How To Render Seeds & Plants More Digestible, Get More Amino Acids From Vegetables & Everything You Need To Know About Sprouts & Sprouting With Doug Evans.
Ben Greenfield
Feb 29, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Verify broccoli seed quality for sulforaphane benefits
Third-party lab testing revealed that some broccoli seeds sold online for their health benefits contained zero of the precursor to sulforaphane.
Use home-grown sprouts as salad base
Instead of adding a few sprouts as a garnish, you can use a full jar of home-grown sprouts as the entire base for a salad.
Sprout lentils to boost fiber and antioxidants
When you sprout a lentil, you can double its antioxidant levels, triple its vitamin C, and quadruple its soluble and insoluble fiber content.
Soak and sprout seeds to reduce anti-nutrients
The process of soaking and sprouting a seed reduces its anti-nutrients like lectins and phytic acid, contrary to the belief that sprouting concentrates them.
Detoxify lung pollutants with sulforaphane from sprouts
The sulforaphane in sprouts can help detoxify and excrete air pollutants like benzene from the lungs by activating the NRF2 pathway.
Freeze sprouts to enhance sulforaphane absorption
Freezing sprouts before blending them in a smoothie can increase the bioavailability of the cancer-fighting compound sulforaphane.
Leverage plant anti-nutrients for beneficial stress response
The so-called anti-nutrients in plants can create a beneficial hermetic stress effect, triggering the production of heat shock proteins similar to a sauna or cold plunge.
Choose glyphosate-tested seeds for safe sprouting
The Sprouting Company offers the first sprouting seeds on the market that are third-party lab-tested to be free of glyphosate residue.
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