Lifestyle guru and actress Gwyneth Paltrow is known for her unusual taste and habits. She details this on her lifestyle website Goop. In a recent post, the actress shared a smoothie recipe she supposedly drinks every morning, and it apparently contains one special ingredient that boosts sex drive.
The ingredient is called the moon dust, which is found in Moon Juice, a health shop in Los Angeles. About 2.2 ounces of the moon dust cost $65. Paltrow mixes this with almond milk, almond butter and a few other uncommon items for her morning smoothie.
The Moon Juice is also patronized by celebrities like Shailene Woodley, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams and Zoë Kravitz. Its moon dust has six variants: sex, action, beauty, brain, goodnight and spirit.
The company was founded by Amanda Chantal Bacon, who developed her products due to her obsession with health. Bacon suffered from respiratory problems and hypothyroidism when she was younger and grew an affinity for curing her ailments with food when her body rejected antibiotics.
Like Paltrow, Bacon's innovations, products and lifestyle are sometimes criticized, but the health buff is unfazed. "Gwyneth and I are successful in our fields. We have disposable income and choose to use the adaptogens [plants with holistic effects], herbs and plants several times a day," Bacon said "We don't say you have to have mucuna [a medicinal herb] or you will be fat, sick and nearly dead. We are just a resource for this stuff, and maybe you just sprinkle some raw herbs on a bowl of spaghetti."
Some doctors are also not convinced about the healing benefits of moon dust, but the ingredient is almost always sold out despite its expensive price tag. Smoothie drinkers use moon dust to create their own drinks, but here is recipe that Paltrow drinks every breakfast:
1 cup almond milk
1 tablespoon almond butter
1 teaspoon coconut oil
2 tablespoons vanilla mushroom protein powder
1 teaspoon maca
1 teaspoon ashwagandha
1 teaspoon ho shou wu
1 teaspoon cordyceps
pinch Himalayan sea salt
pinch vanilla powder - optional
Blend all these ingredients along with a teaspoon of moon dust. Depending on your current state, Paltrow recommends:
- action to soothe tired muscles
- beauty for better hair and complexion
- brain to get rid of "mental fogginess
- goodnight for good sleep
- spirit for increased extrasensory perception
- sex for boosting sexual drive
In total, the actress' morning smoothie would averagely cost $10.52 per glass. While you need to use only a teaspoonful of the ingredients per drink, you might need to buy these in bulk, which could cost a bit more.
A photo posted by goop (@goop) on Jan 12, 2016 at 10:23am PST
GOOP BEAUTY// True beauty @Gwynethpaltrow talks natural grace, skincare and #goodcleangoop as she makes her Morning Smoothie with Moon Pantry Vanilla Mushroom Protein and Beauty Dust to keep the skin glowing, the brain activated and the immune system boosted. Thanks for the love, @goop! #moonfamily #thrivecosmically A photo posted by MOON JUICE (@moonjuiceshop) on Mar 8, 2016 at 9:55am PST
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