Submitted by: Joe Fulton

Wheat-grass, a plant that has been in use for centuries, well known all over the world for its health benefits and energy boosting properties, has a few downsides to it. Although not dangerous, one needs to be familiar with wheat-grass side effects and simple ways to avoid pitfalls when consuming wheat-grass.

Wheat-grass is a nutrient rich, energy-boosting, health-improving simple little plant that basically represents a young wheat plant. Wheat-grass can be bought almost everywhere, or easily grown in the privacy of your own home if you follow a couple of important steps.

Usual wheat-grass side effects include nausea, headache, diarrhea and, on rare occasions, allergies.

Wheat-grass contains a lot of nutrients but the most important and the most abundant nutrient is chlorophyll, which wheat-grass is loaded with. Now, aside form its health improving properties like strengthening of the immune system or the blood count building, chlorophyll has another valuable trait: it has powerful detoxifying properties. It helps the lymphatic system by speeding up the toxin build-up release, thus helping the body get rid of these nasty substances.

Nausea and headache, which usually occur together, are the most common wheat-grass side effects and they represent symptoms of the undergoing process of detoxification. They usually occur with new wheat-grass users, and these symptoms cease over a period of a week or two depending on the ability of the persons body to excrete these toxins. Another nausea cause may be the unsavory taste that many people have problems with when trying wheat-grass juice. To avoid these uncomfortable feelings, you should add some lime juice to your wheat-grass. If you like your drinks sweet, add some honey, too. This will dramatically improve the taste.

When starting out with wheat-grass, you should take it an ounce a day, max to let your body get accustomed to it, then gradually increase the dose up to three or four shots a day. This way you ll experience no discomforts, only the benefits.

Diarrhea occurs on rare occasions when wheat-grass is taken in huge amounts and the body is not able to cope with it. Again, this is one of those wheat-grass side effects that will not occur if you take it slowly in the beginning.

And lastly, allergies are possible in those people who are allergic to wheat or molds. Wheat-grass grown in bad conditions is a mold haven, so if you want to make sure you have quality, healthy wheat-grass you should grow it yourself. The molds are visible, and some can be rinsed off while others are pathogenic but spotting them is easy because the plant doesn t look healthy.

As you can see, most of these wheat-grass side effects are totally avoidable if you stick to a few aforementioned tips.Wheat-grass offers wonderful benefits which range from protecting our bodies from illness by boosting our inner defenses to beautifying properties such as skin tightening and rejuvenating. Furthermore, it is dirt cheap to grow.

So why buy some expensive supplemental pill with questionable claims when you can have those results with wheat-grass for a fraction of the price.

About the Author: Joe is an experienced nutritionist and wheatgrass enthusiast. For more information on wheat-grass side effects visit this site:

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