Wheatgrass

Anything But Mid is hosted by Amy Edwards and Whitney Stropp. Neither host is a doctor and nothing here is medical advice. Lightly cleaned for readability.

Whitney: I'm Whitney.

Amy: And I'm Amy, and this may be midlife, but you're anything but mid. Did it sound like midlife?

Whitney: Midlife.

Amy: Midlife. Shit, I don't know. You know?

Whitney: Maybe midlife. And if it is, you're having a lot of fun.

Amy: I tried. What can I say? How's it going?

Whitney: It's good. Everything's going. Yes. I was inspired by you, because you're making some great content over on your social, Amy Edwards. The real Amy Edwards?

Amy: Real Amy Edwards is, yes, that's my.

Whitney: That's your handle?

Amy: That's my handle. On Instagram.

Whitney: If you haven't been over there, y'all need to go check it out because she's always putting in the effort to give you not only great advice, but style. Like, your style is awesome. And so you inspired me for my anything but mid moment. It's an anything but mid moment.

Amy: Ooh.

Whitney: Because you're always wearing really cool, fun things, and so you inspired me. I was out at Le Garage, which is an event here in Austin where you kind of get high-end, boutiquey items at a sale, on sale.

Amy: Yes. Yeah.

Whitney: And there was this really cute, sparkly, purple crop top that was like sequiny. And I was really drawn to it, and I was like, "Uh, it's a crop top. Like, it's not like I've got abs of steel or anything." And then I thought, "You know what? I'm going to go for it, because I noticed that when you wear crop tops, you tend to have a high-waisted pant, and then you put a cute jacket over it." And so, boom. I bought it, and now I just need to wear it somewhere.

Amy: I do. Yeah. And you know what, I'm tall, so I kind of have to, because crop tops are going to be, tall with big boobs, they're going to be even shorter on me. So you're like, more petite.

Whitney: Even Yeah, yeah. Sure. I'm smaller, on all, I don't have any boobs, and I'm shorter. Yeah.

Amy: All the other. So it's going to look good. Like, I feel like, go for it. And who cares, anyway? Show your abs.

Whitney: Okay. Well, exactly. Well, maybe. But yeah, I was inspired by you. And then the opposite of that, the mid moment, is that I meant to bring the top to show you, and I forgot.

Amy: Seriously? Yes.

Whitney: But it's hanging in my closet. You inspired me to buy it, and now I just need to take it out on the town.

Amy: Yeah. You do. I'm excited for you. Just take a picture when you, I'll be fine with that. But that's really great, like, and you know, those outfits that I put together for my Instagram, I do in like 30 seconds. I do it, I'm usually pressed for time, and so I just find something and I'm like, let's just style it with something and I throw it together.

Whitney: Yeah. I will. I will. But you also have to have a knack for it. It's kind of like with baking or cooking. Like, there are some people that need to follow the recipe, and there are other people that just know, "Oh, a little cinnamon in here will just kick this up a notch." I am not that person.

Amy: Emeril. Bam!

Whitney: Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. So you have that, but by watching you, it's teaching me, "Oh, I could just throw some high-waisted pants on this and then do a jacket, and

Amy: Yes. That makes me feel so good. That makes me feel so good. Well, since we're talking about style and influence, one of the things I have is crazy purses. I love crazy purses. I have a cell phone. I have a pizza. I have a lot. Well, I've gotten you something for your birthday.

Whitney: Bam! Yes. Oh, no way.

Amy: Yes. So

Whitney: I'm so excited.

Amy: It won't go with your purple, or maybe it will. Maybe it goes with everything.

Whitney: Maybe it will. Oh, my goodness. It's a pickle.

Amy: It's a pickle.

Whitney: This is a big dill, you guys.

Amy: It's a big dill. It is a full-on pickle purse.

Whitney: It's a pickle purse. Oh, my gosh. I love it! Thank you!

Amy: With some bling. It's ridiculous.

Whitney: Isn't it weird? My mouth is watering.

Amy: Isn't that so crazy?

Whitney: I love it! Thank you!

Amy: Your phone will fit in there.

Whitney: Yes, it's perfect. It's not too small.

Amy: No, it's Betsey Johnson pickle purse.

Whitney: How fun!

Amy: Because even if you never carry it, it will hopefully bring you joy in your closet.

Whitney: It brings me joy, and I'm 100% going to carry it.

Amy: You should. You know? You should.

Whitney: Why not?

Amy: Yeah.

Whitney: It's definitely a conversation starter.

Amy: That's the thing about fun purses. Like, I have, my cell phone one looks like a '90s cell phone. I'll have to show it sometime. It's, people are like,

Whitney: Yeah. I love it! Thank you. Yeah. Go get it. Show it now.

Amy: I it's too much trouble. I know. I got to run the other room. But it's, maybe I'll take a picture and put it in here. And

Whitney: You know what, on the next episode.

Amy: I will. I will. And it's a real conversation starter, and that's just fun.

Whitney: It is. I love it. Thank you so much. I can't believe how much pickle content is out there.

Amy: Pickles are having a moment. Pickles have always had You're going to take that out, and people are immediately going to be like, "I love pickles, too."

