a warm pumpkin smoothie or pumpkin soup. you can also do this with carrot. you can do a carrot ginger soup and pureethat and drink that down as a meal replacement. but that is another great option. in fact, pumpkin, many people don't realizethis, pumpkin is actually good for drying up candida and really good for healthy bowelmovements.

it is packed with fiber. so we talked about earlier in meal replacement,you want to get protein and fiber in those pumpkin as a fiber power house as are carrotsfull of beta carotene and a lot of antioxidants that are great and incredible for your skinand your brain and for your gut. bone broth powdered protein, so getting bonebroth in your diet in powder form. this is the ultimate meal replacement. in fact, that's what i did this morning forbreakfast. i did some cinnamon apple protein powder thatcomes from bone broth. and then i did a little bit of collagen.

i did some oatmeal. so i did a cinnamon apple bone broth oatmealsmoothie for breakfast. it was absolutely delicious. but again, bone broth is loaded with glucosamineand chondroitin and hyaluronic acid. it's loaded with proline, glycine, and glutamineand these nutrients are crucial for supporting your gut health and your joints, and yourskin, hair, and nails, and your immune system and even detoxification. so bone broth adding . . . the great thingis, you can add bone broth powdered protein to healthy soups, to green smoothies, youcan add them to all these things.

so it's a great natural meal replacement anddoing a bone broth-based meal replacement is the best of the best when it comes to mealreplacements. this is something that all young athletesshould be doing especially after workouts because it's so good for the joints. and anybody that works out or anybody thatis wanting to have more collagen in your diet collagen is like the glue that holds yourbody together. most of us are not getting near enough collagenin our diet, so make sure you're getting bone broth. you know, when i take care of patients, iprescribe them, i tell them they need to be

drinking bone broth in powder form or in liquidform, either way, by getting bone broth or bone broth powder in their diet at least twiceevery single day or at least once first thing every single morning. all right, next thing here, chia seeds. i mean this is a great option for a meal replacementand i actually like making sort of a chia seed bowl for breakfast or a chia seed pudding. i do chia seeds. sometimes i'll add like a chocolate proteinpowder from bone broth, and there's come coconut milk.

and chia seeds are packed with fiber. they're packed with protein and they're packedwith omega 3 fatty acids. really, chia seeds are one of nature's perfectsuper foods and i love to hear from you, if you consume chia seeds. i know my wife, chelsea, she loves consumingkombucha with chia seeds in it. there's a brand she gets with kombucha andchia seeds. and she loves that. my buddy, jordan rubin, is always doing thatas well. and i like adding this and actually makinga chocolate chia seed pudding there for my

dessert at night. so chia seeds, talk about one of nature'sperfect super foods. all right, let's talk about some other ingredients. by the way, if you're enjoying this live trainingon what to do as a natural meal replacement and the six toxic things you've got to getout of your diet in terms of meal replacements, hey, do me a favor, help me spread this message. punch that share button, click that like button. there's so many people right now that arestill drinking like skim milk or doing the processed meal replacements or protein powderswith artificial sweeteners and they don't

realized it is destroying their health. so thanks for sharing this everybody who'son mission with me. organic eggs. you know, raw eggs aren't just for rocky,okay? raw eggs are the real deal and i add raw eggsto my smoothies in the morning fairly frequently. and sometimes i do duck eggs. sometimes i do chicken eggs. you know, i love it when i go to my farmersmarket and i have duck eggs. in fact, if you cook up duck eggs the yolkis much bigger, really rich.

so, hey, if you shop at a local farmers marketand if, hey, if any of you guys have tried duck eggs and love them, hey, let me knowright now on facebook live and youtube live right now. but organic eggs are packed with protein. in fact, it's where the best forms of proteinfor putting on muscle. also the yolk of eggs is packed with vitamine, omega 3 fatty acids, choline, and other nutrients that actually support the brain. i mean, it is one of the brain's greatestsuper foods are eggs. so, again, getting organic eggs, and, again,i go to my farmers market or my local health

food store, i get eggs and i put them rawin a smoothie. and i don't want everyone to freak out, listen,i will tell you that people who have consume raw eggs for thousands of years. and so, again, and i'm not recommending andprobably you should put a disclaimer here and say, "follow the . . . make sure to consultwith the physician before following any advices heard on this program," so do that. but i do raw eggs in my smoothie. and i have a lot of especially, again, youngathletes and people looking to get more protein and more healthy fats to support the brain.

