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the word cruciferous comes from the

Latin word crooks meaning cross eating

cruciferous vegetables is a healthy

choice the family of cruciferous

vegetables includes bok choy broccoli

Brussels sprouts cabbage cauliflower

radish kale mustard greens and

watercress kale is a powerhouse of the

cruciferous vegetables it basically has

tremendous amounts of vitamin a sload

with vitamin C vitamin K it’s actually

quite tasty if you mix this with

different vegetables and you can

actually cut these you can eat the stem

all the way down here eat the whole

thing and it’s actually extremely

healthy for you so we have the different

cabbages we have the red cabbage and the

white cabbage and you got to make sure

it’s raw when you read it or slightly

steamed and definitely never microwave

your vegetables so this is broccoli

broccoli has unique properties there’s

been many many many studies that show

that broccoli sprouts are even more

nutritious than the adult broccoli

however the actual adult broccoli is

very very healthy to be eat as well for

many many different reasons from vitamin

K vitamin C lots of minerals but it is

loaded with lots of vitamin A just like

the kale and the cabbage

to fully appreciate the benefits of

cruciferous vegetables we must first

understand how environmental pollutants

affect our bodies the long-term effects

of such things as pesticides

insecticides herbicides and fungicides

were not well understood or even

anticipated when first introduced we now

know these chemicals along with heavy

metals and solvents can be toxic to the

body in that they have the potential to

mimic hormones altogether we call these

toxins endocrine disruptors today we

find them everywhere in our water supply

soils and even in the food we eat the

endocrine system is a group of glands

which regulate hormones responsible for

reproduction

fertility digestion sleep menstral

cycles metabolism in other words nearly

every physiological action and reaction

in the body the hormones are many

chemical communications which travel

from glands through the blood to various

tissues and organs endocrine disruptors

have the capacity to block mimic and

alter hormone communications which in

turn can cause a wide range of

reproductive developmental and growth

problems dr. Theo Colborn one of the

world’s leading authorities on endocrine

disrupting chemicals greatly contributed

to the endocrine disruptor hypothesis in

her book our stolen future dr. Cole Born

states in her book that these

environmental chemicals can create

effects on our bodies in concentrations

of one tenth of a trillionth of a gram

in other words we’re not talking about

parts per million or parts per billion

we are talking parts per trillion

infinitesimal amounts question is how

can our bodies get rid of these toxins

the liver one of the largest glands in

the body is the main organ for

detoxification detoxify means to remove

toxic matter and microorganisms

including funguses bacteria viruses and

parasites toxins are poisons the liver

does an incredible job of removing

poisons from our body

however the liver can get overloaded in

attempting to deal with so many

excessive chemicals in the environment

add to this other stresses like overly

processed foods refined sugars alcohol

artificial foods preservatives

excessively cooked animal proteins

growth hormones antibiotics genetically

modified foods and medications and it is

amazing the liver can keep up at all how

does the liver rid these stressors

through enzymes enzymes are catalysts

which speed up the chemical actions in

the body without enzymes chemical

reactions would take years to work

enzymes are proteins and do all the work

in the body from digestion to making

body tissue to allowing hormones to work

the liver makes the enzymes that help

break down and then rid the body of

these toxins in a process called phase

one phase two enzymes system this series

of enzyme reactions are the first line

of defense for the body to deal with and

handle poisons microbes and toxins the

enzymes literally turn fat soluble

chemicals those that get stored in fat

cells into water-soluble safe particles

which can be eliminated out of the body

however for the liver to produce these

enzymes it requires various nutrients

which are the phytochemicals found in

the cruciferous vegetables without these

nutrients the liver cannot do its job

overloading the liver with toxins

inhibits the phase 1 phase 2 enzyme

system fortunately the liver is one of

the most rugged organs in the body

having the incredible ability to

regenerate itself if the person does two

things first

avoid those things that destroy its