Whitney: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Amy: "You're a pickle girl? Hello." Men will be like, "I got a pickle for you."

Whitney: You're a pepper, I'm a pepper. No, pickle.

Amy: Gross. Yeah. Men will Men will be like,

Whitney: That's gross. Oh, gross. Ew.

Amy: I know. But they probably will. They probably will.

Whitney: But they probably will. They probably will. Maybe I'll just wear it to women-only events.

Amy: Great idea.

Whitney: Which, by the way, and I'm not going to remember the name of it. Let me see.

Amy: What? It's a women-only event?

Whitney: Yes. There's this event, and it's a dance party. Have you heard of this?

Amy: For women only?

Whitney: It's women-only. And it's an early, there's one happening in Austin. It's coming up, I think, in April.

Amy: Wow. In Austin? Okay.

Whitney: And it's it's for people that don't want to party late into the night. So it starts at like 6:00 p.m., it's done at 10:00 p.m. It's like '80s, '90s, 2000s music, and it's just women. So, I could wear my pickle purse

Amy: Hell, yeah. This sounds amazing. Oh.

Whitney: and never get accosted by other pickles, if you know what I mean.

Amy: You're going to make a whole crop of new friends.

Amy: Oh, my god. Yeah.

Whitney: But I want to I want to tell you the name of it. All-girl dance party. Austin women. Let's see who finds it first. Early Birds Club is what it's called.

Amy: Let's look it up. Oh.

Whitney: Early Birds Club. 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., '80s through 2000 hits, and it's going to be at ACL at the 3TEN.

Amy: ACL Live? Oh.

Whitney: Yeah. Or the 3TEN.

Amy: But the 3TEN. 3TEN.

Whitney: Which is my favorite place to go, because it's it's not too big. You know, they've got a great stage. That's where we see Skyrocket!

Amy: Yes. Yes.

Whitney: So anyway, yeah, if you are, but they they are all over the United States. So they're coming they've they've set up this event in Austin, but they're all over. So you could look it up.

Amy: I've performed there many times. Well, let's go. If you're listening, hit us up. Let's all go.

Whitney: Yeah, Early Birds Club, 3TEN ACL.

Amy: Amazing. I'll put a link in the show notes. That's awesome.

Whitney: High energy, safe, and early evening dancing. I love it!

Whitney: Yeah, I'll wear my purple top.

Amy: And your pickle purse.

Whitney: And my pickle purse.

Amy: I'll bring my I I actually I'm not going to bring my cell phone purses. I need to be hands-free.

Whitney: Yeah, yeah.

Amy: Yes. So, all right. Well, I need a mid moment. My mid moment is that I have been on the bus for like six days.

Whitney: Yeah. Yes.

Amy: And we went to Florida, and I really just want to offer like, my condolences

Whitney: Understanding?

Amy: and empathy to anybody who completely falls off their wellness routine, because I'm having trouble staying on it. I completely fell off, and I just feel like it's a mid moment to say, "Hey, I got to get back on the horse. I completely fell off."

Whitney: And you think it's because you were on the bus and just out of your routine and didn't have all your stuff, and just also not motivated?

Amy: Yeah. Yeah, all of the above. And it was cold.

Whitney: Did you get into a bus life mentality?

Amy: A little, like I get into a road trip mentality, which means I can eat a bag of chips, like. And I am a chipaholic, so I eat too many chips. I just eat bad. And it was cold outside, so I felt really confined. It was rough, and I wasn't taking care of myself. And so, I my mid moment is just like, sometimes we do that, and I got to get back on the

Whitney: Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Amy: back on the train.

Whitney: Back on the horse.

Amy: Back on the horse.

Whitney: Back on the bus.

Amy: Back on the wagon. Back on the

Whitney: No, not back on the bus. Get off the bus.

Amy: Exactly. Yes. So,

Whitney: Yeah, six days is is quite a long time.

Amy: It was for for cold outside.

Whitney: And you're living in it. You're It's not even just you're driving. You're actually living on it the whole time.

Amy: Right. Right. And it was just I mean, sometimes it's just like truck stops and it's like uh!

Whitney: Uh.

Amy: I'm having a little trouble with it. I'm looking I think I could do it in better weather, but right now it's just tough.

Whitney: How is Justin?

Amy: He's fine.

Whitney: But if you never leave the bus, what does it matter if it's cold out? Like, that would make me want to stay in the bus.

Amy: But I need to leave the bus. Oh. I need to leave the bus. It's I can't I And I get a little car sick, like I can't really look at my phone, I can't really read, I can't really edit, because I get a little car sick, I start to feel bad, and then I'm like, now I'm nauseous, you know, and I'm like, "Fuck!"

Whitney: Oh, man. I did not even think about the car sickness factor. Like, you kind of I was in the mentality of, "Oh, it's just like being at home, but on wheels." But yeah, I wouldn't be able to read either, or look at my phone. And then what are you doing?

Amy: I can't even edit and work. I can't even really work.

Whitney: Then you're just eating chips and singing songs.

Amy: Well, we bought ukuleles, so, yeah, I'm going to learn the ukulele.

Whitney: But he's driving.

