Sprouts for Disease Prevention and Dietary Diversity - Doug Evans

[00:00:00]But in general, and and I love that I I had the honor of coming on right after uh Dr. Colin Campbell, um he will say that there's no we we shouldn't be focused on individual compounds or micronutrients or even phytonutrients that we should look at the whole and every sprout and literally I wrote a section about every sprout in the book.

[00:00:25]It was actually so much fun because in the beginning I was like, "Oh, sprouts."

[00:00:29]But then I realized that's like saying dogs. And there's enough differentiation between like a Chihuahua and a Great Dane. Like they're both in the canine family. So sprouts are actually a term for a germinated seed which could be from a nut, you know, or a seed or a legume. And so there's a lot behind them. So, I think that broccoli sprouts are super healthy, but it would be hard to get enough calories from living just on the broccoli sprouts. So, you really want to have multiple sprouts in your repertoire. And I love what you're saying about having the six jars. I was growing six jars, you know, in one cubic foot and getting thousands of calories a day, but I was growing a variety of them.

[00:01:25]Um, uh, you suggested replacing salad greens with sprouts. Um, can we completely do this? Like, do we need to still go to the supermarket and buy kale and dandelion and broccoli or does sprouts completely replace them? And then also, aren't we missing something if we don't have vegetables that are pulling minerals from the soil?

[00:01:50]>> Okay, so the you're asking two questions. Let me break it down. Number one, vegetables from the supermarket for salads. If you have a sprouting farm in your kitchen, are unnecessary.

[00:02:05]Unnecessary. There's nothing in there that you will not get from your sprout farm on your countertop. Number two, the sprouts actually have within them the minerals from the original plant that that bared its seed. So what happens is the the seeds for sprouting are grown in soil with minerals. The seed will sprout, turn into a sprout, then it'll turn into a micro green and then over several months it'll turn into a mature plant. In this case, broccoli, a mature broccoli plant as very familiar to us or a familiar lettuce.

[00:02:58]And then that plant will then flower, pollinate, and then the flower will fruit and then there will be pods. And the pods are the fruit of the vegetable.

[00:03:18]And inside of there, those seeds, inside the pods are directly connected through the root, the chute, the stem of the organism into the soil.

[00:03:34]And inside of the seed, which is a complete living organism, contains an endosperm and an embryo that are enriched with the minerals of the soil.

[00:03:50]And when you sprout it, nature has given us this gift that you can sprout that seed into a vegetable over those five days without anything else other than you adding water. And then the the sprout itself is intelligent enough to sequester carbon and oxygen from the environment and grow into an edible mineralrich vegetable.

[00:04:26]>> Um, so the the million-dollar question is assuming that we've now >> Wait, wait, wait, Steve. I don't get a mic drop for that last explanation.

[00:04:34]>> That was fantastic. Thank you for that detailed, knowledgeable explanation.

[00:04:38]Thank you.

[00:04:39]>> Okay.

[00:04:40]>> I'm I'm I'm feeling like I'm with an expert on a topic and I'm trying to get every possible answer because once you leave, I don't know how to ever find this information out.

[00:04:49]>> Okay, let's go then.

[00:04:51]>> Okay, so here's the million-dollar question. Assume that we're saying that a huge sprout salad of a wide variety of sprouts for lunch and dinner is the ultimate food. It's the the best possible food we could eat. How effective do we think this is in preventing chronic illness and reversing chronic illness?

[00:05:12]>> I mean it is it is literally priceless.

[00:05:16]Like literally, you know, I've had um lunch with billionaires and I've had lunch with people who don't have a pot to piss in and the common thing is that they were both eating sprouts. So I believe sincerely and earnestly and emphatically that sprouts create food equality for for all because they are so available, so easy, so accessible that that anyone can have them like in any environment.

[00:05:55]And and it brings me joy to be able to answer that million-dollar question with the fact that the sprout salad is healthier, it's tasty, it's filling, it's delicious, it's safe, and it's available for anyone who seeks it with earnest desire. Like literally, if someone wants to prevent or reverse their chronic illness, they can do it with Sprouts.

[00:06:21]And do we have any um evidence that people have reversed chronic illness through diet such as a a very high sprout diet?

