Green Smoothies and Headaches

[frances_bea]

I've been making myself green smoothies on and off for a couple of years now. A green smoothie is like a regular fruit smoothie, but you also add some kind of greens. It needs a liquid base, which in my case is usually juice or water. Unless you choose strongly flavored greens, you end up with something that still tastes mostly like fruit but has a

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Headaches

[anonymous]

So you mean you went off the green and started to get headeaches again?

Re: Headaches

[frances_bea]

No. I don't generally have trouble with headaches. When I started eating a tremendous amount of green leafy vegetables every day it gave my system the opportunity to do some cleaning out. Toxins have to re-enter the bloodstream to get flushed out of the system, so they can cause headaches and other symptoms, briefly, as they do. This often happens when someone cleans up their diet, but it doesn't last too long.