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alright now we are going to show you guyshow to filet an aloe vera properly. now i have seen many people do it and before todayi wouldn’t do it the best way possible. i am glad to share with you guys the bestway to filet the aloe so you guys don’t get any of the green or the yellow sap, thealoenin, that smells like b.o. and is a laxative so if you eat too much of that stuff it canupset your stomach and it will not be good for you. what you do want to eat is the cleargel on the inside. furthermore what we are going to do to ensure we get all that aloeninoff is we are actually going to soak the aloe in water after we cut it. we have 2 different1 gallon pitchers of water to ensure that

we don’t get any of that stuff on it. thetools you will simply need are #1 a knife and #2 this is like a cake spreader thing,so there is no sharp blade on here and this is literally just going to separate the greenfrom the gel on the inside. first step is you are going to take your knife here andjust cut off the ends. so as you can see as soon as we cut off one end it is instantlygoing to start bleeding that yellow stuff. the next we’re going to do is just cut offthat second end. next we are going to cut off the spines on the edges. also when wedo this do you see how it is flat on this side and this side is curved up? we’re goingto want to cut off these spines, but at the same time we are going to want to take theblade kind of diagonally to cut off some of

the green as well. so we are going to justcarefully, cutting away from myself, cut off all the spines at a diagonal. there we gothat how it looks once we do that. now we’re going to do the other side. alright and asyou guys can see it is literally dripping this yellow ooze this is stuff you do notwant to consume. this is going to be bleeding for a while so what we are going to do isjust dunk it in our water and try to get it fully submerged, i am going to cut it offhere so that it can be fully submerged and dunk it in the water. what this is going todo is get some of that yellow aloenin off and actually get it pulled out of the aloevera so that when we eat our filet we are not getting any of that stuff. many aloe verajuice products and other products that are

made and sold in health food stores are notprepared in this way and may have high aloenin content which means you will not be able todrink as much of it. in addition because a lot of them are heat processed a lot of thenutrients may be diminished. so i always encourage you guys to process all your foods out ofyour garden at your home and eat the freshest foods possible. there is literally no processingin here, we are just cutting it off, soaking it in water probably for about 5 minutes.while this one is soaking i am probably going to cut up a few more so i can have a superbomb drink we are going to make in the vitamix blender in just a few minutes. alright soi cut a few more aloe, they have been sitting in there for just a little bit. next i amgoing to go ahead and show you guys how to

filet it. we are going to go ahead and doa close up on the cutting board so you guys can see the specific way to do it. let’sgo ahead and take out the one that has been soaking the longest here, we’ll let someof the water drip off. and if you look as it here you should see very little of theyellow aloenin on there. i am still seeing a little bit here so what i might want todo is cut a little more off, or dunk it a little more. alright so it has been about5 minutes so we are going to take this one out here we are going to let some of the waterdrain off. the yellow stuff has been oozing out because aloe kind of bleeds yellow, likeyou bleed red. we got this guy out now so let’s do the close up shot. we’ll showyou how to use this cake spatula thing to

filet the aloe. so we are going to take ourlittle cake spatula thing and we’re going to take the aloe here and you can see it iscurved up so we are going to push it all the way flat against the cutting board here. we’regoing to take this and carefully slide it right in between the green part and the cleargel. you don’t even really have to use a cutting motion i am basically just pullingthis along. once again this doesn’t have a blade on it this is just really super easyto pull along here. keep this parallel with the cutting board pull it along and it comesright out. as you can see here we did leave a little bit on here i could have cut it alittle closer . if i did this again i would probably go back in there and try to pullthings along and get to at the exact bottom

so i could have the most gel. this is themost healing part of the aloe here. so now we flip this piece over and we are going todo the exact same thing, we’re going to take the cake spatula spreader thing to thebottom of the aloe once again we’re going to get it right in there and just pull itright along. try to keep this parallel to the cutting board so we’re getting the maximumamount of the aloe gel out without getting any of the green stuff. no green stuff allowed!alright so here we go this stuff is really super slimy, check it out. we’ve got a niceclear aloe bit. looks like i left a little bit on there i was a bad boy, we’re goingto take the knife here and cut that little bit off here. we don’t want any of thatstuff. now once we’ve got this cut and it

