Chocolate Banana Almond Shake With Peppermint |
| 2 whole | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 3/4 c | |
| 1/2 c | |
| 2 pinch |
1. Blend banana with almond milk, cardamom, peppermint leaves, and cacao until smooth.
2. Optionally add 2 tbsp of brewed Tecchino or coffee for Kapha constitutions.
Serve room temperature. For added flair, garnish with crushed candy cane.
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Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Mint, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Dates (dried), Mint
Active Ingredients: Mint, Chocolate (Cacao), Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Dates (dried), Banana, Almond Milk
Active Ingredients: Banana, Dates (dried), Almond Milk
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Mint
Active Ingredients: Dates (dried), Almond Milk
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD STIMULATES-PERISTALSIS An herb that promotes involuntary smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD 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.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD ANTIDEPRESSANT Herbs that lift feelings of depression, benefit the mind and improve mental function.
Active Ingredients: Mint
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Banana, Cardamom, Chocolate (Cacao), Mint
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint, Cardamom
Active Ingredients: Cardamom, Dates (dried)
MILD MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao), Banana
MILD FLAVONOIDS Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD TANNINS Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD CATECHINS Antioxidant that reduces cancer and blood clots, dilates blood vessels, and is antimicrobial.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD RESVERATROL Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD CAFFEINE-METHYLXANTHINES Methylxanthines are purine alkaloids that have a stimulant and bronchodilating effect.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD MELATONIN Active Ingredients: Banana
MILD FATS Active Ingredients: Almond Milk
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a healthy diet and lifestyle through constitutional nutrition (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda, offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy, & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC
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