Leah_Putnam_Living_Wholy_WheatgrassI love to get my daily dose of grass. It’s a habit of health I adopted for healing myself of cancer four years ago. My love for wheatgrass continues to blossom and I’ve been growing, juicing and consuming it ever since. What made falling in love with wheatgrass and keeping the romance alive between me and these green blades of sunshine is its impressive densely packed collection of nutrients. Each blade of wheatgrass flaunts a nutrition profile far beyond what most “Superfoods” ever dream of cultivating. Wheatgrass weighs in with 90 minerals plus, vitamins like A, B, C, E, I and K, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients and 17 different amino acids to give it a passing grade as a complete protein.

Our sun supplies all the energy we have on our planet. Wheatgrass is naturally power packed and bursting with an abundant supply of sun energy. Chlorophyll is the green pigment found both in land and water plants. This amazing green substance has the ability through the mystery of nature to capture the energy from the sun and nicely convert it through a process known as photosynthesis into energy the plant can use and pass on to us.

5 Reasons for Falling in Love with WheatgrassIt’s interesting to find that the Chlorophyll molecule is to plants what the haemoglobin molecule is to our own red blood cells. The difference between the two is found in the center of their molecular structure. Chlorophyll’s center atom is made of magnesium and haemoglobin’s center atom is made of iron. Both chlorophyll and hemoglobin serve as the “life-blood” in the production and transportation of energy in plant and human cells. Wheatgrass sprouts have a high concentration of this amazing chlorophyll substance and when we juice these blades of grass we are directly consuming a very potent and concentrated form of sun energy.

It’s best to juice the sprouts when they begin to mature and start to send out an offspring blade. This is the time you want to harvest your wheatgrass because the nutritional potency is at its highest. You also want to consume your wheatgrass juice fresh, undiluted, on an empty stomach and within fifteen minutes of juicing to keep oxidation and nutritional breakdown to a minimum. Once you harvest your trays of wheatgrass don’t keep them around for a second growth, the nutritional value drops in half.

Adding this green vibrant living liquid into your daily nutrition profile is a great supplement to your wellness. Here are my top 5 reasons for starting your own love affair with wheatgrass and including it in your tool box for health.

Here are 5 reasons for falling in love with wheatgrass:

  1. A daily swig of wheatgrass provides you with whole body alkaline nutrition complete with Vitamins like A, C, E, K and B. Wheatgrass has a mineral line up starring iron, calcium, magnesium and selenium. The knife like blades host an abundance of enzymes, phytonutrients and all the amino acids needed to be complete. With a delightful sweet taste to boot it is said that one ounce of this “Liquid Gold” is considered equivalent to 2 1/2 pounds of good quality veggies. Since it’s low in calories and high on nutrients it’s a smart and healthy way to start your day!
  2. Helps in the digestive complaint compartment with respect to easing constipation, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal tract issues. Research conducted in Israel back in 2002 showed favorable results in healing chronic inflammation of the large intestine known as Ulcerative Colitis.
  3. Wheatgrass advocates give it a thumbs up with blood sugar regulation, assisting in reducing blood pressure, aiding in healing wounds, boosting the immune system response and ridding the body of unwanted toxins. The sprouts of wheatgrass are in and of themselves very healing.
  4. Wheatgrass makes the grade in all my favorite Food Categories such as Raw, Living, Green, Vegan and Gluten Free. Trays of Living_Wholy_wheatgrass_2wheatgrass add a healthy natural outdoor feeling to my kitchen and the fresh and vibrant scent from juicing pleasantly lingers throughout the day.
  5. Wheatgrass floods your body with chlorophyll to help in increasing the amount of red blood cells to aid in delivering more oxygen to cells and tissues. Cancer, viruses, bacteria and other not so nice micro-organisms don’t stand a chance of surviving in the presence of oxygen. While I was healing myself of breast cancer I thought of my shot of wheatgrass as my natural dose of daily chemotherapy. It was amazing to watch the tumor shrink and shrink until it completely disappeared. Being a true believer in the benefits of wheatgrass I still continue to support my body everyday with a shot of this healing elixir. I think of it as my own personal cancer safeguard.

Falling in love with wheatgrass is a romance that focuses on your wellness!