The ONLY Wheat You Should Eat
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about the interesting benefits of wheatgrass.
Typical wheat products like bread and pasta are made with the seed, or grain, of the wheat plant. Wheatgrass is the actual plant that the seed grows on.
The type of wheatgrass used in wheatgrass juice is at an early stage—usually less than ten days old.
I think how healthy wheatgrass is for you depends on what it’s grown on. Wheatgrass grown on soil may be more beneficial than wheatgrass grown in other ways.
Wheatgrass juice powder may also be more beneficial than wheatgrass powder products. Wheatgrass juice powder is more concentrated because it doesn’t contain any fiber.
One of the advantages of wheatgrass juice powder over wheatgrass powder is that people can consume it even if they can’t consume fiber.
Unlike grain, wheatgrass is gluten-free and is low in anti-nutrients, tannins, and oxalates. Wheatgrass juice powder grown on good soil is low-carb and rich in vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, and amino acids.
However, I consume wheatgrass juice powder for two main reasons:
1. 70% of wheatgrass is chlorophyll
2. It’s rich in phytonutrients
Both chlorophyll and phytonutrients have a wealth of beneficial properties. Research is also being done on using wheatgrass for a genetic type of anemia called thalassemia.
Growing your own wheatgrass to make wheatgrass juice is inexpensive and pretty simple. Give it a try!
DATA:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5947926/
https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/jco.2009.27.15_suppl.7012
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| 0:00.0 | You know, a lot of people love wheat products, right? |
| 0:04.0 | Breads, pasta, cereal, crackers, biscuits, waffles, pancakes, things like that. |
| 0:08.0 | And so if there is a way that you can actually eat wheat without any side effects at all, |
| 0:14.0 | and you can have as much as you want, wouldn't that be great? |
| 0:18.0 | And the answer is, yes, there is a type of wheat that you can have as much as you want. |
| 0:22.8 | And you're going to be really excited about this. |
| 0:25.5 | Well, I think I'm a little bit sarcastic, but you can have wheat in the form of wheatgrass. |
| 0:33.1 | That's right, wheatgrass. |
| 0:34.5 | Well, you're probably not too excited about that. |
| 0:36.8 | But today I'm going to talk about some really interesting benefits of wheatgrass. Well, you're probably not too excited about that. But today I'm going to talk about |
| 0:38.3 | some really interesting benefits of wheatgrass and what it can do for your health. Now, full |
| 0:45.1 | disclosure, I do sell wheatgrass juice powder. Okay, I'm just telling you that before I start this |
| 0:49.8 | video. And secondly, I'm not going to make any claims that consuming wheat grass juice can do anything for your health, prevent anything, help reduce the risk of any diseases. |
| 0:59.8 | I just want to explain some of the research and there's some really interesting things about wheatgrass that I want to share with you. |
| 1:05.3 | So what is the difference between wheat that you would use in making breads and pastas and things like that versus the wheat |
| 1:13.4 | and the wheatgrass juice. Well, with all the breads and positives and cereals and crackers, |
| 1:18.7 | that is made with the seed of the plant, okay? The grain. And wheatgrass is without the seed. |
| 1:26.9 | It's the actual plant that the seed grows on. |
| 1:30.3 | And so you're consuming this in like the microgreen phase, which is usually about seven to eight to nine or ten days. |
| 1:36.3 | A lot of different opinions about wheatgrass juice, like it's the new age espresso. |
| 1:42.3 | People use it in different cleansing detox programs. |
| 1:46.0 | But I think the health of the wheatgrass is dependent on what it's grown on. |
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