Hey, everyone. Dr. Axe here. Welcome to the show on today's show. We have Doug Evans.

He is the pioneer in the plant-based health movement for over 20 years. He was the co-founder

of Organic Avenue and the founder of Juicero. He's been channeling the power of sprouts

in these transformative plants as he covers in his book, The Sprout Book, which really

is a book that really gets into the healing power of sprouts, recipes, using sprouts. He

lives in California right now before we started this interview. We were talking about hot

springs a little bit there as he lives in California near those. We're going to talk about

all kinds of things today and talk a lot about nutrient density of foods and how sprouts

can help us. He all, Doug, welcome to the show. Hey, Josh, I'm so happy to be here. Really

excited. Love you. Love your work. And it's an honor to be here. Thank you. Well, thanks.

Well, hey, that means a lot. I, you know, one of the things that I was so impressed with

is flipping through some of what you have is your book and you covering all these things

about sprouts. And just, you know, actually yesterday, even I order sprouts regularly and

eat sprouts. And part of the reason I got turned on to them is many years ago, I started

really studying the nutrient density of food, right? And looking at what the most nutritious

and healing foods were on the planet. And I come across this information on sprouts and

was blown away. So talk to us about sprouts. What are they exactly? And why do they have

all of these health benefits? So it's really interesting that there would be no plant life

on the planet without sprouts. So sprouts are seeds that have germinated and grown. And so

the seed and people, you know, we eat seeds, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds.

They're part of American culture. Sprouts were relegated to hippie, hippie trippies in

the 60s. And in some Asian cultures, they eat mung beans sprouts. And for me, I had started

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