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.

Your Second Brain: Gut Health 101

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secondbrainMaintaining adequate gut health directly effects how your body adapts to stress and illness.  By tuning in to what our stomach is telling us, we are able to adjust our approach to what we are ingesting therefore bettering our overall mental health.  Monitoring our diet and tailoring it to our unique body, to alleviate many symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and even weight gain is difficult to do alone.  Carol Egan of Immersion Health is qualified to assist you in making the necessary changes your gut is begging you to address.

 

The Gut, The Bad, and The Ugly:  Bacteria

Scientists who have been discussing the correlation between gut health and mental well-being have recently discovered that an imbalance in your stomach’s good and bad bacteria may be the cause.  The good bacteria in your stomach assists in breaking down foods that are difficult to digest, as well as guarding against disease, food-borne pathogens, and cold causing germs.  Your stomach’s “bad” bacteria is the result of an imbalanced amount of microbes, and can trigger allergies, depression, and various other illnesses.

 

Probiotics are the live bacteria contained in foods and supplements.  If your diet is not providing your body with the essential probiotics required to balance your stomach’s inner flora, you may suffer from unnecessary discomfort.  Though quality probiotics are available at many health food stores, we recommend that you include food choices rich in friendly flora, like fermented vegetables, kefir and kombucha, rather than relying solely on supplements.

 

I Have A Gut Feeling

When we get anxious, it is common to feel like our stomach is braiding itself into a rug.  This twisting sense of unease is a reaction throughout your stomach’s nervous system, a network of more than 100 neurons or cells that transmit information through electrical connections; this network is often referred as the “the gut – brain connection,” and “The Body’s Second Brain.”

 

Your stomach contains more than 90% of your body’s entire seratonin supply, which delegates the highs and lows of moods.  Michael D. Gershon, M.D., a professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University says, “Serotonin in the gut can mobilize inflammation, detect potential invaders, and essentially get the gut to mount a full-fledged defensive reaction.”

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