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occasion” column. Don’t get me wrong: I eat a lot of protein (chicken, steak, and fish), but I also balance it with all the fruits and veggies that I can consume. Plus, I drink a lot of
fresh
organic juice to get all that I need from the fruit and veggie group, and more.
    What if you could get a whole bunch of vital nutrients—in a less bulky form—with so many vitamins, minerals, and pure energy that you feel like you knocked back a double shot of espresso every time you drank it? Fresh organic juicing will do it for you, and it’s so much better for you than the quick high you get from caffeine and all those energy drinks.
    YOGA-DOC SAYS …
    Every time we put caffeine into our bodies, we are burdening our livers and adrenal glands to function at a much higher level of performance than they should. Organic juice gives you a supermarket aisle full of nutrients that feed your body, giving you more energy without pounding the hell out of your liver and adrenals. Organic juice is also a strong detoxifier and blood purifier because of all the antioxidants and natural enzymes it contains. Enzymes from plant sources are now being studied to see how they can be instrumental in curing some of the worst diseases and degenerative disorders that plague us.
    I’m going to tell you how I got involved in organic juicing. You see, my grandfather got cancer, and my brother Rory, who was a chiropractor at the time and an organic food enthusiast, decided he was going to go to Mexico to find an alternative to chemotherapy. When my brother came back, he had learned how to make the body an unfriendly place for cancer byutilizing organic juicing. Of course, my grandfather, being the “old school kraut” that he was, had nothing to do with it. Rory tried to explain what he found to me, and I, of course, did the same as my grandfather—I blew him off as well.
    So what happened? Why the change? Well, one day I went to a Tony Robbins seminar (Tony has inspired me on many occasions), and at some point, he got on the subject of getting some kind of greens supplement into our systems on a daily basis to energize our bodies. What started to hook me was, of course, how passionate Tony was about this greens supplement, but what sealed the deal was when he said that he didn’t care if we bought his product or not. So that day, I bought Tony’s greens supplement, and oh my God, did that stuff taste like shit! The next day I went to the health food store to try some other products, and I found one that was pretty good. I used it for a while, and I was definitely feeling a difference in my energy levels.
    Then one day, I went down to West Palm Beach for a wrestling show. My dad (Diamond Dallas Dad or DDD, as he likes to be called) lives in the area, and he came over to see me for lunch. When DDD got there, he handed me this jar of purple juice and told me to drink it before we left.
    “What is it?” I asked. He said, “Just drink it.” I asked, “Why is it purple? Is it grape juice?” He said, “No, there are beets in it.” I said, “I hate beets!” He said, “
Just drink it
.” So to shut him up, I did. And you know what? It wasn’t that bad. As a matter of fact, I actually liked it.
    When I got back to Atlanta, I told my brother about my juice experience with DDD. Rory reminded me that he had told me about organic juicing years ago. “Why would you want to drink all that ‘artificial power drink crap’ when you can have the best-tasting, high energy, healing organic juice instead?” Now, the one thing that I haven’t told you was that over all my years in wrestling, we were constantly tested for everything from AIDS to hepatitis. During my first six years in wrestling, I would constantly have problems with my platelet count. It was so bad that sometimes it actually kept me from wrestling.
    HOT TIP!
    The juice recipe Dallas’s brother made up for him includes:
    40 pounds of carrots, 10 cucumbers, 15 beets, 5 bunches of parsley, 5 bunches of celery, 3 heads of kale, 2 bunches of spinach, 8 red apples, and 4 green apples
    This makes about 14 to 17 quarts of juice, and Dallas drinks one or two quarts a day. That means he has to mix a batch every two weeks or so. It will usually keep up to 72 hours with 100 percent vitamins and enzymes if you use the Norwalk juicer (see the Resources section). You can also freeze it up to 3 months.
    I started juicing about six years ago, and since then, I haven’t had a problem with my