Dr. Michael Greger

Interesting.

as much as people have tried.

And so, yeah, anytime some new study comes out saying berries are great for you and it's probably these anthocyanin pigments, the bright colorful pigments in berries, then instantly supplement manufacturers are like, boom, there's anthocyanin supplements at every dose possible.

Sure.

But the food form of these nutrients is the best form to get them.

And there have actually been studies that have actually put things head to head.

So it's like, oh, I bet tomatoes are good because lycopene, that red pigment, that's why people, men who eat more tomato products have lower rates of prostate cancer.

It's probably the lycopene.

But when you actually give people lycopene supplements, it doesn't work.

Wow.

And so it's like, okay, well, there's thousands of other things in tomatoes.

Let's try something else, right?

But it doesn't stop people from making lycopene supplements.

Exactly.

It's a symphony.

And in fact, there's actually synergy.

So when you take, there's a famous study that was done on pomegranate and you can fractionate out the pomegranate into, you know, different, based on kind of different compound weights.

And when, so when you give

you kind of drip one component of pomegranates on cancer cells growing, human cancer cells growing in a petri dish, you know, it drops your growth like 20% and you do another compound, but then you add together and you have, and one plus one is greater than two in that they somehow work together and actually have greater drop than all the individual components.

So really the whole, I mean, I would love, if there was a supplement,