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Juicing · Mocktail Minutes

• 0:21
  Mocktail Minutes: Hello everyone.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Welcome back to this week's episode of Mocktail Minutes.
• 0:25
  Mocktail Minutes: This is Bailey.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And this is Brianna.
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  Mocktail Minutes: This week I am drinking a real tea.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I drank one of these before, but I saw they had the Morgan Wallen ones.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I thought it was like a flavor, like a Morgan Wallen flavor.
• 0:38
  Mocktail Minutes: I was like, Oh, maybe blueberry or something.
• 0:41
  Mocktail Minutes: It's just like tea, but like Morgan Wallen endorsing it.
• 0:47
  Mocktail Minutes: That's funny.
• 0:47
  Mocktail Minutes: I would have thought it was like his favorite flavor or something.
• 0:50
  Mocktail Minutes: I don't know.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I thought it was gonna be like, I mean, it's blue.
• 0:53
  Mocktail Minutes: So I was expecting blueberry or I don't know.
• 0:55
  Mocktail Minutes: But yeah, it's, it's just tea.
• 0:58
  Mocktail Minutes: And the tagline is tastes like Tennessee.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So that's funny.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Have you, I'm drinking a culture pop.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Have you had one of these on here before?
• 1:09
  Mocktail Minutes: No, I've never heard of that.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So Victor, he found it at, he was at Walmart and he was like, Oh, you should try this one.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It says it's like a fizzy gutsy probiotic soda.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's, I don't really know really how much of a probiotic soda it is.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it has like water.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It doesn't have any added sugar, but it does have fruit from concentrate.
• 1:28
  Mocktail Minutes: And we're going to get into that today.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And then it's like, Last ingredient is live probiotic, like a live strain.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So I don't, I don't know how amazing it is for your gut, but it tastes decent.
• 1:42
  Mocktail Minutes: Like I don't get them all the time, but I mean, if you want something carbonated, it's, it's fine.
• 1:47
  Mocktail Minutes: Every time I'll have to look and see if I find this.
• 1:50
  Mocktail Minutes: I have not seen them.
• 1:51
  Mocktail Minutes: But whenever I think about these probiotic sodas or the prebiotic sodas, I think there's probiotic ones.
• 1:58
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, probiotic drinks.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I always think about the poppy lawsuit that came out and they're like, this is not actually gut health.
• 2:07
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm like, I mean, they're not claiming to cure you.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Anything with fiber is technically like gut supportive.
• 2:15
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 2:16
  Mocktail Minutes: I don't know.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I feel like kumbachas over there, like being quiet.
• 2:19
  Mocktail Minutes: Like, yeah.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Like don't look at my added sugars.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Don't look at it.
• 2:24
  Mocktail Minutes: All right.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
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  Mocktail Minutes: This one, it doesn't say like, and it doesn't have any claims.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It just says fizzy and gutsy probiotic soda.
• 2:30
  Mocktail Minutes: So yeah, I know.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And then everyone now thinks like poppy is like horrible.
• 2:34
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm like, no, it's just somebody got mad at the claims on their can, which I didn't think were that bad out of alignment with what it's doing.
• 2:43
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I mean, It has fiber.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's going to be a prebiotic.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Fiber is a prebiotic.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Like, that's just it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: If it has cultures in it, then yeah, it's a probiotic.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Even though we don't know how much, I mean, it's still gonna obviously have something.
• 2:57
  Mocktail Minutes: But yeah, I think it's weird to expect any one thing to like cure you.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, exactly.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I just like think of like all the other sodas out there doing it or like just triple checking all their labels.
• 3:08
  Mocktail Minutes: You're like, dig it or renext.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's just a fun drink.
• 3:14
  Mocktail Minutes: So don't take it too seriously.
• 3:16
  Mocktail Minutes: I guess we're really worried about your gut health.
• 3:18
  Mocktail Minutes: I probably wouldn't start here.
• 3:20
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, I really wouldn't.
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  Mocktail Minutes: That's not our expertise.
• 3:24
  Mocktail Minutes: I mean, we can help you, but the gut is so crazy.
• 3:27
  Mocktail Minutes: We're actually having a gut health expert come on in like two weeks.
