Wheatgrass for healthy skin

We mostly hear about wheatgrass juice as something to drink, but it can also be great to keep your skin healthy. One such skin condition that wheatgrass can help is acne.  Millions of people around the world have acne, and there is strong evidence that three is a connection between the food that we eat and the amount of acne that is on our skin.  I am convinced that drinking wheatgrass juice as part of a healthy living regimen can reduce acne. Although most physicians are quick to dismiss remedies that aren't pharmaceutical, many people have used wheatgrass to treat acne with great successs.  Skin care companies know about the healing properties of wheatgrass as well.  You can buy skin creams that contain wheatgrass as a major ingredient.  For more information, take a look at this great site about home remedies for acne.

Not all doctors dismiss wheatgrass and other home remedies though.  There is a doctor in Australia who has treated over 30,000 patients with skin problems. He is absolutely convinced that wheatgrass can heal skin problems like excema, wound healing, post-laser surgery, on skin grafts, and applied to burns.

Here is what he has to say:

"Based on comprehensive scientific evidence and my own numerous clinical observations (>25,000) since 1995, wheatgrass and other cereal grasses appear to be capable of stimulating the activity of human growth factors. This process in turn facilitates the natural healing process in hemostasis and hemolysis, wound healing, fracture healing, inflammation and numerous other situations." Dr. Chris Reynolds. M.B.,B.S.

You can read loads of information about the beneficial properties of wheatgrass at his website, which can be found here. http://www.wheatgrassprofessional.info/default.htm

Increasing Your Energy With Raw and Living Foods

Including more raw and living foods in your diet is a great way to increase your energy level, lose unwanted weight, and cleanse your body. Wheatgrass is considered a raw, living food since it is still growing until the moment you put it into the juicer, and then into your body minutes later. In fact, there is a drug treatment center that gives its patients wheatgrass juice to help with the cleansing of their bodies.
As for other raw and living foods, most seeds like alfalfa and almonds are dormant and need to be activated. You can eat them in their raw state, but in order to turn them into a "live" food, you soak them in water to awaken them. Raw foods have a number of advantages including:

• Countless people including myself report a major boost in energy levels after switching to a mostly raw diet. I am absolutely convinced that a living, raw diet is far superior in nutrients and vitamins than eating processed, cooked food.
• Humans are the only animals that cook, and process our food. Thousands of other animals, including our close relatives (gorillas and chimpanzees) thrive on entirely raw food diets.
• Cooked and processed foods often lose a large percentage of their nutritional value when they are heated. Raw foods retain these nutrients until the moment you eat them. In fact, many studies have found that certain substances are carcinogenic when cooked.
• The human body evolved to consume a raw food diet. Before we figured out how to make fires (and for thousands of years after that as well), humans ate what they could find growing outside--fruits, plants, and nuts. It wasn't until very recently that humans started cooking nearly everything they eat. Evolution takes a long time to catch up!

If you want to learn more about raw food, this site is great, or get yourself a raw food book to show you the ropes.

Chlorophyll and Wheatgrass

A major component of wheatgrass juice is chlorophyll, and many people think this ingredient is the secret behind the healing powers of wheatgrass.
Here is a little information on chlorophyll:

• Plants don't have blood, but they have something called chlorophyll instead. Amazingly, chlorophyll resembles hemoglobin in human red blood cells very, very closely.
• Since chlorophyll resembles hemoglobin so much, your body can quickly absorb it and utilize it to nourish your blood.
• Chlorophyll has strong anti-bacterial properties, which help to fight off infections inside your body.
• Wheatgrass Juice is comprised of over 70% chlorophyll, so when you drink some of it, your body gets a super-dose of this green blood building stuff.

While it is true that plants use chlorophyll to live and thrive, is there any proof that humans can benefit from it? Just by taking a look at the animals that survive solely on diets of grass is proof enough for me that it is healthy for us too. Some of the strongest animals on earth--elephants, cows, horses, hippos all thrive on a diet of grasses alone. They get all the nutrients they need from grass. I don't think humans can survive on grass alone, since our stomachs can't break down the fibers, but we definitely can increase our performance by adding wheatgrass juice to a healthy plant-based diet.  By the way, if you are wondering if you can get chlorophyll from drinking green tea, I'm pretty sure it doesn't work.  Even if it did, the boiling water would surely kill it.You can get it by eating other green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach however.

The Healing Powers of Wheatgrass

There are many rumors floating around about the benefits of wheatgrass, so I thought I would write a little on this subject. Some claim that drinking wheatgrass can heal all kinds of illnesses and health problems in humans. Others claim that it doesn't really do anything at all. To help answer this question, we can take a look at the one place that has focused on wheatgrass juice: The Hippocrates Health Institute. This place carries on where Ann Wigmore left off, providing guidance for healthy living that focuses on wheatgrass, raw and vegan diets, and a healthy lifestyle. The institute sees many people suffering from all kinds of sicknesses, and many have remarkable turnarounds. Take a look at their testimonials page to read what patients have to say. The ailments that have been healed include cancer, brain tumors, gallstones, weight problems, bone density, arthritis, seizures, and many others health problems.

After reading through some of these, it makes me want to keep drinking wheatgrass juice. I guess my problem is that I am very healthy, so I can't see the effects so well! But I haven't been to the doctor for years, and am in great shape, so I am going to keep drinking the juice to make sure I stay that way!  It is worth mentioning that wheatgrass juice is only one of many of the so called superfoods that can keep your body running at full seed.  These include acai berries, green tea, oregano, himalayan goji juice, and many other natural foods. 

If you are new to wheatgrass, this book gives you all the info you need about what wheatgrass is, what it can do for you, and how to grow it yourself.

Your mama's so healthy, she drinks wheatgrass juice!

I just came across this new website that is devoted to natural herbal medicines including wheatgrass. Apparently the guy who started the site, mamaherb.com did so because his mama was sick with cancer. He heard about wheatgrass juice, and decided to give it to his mama every day. I guess she didn't suffer any adverse side effects from the chemotherapy, and voila, mamaherb was born.  There are literally thousands and thousands of medicines that are known throughout the world to help people.  The problem seems to be that natural remedies have a hard time reaching other parts of the world.  Chinese medicine is just now becoming increasingly popular in the west, even though it has been around for thousands of years.  The same is true of traditional medicines from many other regions of the world. 
The site does list many natural remedies to various ailments, but it doesn't have a whole lot of information on wheatgrass for some reason. It's worth a look though, as there are all kinds of herbs that can be used as natural treatments for everything from obesity to diabetes to hay fever, and it says which vitamins can be found in each one.