has all this clear goo, we’re going to takethis other pitcher and just dunk this right in here to get off any of the residual yellowcoloring, the aloenin, which is the irritant which is not good for us. so once again wedo not want to eat that stuff. once we rinse this stuff off, go ahead and pull it out,it is all ready to eat. check it out this stuff is so gooey, it’s going to go rightin the vitamix and we’re going to blend that bad boy up! now we’re going to go aheadand pull that second piece out . i want you guys to take a look, i mean you guys saw whatthis water looked like before i dropped these in there it mean it was totally clear. afterwardsit is totally a yellow color. you know this is the stuff you do not want to be eating,that is why we are soaking it. never before

have we learned this method of soaking andactually double soaking. this is for the especial germophobes like i am to make sure there isno contamination of that yellow stuff. so you get the highest levels of the best nutrientswithout the anti-nutrients. so we are going to go ahead and use the same technique onthis guy once again we are putting cake spatula right down thru just ripping this right acrossgoes really simple and really easy this is not really any cutting this is really nicesoft and gelatinous comes right thru, real simple, and real easy. go ahead and flip thisbad boy over were going to go ahead and do the back side by cutting thru the backsidereal simple, real easy. i am definitely getting better at it. alright here you go one nicealoe. this is some ooey gooey stuff. don’t

watch this if you are high it will trip youout. alright so we are going to go ahead and dunk that guy in there. i’ve got one moreto do and then we are going to dump this stuff in the blender and i am going to have somedelicious aloe vera, sugarcane juice. i have never had this before and i definitely can’twait. alright we’re going to go ahead and pull this last piece that was soaking outand take it and transfer it over right in the blender. so we have a whole bunch of piecesnow of the aloe vera miller stockton variety that we are going to blend up. now you couldblend this up plain and it would actually taste very neutral now that you took all thebitter components out. you can see we got a lot of it out in the first dunk, not somuch in the second, i’m sure we got a little

bit more out just to make sure that we gotit super clean and smooth. if you have ever bought aloe vera juice in the store it hasa really watery taste because they literally process it really hardcore with things likediatomaceous earth and charcoal which in my opinion may be pulling out a lot of the beneficialnutrients plus it is heated to a high temperature. this way we are taking out all the bittercomponents and leaving all the delicious good stuff. the downside is that is going to bea little bit thick. we are going to want to reduce that down so what we are going to dotoday is add one of my favorites, we’re going to add some sugar cane juice. what theydo is they take sugar cane and run it through a juicer and you get sugar cane juice. i drankmost of this bottle, hopefully i have enough

to blend up with my aloe to make a delicious,rich sugar cane aloe vera drink. i just can’t wait. if you have never had sugar cane juiceyou have to come to south florida or any other tropical area to try it. it is actually quitegood. it is better than drinking a soda because you get that sweetness but it is mellowedout by the stalk, the green or red of the sugar cane because it is juiced with the stalkand all. it has a nice kind of sugary but kind of mild taste but not sugary like a soda.if you want to take it up a notch you can take the sugar cane juice and some sparklingmineral water and a squeeze of lime. that is delicious. anyways this guy is ready toblend up and i am actually quite thirsty after my hard day’s work. start the blender onlow, one thing i recommend is not to over

blend it. you want to blend just enough toget to the consistency desired. the longer you blend the less nutrition you are goingto have because with every revolution it is causing further oxidation to your juice. alrighthopefully that is blended up enough to mix all that stuff up. let’s go ahead and pullthese guys off the blender here and see what we’ve got. this looks really nice and thick,check out this consistency. wow it is fairly thick. i have juiced aloe vera before andit is quick thick. let’s see how it came out with just the filet only no bitterness.wow to me that tastes just like watered down sugar cane juice, no bitter, no astringent,no weird flavor. it’s a bit frothy and just a little bit thick because it is gelatinous.but some of the properties in the gelatinous

substance are the best for us. so i have toclean up this mess here and then i want to share with you guys the expert on aloe vera,that is why he is growing all these aloe vera plants here. he’s researched it and he haslearned that it is one of the most healing plants in the world. in addition he has acompany that offers raw, unpasteurized, pulp just like i have done today sent to you directly.more importantly since i don’t want you guys buying things in packages, bottles, andjars and stuff i want you growing this at home. so i have arranged with him to havea special deal with you guys to buy some of the pups so that you guys can start growingsome of this special variety of aloe vera, the miller stockton in your own yard. nowif you don’t have a yard, don’t worry

