New and improved Super Smoothie Ultra Protein is now back in stock

The most popular item ever published on this website is my original Super Smoothie Recipe.  However, things have been stalled for almost a year due to the base protein and nutrient powder being out of stock while it underwent reformulation by its USA manufacturer, Douglas Laboratories.

Perfect nutrition for all Kiwis on the go!

Athletes, stressed workers, vegetarians, conception, pregnancy and nursing, children, students, while convalescing, the elderly and the injured.

Vanilla is now back in stock, and the chocolate almond will be following shortly.

The Super Smoothie recipe was inspired by the Sustagen diets that enabled sustained a hardy bunch of runners to trot almost non-stop all the way from Auckland to Wellington about 1972. That race was won by Max Telford who consumed up to 14,000 calories during a running day.

My Super Smoothie is packed with the nutrients and calories that an athlete needs for sustained exercise and recovery and in a form that is easily and quickly digested. My Super Smoothie is ideal for anybody who needs to get nutrients into the body. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, convalescing after illness or injury, coping with chronic illness and combating the frailty of old age. The teenage growth spurt is a perfect time for a daily Super Smoothie.

When taking the Super Smoothie daily there is little or no need for additional vitamins and mineral supplements, unless advised otherwise by a health professional.

Designed for vegetarians

The Western lifestyle and food supplies are not at all vegetarian friendly.  Being a successful vegetarian requires a putting a lot of time and money into food selection and careful preparation and the modern lifestyle makes this very difficult.  Douglas Ultra Protein Plus's ingredients are designed for strict vegetarians, including vegans, and has a mix of nutrients and digestive aids that fill just about every nutritional gap a busy vegetarian has to deal with.

Just add water!

(Or anything else that presses your nutritional buttons!)

My Super Smoothie works perfectly on its own.  But if you want to give it a ton of extra punch, read on....

Back in stock

Super Smoothie Recovery Formula - Vanilla Bean Flavour - 948g

Currently out of stock

Super Smoothie Recovery Formula - Natural Chocolate Almond Flavour - 948g

The Super Smoothie Recipe

• UltraProtein 1/2 scoop per smoothie: https://w
• ww.garymoller.com/product-page/douglas-laboratories-ultra-protein-plus-948g.  This contains all the base vitamins and minerals - and more - that one needs for daily nutrition.
• Plain Nutratech NZ Whey Protein 1-2 scoops per smoothie: https://www.garymoller.com/product-page/nutratech-whey-powder-1kg
• Sujon NZ Blackcurrant powder.  1 teaspoon per smoothie: https://www.garymoller.com/product-page/sujon-blackcurrent-powder
• Waihi Bush NZ Flax Balance. 1 dessertspoon per smoothie:https://www.garymoller.com/product-page/waihi-bush-oil-flax-balance-500ml

• Ripe Banana
  
• Optional
  
• And any other fruit you like to add
• Douglas Laboratories Greens and Reds: Not cheap but one scoop of this high value optional extra adds the antioxidant capacity of five fruit and vegetable servings
• Fresh Free Range Egg (raw)
• Wash the egg in warm, soapy water, or water with a tablespoon of bleach added and dry before cracking it open. This minimises the already tiny risk of salmonella infection.
  
• Add the egg towards the end of the blending of the mixture to minimise damage to the delicate eggs proteins.

Blending

• Add a little water, apple juice, yoghurt, full cream milk, coconut cream - the lot - or whatever suits you best as a nutritious liquid to dilute the mix.
  
• Blend well, adding the egg towards the end of the process.

Drink the Super Smoothie straight away since the fruit and berries will oxidise quickly if left for long, even if refrigerated.

Are you a very special person?

If you are an athlete seeking the "edge" over your competition, a person struggling with medical issues, such as chemotherapy, a vegetarian with digestion issues, pregnant, nursing, a rapidly growing child or a fragile elderly person, you may benefit from additional nutritional support.

