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Kickstart Spring With A Nourishing Green Smoothie By Dr. Brooke Goldner

Begin your New Year journey to optimal health with a hyper-nourishing green smoothie loaded with one pound of power greens, including kale, spinach, and chard. This invigorating recipe by Dr. Brooke Goldner is something she credits to helping fully reverse her own Lupus over 17 years ago.

Dr Brooke Goldner teaches how to make her hyper-nourishing green smoothies that have saved lives all over the world. It’s super simple and effective! Watch time: 12mins

We first introduced you to Dr. Goldner in our article Overcoming Lupus. Dr. Michael Klaper’s keynote address at the Canadian Plant-Based Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Conference referenced Dr. Brooke Goldner, and he said, “She’s a physician who had severe lupus, she was having strokes and renal failure and she put it into remission with a whole food plant-based diet.”

Dr. Goldner’s YouTube Channel, Goodbye Lupus by Brooke Goldner, M.D. is a testament to her success, where she has helped thousands of people reverse autoimmune diseases like Lupus with a plant-based diet. She is the best-selling author of several books, including:

Her website explains how she saved not only her own life but also helped thousands of others around the world through education and a better understanding of nutrition. As a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with Honors for genetic research in Leukemia and Neurobiology, this board-certified medical doctor has been featured in multiple documentaries like Disease Reversal Hope, and Eating You Alive.

In her video with raw vegan content creator Gillian Berry, Dr. Goldner explains how it’s important to focus on nutrients that repair damage to cells. She says this smoothie helps with autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and heart disease because “when you put the right foods in your body, your body actually knows what to do to fix itself…everybody gets results…you’re getting hyper nourished and you’re going to get healthier.”

Green Smoothie Recipe

As Dr. Goldner smiles and loads an entire pound of power greens (454 grams) into the blender, she explains the smoothie should be about 75% greens, and you should firmly squish it down into the blender. She suggests mixing the kale in with spinach and chard, then adding the water or plant milk. She explains she uses omega-3 fatty acids such as chia or flax seeds so our cells can function optimally, repair damage, and create an anti-inflammatory immune system. She suggests fruit such as bananas, mangoes, or pineapple to taste. The end result is a beautiful shade of bright green and can be enjoyed throughout the day. The full smoothie recipe, in addition to others, is available at Smoothie Shred.

Dr. Goldner goes into more detail about the health benefits of her hyper-nourishing green smoothie in an interview with Fever Radio in West Yorkshire called Reversing Lupus And Other Inflammatory Diseases.

Dr Goldner explains a simple dietary approach, focussed on consumption of greens, to reversing and managing Lupus, Kidney disease and other inflammatory conditions.

In addition to helping her patients heal from various autoimmune diseases, Dr. Goldner explains this smoothie also works to improve kidney function and lower blood pressure, helps with diabetes, heart disease, and chronic fatigue, and lots of people can lower their thyroid medication as a result.

 “We have people reverse glaucoma, tumors that shrink, it’s really amazing”, she says.

She calls her method an “intentional overdose in nutrients” and what our bodies use to repair damage and optimize cellular function. She explains that a small cup of greens is not going to dramatically change your health. But when you jump right in and go for “16 ounces or 454 grams a day of cruciferous vegetables like kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, or other high nutrient vegetables like spinach, chard, those really will do the job because they have the highest dose of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, all those phytonutrients you need.”

Dr. Goldner says these nutrients stimulate cellular repair and metabolism, and it’s important to use these specific amounts in the smoothie, especially the greens, to help with disease reversal. 

On the flip side, Dr. Goldner explains that after eating a meal high in animal protein, you can see the damage immediately, and it’s stressful for our kidneys. She says research proves that high protein plant foods like tofu and soy do not damage the kidneys, so eating a whole foods plant-based diet is also hugely beneficial for your journey to good health. 

The bonus of eating a sustainable plant-based diet? It also helps us live safely within our planetary boundaries, reforest the earth, combat the climate crisis, and save millions of animals from animal farming.  Please endorse the Plant Based Treaty to help with both individual and policy change.

In addition to the many courses offered on Dr. Goldner’s website, she has free Wellness Wednesdays, where she goes live, offers advice, and answers questions. 

The Plant Based Treaty has a free plant-based starter guide with recipes, tips, and all the information you need about vegan sources of calcium, iron, and protein.

Don’t forget to sign the treaty if you haven’t already done so, and please consider helping us continue to implement plant-based solutions across the globe and halt the expansion of animal agriculture to avoid a climate catastrophe by donating today. ​​One generous donor has offered to match your donations, meaning for every $1 you donate, we receive $2. With your support, we can expand the Plant Based Treaty in 2025 and beyond.

Disclaimer: This blog should not replace medical advice from a physician and is for informational purposes only.

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