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How to Make Banana Strawberry SmoothieSERVINGS: 2 PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Blend two bananas, 5 strawberries, 1/4c blueberries and 1c almond milk.
Serve in a tall glass garnished with fresh berries!
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Bananas helps restore electrolytes on hot summer days. Strawberries and blueberries are liver and blood tonics, reducing the effects of heat exhaustion. Banana Strawberry Smoothies are excellent for Vata and Pitta but may increase Kapha if consumed excessively. WHAT IS BANANA STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE?Altogether a refreshing and revitalizing early summer drink.
AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
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Is Banana Strawberry Smoothie Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
Find out by taking this free, easy quiz.
You'll learn your body type, and whether 'Banana Strawberry Smoothie' is a good fit.
Complete the basic quiz in 1 minute, or go deeper with additional quizzes at your own leisure to learn more about your body.
See a complete list of all biocharacteristics.
INCREASES![Guna Help]()
Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas)
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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| EASY ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
LEARN MORE ABOUT EASY COLD ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.
LEARN MORE ABOUT COLD GOOEY ABOUT GOOEY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Gooey is identified by anything gelatinous (such as oatmeal), or by mucus congestion.
LEARN MORE ABOUT GOOEY | TASTES![Taste Help]()
The 6 Tastes
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
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| SWEET ABOUT SWEET BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
LEARN MORE ABOUT SWEET | DOSHAS![Dosha Help]()
The Three Doshas / Body Types
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Banana Strawberry Smoothie ![Help]() Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary.
The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
, , Sialogogue SIALOGOGUE
A sialogogue increases saliva. Sour foods are often great sialogogues, and increase output of all exocrine glands. Salty taste is very moistening as well. Bitter, pungent and sweettastes also increase salivary output but to a
lesser degree. Astringents.
SEE ALL 'SIALOGOGUE' FOODS / HERBS , Nerve Relaxant Grounding NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING
Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.
SEE ALL 'NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING' FOODS / HERBS , Demulcent DEMULCENT
Herbs that coat or form a soothing film over a mucous membrane, relieving minor pain and inflammation of the membrane.
SEE ALL 'DEMULCENT' FOODS / HERBS , , Antipruritic ANTIPRURITIC
Antipruritics are herbs that inhibit itching, often associated with skin conditions such as sunburns, allergic reactions, eczema, psoriasis, chickenpox, fungal infections, insect bites, or contact dermatitis (as in poison ivy rashes).
SEE ALL 'ANTIPRURITIC' FOODS / HERBS Antioxidant ANTIOXIDANT
An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.
SEE ALL 'ANTIOXIDANT' FOODS / HERBS , Alterative ALTERATIVE
Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter.
SEE ALL 'ALTERATIVE' FOODS / HERBS , , Rebuild Electrolytes REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES
Substances that increase your electrolyte balance. Electrolytes help you retain water, keep your palate moist, and truly quench your thirst.
SEE ALL 'REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Soluble Fiber, Vitamin C, Tannins, Nitric Oxide NITRIC-OXIDE
Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
SEE ALL 'NITRIC-OXIDE' FOODS / HERBS , Resveratrol RESVERATROL
Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
SEE ALL 'RESVERATROL' FOODS / HERBS , , Potassium, Melatonin, Carbohydrate |
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Banana
Banana has these Actions in Common
Antacid, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Rebuild-electrolytes, Stimulates-energy, Antipruritic, Nutritive, Satisfies-stomach, Stimulates-peristalsis, Demulcent, Quenches-thirst, Skin-tonic
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Strawberries
Strawberries has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Skin-tonic, Anti-inflammatory, Quenches-thirst, Relaxes-eyes, Wakes-you-up, Antioxidant, Rebuilds-fluids, Sialogogue, Alterative, Kidney-tonic
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Grapefruit has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Stimulates-peristalsis, Antioxidant, Sialogogue, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst, Stimulates-energy
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Cassava Root / Yuca
Cassava Root / Yuca has these Actions in Common
Demulcent, Rebuilds-fluids, Anti-inflammatory, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Satisfies-stomach, Antioxidant, Nutritive
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Grape
Grape has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Quenches-thirst, Antioxidant, Rebuilds-fluids, Alterative, Nutritive, Sialogogue
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Oyster
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Demulcent, Nutritive, Kidney-tonic, Rebuild-electrolytes, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Rebuilds-fluids
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Orange
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Amalaki
Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Antacid, Sialogogue, Anti-inflammatory, Skin-tonic, Antioxidant, Stimulates-energy, Nutritive, Wakes-you-up, Quenches-thirst, Rebuilds-fluids, Refreshing, Alterative, Relaxes-eyes
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Licorice Ghee (9oz)
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Red Clover
Red Clover has these Actions in Common
Nutritive, Rebuilds-fluids, Skin-tonic, Alterative, Anti-inflammatory, Demulcent
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Shatavari
Shatavari has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Demulcent, Nerve-relaxant-grounding, Nutritive, Relaxes-eyes, Antacid
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Gokshura
Gokshura has these Actions in Common
Nutritive, Skin-tonic, Alterative, Antipruritic, Demulcent, Nerve-relaxant-grounding
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Punarnava
Punarnava has these Actions in Common
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Amritarishta (Amrutharishtam) has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, Antipruritic, Quenches-thirst
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John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 7 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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- David McKaig, Swannanoa, NC , 04-10-14 ( Reply) It is delicious. I froze the bananas in my freezer ahead of time
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