Amy: Well, I'm going to play. I'm going to I'm hoping to write some songs.

Whitney: Yeah. I have a ukulele.

Amy: You Do you play?

Whitney: Yeah. I had a band, a ukulele band called Better Than Bad in Los Angeles.

Amy: I thought you knew that. No, but I love that you pop out with these stories. You're like, "I've been a I've What is the person that eats mulch mulch

Whitney: Oh, mukbang?

Amy: Oh, yeah. "I've been a mukbanger."

Whitney: Technically, I didn't actually do it, but I still have the YouTube channel.

Amy: And so you had a ukulele band? Okay. Well,

Whitney: Yeah. Better Than Bad.

Amy: Gosh. That's what we're hoping to do. I've been learning. Okay.

Whitney: But I Yeah. Okay, good. Well, see, I need to get back on the ukulele band, because bandwagon, because after I moved here, I lost my band, obviously. It was just another girl, but we had a blast and played all around. We made our friends have parties, and we would be the entertainment.

Amy: Well, I'll do it.

Whitney: Yeah, but I need to I I haven't picked up the ukulele

Amy: Did you write songs? Did you do original?

Whitney: No, we did song parodies, or we did That's amazing. Yeah, we did song parodies, or we just did the song, you know, itself. I'll send you some videos.

Amy: I am 100% in. In on this.

Whitney: Okay. It'd be super fun.

Amy: If we once we reach a level where we're doing live shows for this, we're going to incorporate ukulele parody songs.

Whitney: Take this on the road. Yes. We can be like the new Flight of the Conchords. Do you know them?

Amy: A million percent. Of course, I do. This is incredible. I am so excited to hear This is the best news you could've shared.

Whitney: Yeah. They're so good. Here we go.

Amy: Happy birthday to me.

Whitney: Yay!

Amy: All right. So today, we're going to do wheatgrass.

Whitney: All right. I'm excited to hear about it.

Amy: Me, too. Because I have been doing wheatgrass and I If you recall,

Whitney: You Yeah, you said it. It was instant.

Amy: On a recent On a recent episode, I did share that it was instant. I think it was on neurocosmetics. I I instantly felt better, and I did it just before you arrived today.

Whitney: Ah.

Amy: And I was like, I better walk the walk, and I'm doing it.

Whitney: Well, you should have shared some with me, and then I could see if I got an instant.

Amy: I should have.

Whitney: Dang it.

Amy: I thought about it, and then I forgot.

Whitney: You thought about it, and then you were like, "I'm not going to share this."

Amy: And then I immediately forgot. This is what I'm using. It is Amazing Grass Organic Wheatgrass Powder. It's available online or at Whole Foods. So you can see it. It's in a tub. This is supposed to be a really good one, because it's organic and it's harvested right, which I'll cover. So anyway, that's what I'm using. I mix it with creatine and a little bit of monk fruit.

Whitney: Ooh. And it's just a scoop?

Amy: And it's not the best thing in the world. I drink it really fast. I choke it down.

Whitney: Okay, so you don't try to hide it in a protein shake or anything? You just

Amy: Oh, I do sometimes. Sometimes. But if I don't have time to make that, I'm just going to throw this in a cup with the creatine.

Whitney: How much was that? Do you remember?

Amy: No, I don't.

Whitney: Probably like

Amy: Do you have any idea? 25 bucks? Yeah, something like that.

Whitney: 30? Yeah.

Amy: And it there's a lot in it. So yeah, it's It's

Whitney: Let me smell it.

Amy: It's better without the creatine, but I'm doing the creatine, too, and it tastes kind of like cigarette ash to me, but

Whitney: Ooh. Yeah. I mean, it tastes like It smells like Wheatgrass. Yeah. It smells green.

Amy: Green. Right. Very, very green. Because it is.

Whitney: It's very green.

Amy: So wheatgrass is a supplement, but it's also a medicinal plant. It is the young grass of the common wheat plant. The young, supple grass of the common wheat plant.

Whitney: Oh. Oh.

Amy: Before it becomes wheat,

Whitney: Before it becomes wheat, it's the little grass before it becomes wheat. So if you are gluten-free,

Amy: Oh, actually, I don't know.

Whitney: I wonder. Interesting. Anyway, I'm not.

Amy: I didn't see I didn't see anything about that.

Whitney: It might not have anything to do with it.

Amy: I mean, it's I got to look it up right now, though. Is wheatgrass gluten-free? Yes, pure wheatgrass is considered gluten-free

Whitney: Or it could be

Amy: and safe for celiac and gluten sensitivity.

Whitney: Okay. Okay.

Amy: While it comes from the wheat plant, it's found only in the seed kernel, not the leaves and stem harvested for harvested for grass. But it has to be harvested early to avoid contamination from seeds and risks of cross-contact.

Whitney: So I'm I'm realizing that this is one of the only things that you would eat as a baby.

Amy: This is what? Yeah.

Whitney: It's baby wheat.

Amy: It's baby wheat. Well, you know, they have baby spinach, but I'm always suspicious of baby spinach. I feel like it doesn't have the fully-formed nutrients that like full spinach has.