functions in the first place and second

consume those things that give it the

nutrients to regenerate healthy liver

tissue

the liver is the hub of all of the fat

burning hormones in the body in other

words for fat to be burned in the body

the metabolic reactions must involve the

liver thyroid hormones pancreas hormones

adrenal hormones the two eteri and

ovarian hormones all need to interact

with the liver the storage of vitamins

occurs in the liver also especially

vitamin A a person with vitamin A

deficiency will have a difficult time

seeing at night vitamin A is also

protective for your immune system

one of the challenges is that liver

problems are often undetected until the

liver is severely damaged a person could

be experiencing liver disease and still

have normal liver enzymes on blood tests

so the best solution is to not wait to

be proactive it just so happens that

cruciferous vegetables contain these

essential phytonutrients that allow your

liver to produce detoxifying enzymes the

cruciferous family of vegetables have

the most potent ability to rejuvenate

the body and give the liver special

enzymes that eliminate these toxic

chemicals sprouts are one of the most

concentrated natural sources of vitamins

minerals enzymes and amino acids if you

then sprout cruciferous vegetables you

get a super immune fighting and disease

protective food there are a wide variety

of sprouts on the market today which

makes it much easier to include them in

your diet so today we invited june leon

from snyder sprouts who basically is

going to help us understand how to use

sprouts in our diet and I invited here

for a very specific reason I wanted to

bring the awareness up of the benefits

of sprouts in your diet

and as far as how they can improve your

health and all the foods that you can

possibly eat the sprouts are at the top

of the list they probably are the most

healthy food but when you go to a

restaurant and you’re eating some salad

and salad bar you might look at these

and go what are these you know what

these are going to do anything but

little do you know that the seed when

it’s germinated it grows in the cycle of

growing a plant that first part the

sprouting process is the highest

nutrient level and so it has great

properties that can be used to enhance

your health so welcome thank you you’re

welcome so let’s just go through a

couple different types of sprouts the

first sprout I’m going to talk about is

this broccoli sprouts right yes this is

part of the cruciferous family and

they’re very very you can put them on

salads oh yeah okay now it’s and

sandwiches they’re a very they’re so

wonderful for you they are full of

flavor they’re very spicy rich sprout so

there’s different types of

taste in these different sprouts right

because you have the onion sprout where

is that it’s right here

onion sprout these are very they’re

beautiful and they have the most

beautiful color than there’s such a rich

green and you can actually use those in

place of onions in your various dishes

amazing so this would be this is taste

like onion then you have a garlic sprout

uh-huh we’ve got a garlic sprout in in

here and in fact we’ve got different

we’ve got also we’ve got mustard and

others in there as well so they become

that becomes a very rich taste amazing

spicy so you could probably put the

garlic and onion and have it in some

like pasta dish right yeah but basically

you have also spicy and then you have

more nutty sprouts and that would be

probably the lentil source um or what

you think yeah actually honestly these

are kind of nutty tasting alfalfa so

yeah it’s just the regular alfalfa and

it’s not it’s it’s more of a balanced

taste as well so if you know someone

doesn’t really like the spiciness or the

you know all these different flavors at

once this is just a nice even flavor and

it’s so good in salads and on sandwiches

and people love to do wraps mm-hmm very

good interesting

now alfalfa sprouts is very high on the

phytoestrogens which is good to balance

estrogens and female especially

menopausal if they have too much of the

bad estrogen or not enough it tends to

give that balance back into the net

cycle now these are crunchy sprouts or

fall lentils yes and peas and chickpeas

and cow peas Chester full of protein

this is a very high protein product a

good vegetarian protein I know that

amino acids are the building block to

protein and when someone’s a vegetarian

they tend to be usually deficient in

certain amino acids but if if they were

going to be a vegetarian I think they

would want to eat all are obviously they

would want to eat those they would want

to put them in soups and stews they

would want to put them in salads and

just eat them right out of the box like

