My LIVING-GREEN drink I enjoy nearly every day is fresh wheatgrass or barleygrass, cucumber, celery, apple, ginger.

All the juicing books agree, these ingredients make the world's finest Fountain of Youth – and they're the quickest of all to prepare! Why age prematurely? When you can stay younger longer!

Celery with its natural sodium is for joints, nerves, and restoring electrolytes after exercise.

Cucumber – juiced with its high-silica green skin – is for healthy bones, teeth, muscles, skin and all connective tissue. Use unwaxed pickling (kirby) cucumbers.

I find the LIVING GRASSES are so much more powerful – in giving me energy, focus and a soft skin – than the dead green leaves from the produce store, like spinach.

An Automatic Sprouter easily grows wheatgrass and barleygrass for you.

I cut the grass with scissors seconds before, so it’s still GROWING up to the moment of juicing. And nothing to wash. In fact, it’s best not to wash fresh greens you pick yourself because chances are they’re rich in Vitamin B12, made by microbes living on the greens. Don’t wash wild weeds either.

Only wash the small greens like alfalfa and broccoli where you need to rinse the hulls off. These greens are very juicy.