If you have challenging digestive issues such as with Crohn's, IBS, or candida 

Contact me and I will help with working out how to get the nutrients you need to support your health and recovery.

How to use the Super Smoothie

Breakfast

It is perfect for breakfast for the person in a hurry. If additional calories are required, then add some Weetbix, or porridge, and blend it in. This makes a ready-made highly nutritious breakfast drink.

As a meal substitute

If you are ill and having trouble eating or keeping food down, then a liquid meal may ideal. You may need to experiment with the ingredients, such as the egg which may cause some problems with people who have poor digestion.

For weight (fat) loss

You've heard the message time and again: Cutting down on carbohydrates while increasing protein intake brings about consistent fat loss!  Here's what I recommend as a daily habit:

• Have one half scoop of my Super Smoothie with the extras (egg, flax oil, berries, etc) for your breakfast.  This will easily keep you going through to at least morning tea.
• At morning tea make one full shaker (~700ml) using one scoop of my Super Smoothie with nothing else other than water.  Have one glass of this before you eat or drink anything else (and only have something else if you really need it).  That extra could be a few nuts or a piece of fruit or carrot for example).  Put the shaker with the remainder of the Super Smoothie in the fridge.
• Have another glass of Super Smoothie at lunchtime before you eat anything else.
• Have another glass at afternoon tea time then polish off any remainder before home time.
• Have only a small meal in the evening.  If you have the urge to snack then make a small drink with a couple of teaspoons of my Super Smoothie.

To prevent or reverse muscle wasting and for immune support

Protein and nutrient supplementation reduces wasting during a serious illness like cancer. It has been shown to bolster the immune system. 

To reduce age-related weakness and wasting

Many elderly are so nutrient deficient that even an extra daily chocolate milk drink may improve the health of an elderly person! My Super Smoothie is much, much better than that! .

For Children and Teenagers

(Without the added extras for athletes). During a growth spurt - plus school sport etc - the need for rich supplies of nutrients skyrockets. My Super Smoothie with the Douglas Ultra Protein Plus will do the job. Give it as a treat between meals, including as an after school snack.

Picky eaters

If you have a "picky eater" in the family, if you can get just half a scoop of Douglas Ultra Protein Plus into them once a day, then you are on the way to having their nutritional needs covered.

Athletes

Take one Super Smoothie about 2 hours prior to a training session or contest and within an hour of finishing. It can be used to fortify meals, replacing unhealthy desserts and snacks. The more nutrient-packed food that is consumed, the more one can train and the better the recovery.

During Extended Competition or Training

The Super Smoothie with Douglas Ultra Protein Plus is perfect for recovery between competition in a tournament event that requires intense effort several times a day and/or over several days. It also perfect when doing endurance events that go on for many hours, such as 24 hour runs or bike rides.

When using the Super Smoothie for this kind of purpose, reduce any ingredients that may slow digestion or cause premature bowel activity - The egg and the berries and possibly the flax oil. It is recommended that you use the Balance Recovery Stack to aid recovery and hydration.

Nutrition during tramping and hiking

I like to use ultra protein as the base and then add small amounts of other nutrients, such as whole milk powder, greens and reds and even some whey protein, for nutrition during very long events, or when doing multi day hikes. This formulation is very quick and easy to digest. It can be mixed at home and divided up as individual servings in sealed plastic bags. All that is then needed is a light plastic decanter and some water which you can get along the way. The Super Smoothie servings can be quickly mixed and drunk and goes well with snacks, like dried fruit. 

Lightweight and packed with nutrition!

How often and how much?

It depends. Take in a cup or two worth of Super Smoothie about every half hour to one hour (How much and how often depends on the nature of the physical activity, including the intensity and duration) so that there is a process of continual digestion. Just be aware that the higher the physical effort, the slower the digestion. This is further complicated when running because the gut slaps back and forth. Cycling and kayaking make for much easier digestion, so if it is a multi-sports event, most of the eating and drinking is during the cycling and kayak legs and much less so during the running.

