I know juicing is the craze at the moment, but I want to share with you a practice I do each day for my health and energy.
Each morning I drink 120ml of pure organic Aloe Vera Gel. The pure aloe content of this gel is so high, making it virtually identical to me slicing open the aloe leaf myself each morning and consuming the precious gel from the plant directly. Imagine. The benefits for me have been extraordinary for my energy, my immune system, my skin, and my hair, It is also a cleanser, and anti-inflammatory. Aloe is also very beneficial for many stomach and bowel complaints. For me, this gel is liquid gold. My body and I say thank you to it every day.
Listed below are the ten main benefits for drinking the gel as outlined by Dr Peter Atherton, a renowned expert on the benefits of Aloe Vera.
1: A wonderful drink for good health.
By drinking the Aloe Vera Gel with all its important ingredients (often now deficient in food) including 19 of the 20 amino acids needed by the human body and seven of the eight essential ones that just cannot be made. The body is able to get enough to allow complex enzymes to work really well. This means the body can function at 100%, creating a wonderful feeling of well-being.
2: A useful source of vitamins
Aloe Vera Gel contains a large range of vitamins, even trace elements of vitamin B12 which is rarely found in plants. Apart from vitamin A, it contains B-group vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E and folic acid. Many of these vitamins cannot be stored by the body so we need to top them up from the food we eat. While at the same time building up the body's defense system against oxidative stress naturally.
3: A useful source of minerals:
Some of the minerals found in Aloe Vera include calcium, sodium,potassium,iron, chromium, magnesium,manganese, copper, and zinc. This is because the plant tends to grow in areas where soils are rich in these minerals and its roots are able to absorb and deliver them to us in a very available form.
4: Effect on gut flora
Aloe Vera is a natural "balancer" and no where more so than inside the gut, where it tends to regulate the various bacteria and yeasts that inhabit it. For example if a person where to suffer with too much yeast in the gut regular ingestion of the gel would tend to reduce this overgrowth. This can also be true of the more unfriendly bacteria that can accumulate in certain conditions.
5: Effects on muscles and joints:
Certain substances in the aloe such as the salicylic acid and the plant sterois are able to soothe muscles and maintain healthy joints, mobility and flexibility.
6: Increased the activity of fibroblasts
Fibroblasts are specialised cells found in the skin. Their job is to produce fibre such as collagen and elastin. These fibres give the skin its structure and of course make it look plump and elastic. the more you have, the younger your skin looks.
7: Effect on the skin
When our skin cells are first produced deep in the epidermis, they are large, plump and very much alive, but by the time they reach the surface 21-28 days later (in normal skin) they are a shadow of their former selves and are transformed into thin flakes of keratin which eventually fall off. Aloe Vera Gel provides the essential nutrition to feed the basal cells. Therefore the skin remains healthy and is able to preform its vital functions more efficiently as well as looking much butter.
8: Balances the immune system
Aloe Vera contains a substance called polysaccharide, a long chain sugar. This sugar is known to have an effect on the chemical messengers of the immune system. It can act in a way that balances the system and can be considered and called an immunomodulator. In the U.S.A this sugar has been extracted from aloe vera and made into a drug.
9. Assists in healthy digestion
A healthy digestive tract ensures that the nutrients from your food are absorbed into the bloodstream. There is clear, clinical evidence that by drinking Aloe Vera gel the bowel is able to absorb these nutrients more efficiently, especially protein.
10: Effect on the gut
Ale Vera has wonderfully beneficial action on the gut and bowel. Irritable Bowel syndrome reacts particularly well to Aloe Vera.
I wish for you a good and healthy life. Good health is such a precious gift. What will you do today that your body and health will thank you for?
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