Wheatgrass Juice & Its Spectacular Healing Benefits

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Wheatgrass was identified as the finest grass food of all after a series of intensive agricultural research studies spearheaded by Dr. Charles Schnabel and assisted by Dr. George Kohler, Dr. Richard Graham, Conrad A. Elvehjem and E. B. Hart in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.  

Of particular note, they performed direct comparisons of wheatgrass against other well regarded vegetables including spinach, broccoli and alfalfa.  While animals fed these foods exclusively began to waste away, those fed only wheatgrass thrived on it.  This spawned further research which showed that wheatgrass contains a broad spectrum of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, essential fatty acids and enzymes.  In addition, their research also identified benefits that could not be associated with any of these known nutrients.  The expression "grass juice factor" was termed to descibe beneficial powers in grasses that were distinct.

Juicing wheatgrass was started in the 1950's by Ann Wigmore independent of the agricultural research above.  Her story is fascinating (check out "Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine" by Steve Meyerowitz).  The essence is that she was a Boston resident of Lithuanian descent who suffered from a variety of ailments in her early life.  Drawing on her peasant background and the experiences of her grandmother (a self taught naturalist), she healed herself with wild weeds, herbs and greens.  She consumed many different types of greens and also fed the same to her animals.  Her observations led her to conclude that wheatgrass was the best source of greens.  One day, at a local yard sale, she picked up an old cast iron meat grinder.  With a few modifications, the first wheatgrass juicer was born.  Ann Wigmore later formed the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston and worked with thousands of people over the years.  Visitors to the institute were thrilled with their results and many of the health retreats across the country were formed by former Hippocrates clients.

The Ann Wigmore institute writes about the benefits of wheatgrass:

 "Wheatgrass juice is an effective healer because it contains chlorophyll, all minerals known to man, and vitamins A, B-complex, C, E, and K. Wheatgrass is extremely rich in protein, and contains 17 amino acids, the building blocks of protein."

Wheatgrass Benefits

Wheatgrass is antibacterial, antiviral, and alkalinizing. It detoxifies, purifies and builds the blood. It nourishes the brain and nervous system, and prevents degenerative disease. People who drink wheatgrass juice feel energized and clear headed.

Wheatgrass juice is extremely bioavailable. This occurs because wheatgrass requires 50 times more pressure to juice than other fruits and vegetables. This force pulverizes the cellular structures and expresses out miniscule nutritional elements.  The benefit of these tiny nutritional elements is that they are easy for the body to assimilate.

If you can consume wheatgrass daily then it will help with digestion, heart disease, your skin and tiredness to name a few of the benefits. Wheatgrass has very high oxygen levels which are important with your health. Your body and brain needs oxygen to function correctly and if you are getting an oxygen boost then this is great for you. The wheatgrass is also full of nutrients, enzymes and minerals which are all fantastic in helping your body and health.

When you drink wheatgrass juice, your body may produce spectacular results such as:

• A physical and mental sense of well-being
• More energy and better sleep
• Stronger immune system
• Detoxification on a cellular level
• Reduced inflammation in the entire body
• Lessened appetite cravings
• Increased mental clarity
• Steadier nerves
• Improves body odor
• Improved eyesight and night vision
• Actively engaging in and enjoying activities you had been dreading in the past
• Visually seeing results via live blood cell analysis such as the unclumping of oxygen-carrying red blood cells
• Helping reduce obesity
• Cleansing the liver
• Improving blood sugar levels
• Improving digestion
• Stimulating growth of connective tissue
• Improving skin health
• Prevent tooth decay
• Correcting anemia by increasing red blood cell count
• Reducing inflammation of mucous membranes
• and much more...

Increases red blood cell counts, and it actually lowers your blood pressure. It cleans out the blood, organs, and all of the organs that blood goes through.  It also helps clean your gastrointestinal tract of all the debris that can build up over the years and years of digesting or eating poorly. It also aids in reducing blood pressure by dilating the blood pathways throughout the body. 

