PaleoJay’s Smoothie Cafe podcast #65 Shorten your eating window, and Have a Green, Paleo smoothie- EVERY DAY! AND, listen to simple, basic, calming folk style music to get back in touch with your inner you…

Summary: PJSC podcast #65Shorten your eating window, andHave a Green, Paleo smoothie- EVERY DAY! AND, listen to simple, basic, calming folk style music to get back in touch with your inner you...I did an experiment the other day, actually- yesterday! Although I prepared a MORE than adequate lunch to bring to work, including not just ONE, but THREE quarts of the incredibly nutritious Paleo Smoothie (including resistant starch, gelatin, and TONS of green veggies, kefir, and everything else that Ponce De Leon used to dream about to rejuvenate his life via the “fountain of youth”... I decided to eat, instead- nothing!Well, I did have a big cup of what I call Paleo Coffee- organic coffee made in my Aerobie coffee press, which you can find on my list of recommended Amazon products at www.paleojay.com. It is similar to Bulletproof coffee, as touted by Dave Asprey of www.Bulletproofexecutive.com, but it only contains coconut oil, and whipped cream...I prefer to put my pastured Kerrygold or Organic Valley butter in my Paleo Smoothie! But anyway, that is all that I had in the morning, after my Perfectly Paleo workout in front of the TV. I wanted to see how long it would be until I got hungry, since I normally have a BIG breakfast, including a big green Paleo smoothie, several eggs, and of course, my coconut and whipped cream laden coffee! And, as per usual, I usually don’t have supper, confining my meals to breakfast and lunch. Then, I fast until the next day, unlike most paleo folk, who skip breakfast. That can also be a good strategy, to shorten your “window of eating”, but I believe skipping SUPPER is usually the better idea.But, regardless, I did NOT get hungry!As Gomer Pyle, one of my favorite character from old television would have said:“Surprise, surprise, surprise!!” I just never got hungry! It was 9, 10, 11, 12... finally, although I still didn’t feel hungry at all, at around 2 PM, I decided I should eat. This means I hadn’t eaten at all since about 1:00 the previous day... I had a tin of sardines... some herring and onions in a cream sauce- delicious!...and I was very full! So, I left, and had an 8 ounce jar of Paleo smoothie later, not because I was hungry, but because I wanted to MAX OUT MY NUTRITION, just like I maxed out my workout that morning in front of the television!I think the moral of the story is this:We live in a world of depleted soil- it is recognized now that foods grown in our present day soil have much less in the way of nutrients than they did even 50 years ago, much less 100. When our ancestors came to America, the soil was built up to unbelievable levels of fertility- buffalo had roamed and fertilized that plains for eons! The topsoil was dozens of feet thick with a rich, fertile loam; teeming with life and minerals- earthworms were in their glory, leaving rich castings of nutrients for plants to assimilate...Fast forward to today, 60 some years after World War 2-Our soil, especially in the AG BELT of Central Illinois, and Iowa (the corn and soybean belt: Aka “AG LAND”) has been decimated.That topsoil I spoke of earlier? It has been reduced to a mere growing medium...An inert medium (like sand or peat moss) that can support agricultural life, if nutrients are ADDED IN- like nitrogen and potassium, via fossil fuel fertilizers...But, without those added DRUGS... this soil is just about cooked!We have largely, and continue to, destroy our birthright- the fertility of our very land.Wait- and then- what is the MORAL of this story, again?If you want to MAX out your nutrition, you will have to eat MORE vegetables than people did in the past! Our crops don’t have the nutrients anymore that Fonzies did; much less Gomer, or Matt Dillon! And SO, we have to... Use LOTS of veggies in a Big Green, Paleo Smoothie to MAX our nutrition to the levels that were easily achieved in the t