If there is a lot of sweating, then drink plain water about 20 minutes into the Super Smoothie and about 10 minutes before the next Super Smoothie.

Practice and Practice and Practice!

If you plan to use the Super Smoothie in competition, or anything else for that matter, then you must practice using the exact formulation over and over again in training. You should also enter less important events and test the formulation under real race conditions. Keep tweaking the recipe so that you get it perfected to suit your special digestive quirks.

Hot weather - Cold Weather

If the conditions are cold, make up the Super Smoothie more concentrated. If the conditions are stinking hot, then you make the mix much more dilute so that there is more water taken in during any hour. Drink between Super Smoothies as required.

What else is needed for optimum nutrition?

Other than the Super Smoothie and a balanced diet, little else is needed by all (Athletes, the elderly, the infirm, teenagers, vegetarians and so on) for super nutrition. That's all! 

Of course, there are people with very special needs that require special diets, that the advice on this page simply won't suit and I will do my best to assist if contacted.

How to Measure the Benefits

Some people worry about getting fat, others want to lose fat. Others want to pack on the muscle. Everyone wants to be properly hydrated. An effective nutrition programme will optimise body fat percentage, lean muscle, bone and body hydration. The most convenient way to do this is with the Salter 9106 Body Composition Scales. These are remarkably accurate and very motivating. I am selling these well under their retail price of NZ$140. I want all of my clients to have one in their home. I want them to see the benefits of following my advice about health and fitness. I want them to share their body composition results with me, no matter where in the world they live, so that I can help them further and do so on the basis of useful and accurate information.

Got the idea? Well, what are you waiting for? Go for it!

Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary@garymoller.com. Please include any relevant background information to your question.

Study: Vitamin C helps in cancer fight

Vitamin C could play a key role in fighting cancer, a New Zealand study has shown.

University of Otago associate Professor Margreet Vissers, who is leading the Christchurch-based study, said there had been anecdotal accounts of vitamin C playing a beneficial role in cancer treatment, but her study was the first to give real evidence of a connection between the vitamin and tumour growth.

"Our results offer a promising and simple intervention to help in our fight against cancer, at the level of both prevention and cure," she said,

The study, published in Cancer Research journal, found tumours with low vitamin C levels had more of a protein called HIF-1, which allowed them to thrive in conditions of stress.

Prof Vissers said the findings were significant as they suggested it would be beneficial for people with cancer cells to have more vitamin C to limit tumour growth.

- NZPA
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Gary:
While this study suggests that we should all run out and stock up on Vitamin C, I have words of caution: Too much C may actually cause the reverse by bringing about conditions that are conducive to tumour growth!

Whey protein concentrate may reduce breast cancer risk and aid treatment

I used to provide services to the Cancer Society, working with survivors of cancer. Did so for about 10 years if not longer.

The role of diet in prevention of cancer and recovery has always been of considerable personal interest. It has become increasingly obvious just how important diet is in the prevention, assisting treatment and the recovery from many forms of cancer, including breast cancer, which afflicts so many women nowadays. 

The two abstracts of studies below detail just how important nutrition may be. In these studies, concentrated whey proteins gave a surprising level of protection against breast cancer in rats and humans and even shown to cause cancer regression during treatment, possibly by rendering the cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy treatment. 

How much protein is optimum?

The optimum appears to be about 30 grams of whey protein per day. Here is a handy protein calculator and informative article about how much protein you may need daily:

https://fitnessvolt.com/protein-calculator/

 One of the most challenging problems facing a person with cancer is the progressive loss of muscle and other lean tissue. A diet that is rich in whey and other nutrients can be the most important measure one can employ to stem this lean weight loss while undergoing treatment and for completing the long road to recovery. 

A delicious smoothie recipe!

The Super Smoothie is a protein drink that is easy to digest (A most important consideration when a person is infirm!) and packed with extra goodies like red berries and healthy oils.

