Carol Egan

Why Green Changes Everything

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Why Your Body Craves Green

Green juice. Smoothies packed with vibrant leaves. Salads so crisp they snap.

Why does your body seem to come alive when you eat green? Why does it feel like the answer to so many questions you didn’t even ask?

It’s not just the color. It’s the life inside that color: chlorophyll.

Chlorophyll: The Energy Behind the Green

Chlorophyll is how plants turn sunlight into energy. Its molecular structure is remarkably similar to hemoglobin, the protein in your blood that carries oxygen.

The key difference? Hemoglobin relies on iron, while chlorophyll centers on magnesium. This small but powerful distinction means chlorophyll doesn’t just transport energy—it helps create it. Magnesium, essential for over 300 biochemical reactions in your body, is critical in hundreds of enzymatic reactions, including energy production, DNA repair, and muscle function.

Eating chlorophyll-rich greens is more than fueling your body; it’s an infusion of sunlight, Earth-born nutrients in their purest, unprocessed form, and the support your cells need to produce energy and sustain renewal at their core.

Why Chlorophyll Heals

Chlorophyll isn’t just about energy—it’s about protection.

It oxygenates your cells, creating an environment where disease struggles to thrive. It neutralizes free radicals, reducing oxidative stress and protecting your cells from damage. And it supports the production of red blood cells, enhancing oxygen delivery throughout your body.

These aren’t small tasks—they’re what help keep you alive.

The Detox Power of Green

Greens do more than nourish—they clean.

Chlorophyll binds to heavy metals and toxins, helping neutralize and remove them from your system. It also actively supports your liver’s detoxification processes, ensuring harmful substances don’t linger.

It doesn’t stop there. Chlorophyll promotes a balanced pH, ensuring your body’s internal environment supports cellular health. It clears, restores, and helps your body return to what it does best—functioning effortlessly.

Green Is More Than Food

When you drink a green juice or load your plate with leafy greens, you’re doing more than eating. You’re fueling your body with sunlight, oxygen, and the tools it needs to repair and protect itself.

Green isn’t just food—it’s a bridge between the life force of nature and the health of your cells.

Choosing green is choosing to live in harmony with what sustains you.

Inflammation: Your Body’s Defense

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InflammationInflammation = Weight Gain

“If you don’t address inflammation by eliminating hidden food allergens or sensitivities and by eating an anti-inflammatory diet, you will never succeed at effective and permanent weight loss.” ~ Dr. Mark Hyman

Inflammation is your body’s natural defense mechanism to injury or infection.  The red, swollen response turns into a health concern when your body remains in a state of inflammation. Chronic inflammation causes or negatively triggers a range of prevailing health concerns from heart disease and cancer, to obesity, arthritis and digestive disorders.

Stress, lack of exercise, a diet high in sugars, refined flours, processed foods and trans fats also contribute to inflammation and auto-immune disease.  Hidden or chronic infections with viruses, bacteria, yeasts or parasites, and environmental or food allergens that you may even be unaware of also send your body into a state of defense.  Mold toxins, allergens, mercury, and pesticides a trigger inflammation.

If you are looking for a lifestyle change that will rejuvenate, revitalize and renew your health from the inside out, one very effective approach is to  identify which  foods and toxins sensitize your body.  By taking on an elimination diet and incorporating a primarily plant-based diet, you will find that you not only have less inflammation and belly bloat, but more energy too!

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