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so there’s this one nutrient that has

been researched over 2 000 times and 30

of those research projects involved

human clinical trials okay so anytime

something has been researched that much

it gets my attention so I want to talk

about it sulforaphane it’s not a vitamin

it’s not a mineral it’s not a trace

mineral it’s not a fatty acid it’s a

phytonutrient so the question is why are

researchers looking at this molecule I

mean it’s a tremendous amount of time

and money to invest in this one nutrient

so before I get into what it does let’s

first talk about where you can get it

from okay well you can get them from

many different plants but the one that

has the most is the broccoli sprout now

if we compare a broccoli sprout or even

a broccoli micro grain which I’m going

to explain in a minute into an adult

broccoli vegetable

you have a factor of 10 to 100 times

more sulforaphane in that baby plant

then the adult vegetable that’s

significant not a hundred percent more

I’m talking like 10 to 100 times more of

this very specific sulforaphane nutrient

so we have this cycle from a seed to

this adult plant so it goes to a sprout

phase which is between two and five days

and then it goes to the next phase which

is the micro green right microgreens you

probably seed them in the grocery store

or at the farmer’s market but it takes

10 to 14 days to make a microgreen then

you have baby greens like the baby green

lettuce leaf which is between 15 to 40

days and then the adult vegetable takes

between 40 to 150 days so if we break

down this whole cycle of this plant

the majority of nutrients especially the

phytonutrients they kind of Spike

between the seventh and the 14th day and

it’s interesting because the average

person consumes only like one and a half

cups of vegetables and basically almost

zero amount of microgreens or Sprouts

but they do consume a lot of grains

right and so what’s so different about

the grain or the seed which is the same

thing and the Sprout or the micro green

is that the micro Green in the Sprout

have much less

anti-nutrients okay than the seed does

and as the adult vegetable does so

across the board these micro greens are

not only so super concentrated with not

just vitamins and minerals but

phytonutrients the antioxidants the

things that can actually help you

prevent cancer but they also have the

least amount of anti-nutrients that

irritates the gut that creates problems

for people but way more people consume

the grains and they’re getting a lot of

anti-nutrients they’re getting a lot of

phytic acid which blocks minerals like

zinc calcium iron things like that and

they have no problem meeting the grains

but they just don’t eat enough micro

greens or vegetables in general now if

you think about this just the

concentration of nutrients you don’t

need nearly the quantities of

microgreens or Sprouts than you do the

adult vegetable to get a good amount of

nutrition so you can actually have less

of that and for many people that’s a

good thing because they have a hard time

consuming seven to ten cups of

vegetables so if you’re just doing a

fraction of these microgreens you can

get a serious amount of these

phytonutrients and the benefits of the

phytonutrients

big Pharma is spending a lot of money

studying these sprouts and these

phytonutrients in sprouts and and

microgreens because they’re loaded with

all sorts of chemicals that give certain

effects you know unfortunately the model

of medicine is like you have this one

Magic Bullet For This One symptom but

wouldn’t it be better to have a whole

complex food that can have a huge wide

range of effects to your body so let’s

go through these effects that

microgreens and Sprouts can give you and

phytonutrients in general and

specifically the sulfurophane one the

first thing is you get the prevention of

chronic disease anything chronic

involving inflammation can be helped

sulforaphane induces this compound

called

Nrf2 which gives a potent

anti-inflammatory effect it’s not that

there’s something in the sulforaphane

that’s giving you something that’s

similar to that Gene it’s turning on

something that’s already in your body

that’s then going to get rid of

inflammation it’s pretty wild if there’s

anything chronic and degenerative that’s

where you can apply this so we’re

talking about arthritis Alzheimer’s any

chronic inflammatory disorder now the

other thing that they really study it

for is its effect on cancer it’s very

anti-cancer in fact Hopkins try to get

the patents but they got sued and they

never got the patents so they dropped it

like a hot potato but if they’re trying

to get the patents and spend all the

money and they already did the research

then it’s legitimate sulforaphane has

the ability to inhibit

carcinogens like Benzene for example

it’s a chemical sulforaphane is a very

powerful

anti-microbial if you have for example

some virus or bacterial infection or Ace

pylori

sulforaphane can help sulforaphane has

blood sugar effects so it’s good for

diabetes sulforaphane targets the inner

layer of the blood vessels okay it’s

called the endothelial layer so it can

be very beneficial in preventing heart

disease sulforaphane has been studied in

autism which usually involves a lot of

oxidation and free radical damage and so

we have sulforaphane coming in there as

an antioxidant and cleaning all that up

sulforaphane has effects on Aging it can

help slow down this aging process to a

certain degree sulforaphane is also good

for your brain in brain repair in

protecting the brain against oxidation

so if someone has Parkinson’s or

Alzheimer’s they should be exposed to

these phytonutrients on a regular basis

you can do broccoli Sprouts or broccoli

microgreens you can also do the radish

microgreens or the Sprouts or the

Cabbage microgreens or the Sprouts or

the kale micro greens or the Sprouts

those are really good ones pretty much

all the Chris Cyprus Sprouts or

microgreens have a really good amount of

suffrophane but broccoli Sprouts or

broccoli micro greens have the most now

every so often you hear you have this

outbreak of E coli or salmonella and

that usually has to do with the

hydroponic growing of these

plants and the real problem with

hydroponic is you don’t necessarily have

the full microbiome okay like you have

in the soil and that is the immune

system that protects against these

pathogens so if possible grow your micro

greens grow your Sprouts in actual soil

that would be a lot better it takes more

work it’s Messier but if you can find a

farm that can grow some in soil

that would be the ideal situation

especially to suppress the pathogens now

on top of the benefits of the

phytonutrients okay and also getting rid

of a lot of these anti-nutrients there’s

also nutrition too so let me just kind

of go through that in 100 gram amount of

microgreens you have only 4.4 grams of

carbs it’s pretty low you have 2.2 grams

of fiber so the net carbs is really only

2.2 grams okay so it’s virtually

non-existent then we have 2.2 grams of

protein now I wouldn’t rely on your

protein from getting Sprouts but there’s

some protein in there then we have 11

milligrams of sodium that’s pretty darn

low

298 milligrams of potassium okay that’s

that’s a good amount especially since

our bodies need a lot like 4 700

milligrams of potassium every day

there’s 66 milligrams of magnesium

there’s 88 milligrams of calcium there’s

0.7 milligrams of zinc and there’s a 66

micrograms of folate but overall there’s

more vitamins and minerals and

especially phytonutrients in these

Sprouts or micro greens so since you’re

on this topic a really good next video

for you to watch would be the one on

sulfur effect it’s going to give you

some additional data that I think is

going to be very helpful and I put that

video up right here check it out