[00:06:31]>> I mean, Steve, you have the best rolodex, you know, in in in the world for this. So, when you when you start to speak to like I did, you know, with these um professionals, they will tell you sprouts are vegetables. So, every benefit of the whole food plant-based diet can be achieved through sprouts.

[00:06:53]Now, what happens is it's such an abstract concept that it's hard for people to get their arms around it.

[00:07:02]But if you were to take the nutritional profile of what you were to consume and bifurcate that from the labels and the names of they were and show someone, okay, I had a a six course meal and the nutrition in each course contained this, this, this, and this.

[00:07:28]You would it would be much easier for someone to give you that affirmative yes than if you said to them, "Hey, I just I had a big Sprout lunch, etc. You know, what do you think? Am I complete?"

[00:07:40]Because the society has demonized sprouts and has relegated them off to be the ugly stepchild to think that they're they're just a garnish or a side dish or or for some hippie dippy trippies and they're not real. But if you were to to take the meal and pull out the nutrients from them and put on the list and go talk to your dietician nutrition, they'd think like you're eating the golden diet.

[00:08:14]They'd say, "Holy cow, Steve, what an honor. What a privilege. You're crushing it eating this diet." And then when you tell them what it is, they're still going to tell you, "Oh, you got to eat other stuff because sprouts aren't enough." Like, that's how brainwashed society is. They're just brainwashed.

[00:08:31]They have no clue. But you do, >> Doug. Sometimes when I buy a mixture of sprouts, I realize I bought a variety that's too spicy. It's really hot.

[00:08:41]>> Yeah.

[00:08:41]>> Um and it's really some of it's really spicy and I just say to myself, "This is too hot. If I somehow found a way to eat it, am I getting even more benefit by these hot spicy sprouts?"

[00:08:54]>> Not necessarily. Not necessarily. I think the hot spicy you know are part of the plant's defense mechanism and um it is not necessary to have that.

[00:09:09]I think as your mentors will say you want to have enough variety of sprouts, you want to have enough calories from sprouts and you want to eat them actually in moderation. So when you start to go deep on the daicon ro radishes etc like they could be burning hot burning hot and I don't think it's necessary I wouldn't torture yourself food should not be something that you fantasize for but you you shouldn't have an aversion to it so what happens is someone offered me straight radish sprouts like I would have an aversion to eating the straight radish sprouts like I would want to have no more than 5% by volume for of the radish sprouts. And it took me a while to develop the taste buds that I can eat, you know, handfuls of broccoli sprouts by themselves because they were a little intense for me in the early days. There were some uh people in who used to say, I haven't heard it lately, to grow your uh sprouts in diluted ocean water so that it absorbs the 92 minerals that are in the ocean water. Is that something you're recommending?

[00:10:26]I I mean, there's a lot of fancyful things that you can do. You know, um a lot of the ocean water is also dubious depending on where you're getting it from and diluting it. You could also add minerals to it, you know, where they make mineral packs, whether they're vulvvic minerals or ocean minerals in a concentrated form in a dropper to it. I tend not to to feel like I need these other things. Like I feel I'm a very simple New York guy living in the desert and I'm grateful to have basic um uh provisions. And so I like that sounds very exotic for me and a hurdle. So I don't want to I don't want to make it harder for people to enter down the sprout path by having some exogenous requirements like ocean water.

[00:11:22]>> And if I'm using your sprouters, what sprouts can I not sprout in your sprouters in light? Are there certain ones that have to be in the dark? Are there certain ones that need to be planted in soil? What what can I not do that you're recommending um with your sprouters?

[00:11:39]>> Well, if you if you like to sprout for meditative purposes, you can sprout sunflower seeds in them. I tend to prefer my sunflower sprouts to grow on a tray because they grow up. So, you can grow pea sprouts in our jars in our sprouting kit. Pea shoots need to be grown flat. So, um, peashoots and sunflower shoots, which are terrific, they need to be grown flat so they can grow up. Chia and flax are gelatinous and they won't do well in the glass sprouter either. They need to be grown on a sprouting medium or, believe it or not, on a chiaet.

[00:12:32]Like you can get a Chia Pet, sanitize it with hydrogen peroxide and then you could be growing your chia and flax on a Chia Pet [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]