My Ultimate Anti-Aging Smoothie

All right, you've been asking about my anti aging smoothie recipe, so I'm finally going to show it to you. But I'll warn you, this smoothie is not for the faint of heart, nor the, shall I say, light of pocketbook. I've got a host of superfoods that I've researched that do things like enhance telomere length repair, DNA upregulate Sirtuins, NAD, etc. And this smoothie, albeit somewhat expensive, is about the most tasty, low carbohydrate ice creamish dessert you'll ever have for breakfast. And it's good for you. So first thing you want your ice. Ice is your base. Keeps things nice and cool. So you can see I'm gonna make enough smoothies for two people today. For two people. So if you're making this for one, take everything I'm showing you and just cut it in half. So here we go.

Ice is your base. Alright, you want a lot of ice Cause we're mix this up and have it be like ice cream. Next. And yes, I did wash my hands prior to making this smoothie. You want half an avocado for one smoothie and this just lends a great deal of creaminess. Sometimes instead of an avocado or if avocados do not agree with you, a good substitute is coconut milk or coconut creamer. But an avocado is pretty good too. Okay, so we got our avocado in there. The next thing that we're gonna add is let me get my paper towel out here so I'm not messy. So we're gonna add collagen to this. This is the ancient nutrition collagen. Show that Ben, show that collagen powder looks like that. So the multi collagen powder, you could use a protein powder if you wanted to. Just using collagen today. This is not necessarily a high protein smoothie. It's got a lot of amino acids in it and we got two heaping scoops of collagen in there. Alright, the next one is a really nice dark cacao blend. So we get our sirtuins. I've got two things I put in here that are probably the most potent for sirtuins of DNA repair. So one heaping teaspoon of cacao for one. Another heaping teaspoon of cacao because we're making two. Okay. The other one that's really, really nice as a sirtuin is blueberry powder. You're getting your resveratrol, you're getting your fise eaten and this is again, not quite as heaping a teaspoon as you would use for the cacao, but a pretty decent sized teaspoon of blueberry powder. Blueberry powder. Okay, next. And this is good. This is not necessary from a nutritive standpoint, but it does help you absorb some of the lipids a little bit better and it lends a nice texture to the smoothie. This is sunflower lecithin, not to be confused with oxidized sunflower oil. It's just fine, but it really helps a little bit with the mixing. And this is just a teaspoon of this stuff. And of course, I'm using two because I'm making two smoothies. So sunflower lecithin. The next one to stabilize blood glucose is Ceylon cinnamon. So this will enhance your insulin sensitivity all day long. And what's been shown is two teaspoons of saline. Cinnamon can do this. So I'm essentially putting a heaping teaspoon, which really, with the size of these teaspoons, comes out to about two teaspoons. Okay, so we got our Ceylon cinnamon in here. The next one is optional, but I like it. The company Chimera makes a nice little cacao booster. And. And even though I've already got cacao and cinnamon in here, they add a little bit of glutamine in there. It's got like. I like it because it gives a nice little spice. This one I don't do too much of, but just one shake and then another shake because I'm making two. Okay, so that one's optional, but I like the flavor that it gives to the smoothie. Okay. Then we get some electrolytes in there. And even though when I finish, I sprinkle it with a coarse salt to give it some texture. I also am putting some Celtic salt in here. Just the edge of a teaspoon. Okay, one. And then the edge of a teaspoon. Again, two. Okay.

