Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Well, I'm sure you're all familiar with one of my favorite herbs, the delicious basil plant.

It's actually wonderful for making pesto and sprucing up any salad.

How many of you have actually heard of basil seeds? Well, my guest today is here to tell us about this little known superfood, which is one of my favorite foods of all time.

Because she is the first to bring this amazing prebiotic fiber rich food to the US market, which is both lectin-free and according to my guest research is two times more nutritious than chia seeds, so pay attention.

She's Sakura Niyazi, founder of ZenBasel, an organic basil seed company. So stay tuned to find out how you can incorporate these tiny but powerful seeds into your diet to reap the benefits from maintaining healthy weight, to smooth digestion, and more.

We'll be right back. Can you share with the audience a little bit of your background where you originated from and how you ended up in the United States?

Of course. So I'm originally a refugee from Afghanistan, escaping that war torn country when I was a child about ten, faith would have it that we survived and I ended up immigrating not only to US, but I grew up here in California.

And went on to get myself educated. I obtained a bachelor's in finance. After business school, I got into banking and real estate, zero intention of getting into health or wellness or food and beverage industry.

But faith would have it in a couple of awakening moments in my life, basically forced me or encouraged me to re-evaluate the purpose of my life.

I went on to start a socially responsible brand, the water initially making a difference around the world building water wells with its mission, which was great, but then it wasn't so great on the planet.

So I had to revisit my mission, and that led me to the healing powers of what now you know, a zen basil.

And for anyone who might not be familiar with zen basil, basically they look like chia on a ground to ground from Paris and these little seeds have nearly two times the fiber calcium potassium and iron over chia.

So it's, of course, a magical part is ten times more prebiotic over chia.

And if a superfood is going to be superfood, it has to be anti-inflammatory, which means it has to be lectin-free, right, Dr. G?

Absolutely, absolutely.

Well, okay, so, so wait a minute. So now you're a refugee. You probably got exposed to the standard American diet, and you probably incorporated the standard American diet into your lifestyle.

And, and then what happened?

Well, like you said, as all immigrants, when we get here, we think everything, we're just so happy to be alive, to survive.

And of course, everything in America, the richest country in the world is a privilege and honor and must be way better.

So I had no idea that there was any issues with our food system.

The journals in Bergen, these were our favorite, you know, fast food, which we called it a meal, you know, dinner.

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