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What is the difference between eating celery and juicing it?

According to William, “eating celery stalks, while very healthy and important, is not the same as drinking pure celery juice. When celery is juiced, the pulp (fiber) is removed, and its healing benefits become much more powerful and bioavailable, especially for someone with chronic illness.”

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Another new year means another new food deemed worthy for a place under the coveted list of healing superfoods. You’ve likely had a long history with this trending superfood. As a child, you’ve seen it smothered with peanut butter with carefully placed raisins to resemble “ants on a log,” it’s been a supporting act on veggie platters as the best tool for dipping into guilty pleasure ranch and blue-cheese dressings, but have you ever thought of the humble celery as a superfood?

Celery juice has recently gotten ALL of the hype, especially with the restart and detox atmosphere of the new year along with a strong celeb backing (you know it's legit when there's a Pinterest board filled with celebrities and their juices) with the likes of Miranda Kerr, Pharrell, and Hannah Bronfman — Bronfman testifies, “when I first started with celery juice I saw lots of impurities come to the surface of my skin, meaning a lot of the toxins were being purged from the inside out.” The benefits of celery juice has even got a dedicated Instagram account with the handle, @celeryjuicebenefits garnering an impressive 95.4K following.

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The movement all started with the Medical Medium aka Anthony William — whose NY Times Best Selling book is definitely worth a read. Celery Juice’s list of benefits seems as endless as your list of unqualified potential partners and left swipes. Below are only a couple of its benefits according to the originator of the celery juice movement:

Calming inflammation

Starving pathogens

Breaking down and flushing out viruses

Balancing your body’s PH

Restoring the entire digestive system

But just as any other item put under the superfood spotlight, it’s gonna get a couple haters or shall we say, skeptics. Coveteur has put celery juice first on their list of “Wellness Trends to Leave Behind in 2018.” The article claims that there are little evidence to prove the benefits of celery juice and that “you’re probably better off snacking on a stalk and getting the benefits of the fiber than drinking the juice.”

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So is it really worth it to go through all the trouble of juicing an entire stalk of celery everyday? And will you really get the benefits without the fibers? According to William, “eating celery stalks, while very healthy and important, is not the same as drinking pure celery juice. When celery is juiced, the pulp (fiber) is removed, and its healing benefits become much more powerful and bioavailable, especially for someone with chronic illness.”

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Does Meat Increase testosterone?

Men who followed a vegetarian diet tended to have the lowest levels of testosterone, about 150 points lower, on average, than those following a high-fat, meat-based diet.

Can I increase my testosterone levels through the foods I eat? And if so, which foods or diets work best?

Many men, particularly as they age, are concerned about their levels of testosterone, the male sex hormone touted to build muscle, sex drive and vigor. But individual foods are unlikely to have an impact on testosterone levels — though drinking excessive amounts of alcohol might. If you are overweight, altering your diet to lose weight may help, since carrying excess pounds is a common cause of low testosterone. But in terms of specific foods or diets, any uptick you achieve may not have a noticeable impact on libido, energy or muscle mass. “If someone was not overweight, I wouldn’t put them on a specific diet to raise testosterone based on the data we have now,” said Alexander Pastuszak, an assistant professor of urology and surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who co-authored a review on alternatives to testosterone therapy. In men, normal testosterone levels range from 300 to 1,000 nanograms per deciliter of blood. Ups and downs within that normal range are unlikely to have any impact on sex drive or vitality. Only when levels consistently drop below 300 points — as confirmed in two blood tests by an accredited laboratory — are symptoms like low libido, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, low mood or loss of muscle mass likely to appear, a medical condition known as hypogonadism.

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