Whitney: Right. Right.

Amy: But I was told that's not true, but I still think

Whitney: You're going to That's your belief. All right.

Amy: That's mine. I am. So it's been around forever. Wheatgrass was valued in like ancient Egypt and India, like Ayurvedic stuff, which we've talked about, for rejuvenation. It was associated with sun, energy, and vitality in ancient Egypt. Natural healing in like traditional Indian practices, like they it we'll even talk about it, it was used as like wound healing. You could put it on burns and stuff. Trippy, right?

Whitney: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think it's sad that, I mean, we find this a lot. There there are all these natural ways that they were healing way before real medicine came in, and we just kind of threw all that out the window

Amy: Yeah. Yeah, let's all use Pfizer or whatever the hell.

Whitney: when you got a pill. Yeah.

Amy: Agreed. Weird, right? So it had a big come up in the '30s when this guy named Charles Schnabel, who was an agricultural chemist, used it to help his chickens. And he he was talking about He was he was working to figure out if it helped our diet. And so he gave it to a bunch of chickens, and they were sick. And they came back to life. They came back to health.

Whitney: He gave them to sick chickens?

Amy: Yeah.

Whitney: Oh. I thought you were going to tell a story of like he was like one of these snake oil guys was going around from town to town with like the magic, but then he actually found some real magic.

Amy: To nurse them back to health. He actually helped. Yeah. It actually helped his hens, and they produced eggs at a higher rate. They got healthier quickly. I mean, finally not rats for a second, okay? But yeah. So that made it kind of more in the contemporary lexicon, and then like 30 years later, this chick named Ann Wigmore, she was kind of like this early health guru type in the '60s and '70s, but very questionable, unfortunately. So

Whitney: Oh. Right. More of the snake oil type.

Amy: Yes. I mean, like this she was into like raw living foods saying you can heal cancer, and it gave people a lot of false hope that it was like a miracle cure. And she was having people just just live on wheatgrass. Don't do that. And so,

Whitney: Salesman. Oh, no. You can't do that.

Amy: so that's where like the questionable stuff comes from, but it it it got into the wellness circuits and lexicons and that.

Whitney: Yeah, I feel like back in the day, like when Whole Foods was just starting, or any of those co-op food places, you'd see the wheatgrass.

Amy: Yeah. And you'd see the little patches. So you can do that, which we'll talk about too. You can get the little patches of them that you can pull and grow yourself. But I guess if you're looking for gluten-free, you know, you got to be careful on that. So.

Whitney: Mhm. Grow yourself. Yeah.

Amy: Okay, so the medicinal claim back then was not as researched when she was saying like, "Oh, it's going to cure cancer," and all this kind of stuff. Like, it had been proven to do some some things, but we didn't know a lot about it.

Whitney: Cure cancer. Right. Well, all the chickens were cancer-free.

Amy: I mean, the chickens were thriving. Okay? Thriving their chicken butts off. So, So anyway, there's there wasn't a lot about serious like diseases and helping there, but it was part of this raw food movement. So while there were these pie-in-the-sky claims, actual science and research have been done on it, and believe it or not, there's some that's been done on women! Yay! Okay. So what is in wheatgrass? So, it has some B12. I want to just say that, too, because I eat vegetarian a lot, so I have to find ways to get B12. And I like when it's at in actual food, so that is helpful to me. This is pretty small print, but I'm looking on here. It doesn't even say it on here, but the main things that it says is it's chlorophyll, of course, because it's very green, right? But vitamins A, C, E, and K. It's a concentrated source of those vitamins. And then minerals, we've got iron, calcium, and magnesium.

Whitney: Yay! Yay! Oh, good. Sure. Oh, that's good.

Amy: I like that. A little bit of protein in there and some chlorophyll, right?

Whitney: Oh, so it's got a lot of good things. The only thing that I wish that it had was vitamin D, because then you feel like you get all of the vitamins that, especially as women, we're supposed to be getting.

Amy: I literally don't see anything about D on here.

Whitney: Yeah. Which is unfortunate, because it's a plant. You'd think that maybe it would pick up some sunshine.

Whitney: No D. Some of the sun. Maybe the chlorophyll. I don't know.

Amy: Maybe, yeah. I don't see anything like that. But it's used as a superfood, essentially to support detoxification, digestion, and the immune system, and we're going to talk about each of those. So it does also contain essential amino acids.

Whitney: Yeah, it would have said. Nice.

Amy: It's a good source of fiber. We love some fiber! Yes, we do! And the chlorophyll actually is an antioxidant, right? Anything that's green like that, like if you put the chlorophyll drops, have you ever done those in water? It's like oxygenates the water. I love chlorophyll drops.

Whitney: Yes, we do. Right. Really? I didn't even I've never heard of it.

Amy: They sell it They sell it as like a beauty water at there's a place here in Austin next to Casa de Luz, and all it is is like some chlorophyll drops in there that are antioxidants, which is I'm going to tell you too, it's anti-aging. And they I think they put like maybe some I don't know, cucumber or mint in there too. It's like you can make your own real easy. Yeah.

Whitney: Mhm. What we what we want. Yeah.

