Benefits of Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll is found in abundance in leafy greens such as: lettuce, kale, collards, chard, alfalfa, cabbage, buckwheat greens, turnip greens, spinach, cabbage, sunflower greens, parsley, celery, cucumbers, scallions, watermelon rind, and green peppers. Fresh juices are a great way of getting chlorophyll into your diet, and these are just a few of the chlorophyll-packed green vegetables that can be added to different juice combinations.

In studies, chlorophyll appears to help the body resist the growth of tumors, especially in the lungs. It does this by stimulating the adrenal gland and cleaning the nodes, enriching the blood and unblocking clogged arteries. For example, the lowly parsley is one of the most nutritious foods we can eat. Parsley juice is packed with chlorophyll which serves to metabolize oxygen in our bloodstream thereby purifying it.

Wheatgrass is another excellent source of chlorophyll. The chlorophyll molecule is surprisingly similar to hemoglobin, which is the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In her studies, Anne Wigmore of the Hippocrates Health Institute found that wheatgrass juice actually duplicates the molecular structure of hemoglobin. Wheatgrass juice helps our body build healthy blood cells, while it cleanses and rejuvenates our body.

As an internal cleanser and healer fresh chlorophyll juice should be high on your list. Green juices have been proven to be an antiseptic, cell rejuvenator and stimulator. So, do your body a multitude of good by starting your day with a glass of fresh nutritious chlorophyll juice. Twenty-five percent of the drink should be green juice and the other seventy-five percent can be carrot, cucumber, celery or apple (or any other non-green juice).  Green juices by themselves can be bitter and some people cannot tolerate the taste.  Although, wheatgrass, by itself,  is sweet and pleasant tasting.

Mix it up by looking for other nutritious chlorophyll rich vegetables and invest in a good juice extractor like the Omega 8006 juicer which can extract juice from a variety of vegetables including the difficult leafy greens and wheatgrass.