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welcome to another video of Foodn
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Nourish Deep Dives, the video cast of
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foodnner nourish.net, where we explore
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topics like health, food, supplements,
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and alternative approaches to health and
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wellness. Okay, let's just jump right
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in. We've all been told our whole lives
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to eat our broccoli, right? It's like
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the poster child for healthy food. You
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see it in every shopping cart, steamed
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on every dinner plate. We know it's good
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for us. That's a given. But what if I
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told you there's a version of broccoli
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out there that makes the big green
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crowns look well like a nutritional
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slacker? What if the kind you've been
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eating all this time isn't even the most
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powerful form you could be getting?
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Yeah, you're seeing that right 100
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times. And no, that's not a typo. Some
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incredible research from John's Hopkins
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University found that these tiny
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three-day old broccoli sprouts can have
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up to a hundred times more of a crucial
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cancer fighting compound than the
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full-grown broccoli we're used to. So,
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how on earth is that even possible?
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Well, the huge difference between the
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little sprout and the big crown, it all
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comes down to this really cool chemical
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reaction that happens right inside the
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plant itself. The hero of our story
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today is a molecule called sulforophane.
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This is the stuff that gets researchers
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so excited. It's a phyitochemical and
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what it does is it basically flips a
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switch in your body turning on over 200
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protective genes that help get rid of
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harmful stuff. It's a real powerhouse.
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Now, here's the fascinating part.
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Broccoli doesn't actually contain
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sulfurophane. Not directly. Instead, it
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has two separate ingredients that are
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just waiting to combine. Think of it
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like a two-part epoxy. You've got the
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inactive precursor, which is called
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glucaraphin, and then you have the
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enzyme that acts like a key, and that's
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called myroinase. When you chop or chew
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broccoli, you're breaking down the
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plant's cell walls. That's what lets the
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key meet the precursor, and poof, you've
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unlocked the active protective
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And this right here is the critical
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part. That enzyme key, my roines, it's
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super sensitive to heat. So when you
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cook your broccoli, you basically
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destroy the key. The precursor is still
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there, sure, but without the enzyme to
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unlock it, you get almost no
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sulurophane. This is a huge issue for
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cooked broccoli, but it's exactly where
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raw sprouts have a massive, massive
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advantage. So now that we've got the
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science down, let's put the tiny sprout
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and the mature crown headto head. Let's
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see who really comes out on top in a
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direct showdown. So, this table kind of
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lays it all out. As we've seen, sprouts
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have anywhere from 10 to 100 times more
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sulforophane potential. They're best
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eaten raw, which keeps that all
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important enzyme safe. And as you'll see
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in a minute, they're shockingly cheap.
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But hold on, there's one more really
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critical difference we need to talk
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about. You see, not all the compounds in
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broccoli are, you know,
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straightforwardly good. Mature broccoli
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is pretty high in something called
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indole glucosinylates. Now, these can
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have some complicated kind of mixed
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effects on the body. Sometimes even
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pushing pathways we don't really want.
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Sprouts on the other hand, they are
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almost entirely made up of the purely
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protective stuff that becomes
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sulforophane. You get all the good with
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almost none of the baggage. So, what
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does this actually mean for you on your
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plate? To get a daily dose of sulfurane
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that researchers consider truly
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effective for health benefits, you'd
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need to eat about one cup of fresh
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broccoli sprouts. Totally doable. Right
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now, to get that same dose from mature
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broccoli, you'd have to eat anywhere
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from 2 to a mind-boggling 20 lbs every
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single day. I mean, come on, that's just
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not going to happen. This incredible
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difference in concentration is exactly
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why scientists almost always use sprouts
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in their research. And here's the real
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kicker. It's not just more powerful,
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it's actually cheaper. A serving of
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sprouts you buy at the store costs about
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a third of what you'd pay for mature
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broccoli. But if you grow them at home,
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which is ridiculously easy by the way,
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the cost just plummets to about 2 cents
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a serving. It's a no-brainer. You know,
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description. All right, so we know why
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sprouts are so powerful. Now, let's talk
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about how to make them and even mature
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broccoli even more potent with a few
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simple sciencebacked tricks. Here are
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three easy hacks for you. First, the
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freezing trick. Believe it or not,
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freezing your sprouts can actually
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double their self-refane output. The ice
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crystals help break down those cell
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walls, giving you a better mix of the
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precursor and the enzyme. Second, the
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chop and weight trick. If you chop any
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kind of broccoli, sprouts or mature,
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just wait about 90 seconds before you
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eat or cook it. This gives that enzyme
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time to do its thing. And finally, if
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you really want to cook your mature
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broccoli, just sprinkle a little mustard
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seed powder on it after you cook it.
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Mustard seed has a heat stable version
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of that key enzyme, which helps
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kickstart that sulurophane production
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all over again. Okay, so we've covered
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the science, the numbers, and the
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practical tips. Let's pull it all
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together and figure out what the final
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verdict is. Which one should you be
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putting on your plate? Look, at the end
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of the day, this isn't about throwing
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mature broccoli under the bus. It's
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still a great food. It's got tons of
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fiber, potassium, vitamin C. But if your
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goal is that therapeutic dose of
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sulforophane for maximum detoxification
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and disease prevention, sprouts are the
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hands-down undisputed champion. So, the
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best approach, use both. Sprouts for
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their concentrated power and mature
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broccoli for general nutrition and to
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mix things up. And this just brings us
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right back to the beginning to the
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source of this whole discovery. As Dr.
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Jed Fehee, the lead researcher at Johns
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Hopkins said himself, "Spouts are simply
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a very potent source of this protective
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stuff." It was an absolute gamecher. So
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the question really isn't if broccoli is
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healthy. We know it is. The question is,
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how can you get the absolute most out of
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it? Now that you know the incredible
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difference between the tiny young sprout
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and the big mature crown, it really
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makes you think, how are you going to
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power up your plate? To dive even deeper
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into all the research, make sure you
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