Doesn't it seem like when it comes to nutrition or more opinions than facts to go around?

Every day we hear new theories about diets, supplements, best foods, my role is to take

them mystery out of good nutrition and look at the science.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host and Dr. Michael Greger.

And I'm here to bring you an evidence-based approach to the best way to live a healthier,

longer life.

Our focus today is on improving children's diets.

Did you know there are only about one in 500 children each equivalent of a single leaf

of romaine lettuce a day if we could increase the intake of whole foods and vegetables.

We could cut down on a wide range of childhood diseases.

In our first study, we looked at the effects of sulfurophane, the compound found in broccoli

on autism.

You may remember my series of videos about the engine of aging enzyme tour.

Well, kids with autism tend to have higher tour activity in their bodies, and this hyperactive

tour signaling may actually play a role in causing autism, making tour a potential target

to treat autism or even theoretically reverse it if we could target downstream tour signaling

like between tour and S6K1.

Well, that's actually one of the ways broccoli compounds kills off prostate cancer cells

by inhibiting the signal transduction between tour and S6K1.

Breast cancer too.

So sulfurophane is a potent inhibitor of breast cancer cells because it targets downstream

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