Amy: Okay. So it is, like I said, there has been some scientific proof here. I found a ScienceDirect article that I'll put in the show notes, and they called it a miracle microgreen.

Whitney: Mmm. Oh. Kind of like algae, I bet.

Amy: Oh, my god! It's just like spirulina to name the particular algae, which I'm still taking. But yes, you know, very, very green and like has all these nutrients in it. It is food.

Whitney: Oh, am I right? Yeah. Well, I love that. Yeah, and and people always think about vitamins, but minerals are just as important. And you don't I mean, it's it's all in there.

Amy: Well, yes, because we can use those minerals to actually produce things on our own,

Whitney: Mmm.

Amy: which you and I are always interested in. So I am going to read a little quote here from this ScienceDirect article. "Wheatgrass, a miracle microgreen, is a rich source of protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that boost its pharmacological potential against a variety of ailments, such as anemia, ulcerative colitis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver disorders. It's effective at boosting strength, reducing fatigue, maintaining the blood pressure and blood sugar levels."

Whitney: Ooh.

Amy: I know. I'm going to cover that, too. It has an anti-diabetic property.

Whitney: Yeah, that's incredible.

Amy: "It promotes healthy digestion, removes toxins, reduces weight, activates brain function," I like that,

Whitney: What? Yes, please.

Amy: "and delays aging. Therefore, incorporating wheatgrass as an integral part of the daily diet enhances the nutritional level and elevates the health status of the individual." So when I interviewed this guy, I'm spacing on his name. I'll link it in the show notes, but I interviewed this guy that's like the healthy ingredients, like healthy body guy. Tim something. And he was saying wheatgrass was like a non-negotiable every day. And he sent me some of his. I took it on the bus, actually. I was going to try to drink it, but

Whitney: Mhm. It's too hard.

Amy: I couldn't. He had too many ingredients.

Whitney: Yeah. Oh.

Amy: I'm sure his ingredients are clean, but I couldn't do it. I'm so sorry. I hope he's not listening. I mean, I I was like, couldn't. I had to throw it out. Yeah.

Whitney: Sorry, Tim. Too many.

Amy: So, this is just pure. Yeah.

Whitney: Well, I'm wondering, and this is This is something that I would put into my ChatGPT with the other supplements that I'm taking and see, because it seems like I would probably be overtaking some things. Like, you could just take this and then not take, you know.

Amy: You might. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like when it's food, though, like this, your body's going to filter it out pretty easily if you have too much. So I don't think you're in danger like when you have too much vitamin D or something like that.

Whitney: Maybe so. Yeah. Right.

Amy: I don't know, though. What do I know?

Whitney: We are not doctors.

Amy: We Oh, god, we haven't said that in so long.

Whitney: Or scientists. We're just

Amy: We're not. We're just enthusiasts of health.

Whitney: We're just like you. We're just like you, all right? We have the internet. That's right.

Amy: Okay, so all that is super interesting, right? So it's got soluble dietary fibers in the wheatgrass powder. So that that's the part that helps manage weight and obesity, and it's alkaline pH, which we like that, and it's effective in like helping offset acidity.

Whitney: Oh. Yeah.

Amy: So it can help the gastrointestinal stuff going on, if you've got that going on.

Whitney: Mhm. I like it.

Amy: I do, too. It's called later like a prebiotic, so or it it has prebiotic properties. They're not calling it for sure a prebiotic, like I couldn't quite discern that. But anyway, this is fascinating, too. It has been used in the past to apply to burn victims as a dressing. Trippy, right?

Whitney: That's crazy. Just rubbing the the grass on there or the Cuz that's

Amy: I guess they created a like a little pack out of it or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Whitney: A salve.

Amy: So, a salve. And so, breathing disorders like bronchitis and asthma and the common cold have all been successfully treated using wheatgrass juice as an herbal medicine.

Whitney: You are kidding me. My kid has asthma, so

Amy: Isn't that trippy?

Whitney: Yeah.

Amy: I guess it's the oxidizing antioxidant? I don't know. I can't even say it.

Whitney: Let's go with that. Yes.

Amy: So you're going to like this one. "Wheatgrass is an alternative therapy in the prevention and treatment of teeth and gum related diseases such as tooth decay."

Whitney: Yes! Yes! I don't ever want to go back to the dentist again.

Amy: It can be used as a mouthwash, but I feel like it would stain your teeth green, so I don't think you should.

Whitney: Ooh. Well, and also you said it tasted like ashes. I don't want my mouth to smell like ashes.

Amy: I think that might be the creatine. So anyway. No, wheatgrass juice just tastes green and weird. But the creatine kind of makes the combo taste like I don't know, the aftertaste just like

Whitney: Mmm. I put the creatine in my coffee, or actually I do MUD\WTR, but

Amy: I can't believe you're doing that. I need coffee, but yeah, yeah. So, it can also relieve it's also been shown to relieve ear pain and ear diseases.

Whitney: Huh? What?

Amy: I know, it's nuts, right?

Whitney: By pouring it in the ear, or just by drinking it?

Amy: I don't know.

Whitney: I don't know, because I have a kid who has a lot of ear issues. It's a different kid than the asthma kid.

