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Hello I'm Doctor John Fitzgerald and get ready to learn with My Nutrition Advisor.
I'm going to go over a great seminar that we give that goes over the details of the
superfood smoothie challenge based on lowering cholesterol. It's important to know this class
is not a replacement for advice from your doctor.
Discuss this class with your doctor and come up with a plan with your doctor to implement
the strategies covered in this class. Your doctor recommended that you eat more of certain
foods because those foods have been shown to have specific health benefits in studies.
This presentation is addressing how to incorporate specific foods and vitamins for specific health
conditions based upon what doctors want their patients to eat.
Let's start off by going into a cholesterol overview. There's two types a cholesterol.
Good cholesterol, which is called HDL. Bad cholesterol, which is called LDL.
Good cholesterol helps remove bad cholesterol from your arteries, is comprised mostly of
protein.
You want your HDL levels to be high. High HDL levels are linked to lower risk of heart
disease. Bad cholesterol other hand contributes to plaque that can clog arteries and make
them less flexible.
LDL comprises about seventy percent of the cholesterol that circulates in the blood stream.
It is comprised mostly of fat.
Cholesterol comes from two sources. Your body produces it naturally, primarily in the liver,
and you consume it in foods from animal sources, such as meat, poultry, dairy products.
Cholesterol is an essential fat that provides stability in every cell of your body. Think
of it this way, your brain is covered in cholesterol, your nerves are coated in cholesterol, your
cell walls contain cholesterol.
Cholesterol is very important to your body, but what's really important beyond that is
to have a proper ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol.
Too much cholesterol can form plaque between the layers of artery walls making it harder
for your heart to circulate blood.
High cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease.
The number one killer of women and men in the United States.
Each year over one million Americans die from heart attacks and one-half million die from
heart disease.
What are the prescription treatments, well statin drugs. Statins block the enzyme in
the liver that is responsible for making cholesterol.
There are many common side effects to statins.
Headaches, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, rash, weakness, liver damage and
muscle pain. The most serious side effects are liver failure and rhabdomyolysis, which
creates muscle damage and kidney failure.
There are also links to memory loss and increase risk for Lou Gehrig's disease, diabetes and
even cancer.
This is why your doctor would like you to fix your cholesterol levels with your diet
if possible so they don't have to give you a statin drug in the first place.
Never stop taking medication without first talking to your doctor and developing a plan
to get off the medication if that's what you and your doctor would like to do.
Natural treatments. Your goal should be to keep your LDL levels low naturally to avoid
the many side effects of statin drugs.
So what does your doctor recommend that you do?
Well, there's five things.
Number one, fix your diet. Number two, exercise. Number three, quit smoking. Number four, keep
a healthy weight. Number five, reduce stress.
The six-hour window.
Eating all your food in a six-hour window has great benefits for weight loss and some
good benefits for lowering cholesterol.
First off weight loss. When you eat your body spends a few hours processing that food and
burning what you just consumed. During a fasted state, your body will use your fat, which
is stored energy, for energy.
Your metabolism actually increases in a fasted state and your body naturally detoxifies itself
while in a fasted state.
Cholesterol, in a 2011 study, research showed that fasting reduces cholesterol levels.
Fasting causes the body to release cholesterol allowing it to utilize fat as a source of
fuel instead of glucose which is sugar.
We highly recommend the six our strategy for people who need to lose weight and give this
advice as an optional recommendation if you only need to lower your cholesterol.
The question that I frequently get asked is this.
But I thought eating five to six times a day was really good for me when I want to lose
weight?
Well that is something that businesses invented. They want to sell you protein shakes, protein
powders bars, all these ingredients.
Just think about this, does it make sense to you at all, that eating all day long is
a good weight loss strategy?
Really? You're smarter than that. Don't let these big companies fool you into this nonsense.
Superfood smoothies and CappuGreenos.
Smoothies have been around actually since the nineteen thirties and they originated
in Brazil.
In the nineteen seventies they became more popular and by the 2000's, it was a multi-billion
dollar industry.
The problem is this, smoothies have become less healthy throughout the years.
The first smoothies contain basically fruit, fruit juice and ice.
Now, they commonly contain yogurt, synthetic protein powders, sugar, artificial sweeteners,
flavored syrups.
The thing to know is this. Smoothies can be the healthiest meals you will ever eat, if
you use the right recipes and utilize superfoods.
There's many different definitions for super foods, but what is agreed upon is that certain
foods have higher nutrition levels and health benefits than other foods.
For example, let's take a look at two things that contain vitamin C.
Oranges, everybody knows oranges contain vitamin C.
One cup of sliced oranges contain 95 milligrams of vitamin C.
The other fruit is an acerola cherry, which is a West Indian cherry. One cup of acerola
cherries contain 1,644 milligrams of vitamin C.
So you can see from this example, acerola cherries are considered a superfood and oranges
are not.
A superfood smoothie is a smoothie that contains superfood. This can be the healthiest meal
that you will ever eat.
A CappuGreeno is a superfood smoothie that contains coffee.
The nutrition and health benefits of your smoothie are highly dependent upon the recipe
and ingredients you're using.
