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Shakeology
What is Shakeology?
shake. It sounds like a wonderful product to them. Yet, they still can't help but wonder if it will live up to the hype. I am going to do my best to provide you with the best information possible. This way you can decide for yourself. Shakeology - is it worth it?
In order to answer this question, first we need to go over what Shakeology is and what it is not.
Shakeology is not like other shakes. Most meal replacement shakes are designed to trick your body into "feeling full". In order to do this, most of them are packed full of chemicals with little or no nutritional value. Some are even outright unhealthy. And these empty calories only leave the body still craving the nutrients that it is lacking. This deprivation makes the body crave food sooner and leaves you hungry faster.
Shakeology is designed to feed your body the proper nutrition that it requires. This in turn, leaves the body satisfied and replenished. Fueling the body with the proper nutrients helps to naturally speed the metabolism to help induce healthy, rapid weight loss.
Shakeology is:
- Packed full of vital nutritional ingredients
- Healthy and all-natural
- Designed to help safely increase your metabolis
m - Formulated for healthy weight loss
- Rich in antioxidants
- High in protein and essential amino acids
- Caffeine free
- Gluten free and GMO free
Shakeology is not:
- Filled with harmful chemicals
- Loaded with empty calories
- Filled with artificial sweeteners
- A meal replacement shake meant to deprive you of needed nutrition
People that try Shakeology have been shown to:
- Lose weight faster
- Keep weight off longer
- Have more energy
- Have reduced blood pressure and cholesterol
So we've talked a lot about how good our meal replacement shake is for you, and talked about some of it's health benefits, but exactly what is it about it's ingredients that make it so good?
That's a great question. And the answer is that there are many reasons!
First of all, you need to understand that most of the food that we eat today is not healthy. Even the foods that you would consider "health food" is not as healthy as you think it is. Even our fruits and vegetables come from farm lands that have become the victim of mass cultivation and over-agriculture. This mass production strips the soil of it's natural nutrients. Studies have shown that the produce that we eat today contains less than 50% of the nutrient value that it did just a few decades ago! That's a scary thought. And this also doesn't take into account the pesticides that are used to protect the crops from bugs and rodents. Plus, did you know that a lot of fruit and vegetables are coated with wax or chemicals to make them shinier and seem more appealing? It is virtually impossible to find produce that is natural or uncontaminated unless you grow it yourself. Even the standard for "organic" has been blurred and left open to interpretation. Organic produce is also much more expensive!
So how does Shakeology solve this problem?
It's creator, Darin Olien, has painstakingly scoured the far-corners of the globe in an effort to procure only the world's finest and most wholesome ingredients.
The majority of it's ingredients come from some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world, thus preserving the quality of it's growing environment and ensuring that it retains all of the natural nutrional value that it was intended to have. Darin also makes sure that there are no harmful pesticides, hormones, or unhealthy chemicals used on the ingredients selected for Shakeology.
In addition to the quality of ingredients used, some of the ingredients that are in each shake can only be found in certain remote places of the world. Places like Peru and other areas of South America. Also, some rare and exotic ingredients can only be found on a remote Tropical Island or are only indigenous to certain parts of Africa or Asia.
This has not stopped Beachbody and Darin Olien from making sure that they are delivering the most powerfully- potent and most nutrient rich ingredients and superfoods that can be found.
Ingredients like: Sacha inchi, himalayan salt, camu-camu, pomegranate powder, acerola powder, hydrilla, holy basil powder, flax seed, citrus bioflavonoids, decaffeinated green tea extract, maitake powder, suma powder, quinoa and chia seeds just to name a few.
Check out this video to see where these ingredients come from, what they are, and what lengths are gone through to supply them to you in their most wholesome, whole-food state:
So how does our meal replacement shake stack up against other meal replacement shakes like Jamba Juice, Herbalife, Mona vie and V8 fusion?As you can see on the chart to the left, Shakeology has more beneficial ingredients than all of these competitiors.
None of these other meal replacement shakes offer the pre-biotics or digestive enzymes that are in our meal replacement shake. These ingredients offer both better digestion, plus also make your body more readily available to absorb and process all of the beneficial ingredients.
Only Jamba Juice also contains fiber.
Only Mona vie contains phytonutrients like Shakeology does.
And only Jamba Juice and Herbalife offer protein and amino acids.
None of these competitiors offer everything that you get in each and every glass of Shakeology.
Plus, these other shakes contain more sugar and do not come in the 3 delicious flavors that ours does.
So what flavors does Shakeology come in?
It's offered in 3 delicious flavors: Chocolate, Greenberry and the new Tropical Strawberry. Also, each one of these flavors comes with it's own recipe guide. This way you can literally make hundreds of different flavor combinations and never get bored!
The chocolate and tropical strawberry flavors are also offered in vegan versions. These are great for people that are avoiding animal products. Plus, the use of sprouted brown rice instead of whey protein also makes both lvegan versions lactose free which is great for the lactose intolerant.
So, I know your next question will be.... which is the best of the 3 flavors? This is a topic that could be argued forever. Honestly, when it comes down to it, it is a matter of personal taste. However, I will say that most people do prefer the chocolate and the new tropical strawberry over the greenberry. I think that the "berry" in the name confuses some people and they expect a sweeter, mixed-berry type of flavor, like the tropical strawberry is. Greenberry in fact, is more of a natural, earthy, wheat grass type of flavor.
The tropical strawberry has quickly become the most popular of the three, but you will have to decide for yourself!