Amy: Let me see if I can tell. See, I'm getting to use my computer now, so excited. So, I was trying to look that up, but it's like whirring and twirling. It ran into a system error, so we don't know. That's a mystery. I'm thinking you drink it, though.

Whitney: That's all right. That's Yeah, I would I would bet. Although they rub it on for the burns, so

Amy: All right. So, I know, it can be top It's been topical, which is trippy.

Whitney: Interesting.

Amy: All right, so it does have an anti-diabetic potential. Isn't that cool? Lowers blood glucose levels.

Whitney: Yeah. That's awesome. That's super That's one of the that's It's hitting all the buzzwords or the trends like, you know, the glucose and the the minerals and antioxidants and

Amy: It has It has actually been shown to lower animals' blood glucose levels. And so, I mean, I think that's pretty rad. So, to recap, good for your liver, right? Antioxidant, flushing things out.

Whitney: fiber. Yeah.

Amy: Yeah. It can scavenge free radicals, and antioxidants are anti-aging, right, because they're anti-inflammatory, reducing inflammation. It can protect heart function. It has anti-cancer potential, but don't don't like just go on a wheatgrass diet if you yeah.

Whitney: Right. Right. Right.

Amy: So, but because that's that's pretty unproven, but it's definitely helping. So, it helps your cholesterol. It's detoxifying, which I mentioned. Anti-arthritis, and I know that's with rheumatoid and inflammation, and clinical studies were done on women over the age of 50.

Whitney: Interesting. I I keep saying, "Oh, well, my kid has this, my kid has that." But my daughter's girlfriend has rheumatoid arthritis. She's had it since she was a baby.

Amy: Owie.

Whitney: I know. So maybe I need to throw some wheatgrass her way.

Amy: I mean, if if she's open to it. Kids don't like to listen.

Whitney: Well, she's under 50. I don't know.

Amy: Well, but I think it could help. I mean, it's definitely helped in studies with arthritis.

Whitney: Yeah. That's incredible.

Amy: It is incredible. I mean, I'm like into it. And I mean, I drank it today, and I'm feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. All I've had today is a banana and some pistachios, coffee, and then now I had wheatgrass with creatine, and I'm feeling great.

Whitney: All right, I'm going to have to get it. Oh, okay.

Amy: Yeah. There have been studies in rats,

Whitney: Of course.

Amy: and it has Our besties, our buddies, rats. And it has been proven to help skin conditions, like wound healing that we talked about. It can be antimicrobial, which is big in wound healing, too, right? It has prebiotic potential, because it contains enzymes that help your body break down food and absorb nutrients, which may aid in good digestion. And it can even help gout.

Whitney: Our besties. Right. Wow. It really does sound like a superpower drug.

Amy: I Honestly, I'm very here for it. We're always talking about things that are actual food, and I feel like this is a good option of that.

Whitney: And you did say like the very first time you you drank it, you were like, "I felt immediate effects."

Amy: Yeah. And this is the one I drank. This one. I went Cuz that guy said that's what you need to be doing, and I was like, "Well, I'll give it a try." And man, I need it, cuz I feel like I feel like I need that boost.

Whitney: Right, I'm going to have to get it. Yeah. Well, I'm I don't drink coffee much anymore. Just I didn't really ever It was more of a a ritual for me. It wasn't that I liked the taste or anything.

Amy: Yes. I do like the ritual.

Whitney: And then I was trying tea, which does stain your teeth, worse than coffee. And then I found this MUD\WTR, but I will say the MUD\WTR gets like after I drink it, there's still a lot at the bottom.

Amy: There's like goopy at the bottom. Yeah.

Whitney: Yeah, and so I'm not getting everything. But

Amy: Well, I'll try it sometime.

Whitney: But I but I make I like the idea of a shot. How much water are you putting in there?

Amy: Not much. As little as possible. I mean, like maybe It's less than a I mean, it's more than a shot. I'll do like one of my small cups or a coffee cup. I'll do like half, you know. Just enough to mix it up, and then I use a straw actually, and I just keep stirring it while I'm doing it so I get all the stuff at the bottom.

Whitney: It's literally a shot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Amy: Yeah. And I just do it fast.

Whitney: But I want I'm going to do this. I'm going to I'm going to take this on.

Amy: Do it!

Whitney: I'm going to. It's happening. I'm going to take some of yours after this program.

Amy: It's happening. And I'm feeling good. Yeah. Well, let's talk a little bit about how what you need to do to take it, what your options are. There's also, I don't know anything about this, I just saw it somewhere, but there's a fermented wheatgrass drink called Avemar.

Whitney: Okay. Oh, hilarious. So you can get drunk while you're giving all of these nutrients?

Amy: I guess. I don't know if it's fermented like you get drunk or if it's fermented like kombucha.

Whitney: Like Oh.

Amy: So anyway, whatever. There's something called Avemar, if we want to look into that. Anyway,

Whitney: I don't like kombucha.

Amy: You don't? I do. It's vinegary.

Whitney: Mmh. Yeah. I'm not a fan.

Amy: I'm kind of surprised with how much you like pickles.

