Why sprouts, not florets

Three-day broccoli sprouts carry roughly 20–50× the chemoprotective compounds — and 10–100× the sulforaphane precursor glucoraphanin — of mature broccoli florets. First documented by Fahey, Zhang and Talalay at Johns Hopkins in 1997.¹

Sulforaphane is the active molecule. In a human study by Atwell and colleagues (2015), broccoli-sprout consumption produced measurable HDAC inhibition in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.² HDAC inhibition and DNA methyltransferase modulation are the same chromatin and methylation machinery that sit upstream of optimal energy production in the Brecka / Mercola / Means framing. Sulforaphane is also the strongest known dietary activator of the NRF2 pathway, which upregulates glutathione synthesis and spares S-adenosyl methionine (SAMe) from oxidative drain.

Myrosinase is the difference

Glucoraphanin only converts to sulforaphane when it meets the enzyme myrosinase. Most commercial sprout powders dry hot and destroy the enzyme — the glucoraphanin remains, but it never converts in your gut at scale. We dehydrate low-temperature to keep myrosinase active, so the conversion happens when you stir the powder into water. Sulforaphane presence can be verified with a standard isothiocyanate assay.

How to use

Half a teaspoon (2 g) stirred into water, smoothie, or kefir. Once daily, ideally with food.

What users report

Reported subjective effects on energy, recovery, and oxidative-stress markers vary. Not a therapeutic claim and not assessed by the TGA.

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