If I was you, I would stay away from a bunch of artificial stuff in my smoothie. I would
avoid artificial sweeteners. I would avoid flavored syrups. I would avoid these things
that just aren't good for you. It goes against what you're trying to do with the superfood
smoothie.
I always get asked this. Should I take my super foods in powder form or fresh form?
What's the difference? Well I am going to go through that in a second, but first I want
you to know, just think about the price.
It's very hard to get a lot of these superfoods in fresh form, such as spirulina, acai berries,
goji berries.
These things, the costs can escalate drastically if you get them in fresh form.
Where the powdered form, it's a much more economical and easy way to do things. Powders
are created by dehydrating the fresh ingredient or juice.
The powder is a condensed version of the fresh ingredient since all the internal water has
been removed.
The conversion of fresh ingredients to powder form varies by ingredient. For instance, wheat
grass, which is a super food that we use, can typically be seen as a thirty to one ratio.
That means that 30 grams of fresh wheatgrass will result in one gram of powder once the
water has been removed.
What are the nutritional differences between the powder and the fresh forms?
Well, raw powders keep enzymes alive just like the fresh form. The powder is a condensed
version so there's a lot more nutrition packed in because it’s condensed. This means that
you would have to consume way more fresh form than powder to get the same amount in nutrition
in your body.
Also think about this. Make sure that you consume organic powders only. The reason is
this, pesticides. Pesticides also get condensed in powders.
So you're consuming a lot of pesticides if the powder that you're using is not certified
organic.
The minimum effective dose is basically the amount of the ingredient that it takes to
show a benefit to you.
What window dressing is, this is a clever thing that a lot of companies use.
Well you pick up a package and there's 50, 60, 70 different ingredients on there but
the problem is this, they all contain such a minute amount, that it's so small that it
doesn't even matter.
It's a trick of the industry.
The My Nutrition Advisor products each contain ten to eleven different superfoods but there
in a nice dose for you.
We don't use window dressing on our products.
A pill or capsule typically has 1/2 gram of powder inside. Think of it this way.
A 24-ounce superfood smoothie or CappuGreeno, has 20 grams of superfoods in them.
This is equivalent to 40 pills.
Imagine how much raw ingredient this would convert to.
40 pills equal 2 tablespoons of superfood powder from My Nutrition Advisor. It is so
much easier to put raw superfood powders in your drinks and boost up the nutrition value
rather than having to sit down and swallow 40 pills.
Wouldn’t you agree?
We like the superfood smoothies in our diet because they provide a huge blast of low-calorie
nutrition that really can make a difference in your overall health.
There are certain foods have benefits for lowering cholesterol.
Different foods have been shown to do things like this: provide HDL cholesterol, which
naturally reduces LDL cholesterol.
Have lipid-lowering effects. Lipid is fat.
Have vasoprotective effects that alleviates certain conditions of the blood vessels.
Have anti-atherogenic properties. That means, it stops the formation of plaque in the arteries.
Contain high fiber, which reduces your LDL cholesterol. Remember, what I'm talking about
is foods that have these benefits.
They help block the absorption of cholesterol and they contain nutrients shown to help lower
LDL cholesterol.
Help your arteries. Contain antioxidants that prevent oxidation of LDL cholesterol.
So we want to strategically eat the foods that can cause these benefits. There's a website
called PubMed.gov
It is a government website that contains tons of research. What I did was I went to this
website and I pulled research and I listed it on these next two pages. This is why your
doctor wants you to eat specific foods. This is the reason, right here, let's look at beets.
Beets have high nitrate content and are responsible for the vasoprotective effects.
Beets significantly reduce LDL cholesterol and increase HDL. Beets are found in both
the Ancient Chocolate and Ancient Berry super food mix.
They are also added as a fresh ingredients in some of the recipes but just take a second
and pause this and read through the recipes and you'll be impressed to see how many of
the super foods that we use have benefits for cholesterol.
This slide has a lot of the other foods that we use to make smoothies and you can see that
some of these things have a lot a research behind them.
Let's look at almonds. Almonds reduce biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in older hypolipidemic
subjects.
What that means, is it reduces the problems of fats oxidizing in older people that have
fat problems in their blood vessels. I know that's a lot of wording, but what this is
showing off of PubMed.gov is there's a research behind eating almonds helping the inside of
your arteries.
Just go ahead and pause the slide and read through the rest and I'm sure you'll be impressed
and you will begin to realize why we use all the ingredients in some of the recipes for
super food smoothies that we're going to give to you.
Here's a list a superfood smoothies and CappuGreenos for lowering cholesterol. Some other recipes
that are known to support people with high LDL cholesterol levels.
You can see here, I've listed 18 smoothies to choose from, that all have a lot of regular
foods and superfoods that are highly beneficial for your overall health and there's research
behind some of the ingredients on PubMed. So you know you're going to be eating the
types of food that your doctor wants you to eat for your cholesterol levels.
Here is an example of an Energy CappuGreeno.
The ingredients with check marks are shown to benefit people with high LDL cholesterol
levels.
