Materials
- High-Speed Blender
- Cutting board
- Knife
Ingredients (pick one!)
- Watermelon
- Cantaloupe
- Honeydew
- Any other melon! I’ve used Dino melons before at Lidle.
Directions
- Cut up the melon.
- Deseed.
- Blend in a blender.
- Serve and enjoy!
- For juice, run melon through a juicer or blend and strain with a nut milk bag.
Tips
- I like to juice watermelon because this was the direction for the original 3,6,9 Liver Rescue Cleanse and it is so delicious! I run it through my MM900.
- Blended cantaloupe was also in the last day of the original 3,6,9 Liver Rescue Cleanse and it is filling and delicious!
- If you ate a heavy meal or drank alcohol the night before, don’t start your morning with this. The cleansing effect can be very intense. On the 3,6,9 these drinks are saved for day 9. The process before day 9 prepares your body for this intense detox! You may want to lessen the amount or just not have it first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I found out the hard way about this detox effect at the shore last summer!
- If you like less pulp in your smoothie; strain the pulp out.
What Each Ingredient Does
From Life-Changing Foods and the MM Blog
Melons
Melons are critical to the healing process and can bring you to the “palace of health”. If you think back to how many melons you have eaten in a year, it may only be a total of one because we tend to have slices of melon with meals if you don’t follow MM info.
Melons are like mother’s milk because they are high in enzymes and coenzymes that help strengthen them. The flesh of the melon is also predigested. That means the digestive system doesn’t need to work hard to assimilate the nutrients in the body. The fructose (fruit sugar) in melons leaves the stomach in less than one minute and drops into the intestinal tract fortifying the body quickly. This is like getting IV nutrient therapy!
Melons are basically balls of purified water and they contain exactly what our bodies need. These balls of active fluid bind onto poisons and toxins to flush them out of the body. This restores our immune system. Some of the poisons include mold, mycotoxins, viral neurotoxins, undigested protein toxins, ammonia gas, and bacterial toxins.
Melons also have a high electrolyte content which protects the brain and the rest of the nervous system from stress-related strokes, aneurysms, and embolisms.
Melon also thins out the blood and reduces the risk of heart attack. They help with heart and vascular health and reduce liver or kidney disease. Incorporating melon if you have a liver or kidney malfunction can be the difference between life and death.
The water in melons is identical to our blood. It has sodium, potassium, and glucose that are very hydrating to our bodies. This hydration can help you lower blood pressure as well.
Melon is also very alkalizing. Its trace minerals are highly bioactive and bioavailable which means they are easily used in the body. The body’s detox process is amplified by this which drives out traces of DDT, pesticides, herbicides, and heavy metals from deep within the organs.
Melons are also high in silica which is an excellent resource for ligaments, joints, bones, teeth, connective tissue, and tendons to restore. Melon is also a powerful glucose balancer and prevents insulin resistance. It also helps lower elevated A1C levels.
The Cleveland Clinic tells us that A1C is a measure of how much blood sugar is present in your blood over the past 3 months. It is a percentage and it helps determine prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes.
Emotional Support
Look to the melon for emotional support if you are easily frightened, have a difficult time hearing bad news, dealing with PTSD, or heavy emotions. Melons can shift you out of nervousness, skittishness, anxiety, and uneasiness.
Melons can also help you calm down and become more patient in waiting for news. You can offer melons to people who lack patience or are very judgmental. The melon can open up a channel for the person to be more accepting!
Spiritual Support
Look to the melon for spiritual support because it teaches us that we don’t have to fight so hard for the things we want in life. There are powerful forces afoot to make the predigested flesh of the melon without us even realizing! We can rely on spiritual forces to give us opportunities and aid in our healing without a ton of labor on our parts. Of course we should always also take action in health, but spiritual forces also help! We just need to allow for this grace in our daily life and have the mindset that we can heal, and ask for this healing as well.
Tips
- Try to incorporate at least half of a small melon per day in your diet to get the most benefit.
- The predigested flesh of the melon can cause a stomach ache for some of you who have eaten a heavy meal the day before, during the day or have melon with a heavy meal. The flesh can get stuck in the gut and ferment with these heavy fats and proteins. Eating them first thing in the morning on an empty stomach is best.
- To determine ripeness of the melon when growing your own, look at the scent. A sweet aroma and a bit of give on the blossom are good indications of ripeness.
More Resources & References
- MM Melon Smoothie on the Blog – https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/melon-smoothie
- Clevland Clinic A1C info – https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/9731-a1c