you can still order delicious aloe vera juicefrom him directly so you can derive all its benefits. so next we’re going to go aheadand talk to dr. mike, the expert on aloe vera. john: so now we are here with dr. michaelhaley and this guy let me tell you he knows a lot about aloe. hope you guys enjoyed checkingout his place and the demonstration i did with the aloe. a lot of people are not awareof the healing benefits of aloe and why you should include it, i think, on a regular basis.so dr. mike who should someone regularly include aloe in their life?dr. haley: that is a great question john. the first thing i want to mention about thatis a lot of people know that aloe is good on their skin. they know that if you put iton your skin it will heal things faster. there

has been research done that shows that whenyou put it on your skin things heal about 2x faster. well i like to think of the skinand the gut as one organ. so if you think about it they actually make patched of medicinethat you put on your skin (transdermal). so the skin will actually absorb things whetherit is essential oils, drugs, medications, or whatever you are putting it goes into theskin. things also come out of your skin. it is the same thing with your gut. you put foodin your body and it goes in your gut, technically it is not in your body yet it has to passthrough that wall to get into your blood stream. it works just like the skin things kind ofgo back and forth through the gut wall. so i like to think of these as one organ. sowe know that aloe heals the skin and it seems

to do the same thing to the gut. i don’thave the research done yet, but we know it is working because that is why people aredrinking it. people have things like acid reflux, irritable bowel disease, now you don’tneed these things to benefit from aloe, but if it helping people with these conditionshow healthy can it be for your gut. we know it works on the skin and it seems to workwonders on the gut and that is probably the number one reason why people are drinkingaloe vera. john: wow so it works for the skin and itworks for the gut i guess. dr. haley: yea and that is just the beginningof things. people talk about aloe vera for so many other things other than just gut conditionswhether it be crohn’s disease, irritable

bowel disease, or acid reflux. they are alsousing it because it seems to lower and stabilize blood sugar levels for people with elevatedblood sugar levels. happens to be one of those super foods that is beneficial for that. andthen there is another real neat thing about it is the immune system. everyone wants abetter functioning immune system. we eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and a lot ofthings that are beneficial to our bodies so that our immune system can be at optimum levels.aloe actually has one particular nutrient in it called acemannan and if you look upacemannan you will actually see that it will raise your body’s tumor necrosis factor.that is actually one of the benefits to your immune system. tumor necrosis factor, whatis that? bid fancy word, tumor sounds a little

like cancer and necrosis is a fancy word thatmeans death to, so tumor necrosis or death to cancer factor, that factor in your bodythat kills cancer cells. john: naturally, because the aloe doesn’tdo it, it just makes your body more efficient? dr. haley: it just has a nutrient in it thatcauses your body to raise those tumor necrosis factor levels. everybody has cancer cellsin their body or mutated cells. so it is the part of the immune system that is constantlyworking to get rid of those bad cells in our body and viruses of courses. the immune stimulantproperties are another reason why people drink aloe vera gel.john: wow. i mean that is amazing. i mean it sounds like aloe vera can help with somany things. after all aloe vera is a green

leafy vegetable and my channel is called growingyour greens because i want you guys to be eating your greens every day! but don’teat the greens of aloe as we learned a little bit earlier, eat the inside gel. i am goingto be including it in my diet, as fast as i can grow it i am going to be eating it!so mike how did you find out about aloe and why are you so interested in it these days?dr. haley: you know i am a chiropractor and i’m not a sailor, that is important becausemy wife asked me to go sailing with her one day and we got on this sailboat and it wasfor a race. i am really kind of sailboat not smart. so the captain said go ahead and pullup the sails, so i start pulling up these ropes and i get the sail all the way to thetop and i say, “now what?” and he says,

“now what?! lock it down!” by then itwas too late, the sail had filled up and the rope started ripping through my hands. i’mtrying to hold onto it and figure out how this lock works and within the matter of abouta second both of my hands were melted shut. it was pretty bad and as a chiropractor myhands are my living. i kind of didn’t know what to do. one of my patients was this guy,rodney stockton, he had always been telling me about his aloe vera gel and when he heardwhat happened to my hands he said, “you have to use this lotion on your hands.”and i’m thinking, “really? on bloody, blistered, melted skin?” so i put it onthere and 3 days later i remember showing my wife and said, “look at my hands, theylook better than they did before the burns.”

