by Sean Herbert
“Listen to your Mother,” I always remember my Dad chastising me as a child! Dr. Mom was right when she said, “Eat your broccoli…It’s good for you!” So, it took science a few decades to catch up to the wisdom of MOM. I’m sure these scientists had mothers, too, and it looks like a few of them listened.
In 1992, Johns Hopkins medical researchers published a study citing Broccoli Sprouts as providing a highly concentrated source of sulforaphane, a phytochemical that helps to boost the body’s natural cancer-fighting resources and helps to reduce the risk of developing cancer.
As is human nature, once we find something that works, we have to test, retest, formulate processes, heat, blend, over consume and package to sell…You get the picture. Sage Mom was also correct when she said, “What is simple is true.”
Sprouts, the baby plants, are considered the most nutritious food on the planet. Sprouts contain anywhere from ten to hundreds of times the nutritional content of their adult plants. A good example…One ounce of Broccoli Sprouts is said to be as nutritious as consuming one and a half pounds of adult Broccoli. Broccoli Sprouts are also noted to contain more than one hundred times the cancer-fighting sulforaphane than the adult Broccoli plants. Sulforaphane is one of a type of phytochemicals called isothiocyanates. Sulforaphane stimulates enzymes in the body that neutralize free radical damage associated with the development of cancer. Currently sulforaphanes are being studied for these potential benefits: detoxification, boosting brain activity, cancer prevention, weight loss, slowing the aging process, boosting liver function, reducing inflammation and pain, stopping and reversing hair loss, healing ulcers, as well as cancer prevention and cancer treatment. Researchers have even found a chemical in Broccoli Sprouts called TRMP3 that blocks viruses from harming cells in the body.
In an article by Melissa Hendricks titled, “More reasons to eat those vegetables,” she quotes Paul Talalay, a head researcher at Johns Hopkins: “Limiting Broccoli Sprouts to the principle of chemoprotection was a mistake. The factors that assault cells (oxidation, DNA damaging chemicals, radiation, and inflammation) are fundamental to all chronic diseases (not just cancer). So sulforaphane and compounds like it could protect cells and tissues against a host of diseases. For now, the imagination of how these chemicals might be applied appears to have no limits.”
One thing is for certain, Listen to your Mother… “An ounce of Broccoli Sprouts prevention is worth a pound and a half of cure!”
Sean Herbert
Got Sprouts?
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