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it’s hard to be excited about the benefits of a cucumber but

let’s talk about cucumbers in general now sometimes i will switch it up

instead of having a big salad i’ll have a couple cucumbers and

it’s interesting because the cucumber has 73

different phenolic compounds which are just a type of phytonutrient

and another unique thing about cucumbers is they have certain phytonutrients

that are in cruciferous vegetables but not in other vegetables

except cucumbers now there’s five basic benefits from cucumbers health-wise they

help stabilize your blood sugars they help stabilize your cholesterol by

helping reduce ldl increasing hdl decreasing triglycerides also they’re a

good anti-inflammatory they are loaded with antioxidants very

powerful antioxidants all these right here and plus they

provide fiber to make butyrate so your microbes can take that

fiber and turn it into small chain fatty acids and this helps

with insulin resistance it feeds the colon cells

it gives the colon cells energy now the question is how do we extract these

phytonutrients and a lot of them are fat soluble

now in order to extract these from plants

there’s three main things you can do one is you can ferment

them okay when you ferment a vegetable now that’s different from pickling which

i’ll talk about in a second when you ferment them you actually

release more phytonutrients you make more

phytonutrients available for you to use so when you go to the grocery

store the great majority of pickles

are basically just cucumbers with some added acid

when you do that you do not enhance the phytonutrients you don’t

make them more available now when you eat pickled anything it’s going

to help your digestion to some degree but you’re not going to get the maximum

benefits of getting these right here but when you ferment them you will

so one of the brands that i recommend is bubbies pickles they have sauerkraut

really high quality product and that’s a true fermented product

where they add a bacteria lactobacillus and then what happens it ferments the

carbohydrate and you get lactic acid it takes longer

but you have the release of these phytonutrients so

i would always recommend if you’re going to eat pickles go with the fermented

pickles it should say it right on the label you’ll just get more

health benefits so that’s the first way to extract these

fat soluble phytonutrients from vegetables the next way is to steam them

a little bit don’t overcook them but when you steam

them you will also release some of the phytonutrients which is

interesting and the last thing you can do

is you could eat them with fat and what i do is i do cucumbers with

hummus not the typical hummus that has the soy oil

or even the safflower oil i want it with the olive oil

so i get my hummus from the farmer’s market or i will go to a healthy store

to find it but adding some of the tahini butter

which isn’t a fat with cucumber will help you

extract these phytonutrients now you can also add olive oil so you

cut your cucumber on your salad add olive oil and you’ll extract it

that way as well but these are the three ways to enhance the phytonutrients

from plants in general thanks for watching

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