Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we're in for a real treat and going to learn more about one of the reasons why cruciferous vegetables and broccoli and specific is so healthy for you and all the benefits that they can provide. and entire world who spent the last four decades of his life,

figuring these details out.

So that's really one of the focus of what I try

to do with these interviews is find the top people in the world

to share essentially the highlights of their

professional career so that you you know you don't have to and you can you can

basically be spoofed at all the results so Dr Jed Faehi is at the Johns Hopkins Medical School where he's a

nutritional biochemist with broad training extensive background in plant physiology, human nutrition and phytochemistry and

nutritional biochemistry.

And he's currently an assistant professor there.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today Dr.

Fade. Thank you for having me. All right so I guess it's been a long career

for you and just curious as to if you maybe can lay the

foundation of how you started becoming interesting in these plant compounds that can have

somebody benefits that we'll discuss in a few minutes.

I sure can.

It's quite a long story so you may want to cut some of it out after you hear it,

but I suppose it starts in in my high school days when I was going to become

a marine biologist I'm old enough so that I was of I was around at the time Jacques Cousteau was coming on the scene.

I wanted to be a marine biologist and so I went actually got a master's degree in algal physiology or the physiology of algae,

micro algae.

And then there were no jobs available

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