• 3:32
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So for you in two weeks, and we're going to be myth busting all the gut health things.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And part of it is talking about probiotics.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And it's from one of our favorite dietitians.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I'll keep it a secret.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, we won't tell you, but it's going to be a good one.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And that is definitely where you should get a lot of your gut health information from.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Cause yeah, it's crazy.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's a crazy world out there for good health basics and the foundational parts, but your gut just like determines everything in your body.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So that's why we have people like.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I know.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I love it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I'm fascinated with it, but it's almost, it's so overwhelming that I'm like, I don't think I can go down this rabbit hole and have this be like what I focus on.
• 4:17
  Mocktail Minutes: No, I'll leave it to them.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Anyways, today we're talking about juicing.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I feel like this is popular, especially in the summertime, but also in the changing seasons.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So a lot of times when we're going to fall, people are looking for weight loss because it's like, we came off of summer, summer was wild.
• 4:39
  Mocktail Minutes: Let's get this going.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So that's a season change or it's like after the holidays.
• 4:47
  Mocktail Minutes: Another season change was a busy time or then again, like getting ready for summer or getting ready for spring, right?
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  Mocktail Minutes: Whatever it is.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I feel like juicing becomes popular because there is a lot of marketing I would say around it, but a lot of it has to do with the marketing.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I think just being around detoxing and I would say it's promoted as like a weight loss type thing.
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  Mocktail Minutes: A lot of times we're going to, we're going to give you the download, the DL.
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  Mocktail Minutes: what we think about juicing I'll just start with this not all juice is created equal I think when I think about juicing as it's typically referred to I don't love it But I do think you can incorporate juice to get some nutrients and that's totally fine.
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  Mocktail Minutes: But again, not all juices create equal.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So there's different types.
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  Mocktail Minutes: There's cold press and concentrate.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I feel like those are your main ones.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So there might be other ones, but we'll just do those cold press.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's going to retain more of your nutrients.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it's also the more expensive one.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's usually the ones in the cold section.
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  Mocktail Minutes: They do have them in like the regular juice section, but these are more fresh.
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  Mocktail Minutes: They're going to have a ton more nutrients, the juice from concentrate.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's going to leave out a lot of what you think you're getting from juice.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Like when you like get it and you see all these like fruits and vegetables in it, and you're like, Oh my gosh, I'm getting so many vitamins and minerals.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Not so much because it removes fiber.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It removes vitamins.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It does remove minerals.
• 6:16
  Mocktail Minutes: And then.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It goes through a heating process and that destroys some of the heat sensitive vitamins like pure vitamin C.
• 6:22
  Mocktail Minutes: So when it's a great source of vitamin C, like, yeah, those fruits and vegetables are, but the content of vitamin C in that might not be as great as you think it is.
• 6:32
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, I mean, it's kind of what we were talking about with the poppies, the labeling, it can be a little misleading sometimes.
• 6:40
  Mocktail Minutes: But with Juicing.
• 6:41
  Mocktail Minutes: I actually have a juicer.
• 6:42
  Mocktail Minutes: I've never used it.
• 6:44
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm debating getting rid of it because I'm like, It's kind of a lot of work and I'm not really a big juice person.
• 6:49
  Mocktail Minutes: I will get juices like fresh ones from these local places around me.
• 6:57
  Mocktail Minutes: With a meal or I've sometimes done it for like a pre workout and that's kind of good times to do it where, I mean, we'll get into this, but good times to do it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So, I mean, benefits of juicing, they can be nutrient dense, especially for eating the cold press, because it's going to retain more of those vitamins, the minerals, the antioxidants.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it can be a concentrated form of those, which is nice.
• 7:22
  Mocktail Minutes: And then the other thing that.
• 7:24
  Mocktail Minutes: Comes with juicing is that it is easy to digest because I mean, it's kind of like it's already digested And so it's Yeah, it's like already broken down the fibers removed and then it can be quickly absorbed by the body So that's why you could use it as like a pre workout type of drink to feel your muscles and In the summer, I think it also gets popular because it is a hydrator juices, especially Coming from fruit that's higher in water content like Watermelon or like a cucumber that's going to help keep you hydrated and it gives you something different than water.
• 8:02
  Mocktail Minutes: And then kind of on the flip side things to consider the sugar content in them.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So we've talked in our sugar episode before that, like sugar is not, we got a thumbs up on the zoom sugar is not like the sugar and fruit is not the same as like the sugar we're having from cake.
• 8:24
  Mocktail Minutes: We're kind of it's another fear thing that's around on social media that we should avoid avoid fruit because it has all the sugar.
