It’s no secret that good nutrition and inner health are absolutely necessary for outer beauty and flawless skin.
Here’s the problem: The modern day Western diet is full of high fat, highly processed “junk” food that provides minimal to no nutritional value. This makes it very difficult for people to consume an adequate amount and variety of nutrients that are a necessary component of preventative aging.
I mean, seriously though, who has time to eat grape skin, spirulina, kale sprouts, spinach, and carrot root all in one day? I’ll answer that: pretty much no one.
Green Is the New Black
Introducing: Green superfood powders. They make it easy and convenient to consume all of the super amazing fruit, vegetables, plants, algae, roots, etc. in a simple, easy to drink, powdered form.
Green superfood powders are comprehensive, concentrated, and powerful blends of nutrients. The powders consist of tons of natural superfood ingredients, but in a highly concentrated, nutrient dense, bioavailable, and powdered form. One serving contains almost five servings of fruit and vegetables. These supplements provide tons of trace nutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols, bioflavonoids, enzymes, and probiotics to each and every cell within the body, allowing them to function at peak efficiency.
If I could pick one supplement that I absolutely could not live without, it would hands down have to be a green superfood powder. I’m personally a huge fan of Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance Superfood Powder and HUM Nutrition’s Raw Beauty Green Superfood Powder because they both offer more comprehensive nutrition than any of their competitors. I drink it every morning; it’s the first thing I put into my body every day.
The bottom line: Supplementing your daily diet with a green superfood powder will drastically slow down the natural aging process.
Here are the seven ways that adding a green superfood powder into your diet will help your skin stay young, healthy and radiant:
1. Powerful Antioxidants Help Fight Free Radicals
If you’ve read my blog post on free radicals and oxidation, then you already know that antioxidants are the key to anti-aging.
Green Vibrance contains TONS of antioxidant life preservers. In addition to the vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants found in the plant based micro-nutrition, polyphenols, and cereal grasses, each serving of this green superfood powder contains 1,893 mg of herbal antioxidants.
Antioxidant ingredients include: tomatoes, strawberries, acerolas, amlas, apricots, goji berries, ginkgo biloba, grape seeds, grape skins, green tea, pomegranate, and black mustard seed.
Green Vibrance provides an easy and convenient way to flood your body with tons free radical fighting antioxidants and can help turn back the clock on your skin.
2. Bioavailable Ingredients Provide Superior Concentrated Nutrition
Green Vibrance is full of raw, certified organic, bioavailable plant based micro-nutrition. These ingredients include: kale sprouts powder, kale sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, broccoli sprouts, beet juice, parsley, spinach, carrot, green beans, zucchini, and Ascophyllum nodosum (Rockweed) seaweed.
The ingredients used in Green Vibrance are all PACKED with very important vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. They are derived from plants in their raw, natural state, which makes their nutrients highly bioavailable (easily absorbed in the body).
Just one scoop provides Vitamin A (from Beta Carotene), Vitamin C, Vitamin D (from lichen oil), Vitamin E (water dispersible-alpha-tocopheryl acetate), Vitamin K, Vitamin B12, Calcium, Iron, Iodine, Magnesium, Selenium, Chromium, Sodium, and Potassium.
Additionally, Green VIbrance contains two types of natural algae: spirulina and chlorella, both of which pack a huge nutritional punch!
Spirulina is a multi-cell, blue-green algae. It is 50-75% protein, which is more than chicken or beef. Spirulina contains powerful antioxidants, iron, gamma-linoleic acid (GLA), essential fatty acids, both essential and nonessential amino acids, chlorophyll, nucleic acids, and has excellent anti-inflammatory properties.
Chlorella is a single-cell green algae. Similar to spirulina, chlorella is extremely nutrient dense. It contains a substantial amount of protein, iron, and gamma-linoleic acid (GLA), and very high amounts of chlorophyll and nucleic acid- almost double the amounts found in Spirulina. Chlorella also contains an extremely high amount of vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin K, zinc, and magnesium. Most importantly, chlorella helps filter out internal toxins, keeping the body and immune system in good condition.
3. Probiotics & Enzymes Help Support Digestive Health
Healthy skin starts with a healthy gut.
Green Vibrance contains 25 billion friendly probiotics from 12 different strains, which is greater than any other green superfood powder on the market. These probiotics support good intestinal flora and ultimately help ensure the transportation of nutrients throughout the body.
When you eat something, enzymes help to break down food to release nutrients. Green Vibrance contains added plant and fungal enzymes, such as ginger root and cayenne pepper root, which provide strong anti-inflammatory (inflammation is one of the key contributors to aging) properties and help to ensure that all of the nutrients are being absorbed.
4. Green Cereal Grasses Provide Important Trace Nutrients
Green Vibrance contains seven different certified organic cereal grasses:
- Barley Grass Leaf Powder
- Barley Grass Juice Powder
- Oat Grass Leaf Powder
- Oat Grass Juice Powder
- Wheat Grass Leaf Powder
- Wheat Grass Juice Powder
- Kamut
Green cereal grasses are nutrient powerhouses. They contain high amounts of vitamins, including: vitamin A (as beta carotene), vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin E, many different B vitamins, and folic acid. Cereal grasses also contain many different amino acids, minerals, such as calcium magnesium, electrolytes, helpful enzymes, and macronutrients, such as protein, fiber, carbohydrates and chlorophyll.
Chlorophyll has a very similar composition and structure to hemoglobin. Found in red blood cells, hemoglobin is responsible for transporting oxygen throughout the body. Chlorophyll helps to alkalize our bodies, detoxify the blood, liver, and digestive system, and increase the ability for blood to transport oxygen, which allows more nutrients to be delivered to cells.
