There's the true, weird tale of what I noticed from a wheatgrass fanatic who placed it straight into his eyeballs. But, what caused this man to be so driven?

Wheatgrass is rich in with nutritional benefits. Personally, I have an ounce or two of wheatgrass now and then, which is in no way unusual. But, you may guess, there are people who are thought to be normal and individuals who are thought of as radical about the ingredients that both parties love wheatgrass, in this case. I'd want to believe I'm of the normal, realistic crowd, who stampedes to grasses for their nutritional value.

What is so fabulous about wheatgrass juicers? Juicing wheatgrass gives you healthy quantities of: chlorophyll, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins, each in potent amounts. It is believed that chlorophyll is good for your blood, because of its like chemical makeup of your blood cells. The verdict is still undecided on that, as far as I am concerned, but no scientist can deny its nutritional value for such a small amount consumed. That's why I take in wheatgrass so often; it's tough to get anything that compares, in my opinion.

But, there are others among us juicers, who take things to another level - like the time I was inside my favorite health food store. They had an electric wheatgrass juicer on display. And a person was drinking a shot or two of wheatgrass. Nothing unusual or weird about that, yes? But then he got out an eyedropper and put it in a third glass of wheatgrass juice and started using the eyedropper to shower wheatgrass juice directly into his eyeballs. Oh, this has lots of minerals and vitamins, he said, as he attempted to keep his eyes open, tears of green, running down the sides of his face.

Here's another good, although in this case weird, reason why I say talk to your health care provider before juicing. The common idea when one discovers something that is especially good for them, is to do more of it. And while, logically, that may sound good, it is not always a smart practice. Such as, in this example, pouring juiced wheatgrass into your eyeball. Think what you like, but I only drink mine.

A different example of such thinking might be: let's say, you have been working out at the gym, and were experiencing fabulous progress with weight training. After a few sessions lifting free weights, you began to observe results. Now here, the fanatical weight lifter enthusiast in this example, might logically assume that they can jump from lifting one hundred pounds, to abruptly lifting three hundred pounds. That seems absurd, right? Not to mention dangerous to the point that it could do more harm than good.

With juicing in general, not just wheatgrass, it's wise to consider the idea of starting off slow. When I first started juicing wheatgrass, I put in about an ounce or two to my carrot juice. In about a 2 parts wheatgrass, to 8 parts carrot juice. I didn't feel so good when I tried to consume a shot or two straight, like I discovered other people doing at the local juice bar. So, even now, after years of juicing, I still consume it slowly with other juices combined in mostly.

If you should get into wheatgrass with your juicing, remember you can use a masticating juicer to get both the juice and nutrition from grass and similar greens. Many people make the common mistake, believing just any juicer will do. That's not true. Also, there are wheatgrass juicers. Wheatgrass juicers can be purchased as both electrical and hand crank, or manual models. Both will get the job done, but hand crank models often must be clamped on to the lip of a counter (and not all of today's modern kitchens can accommodate this). This hand crank could be viewed as a good thing, or a bad thing, as you get one heck of a workout, long before you ever see your first glass of wheatgrass.

Juicing wheatgrass is not for novices: it's something to work up to. It may be too strong to your body if you are not already healthy inside and out.

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