In this interview we gain insight into the life-changing power of juicing through the remarkable journey of Sarah, co-founder of The Social HQ. Sarah shares about her health transformation and the pivotal role that juicing played in her life. From her initial skepticism about juicing to a surprising turn of events that led to her pregnancy, Sarah’s story is both inspiring and eye-opening.
Despite facing challenges in conceiving, Sarah’s experience with juicing not only transformed her perspective but also played a vital role in her natural pregnancy. Her story sheds light on the importance of nutrition and how it was often overlooked by medical professionals in her fertility journey.
JL: Hello everybody I am Jen Longtin here from PURE Juicer. It is so great to be here for another interview of Spotlight Juicer. Today we have Sarah who is the co-founder of The Social HQ. If you didn’t see Nicole’s interview, that was one that we did recently. I welcome you to visit that one as well. Now Sarah is here with us. I love to call her “The Reluctant Juicer” just because there are many people out there who have similar beginnings, similar stories. Sarah it is so great to have you here, welcome!
SD: Thank you Jen! I’m so happy to be here with you.
JL: Great I think we should just dive in and hear your story and then I’ll have some questions afterwards and I’ll let you take it away.
SD: Perfect. So, I was very reluctant to start juicing. I definitely thought juicing was for people that were just trying to lose weight or that didn’t really believe in like other methods of health. Then I started juicing and my whole world changed!
When we started juicing, my business partner would make it for me and it was so good it tasted so clean. Once I started having from the PURE Juicer, I couldn’t go back to normal juice! It just didn’t taste the same, I don’t know why. And juicing just changed my life. Also, I was having a really hard time getting pregnant. I kept being told that there was nothing wrong with me and that it would just happen naturally and I just needed to give it more time. I started seeing an IVF doctor to move the process along just because I was unsure what was causing it. We were just told that I had lower hormones and that’s what was causing the issue. But, then I started juicing, and after I started juicing for three months, I got pregnant naturally. No intervention. So, I really think that the PURE had a huge part to do with it because we tried for two years and didn’t get pregnant and then started juicing and all of a sudden we were able to get pregnant! They claimed that because of the fact that I had more nutrition and more vitamins that maybe it boosted my system and that’s why I got pregnant. But because of that I just can’t stop now I just want to keep going and especially my first trimester I was really sick. I had shingles, I couldn’t process any food and then I had the PURE. I was like ‘I’m just gonna try PURE juicing’ and then I was juicing probably three or four times a week to try to keep my body energized and give me the nutrition I needed for me and my baby. I couldn’t drink water, water tasted disgusting, metallic. Then I tried orange juice, first in the grocery store or lemonade but it was either way too sweet or it didn’t taste real. It tasted fake. So the PURE saved me through my pregnancy. So far I highly recommend it to everyone because when you put things in your body you want the cleanest of the clean. I don’t put my food in plastic Tupperware so why would I use a plastic juicer. It’s kind of a huge benefit to me of having a PURE.
JL: Well, first of all, huge congratulations! I am so lucky to know that you are pregnant before it was officially announced. I didn’t want to spoil the surprise before I announced you, but I am so, so happy for you and your family. Congratulations! I mean all of this success is because of you. And that PURE could play any role is amazing! Whether it’s getting the nutrients in on a more regular basis. You had mentioned that your doctor didn’t really talk to you about nutrition but did talk about medications, is that right?
SD: Yep. So initially when I started with IVF all they were talking to me about was “here’s this drug you can go on to help with ovulation.” But I didn’t have any ovulation issues. ‘Here’s another drug to help with this,’ not once was it like ‘hey let’s talk about nutrition,’ because if they had just talked about that maybe I could have started the process sooner or maybe I could have gotten pregnant sooner. My PCP didn’t talk about it or my OBGYN or my IVF doctor. Not one person mentioned nutrition. It was all ‘here’s a medication that’s going to help you get better.’
JL: What were some of the juices that you and Nicole would have early on? I think you said you started around six months ago. What were you drinking?
SD: It was rough at first, trying to make some juices that weren’t so great. I was Nicole’s test dummy but it got better. I would say my favorite would be carrot and green apple, and I really like green apples with lemon and romaine lettuce. I think anything that has a green apple for me is my favorite. I’ve never tasted an apple juice before the PURE. I thought I knew what apple juice tasted like but I did not!
JL: I don’t think that they typically use the green apples for apple juice and there are so many health benefits to the green apple and the red apple quite frankly. But I love that carrot-apple combination! I’m so glad that you have that and romaine is, I think Nicole talked about that too, but it’s actually really high in protein. So very, very juicy and also really a great source of protein for people who may not be able to eat meat which doesn’t sound like you were able to keep much of anything down.