• 8:31
  Mocktail Minutes: I don't think that, but when you're juicing things, especially your fruit juices can be high in sugar, which is going to impact your blood sugar levels.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And that's because you're stripping it of the fiber.
• 8:45
  Mocktail Minutes: And if that's all you're drinking, yeah, I mean, it's going to be broken down to sugar.
• 8:50
  Mocktail Minutes: That's what, with all things, when we talk about the blood sugar rollercoaster, oftentimes I think we can automatically just think about gummy worms or candy.
• 8:59
  Mocktail Minutes: And so everyone's like, I don't really eat that much sugar, but any carbohydrate is going to break down to sugar, but you also can't tell me a blueberry is the same thing as a gummy worm.
• 9:10
  Mocktail Minutes: No, because the blueberry has vitamins and minerals in it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It does have fiber in it, if it's in its normal form.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it's very different.
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  Mocktail Minutes: They're not created equal.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Like that's just the reality of it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: They might all break down to the same kind of basic structure, but you're getting more from the fruit than you're getting from candy.
• 9:27
  Mocktail Minutes: And that's one thing, like I would say, if you really like juice, be strategic.
• 9:31
  Mocktail Minutes: Like, I'd probably splurge on the higher nutrient juice.
• 9:35
  Mocktail Minutes: I would use it maybe before a workout.
• 9:37
  Mocktail Minutes: Like you were saying, that would be a great pre workout, especially if you have a hard time eating things.
• 9:42
  Mocktail Minutes: Like if you're working out in the morning, some juice can be great.
• 9:46
  Mocktail Minutes: You can use it if you like live in a really hot place and you're outside and you're working having some like juice would be a great idea because it's going to replenish like some of your electrolytes.
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  Mocktail Minutes: It's going to help help you absorb your electrolytes better because you need sugar to do that.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it's a good option.
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  Mocktail Minutes: If you are juicing at home, if yours has the one where it like separates the pulp, which I think they all do, but I don't know if like, I know all juicers are a little bit different.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I would say put the pulp.
• 10:16
  Mocktail Minutes: Back in or some of it, mix it up, have it that way.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So at least you're getting some of the fiber, like just being strategic about when you have it.
• 10:24
  Mocktail Minutes: Like I probably wouldn't have a big giant glass of juice, even if it was like a good cold press one by itself in the middle of the day when I'm sitting down watching TV doing nothing.
• 10:33
  Mocktail Minutes: Right.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So you can be strategic about it.
• 10:35
  Mocktail Minutes: Just like you can be strategic about everything else.
• 10:38
  Mocktail Minutes: But yeah, time and place.
• 10:41
  Mocktail Minutes: You mentioned fiber too.
• 10:42
  Mocktail Minutes: So part of that, when you're taking out the fiber, like I mentioned, the blood sugar balance, but it's also when you take out that fiber, you're not going to be as satisfied with that.
• 10:52
  Mocktail Minutes: So I've seen a lot of companies promote like the detoxes or a juice cleanse, where it's like, you're just drinking juice all day long for a week or whatever.
• 11:02
  Mocktail Minutes: I mean, You're probably gonna be super hungry, but also if you're just like filling up on juice You could potentially like gain weight with it, even though you're just eating fruits and veggies But you're not getting that fullness factor because you're not really getting in protein.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're not really getting in fiber.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're not getting in fat, which are all things that help keep you full.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So it can be easy to overdo it, not to say you're just going to gain all this weight in a week.
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  Mocktail Minutes: But I mean, if you do this often, yeah, it can be an easy way to be adding up extra calories that maybe you don't necessarily need.
• 11:39
  Mocktail Minutes: And they're just kind of running through you essentially.
• 11:42
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, well that and then you have like the rebound thing, right?
• 11:46
  Mocktail Minutes: So, you know, you haven't eaten for a couple of days.
• 11:48
  Mocktail Minutes: You're surviving off juice.
• 11:50
  Mocktail Minutes: It is high sugar, but then also you get off the juice and you're hungry and you end up eating more than you would.
• 11:58
  Mocktail Minutes: And then it's just like rinse and repeat, which it's just like, That's not really serving you.
• 12:04
  Mocktail Minutes: You're gonna be hungry.
• 12:05
  Mocktail Minutes: I've juiced before.
