 Hey y'all. Welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about the grape cure and I'm going to share with you one of my most favorite detoxifying juice recipes. I'm so glad you landed on my channel. My name is Chelsea Knudsen and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female-related conditions using food as medicine. So don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell so that you never miss an episode. So in my last video, I talked to you about the causes of iodine deficiency. So if you missed that video, I will link it up in the cards and down in the description box below. So today, I want to talk to you about the grape cure and a juice recipe to help you to shrink fibroids naturally. So first off, if you have it in your budget, please go out and get this book. It's called The Grape Cure by Joanna Brandt and it is a classic. I have put a link below in the description box so you can get this exact copy that I have because there's a couple different versions and I think this one's the newest version. But I read this book a couple of years ago and it was really a game changer for me when I learned the power of grapes and grape juice. And I even did a video a couple of years ago on grape juice. If I could find it, I'm going to link it in the cards above and below in the description box. But anyway, in this book there, the lady, she explains how she was really sick and she didn't know what was wrong with her. She went to all kinds of doctors, found out she had stomach cancer. She was looking for a cure. She didn't want to die and she talks about how grapes helped her on her journey and then even after she got well, she spread the message of the grape cure around the world specifically where she was from in Africa as well as here in the United States. So this is a good read, especially if you are in this healing process or on a healing journey from shrinking fibroids or healing PCOS, it is even if you never drink grape juice ever or if you never eat a grape, it's just an encouraging story about how the body can heal naturally if you give it what it needs to heal. But y'all know juicing is my thing. I have been juicing since early 2007, probably like the second or third week of January 2007 is when I started juicing and I started off with carrot juice. You guys have heard my story over and over again about how I started juicing, but juicing helps your body get into a position where it can heal. There are juice recipes all over my YouTube channel on my website at whatchelsieats.com so you can go there and get juice recipes and I also wrote a juicing e-book for juice recipes that are specifically for women's health. You can get that book down in the description box if you're interested. But in this video I'm going to share with you a very potent juice recipe that is good for cleansing and detoxifying the body and helping your body to get in a position to heal naturally. This recipe is very simple. All you need is a juicer and if you don't have a juicer you actually can do this recipe in a blender. So in the juicer you just run all the ingredients through the juice juicer and the pulp and the juice is separated easily. You store it in a jar and you drink it within three days. If you have a blender and you want to use this you know make this recipe what you do is you put the ingredients the grapes into a blender you blend them up until it's smooth and then you will have to strain them. In order to strain the pulp from the juice you'll need a fine mesh strainer a cheesecloth or an almond milk bag to separate the juice from the pulp and I'll put some links below so that you can see what I'm talking about see if you maybe have something in your home that you can use. But the easiest thing to do when you're trying to make juice is to purchase it is to use a juicer. I have two recommendations down in the description box box about the two types of juicers that I recommend right now. So what I use for this recipe is about five pounds of grapes and right now grapes are on sale because they're in season and they're like a dollar to a dollar ninety nine a pound where I live but they grapes can get expensive they can get up to you know five six seven dollars a pound but right now they're cheap so I have five pounds of grapes as you can see in the bowl and I have one lemon. Normally when I make this recipe I try to put as many lemons in as I possibly can because the combination of lemon and grape juice is the more you use the more detoxifying more lemon you use the more detoxifying the drink is. This is one of those drinks that is so detoxifying and so potent that I tell people whenever they make it to cut it with water. I'm a veteran juicer I juice I can drink this juice straight it's no problem whatsoever and so for me I I will have a 32 ounce glass of juice so if you're making it and just starting off maybe use 16 ounces of grape juice grape lemon juice combination and add 16 ounces of water cut it you will get still you will still get the benefits of having the grape juice just make sure you're using filtered clean water whenever you're cutting the juice but start off slow because it is very detoxifying this juice is so detoxifying you can feel the toxins moving in your body that's how how detoxifying it is so be careful but um it is a very powerful juice to drink on a