If you have blood pressure issues, it’s generally because of constricted blood vessels and lack of elasticity in your blood vessels.  If you do have blood pressure issues, then wheatgrass is definitely a great ingredient or superfood for you.

It restores alkalinity in the body. Which sounds like a fairly complex topic, but basically, a lot of the foods that people eat these days, whether they are high in protein and overly processed, they all have an acid-like nature.  When you digest them and metabolize them in your body, it builds up and changes your body to more of an acid state, as opposed to a PH-balanced state or alkaline state.

Foods like wheatgrass are really unique and helpful to the body in numerous ways.  Mainly, because what it helps do is restore that PH-balance that your body really needs to work or function optimally.

It’s a powerful detoxifier and liver purifier.  It helps anyone that’s feeling as though they’re fairly low in energy or sluggish through the day.  It’s generally a result of toxin build-up through potentially eating the wrong foods for a long period of time, or just living day-to-day in the city with pollution.  Toxins are pretty hard to avoid.  For most people, being rundown and whatnot is generally a sign of a buildup of oversupply of toxins, and wheatgrass is a fantastic detoxifier and liver purifier for those specific reasons.

It sweetens the breath and firms up and tightens the gums.  For all those people that, when they brush, they have bleeding gums, wheatgrass is fantastic for that, and it’s generally a sign of bad dental health if your gums bleed.  If your gums do bleed, wheatgrass can definitely help with that, and for this same reason, it actually helps decrease bad breath.  If anyone has bad breath issues out there, it generally has to do with poor dental health, gum disease, or an actual imbalance or overload of toxins in your digestion system.  Obviously, the toxins are coming up your esophagus and out your mouth, and hence, the bad breath.  

Wheatgrass is extremely high in naturally occurring chlorophyll.  Chlorophyll benefits are numerous, but in this case it is also an antibacterial.  For anyone that has digestive issues and overload of bad bacteria in the digestive system, causing issues such as IBS, bloating, gas, wind, lack of health in terms of energy and immune system, or lacking in immune system strength, this is definitely a great benefit for you guys.  The antibacterial substance that is chlorophyll can help go into your digestive system, really clean it up, and ensure that the good digestive bacteria can flourish in the stomach and the digestive system, and get you back to proper health.
Research in Japan shows that chlorophyll is an anti-carcinogenic.  

It only takes minutes to digest wheatgrass.  It’s a very easy to digest food for the human body.  There are many foods out there that are really hard to break down and digest, take away a lot of energy, and cause a lot of stress on the body as well.  Wheatgrass is definitely a very easy to digest food, for all those people out there with digestion issues. 

Wheatgrass is actually an ingredient that can help increase fertility in humans.  Many farmers, for example, who have sterile cows and bulls put them on a wheatgrass diet and that really increases the fertility levels of cows, animals, and human beings.  It’s mainly due to the high magnesium and zinc content of wheatgrass, and that really helps build the enzymes that restore sex hormones and sexual health in terms of humans and animals.  If you’re having issues in terms of fertility, wheatgrass is definitely an ingredient that I would suggest that you put in your daily regime.

Over the years, wheatgrass juice has developed a large following of people who have seen and experienced the benefits.  Exciting results and genuine enthusiasm have created a number of bold statements about why wheatgrass juice is so good. For the most part, these statements have been hypotheses not facts.  Further developments have shown some of them to be partially or even entirely inaccurate.  Although the explanations have not always stood up to rigorous scrutiny, the good intentions of the people, their experiences, and the benefits derived from the use of wheatgrass juice have never been in question. 

A Few Studies on Wheatgrass

One study compared the effects of wheat grass with spirulina on levels of oxidative stress in a group of healthy young subjects between the ages of 18 and 21. The subjects were divided into groups of ten; one group was given a placebo of calcium gluconate, while the other two groups were given either a wheat grass supplement or a spirulina supplement. Rather than using juices, the subjects took dry powder capsules before breakfast and dinner for a total of 1000 mg daily. The researchers took blood samples from each participant after 12 hours of fasting and tested them for assorted biochemical biomarkers. After 30 days, the researchers found that the wheatgrass group showed lower levels of blood malondialdehyde (a marker of lipid oxidation) as well as increased concentrations of antioxidants in the blood. The spirulina group showed a similar path, but the improvements were not as significant.