and it was amazing to me, i was looking atmy hands thinking they look better. so if it can do this to your skin, what can it doto your gut? and that is how i found out about aloe and we started drinking it then. notbecause we had any sickness and we needed to feel better, but we just realized if itdoes this much good on my skin then what can it do inside my body. and we already knewpeople from rodney that had been drinking it for serious health issues and gotten betterand it just made sense. john: wow i mean that’s why i eat a dietwith leafy green vegetables, that is rich in fruits and vegetables and now i am goingto start including aloe in my regular diet because who knows what it does but if it makesme healthier i’m all for it. so mike aloe

vera sounds like things “cure all” thinglike it will cure all you ails is that true? dr. haley: john it is funny that you ask that.i will use it to get people’s attention that have serious health problems because,believe it or not, what you put in your body, what you eat, can make a significant differencein the way your body works. but just because it might make you feel better doesn’t makeit a “cure all.” we want you to make positive, healthy dietary changes for the rest of yourlife. you know it is not a magic bullet, it’s not a cure for cancer, it’s not a cure ofdiabetes, though it might help with those things but ultimately if you are someone whohas one of those conditions you need to make some serious lifestyle changes. so we tellpeople how to lead a healthy life by telling

people not only what they should eat, butalso what they should avoid which can sometimes can be more important sometimes. is it a “cureall?” it is pretty darn good. got to change some lives!john: once again you guys are doing one of the healthiest things, you guys could be doingif you are already growing a garden and eating the food out of it. so speaking about growingfood, dr. mike actually sells those pups, so if you want some of the pups to grow, someof the special miller stockton variety. the variety that i drank in that smoothie earlierthat was so delicious! i can’t wait to make it again. he is going to offer them to youguys at a very special price of 3 for the price of 1 which is a super amazing deal soyou guys can start growing this stuff and

start eating this stuff as soon as possible.so one of the questions that has come up is, “john, i have these pups now what do i dowith them?” so dr. mike what does somebody do with the pups once they get them in themail, they come priority mail, get them really quick, what do they do with them?dr. haley: that depends where you live, where do you live? somewhere cold right? is theresnow there? john: there’s no snow but it is definitelyfreezing there outside. so i am glad to be here in south florida in the nice warm weather.dr. haley: aloe vera does not do well in the cold, it will do ok above freezing, but ifyou drop below freezing it is as good as dead. so you may as well put it in a little potand grow it inside. you don’t need a deep

pot but aloe tends to like a wide pot. andthen if you have a good place outdoors and you are in the warm weather feel free to stickit in the ground if it is not going to freeze. it probably won’t do much until it getssome nice tropical weather, come spring time these things just start growing like gangbusters.one other thing when you put it in the ground or put it in the pot, expect it to look alittle red and look like it is dying for the first month or so and in the winter a littlelonger, but after that it just comes to life beautifully. if you kill my aloe plant itis quite a feat because they are really quite hearty.john: i’ve had people email me before and say, “john i killed an aloe plant.” wellthat is probably because you over watered

it. so how much water do these plants need?what about the potting soil medium? should they just use dirt out of the garden, sand,potting soil from home depot or some other big box store, or some organic potting soil,some compost from their backyard with some rock dust? what do they use dr. mike?dr. haley: you know a lot of people think, “i’m going to get the best organic soiland that is going to be awesome.” not necessarily, aloe doesn’t like a lot of water and itlike to be able to drain. so if you have some potting soil, go ahead and mix it with somesandy soil. florida soil does great and if you have some of that lime rock soil you getlots of that mineral rich soil like they get in south florida that stuff is great. if youhave something like georgia clay or yea you

should definitely get some sand in the mix.john: ok, co how much should somebody water aloe? should i be like every day i love myplants! i want to give them more water! dr. haley: it is easy to drown them and youwill see them start to turn black a little bit under the leaves if they are getting toomuch water, but if don’t give them enough water you probably won’t kill them. theyhave this gel inside and they will actually drink from their own leaves. so you are actuallybetter off giving them less water and see how they do. now if they start to look likethey are drying out and dying, then give them some water. it’s easier to err on the sideof too little than too much. i had one that i neglected for probably about 6 months, didn’tgive it any water and it was in a pot underneath