Next is D Ribose. Wonderful flavor, great for energy, great for ATP. But it's basically like a negative glycemic index sugar, meaning that it does everything a sugar does without raising your blood glucose. This stuff's magical and it gives you this nice little boost of energy. So 1 and 2. Now, speaking of energy and ATP, there is one thing that I forgot to get out that I'm going to get out now. If you want to follow me over to the fridge here, and that is creatine. I put about 5 grams of creatine into the smoothie because, again, it's great for staving off muscle loss. Great for your workout later on the day if you're doing that. It's a wonderful neural. Pick me up. That's five grams. We're doing 10 grams. A few of you nutrition scientists might be wanting to jump out and say, oh, you're not going to absorb all 5 grams at a time. Research goes back and forth on that. But I like to go with 5 grams and just get it all done with in case I'm not going to do two, two and a half gram portions during the day. Okay. Now, a lot of people add oodles and oodles of greens to their smoothie. And you can, if you want to not consume a lot of oxalates, steam your greens, get rid of the water and put the greens in. However, I find if I put a bunch of greens in my morning smoothie, inevitably about two or three o' clock in the afternoon, no matter where I'm at, I just take a giant dump. And so because of that, the way I hack this is I get these low oxalate greens from Dr. Thomas Cowan's Vegetable powders. This is a blend of a bunch of really good greens, which is 1 teaspoon of this is basically like eating a salad. Okay. So you could use any greens powder, really, But I'm just using this stuff because, honestly, I like it. And it's low oxalate, which means that we're really not getting any of the high amounts of oxalates you find in things like spinach, almonds, et cetera.

And those greens have a lot of different greens in it. So it's very diverse. So you're covering a lot of bases, right?

Yeah. That's the voice of my fabulous narrator and the man who's going to be eating this wonderful smoothie. Okay, next we get to the beta glucans, the mushrooms, the four Sigmatic ten mushroom blend. Little edge of the teaspoon of this one. Little edge of the teaspoon two. Now, the next two things I'm putting in here, even though what I just did is giving us a lot of good beta glucans from the mushrooms, I like to step it up a notch. So I'm going to add one for lung function and one for brain function. The one I'm going to add for lung function is cordyceps mushroom extract. Okay. And again, these are optional, but I like to add these. Okay, so cordyceps.

And then the other one is lion's mane. So we've got a lot of really great mushroom extracts in there. Okay. And I don't know if you've counted up the carbohydrates so far if you're watching, but so far we've pretty much got none in there.

Pretty low.

Okay, so we are almost ready to blend. Oh, I forgot one thing. I forgot one thing. Of course I did. Liver. Okay, liver. So we're getting lots of nice choline precursors, folate, et cetera. And again, this one's optional if you're eating organ meats later on the day. But I mean, the liver, you can almost feel this stuff surging through your bloodstream when you drop some good desiccated liver. That's about a teaspoon of liver powder that I put in there. Okay, now we're going to mix it up. I personally kind of like to use bone broth when I'm mixing my smoothie today. I'm using maple water for two reasons. A, I don't have bone broth this morning and B, I'm making this smoothie in India. I've already been perspiring all morning long. During an hour long workout, you lose electrolytes pretty readily. Maple water does have a little bit of sugar in it, but it's pretty low. But it's jam packed with electrolytes, very similar to coconut water. So you could use coconut water or maple water on your base in the summer. On a hot day in the winter, use something like bone broth. Now this one is kind of like an eyeball. I put in less than I think I'm going to need for the maple water because what I'm going to do is blend this. And if you follow me over to the blender here, when I blend this.

You'Re going to notice that it takes about a good two minutes to blend and the blender makes a ton of noise and you got to stir the whole time. But that's the key to getting it to that ice cream consistency. If you push blend and automatically it mixes like a liquid, it's going to be a drinkable smoothie, which means you're going to get through it faster, it's going to be less satiated. You can't eat it with a spoon, like a nice, you know, a side bowl type of thing. So we're going to put this on and at this point what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn this on, I'm going to start to stir so you guys can just see what it sounds like. And then I'm going to basically turn the video off and I'll show you Kind of the second part, how we add the toppings and how it's served so you guys don't have to watch during two minutes of blending. So basically, it's going to sound like this when I flip it on.

Whoops. There we go. Gonna sound like this when I flip it on. If I know how to use outlets.

I think.

The blender is struggling. That's what you want. We'll be back in two minutes. All right, the blending is done. And you can see the texture here. It's nice and thick. That's exactly how we want it. Very thick. Even when I go like this, you know, it doesn't fall off the stir. That's. That's what you want. Now what I'm going to do here is first, of course, as you saw, this is a very expensive smoothie. These are the type of things, you know, that you hear about, like the billion dollar bowl at that place in LA that I go to, you know, some, like, organics, you know, you. You're getting that type of thing that you pay 30, 40 bucks for at coffee shop. This smoothie probably all in. If you add up, everything is like a seven to eight dollar smoothie, which is not that bad. But of course, you want to make sure you harvest every last bit of goodness, which is why I clean off that stick.

