Josh Clark

They've got a ton.

We already mentioned potassium, but also a lot of calcium, a lot of iron, and then a lot of words that I can barely pronounce that you found that it's packed with, starting with flavonoids.

That's the only one I had heard of.

It has triterpenes, sesquiterpenes, phenolic acids, sterols, and coumarins.

And they bestow things like antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, and anti-tumor properties.

And you dug up a lot of ways that they actually help health, right?

Yeah.

So, I mean, we can talk all day about like the ways that people thought it would help you back in the 16th century.

But people might poopoo something like that.

But there have been modern studies.

I'll just give you a few examples.

There was a study from 2015 in Canada that reported that dandelion extract can block ultraviolet UVB radiation when applied to the skin.

It can also irritate the skin.

So don't necessarily just like take dandelions and like start rubbing them all over yourself at the pool.

There was a 2016 review of studies from a university in Denmark that suggests that dandelion extracts actually stimulates pancreatic cells to produce insulin.

So it could potentially help control blood sugar.

Right.

And what about those one on the liver, too, right?

Yeah, I said it was hepatoprotective, which means it helps the liver.

And actually, it goes in and just kicks butt in your liver.