the lip so it didn’t get any rain and itwas outside here in florida. and it started to look a little rough, and finally abouta week ago i gave it some water and within a day it went from this dried up looking tothick beautiful green leaves, well hydrated. i was amazed at how fast it came back. youare better off cautioning on less water rather than more.john: so it sounds like something everyone should grow if they haven’t, it sounds reallyeasy to keep alive. you know like dr. mike said you can grow it inside for now if youare in a place that’s really cold in a little pot, i grew aloe in my bathroom for years.so one thing you can do is grow it inside until it warms up and then in the spring transplantit outside, and then before it gets cold again

dig it up and bring it inside, separate outthe pups and have babies! and spread them around, i want to spread some babies around.dr. haley: oh, i have to get this out there, when you are drinking the aloe, vitamin content,and mineral content, this is survival food, this is beautiful survival food. one thingwe need is hydration, you are getting plenty of hydration, lots of electrolyte minerals,lots of amino acids, it is an excellent food source, and you can live on this stuff andsurvive on this stuff. grow your own aloe! john: i know that aloe is so good and if peoplebuy 3 or 6 plant starts honestly aren’t going to have much aloe to eat any time soon.right? how long will people have to wait if they order 3 or 6 pups to be able to drinka decent amount of aloe?

dr. haley: if you go in the stores where theyhave fruits and vegetables, you will see little aloe leaves that are often times only 1 or2 years old. i don’t recommend those to eat, there isn’t enough nutrients in them.they really do best after about 5 years or so you are able to get a lot more gel outof them. so it is probably going to be at least 3 or 4 years before you want to startto harvest them and 5 years would be optimal. take off 3 leaves off at a time, you don’twant to strip the whole thing down to nothing, unless you have so many leaves you have letit get really overgrown. in fact i think you found one today that was really over grownthat we hadn’t pulled any leaves off in a while. we pulled probably a dozen leavesoff of it. but if you are consuming from that

plant regularly you are going to take 3 leavesevery 6 weeks or so. that is what you can expect to get from a plant after about 4 or5 years. john: so it is definitely going to take whileto get your production up, if you want to start consuming it. dr. mike sells one ofthe best aloe vera gels that is never heat processed, it is completely raw and sold frozen.what makes your gel different than some others on the market?dr. haley: it is tremendously different, i can say this comfortably, and confidentlywithout being arrogant i know we have the best aloe. it is just a matter of fact. itis unprocessed, it is hand fileted, it is run through a grinder it is put into the bottlesand it is frozen. that is what we do to it,

we don’t heat it, and we don’t use thingslike activated carbon or diatomaceous earth to filter out the green outer leaf. we havea clean hand filet process, it is the whole food nothing is taken out, and nothing isadded. and it is just being frozen. we have tested it before freezing and after freezingfor the nutrient contents and it is practically the same aloe after freezing. a lot of peoplethink that aloe once it freezes it is bad, no! the plants die, but the gel is ok. thebest thing is right from the leaf, we have the next best thing, it’s been frozen, andit’s shipped to your door. you can have unlimited quantity that way so you don’thave to wait for your plants to grow. oh by the way, after about 2 years you start havinglots of babies, you can have a farm in just

a few years.john: your own aloe vera farm! ok dr. mike thank you for sharing with us! actually mymom has been having some digestive issue stuff so i’m going to have to get some for herand hopefully it helps her. maybe i can get her to start growing an aloe vera farm inher front yard too. that would be really cool! dr. haley: you know if you make a shake likeyou made today, with a few ingredients, i don’t think you are going to have any problemgetting her to drink that aloe, it is delicious. john: i could probably live off that it wasabsolutely delicious! you guys should try it too, you have to get some aloe and sugarcane juice. so anyways dr. mike is going to offer that amazing deal that is basically3 babies for the price of 1 and i will put

that link below. this is an amazing deal,you literally can’t even buy the unnamed varieties of aloe at the grocery store ornursery for this cheap and you are going to get the best quality that i have ever discovered.in addition you can also use the 15% off coupon code to get even a further discount for the3 for 1 deal or use it on the regular gel that he offers if you want to try it as well.so once again i will put the link down below the video with the code gyg for the 15% offand i hope you enjoyed learning more about aloe why i am going to start including itand why it is another green leafy vegetable that i think should be included in their diet.once again i’m john from growingyourgreens.com and remember keep growing.