1. I’ve continued daily practices from Year Two with microwaved 3-day-old broccoli, red cabbage, and mustard sprouts for 13 times longer now than any sulforaphane clinical trial. The main difference over the past year is that I eat AGE-less chicken vegetable soup 3-4 times a week rather than twice a day. That was just too … Continue reading Year Three of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
Ending the week with a thorough 2023 study of microwaving broccoli in a bag: “Appropriate processing and cooking technologies can effectively improve the content of bioactive compounds in vegetables. Effects of microwave bag cooking on broccoli floret quality attributes, glucosinolates (GLSs) content and hydrolysate production were investigated in this study. Microwave bag cooking preserved the … Continue reading Week 148 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
Two papers, starting with a 2023 study that investigated the same red radish cultivar as Sulforaphene, a natural analog of sulforaphane: “Availability of microgreen products is constantly rising, i.e., they are offered for sale in local farmers markets, specialty stores, and in chain grocery stores. Due to the low demands required for their cultivation and easily … Continue reading Week 144 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
1. My third gut microbiome test results came in this week. I submitted a sample earlier this month to follow methods in the second paper of Improving dietary fiber research in a continuing effort to treat my gut microbiota well. But that study’s vendor was unable to ship an EU-approved product from The Netherlands to … Continue reading Week 127 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
It was time for an annual physical last Wednesday. My focus was to see whether reducing sulforaphane intake per Week 87 had the desired effect on thyroid measurements. That and other adjustments did! Readings of TSH 2.91 (0.45 – 4.50 uIU/mL), free T4 1.22 (0.82 − 1.77 ng/dL), and free T3 2.4 (2.0 – 4.4 … Continue reading Week 120 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
1. I’ve eaten clinically-relevant doses of sulforaphane every day for 104 weeks now with microwaved 3-day-old broccoli, red cabbage, and mustard sprouts. That’s 8+ times longer than any sulforaphane clinical trial. I continue to: Eat Avena nuda oats for breakfast; Eat 3-day-old hulled Avena sativa oat sprouts twice a day; Eat AGE-less chicken vegetable soup … Continue reading Year Two of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
This week I dialed back eating microwaved 3-day-old broccoli / red cabbage / mustard sprouts from twice a day to once a day. For my reasoning, here are two papers on broccoli sprouts and thyroid function, with the first a 2018 human study: “We analyzed biochemical measures of thyroid function and thyroid autoimmunity in a … Continue reading Week 87 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
To follow up Part 1, received Thursday’s lab results yesterday. Downloaded the workbook at https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/ and filled it in. Went to http://aging.ai/, selected 3.0, and entered values. My starting point’s calculated values were: A biological age snapshot from a year ago‘s video included optimal ranges: Values in these optimal ranges were: Albumin: 46; Creatinine: 1.07; … Continue reading Part 2 of Week 63 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
Finally got around to getting an annual physical this morning. Two indicators so far, with more expected in five days. They came in early, so here’s Part 2. 1. HbA1C – glycated hemoglobin – was 4.8 on a scale of 4.8 to 5.6%. That’s down from 5.1 in June 2020. HbA1C shows a two-month average … Continue reading Week 63 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
1. Per Improving healthy compounds of broccoli sprouts and Broccoli sprouts’ immune effects, this week I added mustard sprouts and red cabbage sprouts to my twice-daily routine of eating 3-day-old microwaved broccoli sprouts. At first, I started mustard and red cabbage seeds with the same 10.7 gram weight (one tablespoon) of seeds. They grew well … Continue reading Week 56 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with sprouts
1. My subjective experiences these past 52 weeks are that noticeable changes keep happening due to combinations of: Eating clinically-relevant, twice-daily doses of microwaved 3-day-old broccoli sprouts, and taking nothing else an hour before or an hour after; Eating 3-day-old oat sprouts twice a day; Exercising every day; Taking yeast cell wall β-glucan and other … Continue reading Year One of Changing to a youthful phenotype with broccoli sprouts
1. Effects of broccoli sprouts that seemed personally astounding at Week 10 became a part of day-to-day life. What will happen next? Day 350 of eating a clinically relevant amount of broccoli sprouts every day seems like a large number. Yet in comparison, for 6,000+ days I’ve taken a clinically relevant dose of 1/3, 1/6 … Continue reading Week 50 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with broccoli sprouts
1. I had two wake-up calls on scale this week. The first started with A follow-on study to 3-day-old broccoli sprouts have the optimal yields that found: “Activity of free MYR [myrosinase enzyme] was the highest at pH 5.0, and it decreased rapidly when pH was less or higher.” Bought a pH meter and ReaLemon … Continue reading Week 42 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with broccoli sprouts
1. Been wrong about a few things this past week: A. I thought in Week 28 that extrapolating A rejuvenation therapy and sulforaphane results to humans would produce personal results by this week. An 8-day rat treatment period ≈ 258 human days, and 258 / 7 ≈ 37 weeks. There are just too many unknowns … Continue reading Week 37 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with broccoli sprouts
1. Thank you to readers of this blog who find the 650+ curations and other posts worth their time. I reread blog posts after you read them, and sometimes improve them for our mutual benefit. One such post this week was Broccoli sprout compounds include sinapic acid derivatives. Although it was already fairly detailed, it … Continue reading Week 34 of Changing to a youthful phenotype with broccoli sprouts
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