5. Adaptogens Reduce Stress & Cortisol Levels
Green Vibrance contains three different adaptogens: eleuthero root, holy basil, suma root powder. As the name suggests, adaptogens help the body “adapt” to stressors by improving and strengthening the health of the adrenal system, which is responsible for managing the body’s response to stress.
When your body is under stress, the adrenal system releases cortisol. When cortisol levels are high, the production of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), an anti-aging hormone, decreases. When your body is responding to biological, physical, and environmental stressors, adaptogens help to keep you calm, which keeps cortisol levels in check and ultimately leads to younger, more radiant looking skin.
6. Boosts Immunity & Wards Off Diseases
50% of the body’s immune cells are found in the digestive tract, so the high probiotic content found in green superfood powders greatly strengthen the body’s immune system.
Additionally, green superfood powders such as Green Vibrance contain several immune boosting ingredients.
Larch arabinogalactans is a immune boosting, highly effective prebiotic that ferments in the intestine. It increases good bacteria in the gut, while shrinking bad bacteria.
Astragalus extract contains three active plant compounds: saponins, flavonoids, and polysaccharides. Collectively, these compounds help to boost the immune system and fight off disease.
Beta glucans boost the immune system by increasing the production of chemicals that help to prevent infections.
7. High Fiber Content Helps With Digestion & Nutrient Absorption
Green superfood powders contain both soluble and insoluble fiber that further enhances the work of probiotics.
Fructo-oligosaccharides, acacia gum, and FiberAid are three prebiotics that help to reduce the number of bad bacteria in the gut and increasing the good bacteria.
Certified organic acacia gum fiber and apple whole fruit powder support body detox, provide trace nutrients, and are excellent free radical fighters.
Certified organic flaxseed powder provides soluble and insoluble fiber, which aids in digestion and nutrient absorption. Flaxseed is also notorious for being highly nutritious, providing important omega-3 fatty acids.
8. Alkalizing Properties Keep the Body’s pH Level Balanced
Green superfood powders are well known for being very alkalizing and keeping your body’s pH levels balanced.
Why should you care? Because maintaining a balanced pH level is your body’s first defense against aging and degenerative diseases. If pH imbalance continues for long enough, it can leads to many health problems and accelerated aging.
The pH level describes the acid-alkaline ratio on a scale of 0 (acidic) to 14 (alkaline). The skin is the happiest when it has a pH level of 5.5.
Diet is the primary cause of pH imbalance. The Standard American Diet is full of highly acidic food- red meat, sugar, dairy, highly processed junk food, etc. The easiest way to restore your body’s pH to a balanced level is by eating naturally alkaline foods, such as fruit and veggies, and to supplement your diet with a daily green superfood powder, such as Green Vibrance.
9. Supports Calcium Retention & Skeletal Health
The skeletal support provided by green superfood powders goes hand in hand with pH balance.
As previously mentioned, given the fact that the Standard American Diet is full of highly acidic foods, it’s pretty easy for the body’s pH to become imbalanced. When this happens, depending on how acidic you are, the body steals calcium from the bones and teeth in attempt to restore its balance. If the pH level is not restored to a normal balance, bone mass will start to deplete, which can lead to osteopenia, and even worse, osteoporosis.
Given that green superfood powders are very alkalising, they can have a powerful impact on pH levels, and help to prevent damage to the bones and teeth.
Cissus quadrangularis extract promotes the production of osteoblasts, cells that are responsible for bone formation, while decreasing the production of osteoclasts, cells that break down bone tissue.
Green Vibrance contains 1,000 i.u. Of Vitamin D3, which is derived from lichen oil. It also contains boron and plant calcium, which further support calcium retention and joint and skeletal health.
How & When to Drink Green Superfood Powder
If you haven’t already picked up on this, I’m a very strong proponent of Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance superfood powder. In my opinion, it by far the best, most comprehensive product on the market and provides more health benefits than any of its competitors.
So, you’re probably wondering how it tastes?
I’m going to be 110% honest here. The majority of green superfoods (including Green VIbrance) on the market taste like you’re drinking the earth. Seriously. This is largely due to the spirulina and chlorophyll… they are algaes, after all. Ew. But, whatever. Given that Green Vibrance offers like, a million amazing health benefits, I think you’ll survive the 5 seconds it takes to drink it. It’s actually not that bad. I’m just dramatic AF (if you haven’t already noticed). You get used to the taste, and it really isn’t that bad.
Let’s talk about how to drink a green superfood powder.
In order to maximize the effectiveness of a green superfood powder, the most important thing to remember is to drink it daily.
Add one scoop to 6-8 oz. of your fave juice or water (I prefer water), and chug it.
Side note: it helps to use a straw.
Some people add it to smoothies, but I have yet to find a smoothie recipe that tastes good with Green Vibrance added to it. Take my advice: one scoop + water + chug. Done.
One more thing: What time of day should you drink a green superfood powder?
Technically, the most ideal time of day to drink this stuff is in the morning, about thirty minutes to one hour after breakfast. This is when your stomach is the most alkaline, or at the highest level of pH, so the probiotics are the most effective.
I’ve been drinking Green Vibrance for years now and it is always the first thing that I put in my body when I wake up in the morning. It energizes my body and jump starts my day.
For more information, check out Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance FAQ Page.
Where to Purchase Green Vibrance
There are tons of good, reputable green superfood powders on the market. Like I said, the two BEST green superfood powders in my opinion are: Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance Superfood Powder and HUM Nutrition’s Raw Beauty Green Superfood Powder. And if you’re traveling, make sure to pick up Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance Individual Travel Packets (15) before you leave town