How To Render Seeds & Plants More Digestible, Get More Amino Acids From Vegetables & Everything You Need To Know About Sprouts & Sprouting With Doug Evans.

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Picture this: nestled within a tiny seed lies the blueprint for life itself, quietly waiting for the right moment to burst forth. Add a splash of water and a hint of sunlight, and these unassuming seeds awaken, transforming into vibrant sprouts teeming with life and health benefits.

Today, I'm exploring the captivating world of sprouting with Doug Evans, the mastermind behind The Sprouting Company. If you're interested in uncovering the remarkable benefits of sprouts and how they can revolutionize your health and well-being, you won't want to miss this episode.

Doug, an early pioneer in the natural food industry, wrote The Sprout Book, which I read during the COVID-19 quarantine. This book teaches you how to easily grow sprouts, microgreens, grasses, and much more. It also helps you discover the vast health benefits of sprouts, including improving the digestive process, increasing metabolic rate, boosting enzymatic activity, preventing anemia, aiding in weight loss, regulating cholesterol, reducing blood pressure, preventing neural tube defects, enhancing skin health, improving vision, supporting the immune system, and increasing usable energy reserves.

Doug's mission extends beyond providing sprouts; he's a beacon of knowledge on their nutritional benefits, making healthy eating and self-sufficiency in food production accessible to all. In this show, you'll explore topics like the best seeds for sprouting, the optimal daily intake of sprouts, the potential health risks associated with sprouting, proper storage methods, the best sprout recipes, and much more.

Oh, and if you're looking for additional information on sprouting, I suggest checking out our first podcast together: “How To Tap into the Power of the Planet’s Most Nutritious Foods: Sprouts, Shoots, Microgreens & More With Doug Evans.” You can also visit The Sprouting Company by clicking here (use code BEN to save 10%).

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.
0:04.1	On average, produce is two weeks old from the time it was in the ground and harvested,
0:10.7	transported and refrigerated trucks, and by time you eat it, it's already old.
0:17.1	When you're eating a sprout, you're eating the root, the shoot, the endosperm, the embryo, the testa, and you're eating it whole
0:28.0	while it is alive.
0:30.2	So you're eating pure living optimum food.
0:34.0	Almost everything else that someone's eating
0:36.3	is already dead, putrefying, or decaying or rotting.
0:41.5	Fitness, nutrition, biohacking, longevity, life optimization, spirituality, and a whole lot more.
0:50.0	Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Life Show.
0:52.8	Are you ready to hack your life?
0:54.6	Let's do this. I was recently at this health event and there was a company there. They were called Mary
1:10.8	Ruth's. I'd seen him before at Whole Foods and some other grocery stores.
1:15.1	I hadn't really tried much of their stuff, but while at the event I had a chance to try some of their
1:19.2	liquid mint chlorophyll, a few other gummies with omega threes and sixes and
1:23.9	nines and this fantastic chocolaty collagen stuff that was just
1:28.1	addictingly good. So I left the event and I wound up having them send me some of their other stuff.
1:34.4	This delicious raspberry liquid morning multivitamin that's got minerals and amino acids and vitamins,
1:40.0	which is great for people who don't want to swallow pills.
1:42.8	A whole range of gummies in these droppers, I've got their Ashwagona and their holy
1:46.3	basil dropper right now up by my bedside for if I wake up in the wee hours and I want to
1:50.7	knock out some stress. What I like about their multis is they're well formulated. They don't use like synthetic forms of fullic acid by the way they use L5 methyl tetrahydra folate indicating if you don't know anything about that they're smart they know what they're doing and
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