• 12:06
  Mocktail Minutes: And the worst thing about it, is it's so freaking expensive.
• 12:10
  Mocktail Minutes: Yes.
• 12:10
  Mocktail Minutes: It's like, I could've just starved myself for free.
• 12:13
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, cause you need it.
• 12:14
  Mocktail Minutes: Like such a large amount of produce to make such a small amount of juice.
• 12:18
  Mocktail Minutes: I always think of like the Naked juices when you look at it and it's like an apple two servings of strawberries like a three banana Whatever it is.
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  Mocktail Minutes: I'm, just like that's a lot for this like little bottle.
• 12:31
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm like, that's a lot And you drink and you're like, oh look at me I just got like eight different fruits in But I mean, drinking that juice versus if you were to actually eat those is going to feel very different.
• 12:46
  Mocktail Minutes: And that's why you can drink it.
• 12:47
  Mocktail Minutes: And you're like, Oh, that was good.
• 12:49
  Mocktail Minutes: And I could probably drink a few more where if you actually had an apple, a banana, two mangoes, 15 strawberries, or whatever they're putting in it.
• 12:59
  Mocktail Minutes: You're probably going to feel a lot fuller.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Exactly.
• 13:03
  Mocktail Minutes: Which kind of leads into the next thing.
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  Mocktail Minutes: One reason why drinking a lot of juice or juicing or relying on it for weight loss might not be great is it can cause a lot of GI upset and really like diarrhea.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So I feel like a lot of people are like, Oh yeah, they lost weight because number one, they're not eating.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And the number two, they're a little dehydrated because they've been like pooping their brains out from all this food.
• 13:25
  Mocktail Minutes: Like juice, you know, which is crazy to me because the majority of people that I know that asked me What do you think about juicing or people who like, would never go grab an apple and eat it.
• 13:36
  Mocktail Minutes: Like they're terrified of the apple, but the juicing is okay.
• 13:40
  Mocktail Minutes: It's I'm, I don't know, but yeah, I'm like, well, maybe because you're sitting on the toilet for a week, which I don't recommend.
• 13:48
  Mocktail Minutes: And see, I have the opposite where I have a lot of more health conscious people who are really focused on their nutrition, that are interested in juicing because of.
• 13:57
  Mocktail Minutes: A lot of times, it's because they're going to these places that are making their own juices, so they see it a lot.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And going back to like the claims of the detoxing, this is what gets everyone.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Detox is like a buzzword.
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  Mocktail Minutes: But really, detoxing is just removing toxins from the body.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And your body does this.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Your body has to do this to keep you alive.
• 14:23
  Mocktail Minutes: So this is the role that your liver primarily plays, but also like your kidneys, your lungs, your skin, all of them help to eliminate waste and toxins from your body.
• 14:36
  Mocktail Minutes: So when they met like juicing for D for detoxing, I mean, there's not a lot of evidence that it's the juicing itself.
• 14:43
  Mocktail Minutes: What it really could be is maybe the nutrients you're getting more of those vitamins and minerals and antioxidants when you're Including those versus not including those.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're also probably hydrating a little bit better, especially if you're getting those high water content fruits in.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're increasing your fruits and vegetables.
• 15:03
  Mocktail Minutes: So again, you're getting more of those nutrients.
• 15:06
  Mocktail Minutes: And then, I mean, it could probably provide you with some digestive rest because you're not really having to put a lot of work into digest it and absorb it, it's already really broken down.
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  Mocktail Minutes: So, I mean, those are ways that it could potentially have like a detoxing effect on it.
• 15:24
  Mocktail Minutes: But at the end of the day, you don't necessarily need to do a detox program.
• 15:28
  Mocktail Minutes: If your liver and your lungs and your kidneys and I mean your skin, is your skin working?
• 15:36
  Mocktail Minutes: If all those things are working, you can detox and you should be detoxing every day, all day.
• 15:43
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 15:44
  Mocktail Minutes: Well, and my thing too, With detoxing and this isn't so much with juice But I see this a lot with a lot of different supplements and stuff like that Like everything that we do is filtered by it goes through the liver and it's filtered by the kidneys.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And so Just stop putting so much strain on those organs, you know, like drink a little bit, have some more water, lay off the alcohol, lay off a lot of the highly processed stuff.
• 16:11
  Mocktail Minutes: Give it like some, you know, don't be over supplementing.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Like I think juicing just feels nice and light.