Here is the recipe:

http://blog.garymoller.com/2015/08/my-new-super-smoothie-recipe.html
 

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Hakkak, R., et al. Diets containing whey proteins or soy protein isolate protect against 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced mammary tumors in female rats. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 9(1):113-117, 2000. A study was conducted to determine the protective effects of two common dietary proteins, soy protein isolate and bovine whey protein, against chemically induced mammary tumors in female Sprague Dawley rats. Rats were fed AIN-93G diets having casein, soy, or whey as the sole protein source. Rats within the same dietary groups were mated to obtain the F1 and F2 generations. At age 50 days, F1 (experiment A) or F2 (experiment B) female offspring (> or =19 rats/group) were p.o. gavaged with 80 mg/kg 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, and mammary glands were evaluated when 100% of the casein-fed group developed at least one palpable tumor. Rats grew well on all three diets, but casein-fed rats gained slightly more body weight than soy- or whey-fed rats. When 50% of the casein-fed rats had at least one mammary tumor, lower tumor incidences (24%-34%) were observed in the soy-fed and whey-fed groups. When 100% of the casein-fed rats had at least one tumor, soy-fed rats had a lower tumor incidence (77%) in experiment B, but not in experiment A, and there were no differences in tumor multiplicity. Whey-fed rats had lower mammary tumor incidence (54%-62%) and multiplicity than casein-fed rats in both experiments. These results indicate that diets rich in soy protein reduce the incidence of chemically induced mammary tumors by approximately 20%. Furthermore, whey protein appears to be at least twice as effective as soy in reducing both tumor incidence and multiplicity. Kennedy, R. S., et al. The use of a whey protein concentrate in the treatment of patients with metastatic carcinoma: a phase I-II clinical study. Anticancer Research. 15(6B):2643-2649, 1995. Glutathione (GSH) concentration is high in most tumor cells and this may be an important factor in resistance to chemotherapy. Previous in- vitro and animal experiments have shown a differential response of tumor versus normal cells to various cysteine delivery systems. More specifically, an in-vitro assay showed that at concentrations that induce GSH synthesis in normal human cells, a specially prepared whey protein concentrate, Immunocal, caused GSH depletion and inhibition of proliferation in human breast cancer cells. On the basis of this information five patients with metastatic carcinoma of the breast, one of the pancreas and one of the liver were fed 30 grams of this whey protein concentrate daily for six months. In six patients the blood lymphocyte GSH levels were substantially above normal at the outset, reflecting high tumour GSH levels. Two patients exhibited signs of tumor regression, normalization of hemoglobin and peripheral lymphocyte counts and a sustained drop of lymphocyte GSH levels towards normal. Two patients showed stabilization of the tumor, increased haemoglobin levels. In three patients the disease progressed with a trend toward higher lymphocyte GSH levels. These results indicate that whey protein concentrate might deplete tumor cells of GSH and render them more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

Blueberries may reduce colon cancer risk by over 50%

The researchers studied 18 rats in which colon cancer had been induced in a manner similar to human colon cancer development. All of the animals were placed on a balanced diet, with half of the animals' diets supplemented with pterostilbene. After eight weeks, the rats fed pterostilbene had 57 percent fewer pre-cancerous colon lesions compared to the control group. The researchers also noted that pterostilbene inhibited certain genes involved in inflammation, considered a colon cancer risk factor.
http://www.newstarget.com/021951.html


Gary Moller comments:
If a drug was invented with a fraction of this effectiveness then it would be a Nobel winning sensation.

While the focus of the research quoted above is a compound found in blueberries, I think the benefits are similar with all dark berries to a greater or lesser extent. It is the dark compounds in the berries that do the job. Another interesting benefit of eating dark berries is they may reduce sensitivity to sunlight and reduce the damage from too much sun.

Check out my Super Smoothie recipe which traditionally includes dark berries as essential ingredients for super nuttrition.