Grows in a Jar in 4 Days. It Beats Store Broccoli 50 to 1. Why Do They Never Tell You About It?

📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.html In 1997, a team at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published a finding about broccoli sprouts that reset how researchers thought about an everyday vegetable. Three-day-old broccoli sprouts, grown in nothing but a glass jar of water on a windowsill, carried as much as one hundred times the glucoraphanin, the precursor the body converts into the compound sulforaphane, found in the mature broccoli sold at the store. The most concentrated form of one of the most studied protective compounds in the American diet was not a pill, not a supplement, and not a branded product in a sealed package. It was a spoonful of seed, four days, and a few cents. This episode tells the fuller story. How a Johns Hopkins laboratory measured it, what sulforaphane appears to do inside the body's own defensive system of phase two enzymes, and what happened when a company was granted patents on the sprouts themselves and the method of growing them. It is a story about kitchen self reliance, forgotten food, a patent fight that climbed to a federal appeals court, and a ruling on the question of whether anyone can own a plant that people have sprouted for thousands of years. In the video: how broccoli sprouts became the richest known source of sulforaphane, how to grow them at home in a jar in four days for pennies, why eating them raw and chewed matters, and how a patent on a sprout was finally struck down. No supplement aisle. No brand name. No premium price. A jar, a windowsill, and four days. Nature's Lost Vault documents the plants, remedies, and old skills that modern industry priced, packaged, or set aside, told plainly and from the sources, for people who still remember the world before the supermarket ran the kitchen. Sources - Fahey, J. W., Y. Zhang, and P. Talalay. "Broccoli Sprouts: An Exceptionally Rich Source of Inducers of Enzymes That Protect against Chemical Carcinogens." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94, no. 19 (1997): 10367-10372. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.19.10367 - Zhang, Y., P. Talalay, C. G. Cho, and G. H. Posner. "A Major Inducer of Anticarcinogenic Protective Enzymes from Broccoli: Isolation and Elucidation of Structure." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89, no. 6 (1992): 2399-2403. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.6.2399 - Talalay, P., and J. W. Fahey. "Phytochemicals from Cruciferous Plants Protect against Cancer by Modulating Carcinogen Metabolism." Journal of Nutrition 131, no. 11 Suppl (2001): 3027S-3033S. doi:10.1093/jn/131.11.3027S - Fahey, J. W., X. Haristoy, P. M. Dolan, T. W. Kensler, I. Scholtus, K. K. Stephenson, P. Talalay, and A. Lozniewski. "Sulforaphane Inhibits Extracellular, Intracellular, and Antibiotic-Resistant Strains of Helicobacter pylori and Prevents Benzo[a]pyrene-Induced Stomach Tumors." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99, no. 11 (2002): 7610-7615. doi:10.1073/pnas.112203099 - Kensler, T. W., J. G. Chen, P. A. Egner, J. W. Fahey, L. P. Jacobson, K. K. Stephenson, et al. "Effects of Glucosinolate-Rich Broccoli Sprouts on Urinary Levels of Aflatoxin-DNA Adducts and Phenanthrene Tetraols in a Randomized Clinical Trial in He Zuo Township, Qidong, People's Republic of China." Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 14, no. 11 Pt 1 (2005): 2605-2613. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0368 - Egner, P. A., J. G. Chen, A. T. Zarth, D. K. Ng, J. B. Wang, K. H. Kensler, et al. "Rapid and Sustainable Detoxication of Airborne Pollutants by Broccoli Sprout Beverage: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial in China." Cancer Prevention Research 7, no. 8 (2014): 813-823. doi:10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-14-0103 - Clarke, J. D., R. H. Dashwood, and E. Ho. "Multi-Targeted Prevention of Cancer by Sulforaphane." Cancer Letters 269, no. 2 (2008): 291-304. doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2008.04.018 - Yagishita, Y., J. W. Fahey, A. T. Dinkova-Kostova, and T. W. Kensler. "Broccoli or Sulforaphane: Is It the Source or Dose That Matters?" Molecules 24, no. 19 (2019): 3593. doi:10.3390/molecules24193593 - In re Cruciferous Sprout Patent Litigation, 168 F. Supp. 2d 534 (D. Md. 2001). - In re Cruciferous Sprout Litigation, 301 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2002). - Brassica Protection Products LLC v. Caudill Seed & Warehouse Co., 591 F. Supp. 2d 389 (S.D.N.Y. 2008). #Foraging #ForgottenFoods #Sprouting #SelfSufficiency #NaturalRemedies #Homestead