Speaker 1: Organic foods are so important
for so many different reasons.
Of course, you're going to reduce your pesticide
exposure, your urbacide exposure.
This is really important because we're finding
these chemicals maybe causing things like
leaky gut, they may be causing organ damage,
they may be causing brain damage, but another
piece is fascinating to me.
When a plant is stressed, it produces different
compounds, so if a plant is bitten by an insect,
let's take broccoli for example.
The broccoli is bitten by an insect, it starts
producing a pesticide.
This pesticide is a sulfur containing compound
called sulforaphane.
If you chew broccoli, you can know real fast
that there's sulfur in it, you can taste it,
but before you chew it, you didn't access
that sulfur, so it's the same thing, an insect
will chew on it and it starts that plant producing
a lot more of this sulforaphane compounds.
Why would that be good for you?
Did you know this very same pesticides in
these plants will go into each and every one
of your cells and turn on your genes to start
producing a host of detoxification and antioxidant
proteins.
Now, this is different than anything blueberries
and oranges.
You eat blueberries and oranges and what do
they do?
They provide a lot of vitamin C or [inaudible
00:01:12] and they'll attack free radicals
on a one-to-one basis.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about going into every single
one of your cells, tying on your genetics
to produce more antioxidant and detoxification
proteins for 72 to 94 hours.
That's phenomenal for protecting yourself.
If that was a non-organic broccoli or if it
was grown next to GMO canola, it would not
have those beneficial protective compounds
in the same amount that organic wood.
Let's take blueberries for example.
[Inaudible 00:01:47] themselves is blue-ish,
purplely pigments that everybody knows about.
Potent for protecting the brain.
If you buy an organic blueberry that was grown
with fertilizers and no insects, it will have
lower compounds.
If you go up into the mountainous region where
I live, in the high Alpine region where bulls
are nibbling on them, bears are stomping on
them, goats are tromping on them, and there's
very cold nights, these blueberries produce
more chemicals than ever before and you'll
find amazing antioxidant qualities.