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  Mocktail Minutes: And so it feels like, Oh, good.
• 16:20
  Mocktail Minutes: And if you talk, saying I'm getting rid of all this stuff, but yeah, daily, you're already doing that.
• 16:25
  Mocktail Minutes: And.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Usually I see a lot of extremes too.
• 16:28
  Mocktail Minutes: It's like people are like an all or nothing and it's like either they're juicing or they're like going out on the weekend and having like five cocktails in a sitting.
• 16:35
  Mocktail Minutes: So it's like we could, we could work in some cold press juice, get to get some more nutrients and we can also not do this and then give our body like an easier time.
• 16:45
  Mocktail Minutes: But yeah, like we're detoxing every day.
• 16:46
  Mocktail Minutes: We have to, we would die.
• 16:49
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 16:49
  Mocktail Minutes: And exactly what you said, especially if you're going from one extreme to the other, like you're either juicing or you're downing margaritas all weekend, you are going to feel better.
• 16:58
  Mocktail Minutes: Because you're not putting a poison basically in your body.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're getting more of those vitamins and minerals.
• 17:04
  Mocktail Minutes: So not to say that you won't feel different, but at the end of the day, you probably are going to have some stomach upset.
• 17:11
  Mocktail Minutes: You're probably going to be really hungry.
• 17:14
  Mocktail Minutes: You're probably going to end up overeating on day three of your juicing.
• 17:18
  Mocktail Minutes: You're going to be pretty tired.
• 17:19
  Mocktail Minutes: I would say you're going to have blood sugar spikes.
• 17:22
  Mocktail Minutes: You might have some mood swings with that.
• 17:23
  Mocktail Minutes: So a lot of things can come with it.
• 17:26
  Mocktail Minutes: Okay.
• 17:27
  Mocktail Minutes: So again, not to say that juicing is bad.
• 17:29
  Mocktail Minutes: We just have to use it in a way that benefits us.
• 17:33
  Mocktail Minutes: So yeah, use it for a pre workout, do it with a meal, watch how much you're doing.
• 17:38
  Mocktail Minutes: Like I wouldn't do two cups at one time.
• 17:40
  Mocktail Minutes: Cause there could be a lot of quick digesting carbohydrates at once and you may not need that many.
• 17:45
  Mocktail Minutes: So those are just some things to consider.
• 17:47
  Mocktail Minutes: And then the other thing I would say, like thinking about smoothies.
• 17:51
  Mocktail Minutes: Versus juicing, not the same way.
• 17:55
  Mocktail Minutes: Both can help you get in your fruits and vegetables, but in terms of like nutrition and their benefits, they are, I would say different because I mean, I said, both of them, you're going to get nutrients, but the difference with the smoothie, you're going to retain that fiber because it's not going anywhere.
• 18:15
  Mocktail Minutes: Like everything you put in your blender.
• 18:18
  Mocktail Minutes: You're drinking, like it's not coming out.
• 18:21
  Mocktail Minutes: And I have had the question before is like, do smoothies take out the fiber?
• 18:26
  Mocktail Minutes: I mean, yes and no, but like, it's not leaving the blender.
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  Mocktail Minutes: You're still getting it.
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  Mocktail Minutes: Your blender is breaking it down.
• 18:34
  Mocktail Minutes: So I think that's where some confusion can happen is your fibers bringing.
• 18:39
  Mocktail Minutes: broken down.
• 18:39
  Mocktail Minutes: So your body doesn't necessarily have to work as hard to digest that.
• 18:43
  Mocktail Minutes: And I think that's where some people see where smoothies don't keep them full as long.
• 18:50
  Mocktail Minutes: So it could be that, or it can also be if you're just doing a fruit smoothie and you don't have any protein, you don't have any fat, that's also why it's not keeping you full.
• 18:59
  Mocktail Minutes: But the fiber that stays in it is actually what kind of gives smoothies that thicker type texture.
• 19:08
  Mocktail Minutes: So you're not really losing it, it's just broken down compared to if you were to buy it into an apple type of thing or a whole strawberry.
• 19:17
  Mocktail Minutes: It's just like bypassing One of the digestion steps, right?
• 19:22
  Mocktail Minutes: Like digestion starts in your mouth when you're chewing.
• 19:25
  Mocktail Minutes: That's one of the first ways that we start breaking down our food and you're blending it.
