Stay Healthy with Green Smoothies

Video by Dr. Erik Waldeland

We always recommend getting as many vitamins and minerals in the diet daily as possible to stay healthy and out of pain.  But, as previously mentioned in our videos and articles, there are gaps in most people’s diets that requires us to use things like essential nutrients and green drinks to fill those gaps.  The recipes highlighted in the attached videos uses dates and their unique nutrient profiles provides many different benefits that we may be lacking in our day-to-day meals.  Dates, renowned for their natural sweetness and nutritional value, serve as an excellent dietary source of magnesium. Magnesium, as highlighted by the study cited below, plays a pivotal role in enzymatic reactions, energy production, and muscle function. Regular consumption of magnesium-rich dates can contribute to the maintenance of proper nerve function, muscle contraction, and a healthy heart rhythm, thereby enhancing overall well-being and potentially lowering the risk of chronic diseases associated with magnesium deficiency.

“Level I evidence supports the use of magnesium in the prevention and treatment of many common health conditions including migraine headache, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, premenstrual syndrome, preeclampsia, and various cardiac arrhythmias.”

“In clinical practice, optimizing magnesium status through diet and supplementation appears to be a safe, useful, and well-documented therapy for several medical conditions.”

When it comes to how we approach pain, our Chiro Health clinics always address the foods and nutrients that our patients consume for this exact reason.  We need to ensure the body has the ability to health from the inside out, because this is important for not only getting out of pain but staying out of pain.

Ingredients
• 1 large banana
• 1 1/2 cups vanilla almond milk, unsweetened
• 3–4 Medjool dates, pitted and chopped
• 2 cups spinach

Reference

Schwalfenberg GK, Genuis SJ. The Importance of Magnesium in Clinical Healthcare. Scientifica (Cairo). 2017;2017:4179326. doi: 10.1155/2017/4179326. Epub 2017 Sep 28. PMID: 29093983; PMCID: PMC5637834.

Our Message

When you are looking for a Chiropractor near you that you can trust, choose one who will not only get rid of your back pain, neck pain, or headaches but who will also guide you to living a healthier lifestyle to keep you out of pain. Our Chiropractors located in East Dallas, near the corner of Mockingbird Ln. and Abrams Rd., will teach you what the research says about how and why we should eat a better diet, move more and have more positive thoughts. By improving these areas of our lives we can become healthier, stay out of pain and reduce risk of diabetes and other diseases!