Andrew Huberman· PhD
broccoli spouts, which have up to 100 times more sulforaphane than broccoli
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broccoli spouts, which have up to 100 times more sulforaphane than broccoli
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So glutathione's a major antioxidant in our brain, in our vascular system, in our body, basically.
So there's evidence that eating things like compounds that are like sulforaphane or broccoli or broccoli spouts, which have up to 100 times more sulforaphane than broccoli, are activating glutathione in the brain. There's human evidence of that.
cruciferous vegetables, it negates that risk because they're getting sulfurophane which activates glutathione transferase and synthes. So glutathione is a major antioxidant in our brain and in our in our vascular system in our body.
So glutathione is a major antioxidant in our brain and in our in our vascular system in our body. Basically, there's evidence eating things like, you know, compounds that are like sulfurophane or broccoli or brocc broccoli sprouts which have like 100 up to 100 times more sulforophane than broccoli are activating glutathione in the brain. There's human evidence of that.
Another pilot clinical study finds sulforaphane (abundant in broccoli sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables) increased blood glutathione levels and this correlated with increased glutathione in certain brain regions in healthy people.
broccoli sprouts have up to almost 7x as many sulforaphanes (the anti-cancer stuff compared to broccoli florets.
Broccoli sprouts have the highest source (up to 100 times more than mature broccoli) but cruciferous vegetables, in general, have it.
Supplements are effective, but broccoli sprouts, with 100x more sulforaphane precursor than mature broccoli, are also a great source.
We talked about how broccoli sprouts are the best source of sulfurophane containing up to a hundred times more of the precursor to sulforophane glucaraphin than mature broccoli.
broccoli sprouts contain up to a hundred times more glucoraphanin the precursor to sulforaphane than mature broccoli
alcohol also depletes brain glutathione levels as well several from my Fitness members brought up a product called zbiotics which is marketed as a pre-alps after a night of drinking zbiotics is a genetically engineered probiotic bacteria that once consumed produces the enzyme acetyl aldhy dehydrogenase or aldh in your gut
Broccoli sprouts are the best source of sulfurophane. They're the young plant. In fact, there's about a hundred times more of the precursor of sulfurophane glucaraphin in broccoli sprouts compared to mature broccoli.