Materials
- High-Speed Blender
- Cutting board
- Knife
Ingredients
The base of the Thyroid Healing Smoothie:
- 2 cups mango
- 1 banana (I usually use 2)
- 1 cup water or coconut water
Other healing ingredients to consider adding as per the MM blog:
- 2 cups of spinach (I usually use 4)
- ½ cup arugula
- 1 teaspoon kelp powder
- ½ inch ginger peeled
- 1 orange, juiced
- ½ cup cilantro
- ½ cup aloe vera gel
- ½ cup raspberries
Directions
- Add all ingredients to a blender.
- Blend
- Enjoy!
What Each Ingredient Does
Mangoes
Mango is a miracle sleep aid. Many people believe that a glass of warm milk can help you sleep, but in fact, it actually stresses out the pancreas creating a feeling of sleepiness that is a response to stress. This is similar to the sleepiness we feel after Thanksgiving dinner.
Mango’s phytochemicals, amino acids, fructose, and glucose travel to the brain to quickly restore depleted neurotransmitters. This allows people to get a good night’s rest!
What is a neurotransmitter?
Cleveland Clinic explains that a neurotransmitter is a chemical compound that sends messages through nerve synapses (gaps at the end of the nerve cell). All neurons are connected in the body through these synapses and these are one of the ways messages get sent to do things for the body. Our body has a big network of nerves to help our bodies function. Nerves control your mind, muscles, and organ functions.
The Medical Medium explains in Brain Saver that if neurotransmitters are damaged, messages don’t travel well and it causes the brain to overheat. Heat is a big factor in brain health, and we need glucose to douse the flames of heat from an overworked brain that might be stressed out. There is so much more about this in Brain Saver which I highly recommend you read!
Back to Life-Changing Foods:
Mangos also help with stress assistance, viral protection, and skin health. Mangos can help reverse type 2 diabetes, hypoglycemia, and prediabetes. They have highly bioavailable trace magnesium and phytochemical phenolic acids that clam the central nervous system. This can help prevent strokes, seizures, and heart attacks.
The mango pulp helps soothe the stomach and intestinal lining which helps with constipation. It is an excellent exercise food because it provides muscles with traces of sodium, glucose, and magnesium. This helps you perform longer and harder during your workouts without the “burn”.
Emotional Support
Amazing at supporting emotional health. They can help uplift our mood and alleviate depression. If you feel abandoned, shunned, detached, lonely, hurt, left out, or let down, turn to the mango for support. Mangos have the power of manifestation. They help reorient us to change direction and open up to more opportunities. They connect us to our destiny!
Spiritual Support
Mangos can handle the heat! The sun beats down on them through their growing season in extreme temperatures. They know how to shield themselves. We can internalize their inner cool if we eat them! If you find yourself in stressful situations, look to the mango to help keep you calm and collected.
Tips
- For noticeable results eat two mangos a day.
- Eat mango before bed to prompt deep sleep and revelatory dreams!
- Eat mangos with some greens like celery or lettuce to help give you an energy boost. The greens take out the sleepiness and can give you an energy boost!
- Eat mangos before and after exercise to help with recovery and performance.
- Eat mangos before meditation to help connect you to the insights you need.
BANANAS
Bananas’ sugar is bonded to trace minerals and larger minerals like potassium. Potassium helps with neurotransmitter function (brain function).
The sugar in the banana is not the same as processed sugar. These sugars are present with fiber, pulp, water, and phytonutrients that make up the entire banana which helps fight disease. The banana also has many amino acids that work with potassium to help produce electrolytes.
Bananas are antiviral, antifungal, and help feed beneficial bacteria in the gut while removing unproductive ones.
Bananas can help with sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, and digestive problems like IBS and Crohn’s Disease. They also help balance stress and weight!
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Bananas help us pull back the peel of our false selves to expose our true inner core. They help calm a mind filled with fear, make us more productive, and help “dissolve feelings of ill will.” p61.
If you have a friend that is dealing with PTSD or resentment, give them a banana! 3 a day can help keep PTSD away!
SPIRITUAL SUPPORT
The banana plant isn’t a tree but rather a network of underground roots that shoot up with suckers. The roots are thick and wide, not more than 8 inches in the soil. The trunks are formed layer upon layer of leaves of this plant.
Banana plants grow fast with new shoots sprouting up ready to take overgrowth if the central part of the plant has been taken out by the weather.
As we reach for the sky and continue to grow and blossom in our spiritual development we need to cast our support system far and wide so we can lean on these lessons if challenges take us down.