SD: No, and then Nicole also made a lot of beet juice with pineapple and beets are so good when you’re trying to get pregnant. But again, no one spoke to me about it. They’re just like ‘here’s the medication that you can go on’ and I was like ‘nope.’ There has to be a better way, there has to be an easier way for my body to respond.
JL: Now, how has the juicing gone now that you are not as close? So you don’t get the benefit of Nicole’s juice, but you have your own juicer now. What are you making these days that fills your cravings and makes you feel satiated or just feels good?
SD: So, recently I actually tried making a honeydew melon which I wasn’t sure how it would taste because I’ve never juiced one before. But it tasted really good. A lot different than I expected. Then I’ve been on a watermelon kick with anything. Watermelon with lime. But when I first started out doing multiple fruits, it was overwhelming and intimidating so I’d stick to one fruit, like a pineapple or a watermelon. But now that I have the hang of it and know how to do it, I do one or three fruits. But I try not to go over three because I feel like the taste just isn’t the same. I don’t really know how to do more than three yet.
JL: Honestly when we first started the periodic table and all of the recipes with the periodic table, that was the one agreement, that we could only have three ingredients per recipe. With that in mind, knowing that you can always add things to it that you crave. But three is sort of the limit for anyone’s mental capacity so I’m right there with you. Three is a sweet sweet number. Always including apples, so even if there isn’t an apple in those top three then just throw an apple in because I love them!
SD: Well pineapple is also easy because there’s so much water, so it ended up giving me so much more juice. I felt like as someone that was first beginning I was like ‘oh I can make so much more versus just a lime where there’s a teeny amount.’ So I had to get used to learning all that. But once I figured out what my fillers were, I can make my juice flavors -It became so easy.
JL: That’s amazing, that’s amazing. Did you ever use the periodic table for any of your juice ideas or inspirations?
SD: I think Nicole did and I kind of pulled my recipes from her. I know that when she experimented a little bit outside, it wasn’t one of your recipes so that’s probably why it didn’t taste so good. But all the recipes that you have on there are really great! I think like watermelon lime and it is just so good.
JL: Yeah, I just started making watermelon lime with strawberry and I also started putting aloe gel. Getting the leaf, cutting aloe, and pressing it all together is so good! And you can’t taste the aloe which is so bitter so you actually don’t want to taste the aloe, so if you can do that combination it’s incredible!
SD: That sounds amazing! Yeah, I love being able to grind up the apple and the carrot and get all the amazing flavor and then I have that wonderful pulp I’ve made into carrot muffins, zucchini muffins and all these things! I’m not wasting anything. I don’t feel like I’m just throwing away a plastic container that I got my juice from. I’m juicing and then I’m using the pulp and I’m using the juice. I love it!
JL: Oh my gosh, well one of the surprises that I had when you started juicing and when you were hooked on it, is that you said ‘I just can’t buy any store-bought juice anymore’ because it just does not compare. So is that correct?
SD: The taste is just so different. The other day I needed to stop quickly and get a juice and I got one. I was like ‘I can’t drink this, it’s so much sugar and I could just go home and make that same juice for half the sugar and more nutrition and the taste is so clean with the PURE. I’ve never tasted anything like that before. I did try juicing at one point way back in my younger years, but I did try it with a plastic juicer and maybe that was the reason it didn’t taste so good. But the PURE, it just tastes clean!
JL: Yeah, first the store-bought has the highly pasteurized process and that is the way that you make it, even if it’s cold-pressed, they have to pasteurize it which essentially kills the enzymes and the phytonutrients out of it. That’s why what is left oftentimes is just sugar. That’s one of the reasons why it tastes so different.
SD: It was a plastic juicer. I would try a blender and a blender just did not taste like juice. You can’t strain it, it just doesn’t work. Then trying to juice with the different juicer that is plastic…I just feel like it has that weird aftertaste and it makes me kind of concerned nowadays because plastic can seep into stuff. You just never know what could happen. So, if you don’t have plastic in a juicer, which you don’t for a PURE, it just tastes clean and I don’t feel guilty about drinking it.
JL: You know what’s interesting too, is Gerson put together his regimen for people who were really, really sick to heal them. It’s interesting that as we’re looking at our younger generations with the issues around fertility and reproductive health…it’s almost like cleaning house and getting your body ready to have a baby. And, this is not medical advice. It’s just conversation. It was designed for him to cure migraines. It wasn’t for curing cancer, it wasn’t for anything like that. It was for curing his migraines and it basically just cleaned his system out. I’m learning more about potassium too and how important that is, so I’m glad that you have carrots and apples. Keep that in your list of recipes.