• 19:28
  Mocktail Minutes: So you don't necessarily need to do that.
• 19:30
  Mocktail Minutes: And so, yeah, it's, your body's not working as hard.
• 19:34
  Mocktail Minutes: And I, yeah, I think that's why people sometimes like feel hungry or they, or they feel like Like I don't feel fulfilled unless I'm chewing my food.
• 19:41
  Mocktail Minutes: I get that a lot.
• 19:43
  Mocktail Minutes: So this is where I'm like, we'll make it a little bit thicker.
• 19:45
  Mocktail Minutes: Don't blend it as much.
• 19:46
  Mocktail Minutes: Maybe like an acai bowl type like texture.
• 19:49
  Mocktail Minutes: If you really kind of like to chew or add some crunch to it.
• 19:52
  Mocktail Minutes: But the whole, I get that question a lot.
• 19:56
  Mocktail Minutes: I was, I was getting it a lot when that TOK was going around where it's like, if you blend a banana, like.
• 20:04
  Mocktail Minutes: You're getting five times the amount of sugar, like what, what do you think our teeth are doing?
• 20:10
  Mocktail Minutes: Like to the, I don't, it was, so I had to like really talk some people off the ledge with that, but you could, if you wanted to, if you have like a juice, you really love, you can add some juice to your smoothie.
• 20:23
  Mocktail Minutes: Like that's something that you can do to make it a little more tropical.
• 20:26
  Mocktail Minutes: Right.
• 20:26
  Mocktail Minutes: Obviously being mindful of the other stuff you're putting in your smoothie, because the juice does have the sugar and the carbs.
• 20:32
  Mocktail Minutes: But yeah, you know.
• 20:33
  Mocktail Minutes: Pick whichever one works for you.
• 20:34
  Mocktail Minutes: You could also use like juice.
• 20:36
  Mocktail Minutes: I like to do some cold, cold pressed juice sometimes like in my mineral mocktail, especially if it's like high in vitamin C.
• 20:42
  Mocktail Minutes: It is it's a whole food form of vitamin c it helps you Absorb those minerals so it could be strategic.
• 20:49
  Mocktail Minutes: I think juice is like really demonized especially like in the mom world I meet so many who are like, oh, we don't know how to juice Okay, and there's a difference between like a fruit punch and like I mean, especially if you're juicing from home, but like 100 percent juice, there are differences.
• 21:07
  Mocktail Minutes: So I mean, take a peek at your labels.
• 21:09
  Mocktail Minutes: But if you're deciding like, which is better, because at the end of the day, we have never said or I don't think either of us believe that one food is off limits or anything.
• 21:21
  Mocktail Minutes: Every single food can fit into your diet, you just have to figure out where it fits.
• 21:27
  Mocktail Minutes: So Thinking of just like juicing compared to smoothies, do a juice if you want something quick and nutrient dense, add it to a snack, add it to a meal, use it as that pre workout.
• 21:37
  Mocktail Minutes: You could do it if you're looking for something a little bit easier to digest.
• 21:41
  Mocktail Minutes: Again, I wouldn't do it by itself, but it can ease the stomach a little bit.
• 21:45
  Mocktail Minutes: Like if maybe you're having some stomach upset, you just need to, you just need to chill.
• 21:50
  Mocktail Minutes: Like that can be a good way to get those.
• 21:52
  Mocktail Minutes: Whole food, vitamin C.
• 21:53
  Mocktail Minutes: And when you're like recovering from an illness and then, I mean, you're going to get that concentrated form of those vitamin minerals.
• 22:01
  Mocktail Minutes: And then smoothies would like a snack, or you can do it as a meal, you're wanting to get in fiber protein and healthy fats, and you want it to be more of like a sustained energy source.
• 22:14
  Mocktail Minutes: So that's kind of the difference between those, but also like I said, smoothies, you're going to retain those nutrients, nothing fell out of the blender.
• 22:22
  Mocktail Minutes: I think that's an easy way to remember it.
• 22:24
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, and I would say like that would be a hierarchy, right?
• 22:27
  Mocktail Minutes: Like if you're really focused on getting like your vitamins and minerals from fruit and you like want it or vegetables and you're trying to like, do it in a more strategic way.
• 22:36
  Mocktail Minutes: Smoothie is going to be number one because you're getting the whole fruit, the whole vegetable.
