#234 Are Green Powders worth it? with Dr Rupy
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Green powders are everywhere and I’m often asked whether people should invest in getting a green powder to consume every day. And as somebody who drinks a green powder in the mornings, this was a great opportunity for me to do a dive into whether my habit is evidence based!
We’re going to discuss:
- The science behind the claims: Can green powders help with immunity? Gut health? Weight loss? Energy improvements?
- Can they replace eating vegetables?
- Issues with green product formulation and reading labels
- What you need to be aware of before buying
- How to get maximum benefit from green powders, the best green powders out there & my top tips for choosing the right one for you
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen Podcast, |
| 0:10.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what |
| 0:36.6 | allows you to lead your best life. So green powders are everywhere and I'm often asked about whether people should be consuming green powders, dehydrated, vegetables sometimes with fruits in them and |
| 0:56.0 | other added multivitamins to their daily routine, something that you have in the morning as a top-up or in some cases used as a replacement. |
| 1:08.0 | And they seem to be really well marketed and really, really well convincing to be very well marketed and really well convincing to be quite frank. So we're |
| 1:16.5 | going to do a deep dive today about the science behind the claims that some of these |
| 1:21.4 | companies make whether green powders can help with immunity, |
| 1:26.1 | gut health, weight loss, energy, whether these powders actually have significant amounts of nutrients in them that are importantly here, |
| 1:35.8 | absorbable by the body and actually have a measurable impact on your health, |
| 1:40.6 | whether that be the quantities of nutrients that you can measure in your blood work, |
| 1:46.1 | and whether over time, if you consume these green powders or other powdered vegetable supplements, whether Now, before we get started, I just want to caveat |
| 2:00.8 | that I drink a green powder every morning. I've done so for 15 years. I started |
| 2:07.2 | drinking it when I was going through my own health concerns, my own health issues. I did it as a way to do something very simple every single day that I thought might have an impact on my health. |
| 2:21.0 | I did it without looking at a single study as well and I've maintained |
| 2:25.4 | said habit throughout this entire period of time without really understanding whether or not it's actually |
| 2:32.2 | making a difference. |
| 2:33.7 | I've convinced myself that it is part of my routine and I enjoy it. |
| 2:38.0 | I mean, I wouldn't say I enjoy the taste of it particularly, but it is something that I identify with every single morning as somebody |
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