The Benefits of Watercress
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Today, I want to cover the amazing benefits of watercress. Watercress is a fascinating plant that has nutrients, phytonutrients, and other benefits. You may want to consider adding watercress to your daily salad.
Benefits of watercress:
1. It has phytonutrients like isothiocyanate and sulforaphane, which are anticancer. These phytonutrients combined with the vitamin C in the plant can support your collagen and elastin.
2. It has zeaxanthin and lutein, which may help filter blue light and decrease the risk of age-related macular degeneration.
3. It’s extremely nutrient-dense. It has high amounts of vitamin K1, calcium, manganese, vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene.
4. It has naturally occurring nitrates, which are good for the inside of the arteries. These nitrates may help make the arteries less stiff and help keep a person's blood pressure from going too high. They may also help with exercise performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. |
| 0:28.1 | I've done a lot of videos on cruciferous vegetables, but there's one cruciferous that I haven't really talked about. So I wanted to create a video on it, and it's the watercrest |
| 0:32.2 | plant. Watercrest. It's a fascinating plant. It has some serious phytonutrients. Isothiocyanates. It has |
| 0:40.8 | sulfurophanes, which are very anti-cancer. And when you combine them with vitamin C in this plant, |
| 0:47.9 | it supports your collagen and elastin to make you look younger. It also has xiazantin and lutein, which adds material to help |
| 0:57.5 | filter that blue light that is very damaging to our eyes and skin. In fact, it decreases the |
| 1:03.7 | risk of something called age-related macular degeneration. It's extremely nutrient dense. |
| 1:14.6 | It has tremendous amounts of vitamin K-1, which helps you with the clotting factor if you have internal bleeding. It has manganese, which is a co-helper vitamin that helps with |
| 1:21.0 | making certain proteins in their body. It also has a good source of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene. It also has nitrates, which have |
| 1:30.1 | nothing to do with the preservative they put in like bacon and sausage and things like that. |
| 1:35.5 | But these naturally occurring nitrates are really good for the inside of your arteries. |
| 1:40.3 | They help make the arteries less stiff. They help keep your blood pressure from going too high. |
| 1:45.8 | And nitrates are really good for exercise performance. If you're an athlete, they help oxygen flow |
| 1:51.7 | to the blood and other tissues. So you may want to seriously consider adding watercress to your |
| 1:56.9 | daily salad. |
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