Many wheatgrass studies have looked at the effects of the plant on the disease thalassemia. A blood disease whose most prevalent symptom is anemia, patients with thalassemia often require blood transfusions, which can be costly and time-consuming. Additionally, because thalassemia tends to affect populations in economically challenged nations, the ability of the patient and his/her family to obtain the transfusions can be difficult, if not impossible. Because of these burdens, researchers in India looked at whether the consumption of wheatgrass might positively affect the transfusion needs of some of these patients. Patients were randomly selected from the Advanced Pediatric Center; their families grew the wheatgrass for the experiment in their homes. The transfusion needs of the patients in the year before the wheatgrass experiment were compared to their needs during the timeframe in which they drank approximately 100 mL of wheatgrass daily. The researchers found that of the 16 cases examined, half of them appeared to benefit from the ingestion of wheatgrass; the transfusion needs of these eight dropped at least 25% from their normal levels. Of the other eight patients, five saw smaller drops in need, and three saw either no change or very little change.

While much of the medical research on wheatgrass has been conducted in Japan. US scientists have also hailed this green food for its many benefits. For example, it has been praised for its role in preventing illness by Dr. Arthur Robinson. The director of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Dr, Robinson, who performed a research project on wheatgrass in 1978 at the Linus Pauling Institute, found that wheatgrass and other "live foods" decreased the incidence and severity of cancer lesions in mice by about 75 percent.

In 1978, Dr. Chiu-Nan Lai of the University of Texas reported in Nutrition and Cancer that wheatgrass juice had an anti- effect, and also that it showed an anti-neoplastic ability. And in another study, performed at the Arthur Testing laboratory by Dr. Thelma Arthur. The consumption of wheatgrass juice was shown to detoxify the blood and strengthen the immune system.