JL: What was the biggest surprise, as a reluctant juicer, you have a busy life, you have a business that you’re running, you’re all running all over the place, your husband is busy, you guys are traveling… As a reluctant juicer, what was your biggest surprise once you started juicing, besides getting pregnant?
SD: So I think getting pregnant was number one, but then number two is I first thought it was gonna be super overwhelming, that there’s so many components, that there’s no way I can figure out how this works. But then once I got in the rhythm, I would say it took me about a month juicing on my own before I got confident. You can make juice for more than just that period, that was my biggest issue, making a juice for just that day versus making enough for three days. That’s where I learned tips, Nicole learned and then I would learn from her and your team about how I can make juice last longer. Those little tips really did help. I think I was overwhelmed by the bags at first, and the clothes were gonna be this extra additional step.
But, now it’s just so easy! I don’t even think about it, it just goes in there and I press it and it makes it less messy actually. It comes apart and can go in the dishwasher which is such a huge thing. I can just take it all apart, use a sponge, clean off the counter and everything just goes in the dishwasher.
JL: Yeah. What advice would you have for someone who’s just getting started or maybe it’s you seven months ago before you hit your six months, what would you tell yourself now about juicing?
SD: So I think there’s a lot of benefits that people don’t talk about that are super important. I didn’t realize how much nutrition is in juicing especially cold pressed juicing so I would say if you’re trying to eat a ton of salads every day you can still get that same nutritional value by juicing. I did not know that when I first started and that was a huge thing for me, so I’d say that’s my advice. My other advice is everything that you try is going to be overwhelming at first because you’re not used to doing it, you’re not in the pattern. But I think if you really commit to your health… I was committed to getting pregnant and I didn’t want to go on medication to get pregnant so that was my goal. I did everything I could and I researched… I know beets are really good when you’re trying to get pregnant but I don’t love eating beets unless they’re roasted so I was like ‘how can I incorporate this into my day’ so I’d say figure out what your goal is and then figure out like how you can use juicing to hit your goal! You don’t need to be super super healthy to juice, I’m just an average human that works out three days a week, so I didn’t do anything extreme in order to add juicing into my schedule.
JL: I love it. The periodic table, we now have sexual health in here and we have a blog written by an expert. Beets are on there, greens, are super super good. Dates, fennel and chili peppers…spices. Oh my gosh! You said your little girl likes spice.
S: Yeah! Bring on those chilies. Chili peppers, pomegranates, pumpkin seed and watermelon! I drink a lot of watermelon.
JL: Yeah watermelon is great. Watermelon is so great. The periodic table has that new section which was inspired a lot by your story and so many stories that we hear. I love the focus, not just on pregnancy, but on nutrition and getting more nutrients into your body and letting your body do what it does best, which is find homeostasis. If there is anything else that I’ve missed you’ve been amazing. Again, congratulations! Is there anything else that you would like to share with the audience, the peer community or anything?
SD: If you’re considering juicing I would start with a PURE. I feel it’s the best juicer on the market. I’ve tried three or four different juicers. At one point I was trying them because I was trying to see if it could improve my health and then once I tried the PURE I just couldn’t go back to anything else. It just tastes so good. There’s nothing like it. So I would say I would highly recommend it!
JL: Man if it was up to me I would work with everyone personally. Like with you and Nicole so that we could all have these stories but I’m just so grateful that you gave it a shot and that you’ve found so much success. I’m so glad you were able to get juice in, even when you couldn’t even drink water.
SD: Couldn’t do it.
JL: Well, we’ll be keeping track and watching your progress. December is going to be a very exciting month for many, many reasons. But, thank you Sarah! You’re amazing
SD: Thank you so much Jen, I appreciate it.
JL: If you would like to ask more questions or find out more about PURE juicer go to www.purejuicer.com there are a ton of different spotlights with a ton of different stories and I welcome you to watch them or read them all. There are transcripts to every single one on our blog and we’ll see you next time! Sarah thanks again.
S: Thank you so much Jen!
Sarah’s journey is a testament to the power of making informed choices about what we put into our bodies. Join us as we delve into Sarah’s remarkable story and gain valuable insights into the world of juicing and its profound effects on personal health and well-being.
Whether or not you’re on a fertility journey, Sarah’s story is an inspiration as it demonstrates the transformative powers of nutrition through juicing. She offers practical advice for newcomers which is to set clear health goals and use juicing as a tool to achieve them. Her experience underscores that juicing can be seamlessly integrated into everyday life, even for those with busy schedules. Sarah also praises the PURE Juicer for its ease of use, minimal clean-up, and exceptional taste, making it the ultimate juicing companion. Don’t wait to embark on your health journey, start with the PURE Juicer today!
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