The amazing benefits of broccoli sprouts.

Broccoli sprouts are a great way to get your daily dose of cancer-fighting nutrients. Sprouts contain particular plant proteins that help fight cancer. They also contain antioxidants and vitamins that help prevent diseases. You can buy fresh broccoli, or you can grow it yourself.

When you start consuming broccoli for the TCM benefit of preventing or fighting cancer, there are two crucial points to consider. Because of modern farming, eating uncooked (grilled, blanched, baked) broccoli is unhealthy and stressful on your digestive tract, especially for anyone over the age of 40. The stress on your system outweighs the benefits of the raw florets ingested. For any of my clients to learn about this for the first time is a surprise, confused that “raw” is often better than cooked… Second, cut broccoli sprouts purchased in containers have long lost most of their powerful substance. You need to sprout your seeds and consume them within 30 minutes of harvest, ideally with tender roots.

Two main types of plant chemicals in fresh-cut broccoli sprouts cause apoptosis within human cells: sulforaphane (SFN) and glucoraphanin (GR). SFN can inhibit inflammatory cytokines, while GR inhibits certain enzymes involved in DNA damage repair and cell proliferation. These two compounds also trigger apoptotic activity by causing DNA fragmentation or fragmentation of mitochondria membranes, which leads to cell death—a process called “apoptosis.”

Broccoli sprouts are a great source of antioxidants and vitamins that help prevent diseases.

Antioxidants: The antioxidant nutrients in broccoli sprouts include vitamin A, vitamin C, and beta-carotene. These nutrients help reduce free radical damage in your body’s cells and have been shown to initiate cancer prevention.

Naturally consumed vitamin C reduces cancer risk by up to 40 percent! It also plays a role in immune function (which helps fight off infections) and tissue repair after injury or surgery. My statement above does not apply to any form of artificial vitamin C consumption: pills, powders, gummies, or fancy liquid drops; they are utterly falsely advertised as effective. Vitamin nutrients are found naturally in many foods, such as citrus fruits, bell peppers, and green leafy vegetables like broccoli or strawberries, but they’re most abundant in red meat. So, if you cut down on processed meats, you’ll benefit from more vitamin C from plant-based sources!

This is where I intervene again by pressing the point that raw Kale or Collard greens consumed are not beneficial to achieving health. It’s a marketing ploy to sell easy-to-grow leafy greens that even cows void consuming because it can’t be ideally processed even with four stomachs!

You can buy fresh young broccoli or grow this amazing sprout yourself. Tray-sprouting can be done in any kitchen or by a window. It’s inexpensive for the robust health punch you obtain in return!

If you have a garden, try growing your broccoli sprouts at home. It’s easy, and they taste great! If not, find a local farmer who sells them whole at the market and buy from them because they will be fresher than if you purchased them from a grocery store shelve.

If you are on a health journey because of cancer, make your healthy foods at home.

We are too lazy to source healthy and qualitatively sane foods and need more time to cook every meal. We want something quick, easy, and delicious without all the work involved in making it yourself! You should do this if you’re going to eat better but still enjoy eating out or having a treat now and then.

If you want to take advantage of the many benefits of broccoli sprouts, then you should start eating them right away! They are so easy to grow, and they taste great too. Incorporate them in your daily morning juice blend (blended, never juiced)! 

The core message: You can make your own healthy foods at home.

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TCMchef Raphael