Why Drinking Green Juices Makes You More Flexible

A couple of months back I followed a targeted ad on Facebook ("Yoga students ONLY!") and found Yoga Body - a website that states: "Yoga Poses & Yoga Exercises aren't Enough for Flexibility".

The main premise of the site is that drinking green juices makes you more flexible.

For a little over a month now I've been drinking a cup of juiced leafy greens, such as lettuce or cale, daily, half an hour before going to my Bikram class. My observation is that this premise is correct.

I ordered some of the formula that Lucas sells on the Yoga Body site, and I'll try it out when it gets here, and let you know how good it is. When you order the product you get a free yoga pdf from Lucas. In there he states that he doesn't really know why drinking green juices makes you more flexible, but he knows it's true.

In the meantime, I shared my realization about green juices making you more flexible with some work mates. Param Satya teaches yoga in my office each Wednesday, and we talk yoga over lunch (which she cooks) afterwards.

Being an engineer, of course my mate Jeff wanted to know "how it works".

"It's easy. " I told him. "Here's how it works - you drink a cup of green juice before you do yoga, and it makes you more flexible."

Not quite what he was looking for.

Today I visited Jeff's cube and told him that after a couple of weeks of research I can now give him a rational explanation for why this works.

For the past two days I've been listening to Anthony Robbin's "Living Heallth" Seminar, and connecting a lot of dots in my yoga practice, nutrition, and all of the diet and lifestyle changes that we've been implementing at Red Hill over the past year or so. This morning it all fell into place, and I have an explanation for why green juices make you more flexible. I don't have scientific evidence. It may not be true, but it's a good explanation that gives some context and rational support for something that I can directly experience by drinking green juice.

So finally, after all that preamble, here it is:

Why Drinking Green Juices Makes You More Flexible

Most people have a chronic yeast infection. Yeast is living inside their body, in their blood stream. Some studies indicate that 70%-80% of the population has it. Sometimes it breaks out as thrush, athlete's foot, or some other external manifestation, but a lot of the time it's just like a background noise - ignored but ever present.

This yeast eats the glucose in the blood stream. This leads to a drop in sugar level and sugar cravings. It also causes a drop in energy. To compensate for this and satisfy these cravings people take sugar and caffeine.

As the yeast eats the glucose it produces acid. This acid then enters into the muscle tissue, causing it to become hard - just like when you exercise hard and your muscles go into anaerobic respiration and produce lactic acid. The next day you wake up with sore, tight muscles. Well, basically this process is going on all the time at a low level internally due to the yeast.

So drinking green juices alkalizes the internal environment, which makes it inhospitable to the yeast. The yeast requires an acidic environment to thrive, and in turn contributes to creating an even more acidic environment. Once you start alkalizing the environment the yeast is toast.

So there's a good story for you. Regardless of whether or not it's "true", direct perception is the perfection of religion - so start drinking green juices daily and take your forward bend to the next level!