I do interesting so you have nutty and

then you have sweet sprouts so what are

some of the sweeter sprouts we

have snow pea sprouts which are very

sweet very very good very good in salads

we have corn shoots you’re another and

they’re very pretty little plant they

look just like a small small corn plant

interesting what do they taste like corn

straight up very good

that is interesting I bet you send my

clients one like that one yeah

so because it’s a sprout you’re getting

a lot less the sugar getting more

nutrients so that would be something

that would be a substitute for a corn on

the cob or maybe even now a lot of

people like bread run come from the

wheat so you have the wheat berries

which I heard that they taste like wheat

when you chew on maybe later but when

you sprout this I know there’s a recipe

at my website called down rejuvenate

which if you sprout it and you ferment

it it tastes like lemonade so it’s very

good pretty cool I would like to try

that

definitely so when when you sprout this

it becomes that yes becomes wheatgrass

and this is not something you want to

eat just the way it is because it is a

blade of grass so instead what you want

to do is clip it and juice it and that

because that’s very very good for your

liver detoxification and everything else

but what’s interesting is that this is a

little vitamin E and so is the sprouted

the wheat berry too so you have this

incredible vitamin E complex and also

you can do we trim pearls but then when

you oxidize it exposed to air you lose

all the vitamin E within a very short

period of time that’s why when someone

takes flour from the wheat berry they

grind it it doesn’t last very long I

mean it’s just like gone so you’re

eating your nutrition context go way way

way down as you refine this so that’s

what we’re talking about the sprout

which is a higher level of nutrition

clover is almost as equivalent to the

broccoli but I know it has a milder

taste and it does again a lot of people

who sort of want to stay away from those

heavy tastes it’s a very mild sprout

very easy to eat interesting and then

you have

sprout bean sprouts they’re loaded with

protein the other sprout that I didn’t

bring today but it looks just like it is

the soybean sprout that though is a

sprout you definitely want to cook that

use that in soups and things like that

the bean sprouts you can eat raw you can

put them in stir Fry’s very very good so

now when you have soy that’s been

modified or processed in isolates that

would be to my in my opinion not the

best source of nutrition but when you

have a sprout you’re getting a lot more

nutrition if it’s fresh and it’s not

modified you take the C that’s organic

the the phytoestrogens are very good to

balance estrogens and also they’re very

very high in protein I mean which is

what we’re trying to do is we’re trying

to give people a protein source that is

a high quality that’s very easy on the

liver because when you people that eat

meat potatoes it’s like cooked meat

protein this is so much more available

to your liver to be able to process to

make hair nail skin connective tissue

joints so that’s what we’re trying to do

is give people live protein there is

carbohydrate in here but the quality of

protein is so much higher than that of

cooked protein or heated or pasteurized

protein let’s see what else we have here

if yours there’s actually one fennel

fennel sprouts very good for your

stomach upset tummies what’s it taste

like

it’s got a very licorice taste to it

it’s a very definite taste I’m screaming

I’ll see if I can give it to my kids

instead of licorice there you go

oh my teenager kids been getting to go

with that so you have radish onion

sprouts and then you also have dill that

would be an interesting flavor

yeah nice too later interesting well

thank you so much for coming on and

explaining about the sprout so this has

been very helpful the question is how

many weekly servings of cruciferous

vegetables do you need 3 to 5 servings

per week this is less than one serving a

day one serving equals one cup or six

tablets or capsules of freeze-dried

cruciferous

however due to a history of eating

poorly chemical exposure and wear and

tear on the liver it’s recommended that

a person consume not just the minimum

amount but an extra amount of

cruciferous at least until the person’s

health stabilizes ounce for ounce

cruciferous vegetables contain as much

calcium as a glass of milk and more

vitamin C than an orange they are the

best source of vitamin A and have more

fiber than a slice of wheat bran bread

do your body a favor eat cruciferous

vegetables and live a long healthy and

energetic life

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