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Vitamins and Minerals in Wheat Grass Juice Vitamins Wheat Grass Juice contains vitamins B, C, E, and carotene (Vitamin A). Vitamin A is needed to prevent weak or brittle bones, night blindness, and dry skin. Vitamin E is needed for good eyesight, normal growth and reproduction. Vitamin B is the anti-stress vitamin. The more stress we are under the more of this vitamin is needed. Vitamin B helps the digestive system, the adrenal glands and is essential for normal brain and body formation. Vitamin C is important for the health of the skin, teeth, gums, eyes, muscles and joints. Vitamin E is an anti- oxidant, prevents muscle degeneration, sterility, slow healing of wounds and infections and helps the heart. The vitamin E in Wheatgrass Juice is 10 times more easily assimilated by the body that synthetic Vitamin E. Minerals Mineral salts are basic to all organic life. The electrical currents of life transfer through organic minerals (minerals from plants). Organic minerals regulate the elimination and blood-building functions of the body. If you take inorgnic minerals (those available in pill form), you need 10-20 times more, risking an overload, upsetting your internal balance. These minerals are not found in any one single source. That is why we go to great extremes and cost to add minerals to our Genesis Wheatgrass Soil. We have selected minerals from volcanoes from New Mexico, ancient sea beds from southeast Texas and Florida, kelp from the North Seas and earthworm casting. We would never grow Wheat Grass in only compost or peatmoss. We don’t believe in the silver bullet concept that one additive will meet all the soil’s needs. “if it’s not in the soil, it’s not in the grass”. When someone tells me, they grow Wheatgrass in organic compost, my first thought is whose compost mine or yours, or John’s or Sam’s. All of these composts would have a different mineral content. Some minerals could have been leached out during the composting process. Some add peat moss which has virtually no nutrients. The U. S. Senate Document# 264 in 1936 showed that 12 growing seasons would deplete most nutrients form the soil. The top soil from your yard is not adequate. Wheatgrass grown in highly mineralized soil is a good source of calcium, trace minerals, iron, magnesium, potassium and sodium, selenium, and zinc. Calcium cannot be used properly, if other trace minerals are not present. Plants such as Wheatgrass Juice and other live foods, have the trace minerals present to make the calcium absorbed by the body. Even though spinach, beet greens, and chard have more calcium that Wheatgrass, the presence of oxalic acid binds the calcium making it unusable by the body. Iron is need for the red blood formation. Inorganic iron can cause constipation. The iron in wheat grass juice has no side effects. Magnesium, potassium and calcium maintain the PH of the blood. Wheatgrass Juice has an abundance of these important minerals. Alkaline minerals must neutralize the acids from metabolism in order to maintain healthy bones and teeth and build our immunity against colds and other illnesses. Sodium aids digestion, elimination and regulate the fluids in our cells. Normal blood contains five grams of sodium per pint. Americans eat too much sodium in shape of table salt. Wheatgrass Juice has a safe amount of sodium for even people on a low salt diet. Highly mineralized Wheatgrass juice contains all known mineral elements including selenium and zinc. Amino Acids A deficiency of just one amino acid can result in allergies, low energy, sluggish digestion, poor resistance to infection, and premature aging. Wheatgrass Juice contains 17 amino acids, lysine, isoleucine, tryptophane, phenylalanine, threonine valine, methionine, alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, proline, serine, and tyrosine. MSM MSM is a sulfur bearing molecule found in all living organisms destroyed in processed food. It helps our body use vitamins, helps to reduce allergies, helps detoxify the body and increase oxygen, and takes out inflammation. Enzymes Our habit of processing everything we eat not only destroys some of the vitamins but totally destroys 100% of the enzymes. Enzymes are also destroyed by drying. Enzymes found in Wheatgrass Juice help detoxify the pollutants inside us and help with digestion. The most important enzymes isolated from Wheatgrass juice are: Cytochrome oxidase, an antioxidant required for proper cell respiration Lipase, a fat splitting enzyme Protease, a protein digestant Amylase, which facilitates starch digestion Catalase, which catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen in the blood and tissues. Transhydrogenase, an enzyme which aids in keeping the muscle tissue of the heart toned Superoxide dismutase (SOD), clinical trials show that SOD can help protect us from cell damage due to super oxides, infections, aging, radiation, and poisoning from bad air, bad food, and drugs. Wheatgrass is a superior source of SOD. Chlorophyll and Oxygen Wheatgrass Juice is 70% chlorophyll (the green part of the plant). Dr. G.H. Earp Thomas, scientific researcher, considers Wheatgrass chlorophyll "the richest nutritional liquid known to man." Chapter 3 of the Wheatgrass Book by Ann Wigmore, includes evidence of the blood cleansing and building abilities of chlorophyll, its effect on the circularoty system and oxygen supply, and its role detoxifying and regeneration of the liver. |
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