Okay, I must confess that I’m not a big fan of green juices. I’d much rather have a sweet fruit juice or one loaded with carrots or beets. Or carrots AND beets.

I juice primarily to lower my blood pressure and to help reduce inflammation in my system. I have multiple sclerosis and take a fist full of drugs each day to help slow the progression of my disease and to reduce the impacts of some of my brain / nerve damage. With this nasty disease comes a lot of chronic pain, severe fatigue and generally feeling like I’m walking up a huge hill while dragging 100 pound bag of crap behind me.

What’s wonderful is juicing helps me feel better. I’m a natural skeptic and don’t believe anything anyone tells me, until I can see that it works. That includes drug companies, and my hippie friends. Imagine my surprise and delight when I learned that juicing makes me feel better. Can’t explain it. But I know in my bones that it’s true.

I also juice because I want and need to lose weight. Drinking fruit / sweet juices all day won’t help with that. Which means, I’ve got to learn to like green juices. BLEH.

Ingredients:

5 kale leaves (from my organic garden here in North Texas)

1 handful of organic baby spinach

4 stalks of celery

1 organic Granny Smith Apple

1 inch of ginger

Procedure:

Wash all produce, cut into juicer sized pieces

Juice in the following order

2 slices apple

Kale

2 slices apple

Spinach

2 slices of apple

Ginger

Celery

Last of apple

Let me know what you think of it.