 Hey guys, so am I the only guy she was sitting next to me, but she totally moved Totally ditched me. I was a bit sad, but anyway, let's move on to the video. Today I will be showing you guys how to make some awesome healthy nutritious good for the liver dandelion tea So I've been reading about dandelion tea a while ago Like when I say a while it's been like two years or so since I was reading up the benefits So I'm a little bit hazy. Is that the word? A little bit on the facts of dandelion tea So in my talk with Dee recently in my interview I will link that in the cards above if you guys want to check that out. It was really interesting We talked all things holistic health nutrition We talked a lot about the liver because it has a huge role in things like hormonal acne and cellulite and things like that and Information because the liver is the thing that actually filters out toxins in the body and when it's not working a hundred percent You start to get things like inflammation and things like cellulite or hormonal acne like an unhealthy gut and things like that because It's just not working properly It's not being able to filter out the toxins and things like that which are really detrimental to your health and The toxins actually end up being stored in your fat cells Which is not where you want them to go because over time that builds up And then the liver has to deal with that as well as more toxins coming into the body and becomes like an overload issue Anyway, dandelion tea is great for the liver because it helps with detoxifying Cleansing and just I guess is a great food source for the liver So I'm going to be making that's that came out really weird I'm going to be making some dandelion tea today, but I'm going to be making it from scratch So rather than just getting the tea leaves from the store I'm going to actually go pick them from our front lawn because it's spring I think I have stuff on my lips. I can feel it And it's dandelion season which is awesome. So it's come at a perfect time So I'm going to go pick some from our front lawn. They just grow kind of natively like is that the word wild? They grow wild. Yeah. Anyway, we don't plant them. They just grow every year They're great for bees as well great for attracting bees So if you do want to track more bees dandelions are really good and you can make tea with them Like a win-win. So I'm going to go and pick some now I'll show you guys how to brew them up and make dandelion tea with them now Be careful if you do pick them wild, this doesn't mean they go keep in mind make sure that if it's like in a reserve or Park area or anything like that that's owned by council that it's not spring sprayed because if it's being sprayed It can get like the chemical residue on that and then if you make it into tea you adjust that so if you can't find it I guess growing These cars honestly is not usually like this So if you can't find it wild growing I guess where it hasn't been sprayed or anything that despite organic from the health food Store and always I always opt for just loose-sleeve tea because it doesn't come in the tea bags Which usually plastic in them and it has a whole another issue with it not just wasteful But also the plastic leeches in to the food and goes into your body and that's all you want anyway Enough of my ramblings. Let's get straight on to making this tea. Yeah No, she's like now I want to come So I should wait there. I've only could bring her out, but she totally like runs away I'm like, I can't take it with me. So unfortunately, let's go pick some dandelions You know, I haven't actually done this since I was a kid. So this is gonna be fun It's gonna set you guys up right here And not put you at an angle and I'm gonna go pick some dandelions My hands are big enough. I need like two cups. I'm just gonna go container Already I'm back again. So this is my haul of dandelions Now it's not quite two cups It's probably about a cup, maybe a cup and a half, but I did pick my front lawn dry of dandelion So there's not one single dandelion left. I basically picked them all. It was pretty good haul, honestly Like if I had to say so myself. So that was set me for a while I there was a few more other spots around my area that I can go pick some more dandelions from so I'm not too fast I just like recollect a new stash later on but you know, I was thinking when I was picking those dandelions every time I think of dandelion I think of that scene in Ice Age When he's like a dandelion I know do you guys think the same thing it just pops into my head every time I think of these guys And then I keep getting like things in this As I'm picking the dandelions I have straight leaves of things Anyway, so yeah, that is pretty much how I collect these little dandelions A dandelion? The jig never gets old. So I'm going to now stew them and turn them into tea. So I'll show you how I do that So I'm gonna just show you holding this today And doing it as I go. So I just put my little dandelion collection Hold on, there you go. My little dandelion collection just there because at the moment We've got basically everything in our fridge on the table Because we're fixing our fridge at the moment. Just having a bit of a moment And not really working. So we've had to reset it and get the fridge guy Person in to fix it. So everything we own in the fridge is virtually sitting on the counter here So I'm going to be using this tiny little spot just here And next to her She may be a bit loud today and I'm going to try and cook and show you guys We're not really cook make tea and show you guys from here. So hopefully that works all right Carol is ruining our salad He ruined our salad I told you just keeps playing over and over on mine. We're gonna love ice age best movie. What do you think? Yeah, she thinks it too To make the tea place about two cups of clean dandelion in a saucepan I just had the one and a half cups. That's what I used Then you want to cover it with about four cups of water Now I use filtered water just to make sure that my water was clean So I didn't have any of the heavy metals that can sometimes be in tap water But it's up to you Then you want to bring the water to a boil Allow the tea to infuse for around three hours or overnight I just let mine sit for three hours because I wanted to have it sooner rather than later So if you want you can do this the night before and let it sit overnight But I just let mine sit for three hours on on heat Then you want to strain out the dandelion and reserve the liquid for your tea If the tea is too strong, you can just dilute the tea with some water if the flavor is too I guess intense for you. I did that I just put a little bit of the tea at the bottom and then poured hot water in after that to kind of dilute and Diffuse the tea a little bit more That's really nice. That's actually really good Oh, it's so warming. I'm like warm from the inside out now So that's pretty much how you make dandelion tea from scratch using the flowers and the stem You can actually do different variations of dandelion tea because they said the stem the flower the leaves and the Roots are actually edible. So you can eat every part of the dandelion flower itself though keep in mind Just a side note that the stem has a white sap in it that can actually cause like a laxative effect on Your gut I guess So if you do want to avoid that just don't use the stem in the ingredients part of it Like just don't use the stem in the tea just use the flower and the roots If you guys want to avoid that, but I just use the stem. I was like, oh well Too late now. So yeah, that's pretty much how you make the tea. It's really good for your liver So really recommend if you have that like on the daily such a good cleanser You'll notice improvements in your liver because it don't know why but it has such a good effect on cleansing the liver You can get it from the store, but again try and get organic and maybe can lose leaf tea to avoid the plastics in the Tea bags and just to avoid that waste part of it You can just use like a little strainer and put your tea in there I think that's pretty much the rest of my video I hope you guys enjoyed today's video Do let me know what you thought of it And if you guys have tried out any other teas that are good for the liver Or if you guys want me to do a future video on liver cleansing foods recipes Drinks and things like that. Do let me know. I'll share that with you guys Otherwise, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. Have a wonderful day and I hope to see you again soon. Bye