and the other thing too is i was at jordanrubin's house the other night and he made an ice cream with a lot of raw egg yolks andsome fruit and some honey. it was really delicious. but, again, organic eggs are great thing toadd in for great quality nutrients. organic kefir and yogurt. you know, these are really rich in probioticsand most people are completely deficient in probiotics. so if you want to get more probiotics in yourdiet, kefir and yogurt are the best. i typically recommend goat's milk kefir orsheep's milk yogurt or things like that.

most cow's milk today people have more sensitivitiestoo in terms of allergies, so, again, i would recommend in most cases organic kefir or organicyogurt especially if you can get it at your local farmers market. but, again, these are packed with protein. these are also loaded with healthy saturatedfats. and healthy saturated fats are really goodfor your skin. they're also really good for not just yourskin but also inside your cells and your colon. natural sweeteners. you know, my three favorite natural sweetenersthat i use on a regular basis are raw local

honey, a little bit of stevia, and then alsoi'll use things like a date. so i just use fruit, you know? dates are one use as well, but again, honeyis probably my favorite. so, again you do need to be conscious of theamount of sugar you're getting in your diet. so, again, honey is sugar or has sugar, buthoney is a food as well. honey is lower in the glycemic index. it's easier to digest. it also has a lot of microbes that can benefitthe gut, the microbiome, and the immune system. so, again, i would say raw local honey, again,dates is a sweetener, a little bit of stevia

can be good. monk fruit is another option, a little bitof monk fruit. so that's what i would do as your naturalsweeteners that you're using in your meal replacements, your shakes, your smoothies,your soups, things like that. here's some other ingredients, coconut, nuts,and fruit. you know, coconut contains medium chainedfatty acids which are great for your body to burn and this is kind of steady energy. so i add sometimes a tablespoon of coconutoil to a smoothie. a lot of times i'll add in coconut milk.

sometimes i'll add in coconut meat. you can actually buy that frozen at certainhealth food stores. but coconut we know is full of fiber and fat. really high in fiber and really healthy fats,so that's a great option to add in your smoothies. listen, this is also a great thing to haveas part of a ketogenic diet. in fact, if you're on a ketogenic diet thebest two things you could consume are probably coconut products as well as bone broth together. nuts and seeds. you know, getting more flax seeds and hempseeds, other omega 3-rich nuts are great,

adding in nut butters. and then an almond butter is great to add. and then fruit of all types can be good toadd to a smoothie. bananas are good if you want to add creaminess. berries are probably the healthiest overallbecause of their high antioxidant level. and then here is one of the biggest ones iwant to mention. add in lots of herbs and spices. we do not get near enough herbs and spicesin our diet. and, listen, of all of the food categoriesfrom vegetables to fruits to wild organic

meats and seeds, all of these things don'tcome even close in nutritional profile to herbs and spices. here's a couple i would add in, cinnamon andginger. you know, cinnamon is great for blood sugarlevels. it's great reducing food cravings. it's a little bit sweet so i add this intoa smoothie or a meal replacement all the time. ginger, really powerful in terms of its anti-inflammatoryproperties. it's also really good for the guts and forthe joints. so adding in ginger and a few other herbs,i love adding in turmeric.

you could add in a little bit turmeric powderto certain recipes there as well. but these two really taste incredible andare really good options to bring your nutritional support in your smoothies and in your mealreplacements to a whole another level. so let's break it down and remember thesethings. and by the way, hey, help me spread the message,food is medicine. more people need to know this info, hey, pressthat share button right now, let's help share this message. here's some health threats that you're goingto find in conventional meal replacements synthetic vitamins and minerals that couldplaque up your arteries.

excess sugar that feeds yeast in your body. artificial ingredients which have been linkedto tumors and killing of probiotics in your gut. low protein/low fiber, inflammatory ingredients,and excess calories. instead, here are better options to add inyour smoothies on a regular basis or smoothie replacements, green smoothies, pureed healthysoups, bone broth powder protein, chia seeds, organic eggs, probiotic-rich foods like kefir,yogurt, natural sweeteners like honey. coconut, nuts, fruits, and a lot of herbslike cinnamon and ginger. if you start doing this it's going to reallytake your health to the next level and, hey,

don't forget to subscribe here if you're notsubscribed here to our facebook and youtube channels for live video. we're always doing pop-ins and more live video. guys, i hope you've enjoyed this training. this is me, dr. josh axe talking about whatnot to put in a meal replacement and some healthy alternatives.