regular basis some of you may be listening and saying why would you drink all that sugar so I'm not going to go into that in this video but if you want to see what my thoughts are about fruit sugar you can watch this video here it'll be up in the cards or down in the description box it's called the truth about sugar and I explained how how fruit sugar affects our body and why it's okay to drink fruit juice or eat fruit and how to do it properly so that it does not affect your blood sugar in a negative way so as you can see I am using red non-organic that's right you heard me say non-organic seedless grapes that's what I'm using in this particular recipe all right let me explain the best grapes to use are organic seeded concord grapes those are the absolute best grapes to use if you I mean like if you can find those grapes you if you can afford those grapes go ahead and use them as a matter of fact when I went to go purchase the grapes for this recipe that's what I was looking for but I didn't go to the store all I did was I told my husband hey can you bring me x amount of grapes home red I just want dark red grapes or you know purple grapes and this is what he came home with so that's what we're having we're having these red grapes but I want to say one other thing there have been times when I've used the organic seeded black grapes or our concord grapes or dark purple grapes and I've made this juice and it's been great but most of the time that I have used this recipe it has been with dark any kind of dark grape and most of the time it's been seedless and I've still gotten tremendous results from them so you have to be the judge of what you're going to what you're going to buy are you going to buy or all organic are you going to only be a you know be a stickler and only drink you know seeded eat seeded grapes you have to do what you feel is best for you all I'm saying is that whenever I purchase these types of grapes for juicing purposes I've washed them and you can wash them with vegetable wash baking soda and water apple cider vinegar and water and clean your your produce that way and then run them through the juicer you can you have to be the one that decides what's going to be best for you of course I would like to have at all times the best option which is the seeded concord grapes but in times like these when I don't have them available I will use seedless grapes that's just my opinion you do what you feel is best for you I needed to drive that point home because I knew I was going to have somebody ask me well why would you eat why would you juice seedless grapes that's why and I'm satisfied with that answer if you're not then you need to go buy some organic seeded concord grapes so just wanted to tell you that so I wanted to just touch base with you and talk to you about you know some of the benefits of I'm looking down because I'm looking at my notes some of the benefits of drinking fresh pressed grape juice especially dark grape grape juice and it helps to lower blood pressure it moves toxins out of the body it moves it breaks up tumors and cysts yes you heard me it breaks up tumors and cysts it breaks up stagnant lymphatic fluid and if you don't know what that is that's the thing that that causes the inflammation in the backup in your reproductive area that is the and like in your joints and in your and like why people have pain and things like that it's also grape juice is good for it's a good anti-inflammatory it helps improve your circulation it helps to cleanse the colon it moves out mucoid plaque a lot of people think they don't have mucoid plaque drink grape juice for a couple of days and you'll um say something different it's very hydrating to the body it helps clear up the skin it stimulates your metabolism it helps with digestion it relieves fatigue it gives you energy it improves your vision it helps to um detoxify your liver it helps with your with breathing issues if you have asthma any type of breathing issue it's going to help there with COPD things like that it helps cleanse the kidneys and the bladder and if you have female reproductive issues you want to make sure you're cleansing your kidneys and your bladder because it is a place where toxins leave the body it also increases blood bio flow which is and it helps to bio helps with digestion so you need that to flow some people are clogged up and the bio is not flowing it is also anti has anti-cancer properties and I could literally go on and on with the um with the benefits of grape juice but I'll just leave it there because that's a lot of information but if you can get this book so that you can get more information about what grapes can actually do to do for you and if you want to know how to get on a detoxification protocol sign up for a 10 minute strategy session with me and then we can talk briefly just to see if working together is going to be an option for you if you need additional help like I have lots of videos where it is teaching you everything you know pretty much what you can do but some people they need individual attention and if that's you you know get on my calendar let's see if it would be good for us to work together if this video has helped you in any way please comment below I would love to hear from you if you like this video please 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