Why Does Sulforaphane Cure Autism Symptoms?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to talk about the potential benefits of sulforaphane for autism.
Sulforaphane is a natural chemical in cruciferous vegetables and other vegetables. Sulforaphane can be beneficial for other conditions as well, including:
• H. pylori
• HIV
• Hepatitis C and B
• SARS-CoV-2
People with autism have a low antioxidant capacity, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. One of the lowered antioxidants is glutathione.
Lowered glutathione is also involved in conditions other than autism, including:
• COPD
• Alzheimer’s
• Parkinson’s
• Cancer
• Autoimmune diseases
• ADHD
• Bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia
• H. pylori
• HIV
A certain protein called Nrf2 is the master regulator of all of the antioxidants your body makes, including glutathione. This protein also activates detoxification enzymes, helps regulate T helper cells, and helps protect against oxidation and oxidative stress.
Things that inhibit Nrf2:
• High-sugar diets
• Lack of sleep
• Stress
• Glyphosate
• Alcohol
• Smoking
• Toxins
• Medications
• Infections
• Gene alterations
Things that trigger Nrf2:
1. Sulforaphane
2. Selenium, cysteine, glutamine, and tryptophan
3. NAC
4. Glutathione
5. Prolonged fasting
6. Cruciferous and sulfur vegetables
7. Alpha-lipoic acid
8. Vitamins A, C, D, E, and zinc
9. Milk thistle
10. Exercise
11. EGCG (green tea)
12. Healthy gut microbes
DATA:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35500829/
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about why sulfurophane is such a powerful remedy for autism. If you have any type of |
| 0:07.7 | autistic symptoms or you have kids that have autism, I want to explain why a very inexpensive, low |
| 0:14.0 | toxicity, virtually no side effect type remedy can create a huge impact on autism. So first of all, what is this sulfur |
| 0:22.7 | ane? It's a chemical in broccoli sprouts. It's also in broccoli. It's in cruciferous vegetables. |
| 0:29.7 | It's in other vegetables as well. And sulfurophane has some really interesting benefits with |
| 0:34.6 | other conditions as well. Apparently can kill off H. Pylori, |
| 0:39.6 | which is involved in stomach ulcers. It has a profound effect on inhibiting HIV, the virus, |
| 0:48.3 | hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and even SARS-COVID-2. But apparently in one study regarding autism, there was like a 65% |
| 0:58.0 | improvement in autistic symptoms. That's significant, especially those symptoms involving social responses. |
| 1:06.8 | So what is going on here? If we could understand the mechanism, okay, we can then do more of that, right, with other types of remedies. |
| 1:13.6 | So let's first take a look at what's going on with someone who has autism? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, we know they have a low antioxidant capacity in their body. |
| 1:25.6 | They have a tremendous amount of oxidative stress, which is |
| 1:29.9 | basically an imbalance of lower antioxidants and higher oxidation going on in the brain. We have |
| 1:36.0 | neuroinflammation in the brain. And when I mentioned antioxidants, one of the main antioxidants |
| 1:42.1 | that's lowered in autism is glutathione, and our body makes it. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, I recently did a video on AIDS and the mechanism of what's behind this virus and what it does to the body. |
| 1:54.0 | It tends to knock out a really key player in our immune system called the T-helper cell. |
| 2:00.0 | And this AIDS virus has the ability to create |
| 2:04.9 | glutathione and suck up a lot of the materials that are needed to make glutathione. And this makes you |
| 2:11.8 | deficient in those materials. Okay. So now your own immune system cannot fight. And then it's like taking out the quarterback of the football team, I mean, nothing can work. So this T-helper cell is involved in coordinating all these other players in your immune system. So if we can starve off that player, this HIV virus can then advance and wipe out your entire immune system. And so one of the |
| 2:35.6 | protocols that is used to help counter this is to use selenium and three other amino acids, which I'll |
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