40 Reasons Wheatgrass is Great

1. Wheatgrass juice is 70% chlorophyll.
2. Chlorophyll is the first product of light and, therefore, contains more light energy than any other element.
3. Wheatgrass juice is a crude chlorophyll and can be taken orally and as a colon implant without toxic side effects.
4. Chlorophyll is the basis of all plant life.
5. Wheatgrass is high in oxygen like all green plants that contain chlorophyll. The brain and all body tissues function at an optimal level in a highly--oxygenated environment.
6. Chlorophyll is anti-bacterial and can be used inside and outside the body as a healer.
7. Dr. Bernard Jensen says that it only takes minutes to digest wheatgrass juice and uses up very little body energy.
8. Science has proven that chlorophyll arrests growth and development of unfriendly bacteria.
9. Chlorophyll (wheatgrass) rebuilds the bloodstream. Studies of various animals have shown chlorophyll to be free of any toxic reaction. The red cell count was returned to normal within 4 to 5 days of the administration of chlorophyll, even in those animals which were known to be extremely anemic or low m. red cell count.
10. Farmers in the midwest who have sterile cows and bulls put them on wheatgrass to restore fertility. (The high magnesium content in chlorophyll builds enzymes that restore the sex hormones.)
11. Chlorophyll can be extracted from many plants, but wheatgrass is superior because it has been found to have over 100 elements needed by man. If grown in organic soil, it absorbs 92 of the known 102 minerals from the soil.
12. Wheatgrass has what is called the grass-juice factor, which has been shown to keep herbivorous animals alive indefinitely.
13. Dr. Arm Wigmore helped people get well from chronic disorders for 30 years using wheatgrass.
14. Liquid chlorophyll gets into the tissues, refines them, and makes them over.
15. Wheatgrass juice is a superior detoxification agent compared to carrot juice and other fruits and vegetables. Dr. Earp Thomas, associate of Ann Wigmore, says that 15 pounds of wheatgrass is the equivalent of 350 pounds of carrots, lettuce, celery, and so forth.
16. Liquid chlorophyll washes drug deposits from the body.
17. Chlorophyll neutralizes toxins in the body.
18. Chlorophyll helps purify the liver.
19. Chlorophyll improves blood sugar problems.
20. Wheatgrass juice cures acne and even removes scars after it has been ingested for seven to eight months. The diet must be unproved at the same time.
21. In The American Journal of Surgery (1940), Benjamin Gruskin, NM, recommends chlorophyll for its antiseptic benefits. The article suggests the following clinical uses for chlorophyll: to clear up foul-smelling odors, neutralize some types of infections, heal wounds, hasten skin grafting, cure chronic sinusitis, overcome chronic inner-ear inflammation and infection, reduce varicose veins and heal leg ulcers, eliminate impetigo and other scabby eruptions, heal rectal sores, successfully treat inflammation of the uterine cervix, get rid of parasitic vaginal infections, reduce typhoid fever, and cure advanced pyorrhea m many cases.
22. Wheatgrass juice acts as a detergent m the body and is used as a body deodorant.
23. A small amount of wheatgrass juice in the human diet prevents tooth decay.
24. Wheatgrass juice held in the mouth for 5 minutes will eliminate toothaches. It pulls poisons from the gums.
25. Gargle with wheatgrass juice for a sore throat.
26. Pyorrhea of the mouth: lay pulp of wheatgrass soaked in juice on diseased area in mouth or chew wheatgrass, spitting out pulp.
27. Drink wheatgrass juice for skin problems such as eczema or psoriasis.
28. Wheatgrass juice keeps the hair from graying.
29. By taking wheatgrass juice, one may feel a difference in strength, endurance, health, and spirituality, and experience a sense of well-being.
30. Wheatgrass juice improves the digestion.
31. Wheatgrass juice is great for blood disorders of all kinds.
32. Wheatgrass juice is high in enzymes.
33. Wheatgrass juice is an excellent skin cleanser and can be absorbed through the skin for nutrition. Pour green juice over your body in a tub of warm water and soak for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse off with cold water.
34. Wheatgrass implants (enemas) are great for healing and detoxifying the colon walls. The implants also heal and cleanse the internal organs. After an enema, wait 20 minutes, then implant 4 ounces of wheatgrass juice. Retain for 20 minutes.
35. Wheatgrass juice is great for constipation and keeping the bowels open. It is high in magnesium.
36. Dr. Birscher, a research scientist, called chlorophyll "concentrated sun power." He said, "Chlorophyll increases the function of the heart, affects the vascular system the intestines, the uterus, and the lungs."
37. According to Dr. Birscher, nature uses chlorophyll (wheatgrass) as a body cleanser, rebuilder, and neutralizer of toxins.
38. Wheatgrass juice can dissolve the scars that are formed in the lungs from breathing acid gasses. The effect of carbon monoxide is minimized since chlorophyll increases hemoglobin production.
39. Wheatgrass juice reduces high blood pressure and enhances the capillaries.
40. Wheatgrass juice can remove heavy metals from the body.

How to Consume/use It?

You can grow it and juice yourself, or buy the powered juice in a supplement such as Vitamineral Green (I do both). Be sure to start slow with one teaspoon, and gradually increase  to 2 ounces three times daily. If you are trying to find recipes to include wheatgrass in then you should try to include it in smoothies and juices. You will then get the added benefits of the juice as well as the wheatgrass and this is a great way to stay healthy. You can also apply wheatgrass juice to your face as a face pack which is great and can help you to cleanse.  You can also apply the wheatgrass to your scalp as it will mend roots and help the condition of your hair. Your hair will be shinier and healthier it will also be stronger and the gray hairs will be delayed in growing.

You will be amazed at the different benefits that you can get from wheatgrass and once you get over the taste then you will enjoy drinking it. Although this may take different recipes to find the one that you enjoy the most but once you do then you will be drinking it every day. You will see the benefits straight away and you will look and feel so much healthier. Doctors often recommend eating and drinking wheatgrass for serious illnesses as they have proven to help with these as well.

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