Whitney: I know. Maybe I need to revisit it, but I haven't had it in years and years and years, but I didn't really. But I love kimchi, and I love pickles. I don't know.

Amy: There you go. Okay.

Whitney: Anyway.

Amy: So use caution if you're pregnant, just don't do it, actually, or talk to your doctor. I'm just going to say that. I don't know why it said that. Maybe it's something that it has to say. I don't know. Side effects, what are the potential side effects? Well,

Whitney: Oh, interesting. Feeling great?

Amy: I hate to say it, but nausea, headaches, constipation, bloating, diarrhea, allergic reactions like rashes or swelling. Oh, did I sound like

Whitney: Everything that it cures? Yeah, you needed to go a little faster.

Amy: Potential side effects of wheatgrass include nausea, headaches, constipation, bloating, diarrhea, and allergic reactions like rashes or swelling, often due to strong taste or intolerance.

Whitney: Good job.

Amy: Thanks. Unfortunately, I would have liked some more side effects. But I haven't experienced anything, so there's that.

Whitney: Do you have gut issues, typically? No.

Amy: Not really. No. Not really.

Whitney: It makes sense if there's fiber in there, like that can you know, help you or hurt you.

Amy: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so it says, if you want to minimize your side effects, start small, begin with a 1 to 2 oz shot, and slowly increase. I'm doing a whole scoop, which is about, it says 8 g, whatever that is. So that's what's in a whole scoop of this, and it's got, I don't know what all. Anyway. There, no sugar, whatever. Okay, you can use a juicer, a special juicer for for fresh wheatgrass shoots and make a very concentrated juice, which is a 1 to 2 oz shot.

Whitney: How much are you doing? Huh. Oh, right. And that's where you go, like you can get that at like JuiceLand and stuff. I bet that's exactly

Amy: Yeah, they have the wheatgrass out. But you can do it, too. They sell that wheatgrass. You can pull it off and buy your juicer, whatever.

Whitney: Yeah, yeah. I already went down the celery path with that. I really don't

Amy: I went down the celery path, cuz you went down the celery path, and I hated I hated the celery I hate celery juice.

Whitney: I know. I liked it. It tasted, I don't know, fresh to me.

Amy: I shouldn't

Whitney: And put a little cayenne pepper in there.

Amy: I hate celery. I should have known.

Whitney: Oh, yeah. What were you thinking?

Amy: I don't know. I thought I could deal with the juice, but I could not. So then there's powder, which is what I'm using. You need to find the organic, cold-processed the powder that uses low-heat digestion dehydration, sorry. Why the hell I said digestion? Low-heat dehydration, and that is this one. See this? Oh, this one says gluten-free, non-GMO, no sugar added, and it's one scoop says 10+ shots of tray-grown. So.

Whitney: Yeah. Okay. Oh. One scoop is 10 shots?

Amy: 10 shots of tray-grown. Yeah.

Whitney: Oh, right on. Wow.

Amy: Natural energy, convenient powder, plant-based. Best kept, oh, frozen, refrigerated, or in a cool, dry place. Oops.

Whitney: But that's okay. It said or in a cool, dry place. So

Amy: It's in the pantry. It's fine. It's fine. It's been cold outside. Okay, well, I'll put it in the fridge. So then you can use that powder in a smoothie.

Whitney: Whoops. Yeah.

Amy: You can use it in a drink. You can put sprinkle into dressings, soups, or dips like hummus. Oh, my god, I'm going to make a hummus!

Whitney: You could put it in a hummus. Yeah.

Amy: I'm going to make a green hummus. I love making hummus. Okay, there's also capsules. You can you can pop it back with some capsules. Boom. Flavored versions available.

Whitney: Interesting. They've made it as easy as possible.

Amy: There's chewy. You can chew small pieces of fresh wheatgrass to extract the juice and then spit it out. It's like chewing tobacco.

Whitney: It's like chewing tobacco. Tabakki.

Amy: A cow. No, don't do that. Gross. Many people like it on an empty stomach in the morning, but since I'm mixing it with creatine, I have to have something in my stomach. Or I get stomach cramps with creatine. We know that, right?

Whitney: Right. Interesting. I didn't I don't get stomach cramps, and I don't

Amy: Really?

Whitney: I take it on an empty stomach.

Amy: I took it on an empty stomach once, and I will never do it again. I had cramps. Begin with small amounts. We said that. You can add lemon, honey, pineapple, fruits, whatever. I actually add a tiny bit of monk fruit to sweeten mine, and that's it. And ta-da!

Whitney: Oh. Tada!

Amy: Ta freaking da.

Whitney: We both said, "Tada!" That's funny. I love it. I'm I'm sold.

Amy: Yeah, me, too.

Whitney: I'm going to do it. Yeah, and I wonder if it's similar to algae. Like, I feel like it's exactly what you're doing with the algae.

Amy: Okay. With the spirulina?

Whitney: Yeah.

Amy: Yeah. I saw a lot of comparisons to spirulina in particular rather than the other one. What What was that one?

Whitney: I can't remember.

Amy: But Chlorella. Actually, no, it was compared with spirulina's the blue one. So, chlorella's the more green one. I would think it would be compared to chlorella, but I saw spirulina, so, huh.