• 22:41
  Mocktail Minutes: I would say number two would be the juice you're making at home, especially if you could add back in the pulp or number three would be the cold pressed juice.
• 22:49
  Mocktail Minutes: So those would be like my top three.
• 22:51
  Mocktail Minutes: I would probably skip anything that's like juice from concentrate.
• 22:55
  Mocktail Minutes: That'd probably be the one that I wouldn't spend my money on.
• 22:57
  Mocktail Minutes: If you, yeah, just personally, if I'm trying to go for it with like, I want vitamins, minerals, I want like a good nutrient rich juice.
• 23:04
  Mocktail Minutes: And no, don't spend 250 on an expensive juicing company to send you Juice.
• 23:12
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Mocktail Minutes: For your detox.
• 23:15
  Mocktail Minutes: Maybe I'll try my juicer this summer.
• 23:17
  Mocktail Minutes: It's just, it's so big and it's just gonna take a lot of work and it's just gonna take a lot of produce.
• 23:23
  Mocktail Minutes: Like I really don't, and like once you make it, I feel like if you make a large amount, it's not gonna be good for a long time.
• 23:31
  Mocktail Minutes: Like then I have to drink a bunch of juice and I don't drink a bunch of juice.
• 23:35
  Mocktail Minutes: So it just seems like more work I feel like they're cumbersome to clean.
• 23:39
  Mocktail Minutes: Which would make sense.
• 23:40
  Mocktail Minutes: 'cause you have to clean all the parts.
• 23:42
  Mocktail Minutes: It's like going through, it's like breast.
• 23:44
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm yeah.
• 23:46
  Mocktail Minutes: Oh yeah.
• 23:47
  Mocktail Minutes: You're not in a season where you're like, you know what I want to clean this and that I want to clean bottles and I want to clean a juicer.
• 23:52
  Mocktail Minutes: I'm just going to stick to my smoothies.
• 23:54
  Mocktail Minutes: We're doing good there.
• 23:57
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, those are simple enough.
• 23:59
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, by the way, on smoothies, for like fiber and everything, if you put apples or pears in your smoothies, you can keep the skin on that and you're getting even more fiber.
• 24:11
  Mocktail Minutes: Because that's where a lot of your fiber is.
• 24:14
  Mocktail Minutes: That's one reason why I like the smoothies is because you can just blend it all up.
• 24:17
  Mocktail Minutes: Like same with kiwis, cucumbers, you just throw it in.
• 24:20
  Mocktail Minutes: Strawberries, you can actually eat the leaves on strawberries.
• 24:24
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah, I think that is a good summary of juicing.
• 24:27
  Mocktail Minutes: Again, it's not a bad thing.
• 24:29
  Mocktail Minutes: Just some awareness around it and you don't have to waste your money on these super expensive Juices, like I said, I will sometimes do it.
• 24:38
  Mocktail Minutes: I like to find local places that it's usually better quality some of the store brand ones are pretty good.
• 24:43
  Mocktail Minutes: But just use it strategically Also, don't like gag on a juice that's again expensive it's an expensive gag we don't want to do that You just yeah I will take that back.
• 25:01
  Mocktail Minutes: Sometimes I do get ones with like ginger and turmeric and like celery for when I'm getting sick.
• 25:08
  Mocktail Minutes: And I do gag on those, but it's for a cause.
• 25:11
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 25:12
  Mocktail Minutes: It's for a cause.
• 25:14
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Mocktail Minutes: No, I get it too.
• 25:15
  Mocktail Minutes: Like the ginger ones or it's like, it's like three times a year that I would do.
• 25:20
  Mocktail Minutes: That's not something I'm doing like every week.
• 25:23
  Mocktail Minutes: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Mocktail Minutes: Or like those little immunity shots, you know, they're not, no one's like, Oh, I'm so excited to drink this.
• 25:29
  Mocktail Minutes: No, it's usually just like down the hatch.
• 25:31
  Mocktail Minutes: All right, everyone I hope you stuck with us and you learned a few things about juicing and Let us know other topics you want us to cover.
• 25:41
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• 25:57
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• 26:13
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• 26:30
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• 26:41
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• 26:48
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• 26:52
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• 26:53
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• 26:58
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• 27:00
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• 27:13
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• 27:18
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• 27:22
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• 27:29
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• 27:32
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• 27:39
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• 27:44
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• 27:52
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
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• 28:04
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• 28:05
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