Well. Also, you're definitely not going to be eating out after you have this smoothie.

Oh, no. This is your appetite satiate product. Now, there's one thing I forgot to put in it that I'm going to show you. Now. Normally I would put this in for the blending, but. But I'm just gonna stir it in now. And that's stevia. That's stevia for the sweetness. Now, this is a microorganic stevia powder. I usually will use like the butterscotch toffee or the vanilla liquid, because I like the flavor of that better. But this is good. So I do about one shake like that for one. Another shake like that for two smoothies. Okay? Now the other thing that you're gonna do because this smoothie is not actually done, because after I stir this in, then we get to the fun part where we make it look good and we add some of my favorite superfood toppings to it. Okay? So what we're going to do is we're going to spoon this into a bowl again, because even though I'm saying smoothie, really this is more like an acai bowl by the time we finish making it. Okay. And what we're going to do is once I get all the smoothie into the bowl and we get every last bit of goodness out, is I'm going to add some things that give it a little bit of crunch and texture. Things that you wouldn't want to blend into the smoothie because they would of course get pulverized. But they're going to lend a lot of flavor and kind of give it like that nice satiating crunch. So you enjoy the smoothie even more. You could, you know, you could punish it like this. But I personally like to add all the, all the superfoods in. You'll notice I'm using a spatula and I have a large number of spatulas that I go through at home because I do a lot of these smoothies at home. And whenever I'm getting the smoothie out of the, out of the blender, because again, I like to harvest every last bit of goodness out of there, what happens is the spatula will get a little bit kind of torn up. But that's okay. Spatulas are not expensive.

Just a quick question for those people that wanted to use greens, if they didn't have the low oxalate greens, this wouldn't really change the flavor that much.

It's just. You may change the flavor much. No, you just, you definitely have a bowel movement in the afternoon. I guarantee you that. For me, a lot of times I'm in meetings and stuff in the afternoon. It's just, it's inconvenient to have to go find a bathroom and be in there.

Paint in the backseat of the toilet. Okay, so now we have our superfoods. We've got some spirulina chlorella tablets here. These are from energy bits. We just kind of eyeball these, but basically I'm just kind of covering the top. You know, for these, it's maybe 20 to 30 tablets or so. They kind of go over the top.

Which works out to about one serving.

And then cacao nest drop. Amazing. Cows. One of my favorite, favorite things to top a smoothie with. And also really, really good source of fiber if you're missing out on those greens. You know, you can get some fiber without the full on, you know, dump inducing effect. So we add some cacao nibs to that. Like I mentioned, we do a salt, but I'm switching to a different salt for the top because this salt is thicker, has a little more texture, a little more crunch to it. So we're going to do just a sprinkling of salt across the top there. Again, the Toppings, we just kind of eyeball a little bit. Okay. And then.

If you're super low carb, super keto, you can leave this off. But I'm just putting a small sprinkling of blueberries, dried blueberries, for even more sirtuins, maybe 12 dried blueberries. And again, like, if you're like therapeutic keto, like, you don't do the blueberries, we're talking like less than 5 grams of carbohydrates with the blueberries. So it's really not that big of a deal. And then again, optional if you want to totally forego carbs, but I like to drizzle at the very end some Manuka honey, or like a local, raw, organic honey over the top, because it just makes those bites that you take. Like, every bite just becomes absolutely amazing. We add just a little bit of this honey and again, honey. It can be almost like a negative glycemic index food and Manuka's just got so many probiotics and antivirals, antibacterials, antifungals. It's very nutrient rich, it's very mineral rich. And so again, like, don't worry too much about the little bit of Manuka honey and a little bit of blueberries. Like, it's just the pros outweigh the cons. Okay, so then you put a spoon in it and this, my friends, is what the ultimate anti aging smoothie looks like. Mangia, Mangia. You're going to be nine years old. Have to eat this thing.

And if you saw Ben's Instagram a few days ago, you can see my react, saw my reaction to this. This. It tastes so good, you almost don't.

Believe it's good for you.

Enjoy.