Whitney: But yeah, I would Yes, chlorella. I don't know.

Amy: Yeah, well,

Whitney: So you're doing all of that. You're doing the wheatgrass and the algae.

Amy: Yes, but I fell off my algae regimen on the bus.

Whitney: That's okay.

Amy: Fuck.

Whitney: That's okay. Did you have it with you?

Amy: Oh, my god. I packaged it all up in teeny, little baggies that I can just paper baggies that I can just rip open and pop in my mouth. I labeled them all. I write what's in there. I staple them shut.

Whitney: You brought everything. Oh, yeah. You really fell off the wagon.

Amy: I did.

Whitney: I thought maybe you just were like, "Forgot to bring it."

Amy: No, I ate like crap. I ate like One day, I just had fettuccine alfredo.

Whitney: That's okay, though. That's okay. Look, that's one thing that we want to tell everyone that's listening. It's okay to fall off the wagon. Like, you don't you have to give yourself a break.

Amy: Hold on. I sense a pep talk coming on.

Whitney: I would love that.

Amy: Okay. Okay. All right, I need a pep talk. And anybody does if you've fallen off the wagon.

Whitney: All right. Yes. Well, here's the deal. It's okay to fall off the wagon, because sometimes it's exhausting to be so regimented. You have to let loose sometimes. You're allowed to let loose. You deserve to let loose. And you're not Don't shame yourself. Don't shame yourself.

Amy: Yeah. Mhm. And it's not forever.

Whitney: No, it's not forever. It's okay. You didn't kill anyone. You didn't steal anything. You just took a break from this very

Amy: No.

Whitney: powerful regiment that you're on. Like, that's exhausting.

Amy: Yeah. It is exhausting.

Whitney: So stop shaming yourself, Amy. You had chips. Who the fuck cares?

Amy: I love I love chips.

Whitney: Yeah. You're allowed to eat them. It's okay. And guess what? The algae is still waiting for you when you get home.

Amy: They're so good. It is.

Whitney: So That's right. So it's worse to go off the wagon and shame yourself. Like, if you're going to go and, you know, I hate to say fall off the wagon, because that also could mean like drinking, drinking. If you're in recovery, we're not talking about that.

Amy: That's right. Yes. Yes, totally true. It's used in different But you're right. Like, it is worse to shame yourself.

Whitney: Yeah, that's doing more damage than any of those chips

Amy: Yeah. It is.

Whitney: that you ate. You embrace it. You say, "You know what? It's okay. I ate the chips. I didn't take my algae. I did the fast food stuff, didn't work out for a week. That's okay. Love yourself. Let go."

Amy: Yeah. It's okay. All right. I have my pom-poms out. Yes, thank you.

Whitney: Woo-hoo! Yeah.

Amy: Thank you. We haven't had one of those.

Whitney: No, we need to do more of those.

Amy: Since maybe our first episode. So, yes.

Whitney: That's true. There you go.

Amy: I felt it coming on. Felt good. Felt really good. All right. Well, that's that's wheatgrass, and we are both on board. I think the final verdict of wheatgrass is yes.

Whitney: Yeah, you're right. That's right. 100%.

Amy: And you know what, yeah, like you said, like we fall off, but just do what you can sometimes, and I think that's why I chose it as my mid moment, too, is like, you know what, it's normal. Like, we're not perfect beings.

Whitney: No, and I think sometimes if you feel like, I know I do this, it's like, "Oh, I don't know if I'm going to be dedicated enough, so I'm just not even going to start." Well, that's silly. Just start, and if you fall off the wagon, that's okay.

Amy: Right. Just do a little.

Whitney: Yeah, just do a little. A little goes a long way.

Amy: It does matter. Does. Baby steps. And if you just take one baby step every few days, you're still going to make progress.

Whitney: That's right. You're still moving forward.

Amy: You can get across the room.

Whitney: Absolutely. All right.

Amy: Oh, my god. We are so alike.

Whitney: All right. Well, we hope you have a anything but mid week this week, and

Amy: Yes. Yes. And email us if there's a topic that you want us to cover or something that we've mentioned that we said we were going to cover, and then we forgot, and you're like, "Where is it?" Please remind us.

Whitney: That's right. Let us know. And it's anythingbutmidpodcast@gmail. And then follow us on YouTube.

Amy: Yeah. Follow us on Spotify.

Whitney: Yeah. Then you can watch this. Watch this magic happening.

Amy: Then you can watch it. You can see Purple The purple The pickle purse.

Whitney: The pickle purse. You're going to see the purple top later. You're going to see the phone purse.

Amy: Yes. Yes. So, yeah, and we're improving all the time. We've even got a new camera, so we're just thrilled about that. So it's just getting better all the time, just like you.

Whitney: That's right. Oh, I love that. Yes, mic drop.

Amy: That was an unintentional segue.

Whitney: Mic drop. You mic dropped.

Amy: And ultimately, you know what to do, right?

Whitney: Yeah, and we do what we want.

Amy: Whatever the fuck you want. That's right.

Whitney: That's right. Mwah!

Amy: Mwah!