We look here, we have beet root powder, chia seeds, flax seeds, goji berry powder, hemp
seeds, maquai, pomegranate.
All of these ingredients are in the superfood mixes.
Then we have coconut water, vanilla almond milk, spinach, beets, basil leaves.
It's great, because now you're making a delicious superfood smoothie and you have all these
ingredients in here to benefit your health, and it satisfies what your doctor is asking
you to do.
Eat more fruits and vegetables that directly affect your overall health.
Lower cholesterol with the superfood smoothie challenge.
The superfood smoothie challenge lower cholesterol challenge details.
We divide this up into two parts. The first five days and then the next twenty-three days.
The first five days detox. This five day detox will cleanse your body and significantly lower
your calorie Consumption.
By detoxing with smoothies, you keep the fiber from the food.
That'll help keep you full. The superfoods give a huge boost nutrition and antioxidants
to give you rapid detoxification.
The first thing that's required is you drink two superfood smoothies per day.
Number two: you do them, you drink them both within a six-hour window.
So you might have one at noon and one at six.
Optional recommendations are this: Get 10,000 steps per day. Buy a pedometer. Clip it to
your pants pocket and make sure you're walking least 10,000 steps per day and optional recommendation
number two is take cholesterol vitamins and supplements. We will discuss that later.
Notes at the bottom. Most people feel good during the detox, but some people detox too
fast and will not feel good.
If you are detoxing too fast, then eat a salad using balsamic vinaigrette as your dressing
or vegetable soup or both, instead of drinking one of your smoothies. So if you're detoxing
too quick and you can’t handle it, you're just not feeling that great because all these
toxins are coming out too quick.
Instead of doing two smoothies a day, do one smoothie a day and a salad for the second
meal.
You can drink green tea, black coffee, regular sparkling water outside the six window. We
just don't want to eat any calories or drink any calories outside of the six hour window.
The next twenty-three days to lower your cholesterol.
These 23 days will enable both short and long-term success by training you to continually eat
the right foods daily for long-term success.
Option A. If you need to lose weight do this for the 23 days. Drink one superfood smoothie
per day and eat one healthy meal per day.
Number three. Drink your smoothies within a six hour window.
Optional recommendations: get a minimum of 10,000 steps per day. Continue to do that
and do it your whole life. It's a big difference on your overall health when you take 10,000
steps in a day.
Number two. Take cholesterol vitamins and supplements. We will discuss that later.
Number three. Here's some more notes. If you need to lose weight you should be doing this.
Count your calories because total calorie consumption should be less than 1800 calories
a day for men and less than 1300 calories a day for women.
Track your calories to ensure you're not eating too many calories for dinner.
Drinking green tea, black coffee, regular or sparkling water is allowed outside the
six-hour window but don't eat anything or drink anything with calories outside the six-hour
window.
Now let's talk about Option B. This is if you do not need to lose weight. We want you
to drink one superfood smoothie per day. Eat one healthy meal per day.
Then for your other meal, you can eat another healthy meal or another superfood smoothie.
So basically you're going to do this, instead of eating twice a day like Option A.
You are going to eat three times per day.
Optional recommendations.
Get 10,000 steps because whether you need to lose weight or not those 10000 steps will
benefit your overall health.
Take the cholesterol vitamins and supplements and lastly, the other optional thing to do
is consume all your calories for the day in the six-hour window.
After the challenge is over.
What do you do? Well, we're giving you the tools so you can be successful long-term.
The benefit of doing what we're doing is, we're using a long-term solution, which is
getting more nutrition into your body through eating the foods that you need to eat. So
we're providing you with a long-term solution for a long-term problem, which is your cholesterol
issues.
You've already developed good habits, you've already started to eat the proper foods that
your doctor wants you to eat, in the superfood smoothies.
So we want you to continue to do this for the rest your life.
We want you to work with your doctor.
We want your cholesterol levels to be measured and we want you to keep doing this for added
success so you're always eating the right foods to help your overall cholesterol levels.
There are optional vitamins and supplements to support your cholesterol levels.
Number one. We have Lipid-Sirt. This is something that was developed by doctors, specifically
for cholesterol levels.
Number two. Biomega-3, which is essentially fish oils. Everybody knows this with that
cholesterol levels you should take fish oils. This is a very high quality line of fish oils.
The last thing I want to talk about is this. When you start to take supplements, you need
to get your doctor's approval first because the whole purpose of this challenge is to
help you and your doctor work together by providing a list of fruits and vegetables
that your doctor wants you to eat and we put 'em in superfood smoothies that taste delicious.
So when your doctor says you need to eat a healthier diet, you can start utilizing these
superfood smoothies to get the fruits and vegetables that your doctor wants you to take.
The other part of that is, there are certain supplements that your doctor may want to take
too.
We list them right here and you can go over them with your doctor and make sure that you're
on the same wavelength about taking the supplements to help your cholesterol levels.
We are very excited to provide you with this information and we really want to hear your
success stories.
Please get a hold of us. Post them on social media.
Send us emails. It really is great information and great feedback for us, because our strategy
is to provide you with the best possible things we can to improve your overall health.