Dr. Jeff Bland
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first heard Nov 2024
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probably more phytochemicals than almost any other plant on the planet that we've discovered to date, has sort of been a neglected plant. And you've taken this plant and subjected it to rigorous clinical trials, studies that have found some pretty extraordinary things with this. And this is a seed, basically, right? A flower seed. It's a fruit seed. Fruit seed, yeah.
You can't really buy it that easily in the supermarket, but you've basically resurrected it from being kind of almost eliminated from the food supply, created a model of regenerative farming to grow it, which actually compounds the phytochemical richness of the food and increases it because the soil is how the plants grow. get their nutrition.
And if the soil is dead and dirt, not soil, if it's just devoid of organic matter, it can't take out the nutrients. So you've even sprouted it, which even accentuates a lot of these benefits. ES, it's rich in flavonoids like quercetin, which has been studied for longevity and It activates AMPK, which is a key enzyme in Longevity's pathways and many other things.
You found how it affects gut immune system function with its prebiotic fibers. You found how it actually enhances the function of natural killer cells, which are key to fighting infection and cancer.
how it modulates inflammatory cytokines that drive inflammation in the body, all the chronic sterile inflammation we've been talking about, that's rich in nutrients like zinc and magnesium, that is important for function of your T cells and your natural killer cells, and even has antimicrobial properties that are antiviral.
So it's high in protein, it's low in starch and sugar, low glycemic load. It's quite an incredible plant that you've kind of resurrected from the mothballs of history. And one of the things you've done with this is you've subjected it to a trial in humans where you've measured through very complicated, sophisticated epigenetic testing. In other words, how this particular plant modifies
the expression of our genes and is an immuno rejuvenator. So can you take us down what that study was that you did and how this sort of works at a mechanistic level and what you discovered in terms of its effects on our genome?
Yes, you could. I'll try 121.
So it has to have 17,000 feet. That's right. You get more sunburn, right?
And when we see an effect in medicine, we say, oh, it's a 30% decrease in your risk of heart attack if you take a statin. And that's 30%. We're talking about a 2,000% effect.
Yeah.
So basically taking a supplement with Himalayan tartar buckwheat plant chemicals or other chemicals in 90 days reversed your immune health by 47%.
That's amazing.
Across other foods.
Yeah, this is amazing. And I think, you know, what's so interesting about this particular food is that it has like a multi-tool, like a Swiss army knife of effects in terms of the body. And it doesn't just affect the immune system and inflammation in all the ways I describe it. It also... has incredible effects on metabolism by regulating glucose metabolism.
The fibers in it help with cholesterol metabolism, improve your HDL and lower your LDL, and helps liver fat, and modulates something called AMPK, which is a critical pathway that a lot of people are studying related to longevity. It's what I call one of the four longevity switches that everybody's studying metformin for, but there may be other ways to do that without having to take a drug.
And it has effects on the microbiome in ways that help blood sugar control. So there's so much going on there, not just the fiber in it, but also the polyphenols, which now are needed for gut microbiome health. So this is such an incredible food, and you've sort of resurrected it from basically the grave.
I have done a tremendous amount of research on it, and we'll link to all the studies that we talked about. But this is kind of a moment in history when we're finally able to sort of make sense of food as medicine, not in this abstract way,
high-level framework, but actually in a very specific way with very sophisticated testing that isn't available clinically, but is a research tool to see the impact of These molecules that we can get from our food, you can make, I make pancakes out of it, you know, muffins, but you can get the sprout powder, which sort of enhances its benefit. And I put that every day in my smoothie.
You can sprinkle it on yogurt or, you know, put it in food. It's kind of like a superfood of the superfood in a sense. Your work in this whole area, I never even heard of the word amino rejuvenation until you said it, right? And never heard of amino metabolism, but now there's published papers on it. There's a whole field of research that's looking at this.
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