This is a *very short* collection of 24 green smoothie recipes that Dr. Goldner (the author) used to heal herself from Lupus, an autoimmune disease, and stay in remission.

I believe she's been in remission (she considers herself cured) for 16 years now. I think this was her first book and her newer books leave the spirulina and chlorella out. If you make the recipes, I'd definitely recommend leaving the spirulina out (see nutritionfacts.org). I don't know anything about chlorella. I have made a few of her smoothie recipes that are free on her www.smoothieshred.com site and wanted to see if there was more variety here. There aren't many new ones that interested me in the book (so glad I used credits to buy it!) but there is one she calls "ginger snap" that I'm looking forward to trying. It won't taste like a ginger snap but with pear and ginger, it does sound delicious to me.

Another thing to consider is that in this book she says to add the water to a certain level but now on her website it's to the top of the greens. I do to the top of the greens. It was weird at first but now I like it that way. It's a lot of water! But with the amount of greens (75% greens to 25% fruit), I think that it's just the right amount for me personally.

People interested in smoothies with a high percentage of greens, people wanting a few more recipes than are available on her site, or in her other books ("Goodbye Lupus" and "Goodbye Autoimmune Disease") ... though I haven't finished "Goodbye Autoimmune Disease" so it's possible that all of these recipes are at the back of that? I should have checked before buying this one!

The ginger snap recipe. I haven't tried it yet but am looking forward to it. Also her son's "chocolate milk" (with plant milk) sounds good too.

How very short the book was. I didn't read the description well enough and was expecting 3x or more the number of recipes.

Make the ginger snap smoothie. But I wasn't hungry (it was bedtime) so I saved it for another day.

Happy for her remission/recovery. Wishing that there were many more recipes.

From Amazon: "Brooke Goldner, M.D. is a best selling author and a board certified physician known world-wide for being a medical doctor who has developed a nutrition-based treatment for her own autoimmune disease, Lupus. Prior to her discovery, Dr. G had serious illness and had 11 years of medical treatments with high dose steroids and chemotherapy. Using nutrition alone, she has been completely healthy and requiring no medications for 9 years. Dr. Goldner has been featured in multiple documentaries, such as Whitewashed and Eating Your Alive. She has been interviewed by Natural News Radio, Health Conspiracy Radio, Wellness Radio, was a keynote speaker for Lupus LA, and has had numerous stage appearances, including being featured twice in 2014 Health Healing & Happiness event in Las Vegas. She has been featured on the front cover of Vegan Health & Fitness Magazine, is the author of Green Smoothie Recipes to Kick-Start Your Health and Healing, and star of Goodbye Lupus and Super Healthy Meals for Your Family DVDs. She is a graduate of the Temple University School of Medicine, was Chief Resident at UCLA-Harbor Residency in Psychiatry, and holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell University. She is the founder of VeganMedicalDoctor.com and creator of the Hyper-nourishing Healing Protocol for Lupus Recovery."

If you're looking for a little more variety than is on her free website, there are more options here, though I think all of the recipes on the website are also (in a modified version) in this book... so that makes it 24 - the 7 or so recipes on her website. Not a *lot* of extra variety but at least some.

It's so short. If you're okay with that, then it's great.

I own this as an ebook so if you want to borrow it, let me know. I think Kindle allows 14 day one time loans. Of course, if you buy it through this link, that helps WDC so if you can afford to do so, that's super too.

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