The Anticancer Nutrient Researched Over 2000 Times

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about sulforaphane. There are a lot of interesting health benefits of sulforaphane.

Sulforaphane is a phytonutrient that has been studied extensively. You can get sulforaphane from many different plants, but the best source of sulforaphane is broccoli sprouts or broccoli microgreens.

Broccoli sprouts or broccoli microgreens have 10 to 100 times more sulforaphane than broccoli. The majority of nutrients in plants, especially phytonutrients, are in the early stages of growth. Sprouts and microgreens also have much fewer anti-nutrients, which can irritate the gut.

Sprouts and microgreens are incredibly nutritious and are great choices if you have a hard time consuming large amounts of vegetables. You can consume fewer of them to get a good amount of nutrients and phytonutrients.

Potential benefits of microgreens and sprouts (sulforaphane):

1. May help prevent chronic disease

2. Has potent anti-inflammatory effects

3. May have anticancer effects

4. May help inhibit carcinogens

5. Has potent antimicrobial effects

6. Has powerful blood sugar effects

7. May be beneficial in preventing heart disease

8. Has been studied for autism

9. Has anti-aging effects

10. Helps support the brain

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0:00.0	So there's just one nutrient that has been researched over 2,000 times and 30 of those research projects
0:08.1	involved human clinical trials. Okay. So any time something has been researched that much, it gets
0:16.3	my attention. So I want to talk about it, sulfurophane. It's not environment, it's not a mineral,
0:22.4	it's not a trace mineral, it's not a fatty acid, it's a phytonutrient. So the question is why are
0:28.4	researchers looking at this molecule? I mean, it's a tremendous amount of time and money to invest
0:34.5	in this one nutrient. So before I get into what it does, let's first talk about where you can get it
0:39.4	from. Okay. Well, you can get them from many different plants, but the one that has the most
0:45.6	is the broccoli sprout. Now, if we compare a broccoli sprout or even a broccoli and micro green,
0:52.8	which I'm going to explain in a minute into an adult broccoli vegetable, you have a factor of
0:59.2	10 to 100 times more sulfurophane in that baby plant than the adult vegetable. That's significant,
1:09.4	not 100% more. I'm talking like 10 to 100 times more of this very specific sulfurophane nutrient.
1:19.2	So we have this cycle from a seed to this adult plant. So it goes through a sprout phase, which
1:24.0	is between two and five days, and then it goes through the next phase, which is the micro green,
1:28.4	right? Micro grains, you've probably seen them in the grocery store or at the farmer's market,
1:32.6	but it takes 10 to 14 days to make a micro green. Then you have baby greens, like the baby green
1:38.0	lettuce leaf, which is between 15 to 40 days, and then the adult vegetable takes between 40 to
1:44.1	150 days. So if you break down this whole cycle of this plant, the majority of nutrients,
1:50.4	especially the phytonutrients, they kind of spike between the seventh and the 14th day. And it's
1:56.2	interesting because the average person consumes only like one and a half cups of vegetables,
2:00.1	and basically almost zero amount of micro greens or sprouts, but they do consume a lot of grains,
2:06.4	right? And so it's so different about the grain or the seed, which is the same thing,
2:11.4	and the sprout or the micro green is that the micro green in the sprout have much less
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