Coconut
Be sure to stay away from coconut meat or oil in the morning to stay fat-free!
Coconut water and coconut oil have become more popular in the health field more recently and coconut water was used as IV fluid for wounded soldiers in WWII. Coconut water is very similar to human blood.
The coconut can get in touch with elements of healing foods and amplify them. If you add coconut water to a smoothie with parsley, the coconut water increases the ability of the parsley to alkalize the body by 50%. It also improves its trace mineral salts.
Coconut ignites amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients in food. This helps nourish us to perform our life purpose + some. Coconuts are tropical and need warmth to grow. Humans are tropical creatures in our roots and we also need heat to survive. Therefore, coconut puts us in touch with the essence of our foundations of who we are.
Coconut water can support good sleep because it provides vital glucose and critical mineral salts, including potassium and sodium, to the bloodstream. Glucose and mineral salts are fundamental elements of brain health and support neurotransmitter chemicals we need for sleep.
Coconut water’s trace minerals and electrolytes nourish reproductive tissue which can help with infertility and other disorders involving the reproductive system. Coconut water also helps with blood sugar levels which helps with diabetes and hypoglycemia. It can help with any brain neurological disorder like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Coconut meat (and the oil from the meat) is antipathogenic because of the lauric acid content combined with other antioxidants in the coconut. Coconut has the ability to kill any pathogen it touches in the intestinal tract. It also loosens other facts and pushes them out of the body using its medium-chain fatty acids.
Emotional Support
Coconut helps people open emotional channels that allow them to let go of self-addiction where they constantly weigh their own needs against others. Narcissists and self-consumed people who don’t seem to care about others can benefit from opening up to a more empathetic nature.
Spiritual Support
Coconut trees drop their seeds (the coconuts) in storms. They do this because they want to lighten their load even though their seeds are their most precious commodity. They need to lighten the load to endure the storm. They teach us to let go of things that seem really precious to us in hard times and that the sun will always come out again. What matters is that you are OK at the moment.
Tips
Find coconut water free of additives like citric acid, natural flavors, and cane sugar. Steer clear of pink coconut water because this is a sign it is oxidizing and going bad.
If you get a hold of a young green coconut consume it within a couple of days to prevent cleaning up coconut water from the ceiling and walls from the popped coconut if it sits. If you can’t access fresh coconut then get jarred coconut butter, frozen coconut meat or use coconut oil in cooking.
Coconuts can help reduce your fear of open water because they are excellent swimmers! The seed is buoyant and floats in the water until it lands on another shore to root. They can help us with our swimming fears.
If you have trouble sleeping from the full moon due to its subtle gravitational pull, try having some coconut to get those electrolytes and mineral salts that support the brain neurotransmitters.
Leafy Greens
Romaine Lettuce is in the Vegetable section of the Holy 4 food groups. Leafy Greens are found on pages 146-151 of “Life-Changing Foods” by Anthony William the Medical Medium.
Physical Support –
Leafy greens include lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, mâche, and watercress. People don’t get
Enough leafy greens in their diets. That one or two lettuce leaves on a cheeseburger does not do much for you. Salads are one way to get more leafy greens in our diet!
MM tells us in the book that leafy greens sweep and scrub all the trapped yeast, mold, fungi, debris, and waste matter in the small intestine. They help move these things along in the intestinal tract and your body will finally eliminate them!
He also explains that leafy greens help the stomach become more alkaline which helps hydrochloric acid production. Strong Hydrochloric acid helps kill off the bad bacteria that make acids that cause GERD. H. pylori is one of these bacteria that leafy greens help eliminate and this bacteria causes stomach ulcers.
MM says leafy greens also create an alkaline body and lymphatic system. Our lymphatic system can become very acidic from chemicals, acids, plastics, pesticides, heavy metals, and pathogens constantly entering them. The lymphatic system affects many other body systems including the reproductive system. If we clean this up; then the rest will follow!
On https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/node/1409 I found out the lymphatic system is the body system that helps attack viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens. They hold lymphocytes and send them out to attack viruses and bacteria.
Emotional Support –
MM tells us that leafy greens can help us with emotional stagnancy. If our bodies are filled with toxic buildup physically, it will affect us emotionally as well. When we start cleaning up physically, we also clean up stored and toxic emotions. Leafy greens help us feel clean and clear again!
Spiritual Support –
Leafy greens help us stay in the present moment and recognize what is in front of us. They have a short shelf life and the sooner we eat them from the time they were picked; the better they are for our health. “Getting in tune with this awakens us to the other fleeting moments of life…”
