Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Are you getting enough PHYTONUTRIENTS?

Nov. 12, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Are you getting enough PHYTONUTRIENTS?

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	Are you getting enough phytonutrients in your diet?
	That's the question of this podcast.
	Thank you for joining me.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, food scientist, published food scientist.
	You know, we've got a MassSpec laboratory on food safety.
	We do all kinds of food testing.
	We do formulations of our own products, etc.
	And that's my dog in the background, if you can hear him scratching away.
	And he has a healthy diet too.
	But do you have enough phytonutrients?
	Now, by phyto, we mean, of course, from plants.
	So phytochemistry, that's P-H-Y-T-O.
	Phytochemistry is the chemistry of plants.
	Phytonutrients are nutrients from plants.
	Now, understand that when we talk about the miraculous molecules from plants, molecules that are neuroprotective, that are anti-cancer molecules, or even fibers that help brush dioxins out of your intestinal tract or fibers that bind to lead and heavy metals and things like that.
	When we talk about all of these, or antioxidants, carotenoids, right, polyphenols, these are not found in meats at all.
	I mean, none of them.
	None of them are found in meat.
	Meat is flesh.
	Flesh does, you know, flesh is from obviously from animals, and animals do not obviously share the same biochemistry as plants because plants have to make their own medicines because they can't go out and eat it from something else.
	So it's a very interesting understanding of nature.
	So animals can go out and eat plants.
	And if you look at gorillas in the rainforest, for example, or whatever animals, you know, they're living on plants or other animals.
	Some of them are omnivores.
	But even if they eat other animals, those animals ate plants.
	You know, so a predator will eat a vegetarian animal that lived on plants.
	So ultimately, the food chain gets back to plants one way or another.
	And you even find cases of in rainforests, gorillas will self-medicate with medicinal plants.
	They actually have knowledge of what plants will help them with whatever they're dealing with.
	If they have an injury or a wound, they will go out and harvest antibacterial plants.
	And then they will treat themselves.
	They'll actually make a poultice by chewing on the plant and then putting it on the wound.
	I mean, this has been observed and documented in nature.
	It's, I mean, we find it remarkable, but it shouldn't be.
	This is natural.
	This is the way it has worked for the longest time.
	So, so plants then, they have to make their own antibacterial substances because, of course, bacteria are always in the soil trying to attack their roots.
	So, they have to defend themselves against the soil microbes.
	So, every plant makes antimicrobial substances, every single one.
	There are no exceptions to this.
	So, if you're wondering, like, where are we going to find antibiotics?
	Look around.
	They're everywhere.
	Actually, they're everywhere in nature.
	And plants produce all kinds of substances to protect themselves against various threats.
	For example, did you know that resveratrol, which is found in the skin of red grapes and also it's found in grape leaves, it's also derived from Japanese knotweed.
	That's the form that most people are taking.
	Resveratrol is one of the most miraculous molecules ever discovered in terms of promoting cardiovascular health and healthy blood, healthy circulation, healthy heart, all of that.
	I mean, if it were a prescription drug, it would be called the miracle discovery of all time, probably.
	It's that good.
	But why do grapes make it?
	What's the point of making it?
	Well, for the grape plant, resveratrol is made in response to fungi, that is fungal attacks on the grape plant.
	Resveratrol is a defense.
	So for the grape plant, the vine, resveratrol is antifungal.
	For you and I, it's something very, very different.
	It has incredible cardiovascular benefits.
	So isn't that interesting that even some of the sort of deworming products that you may be familiar with, like fembendazole, or let's take ivermectin, actually, a better example.
	Ivermectin, where was it found?
	Where was it discovered?
	It was discovered by a Japanese researcher in the soil.
	So that is a nature-derived molecule, in this case, from microbes, not from plants, but it's part of the plant ecosystem.
	Ivermectin is in the soils.
	I mean, not everywhere, but it's in some soils.
	So it's something that was created by nature and it has a very specific purpose in nature.
	Whereas when we take it, it can serve a different purpose for us.
	And again, that's completely normal.
	So there are many things that plants manufacture.
	For example, anthocyanins.
	Anthocyanins have a dark color and it serves a number of purposes for the plant, but part of that is protecting the plant from ultraviolet radiation and also to help the plant indicate what it is to pollinators and birds and animals that will spread the seeds, for example.
	That's why, I mean, it's one of the reasons why berries are dark blue.
	I mean, many of them.
	Or they're even purple or black, blackberries, blueberries, you know, right?
	Well, that color serves a purpose for propagation, but then in our bodies, that color, the anthocyanins, what does it do?
	Oh, it's a very powerful antioxidant.
	It assists with anti-inflammation.
	Importantly, it blocks receptors for spike protein.
	So if you're running around with a bunch of vaccinated people who are shedders and they're shedding spike protein because they're walking biological weapons factories, as long as you've eaten some berries and you've got anthocyanins in your blood, guess what?
	You're going to be okay.
	See?
	It's just another way that plants have molecules that protect you in ways that Western medicine absolutely will not recognize, refuses to recognize.
	But there's a tremendous amount of research on all of these substances.
	And as I am currently running many, many workstations with GPUs and AI inference to classify over 100 million science papers, I am encountering an incredible number of science papers published out of India and China in particular.
	China is probably number one on phytochemistry and effectively plant-based medicine.
	Now, I know in America or in the UK, sort of the Western world, we have like the American Journal of what is it like clinical nutrition or something like that.
	But those pale in comparison to what China and India come up with in terms of their research.
	So they are churning out all kinds of research on how extracts from plants, including, for example, grapeseeds, have tremendous benefits to humanity, including longevity improvements and protecting the blood-brain barrier, for example, that comes from niacin, B vitamins.
	And there's so many examples of this, like curcumin from turmeric has, I think they call it a senotherapeutic effect, which means that it helps eliminate zombie cells in your body and it awakens cells that are senescent.
	And as a result of this, you cannot achieve maximum human health without consuming a large amount of plants or plant extracts.
	But of course, plant fibers have their own benefits as well.
	So here's what I recommend.
	And I'm not going to go through the whole list here because I'm actually going to publish a new book on this soon.
	We're launching a new website called BrighteonBooks.com.
	And there you'll be able to generate any book on any topic that you want in about 10 minutes or so, depending on the current cue, completely free of charge, including books on nutrition and longevity, whatever you want.
	So I'm going to use that BrighteonBooks.com engine when it's launched.
	It'll be, I don't know, a week away or something.
	I'm going to use that engine myself to create books on the most powerful phytonutrients that you can consume that will protect your brain, protect your metabolism, protect your heart and cardiovascular system, and so on.
	So I'm going to produce a lot of books, and you can too.
	And then I'll be sharing those with you as free downloads.
	You know, how cool is that, huh?
	So that's coming up.
	So that'll go into all the details more than I can even mention in this podcast.
	But let me give you my overall nutritional advice here: kind of a rule of thumb.
	Rule of thumb is eat a lot of plants in whatever form you eat them, but understand that eating a lot of plants by itself is probably not going to give you the maximum level of these phytonutrients.
	And very few people eat enough plants.
	They eat a lot of meat and they eat a lot of carbohydrates, a lot of processed grains, you know, a lot of white flour, which lacks the nutrition of whole wheat flour, or they have refined corn or, you know, whatever, high-fructose corn syrup.
	So they're lacking the nutrition from plants and they're overeating non-plant substances.
	As a result, they're not, they don't have the plant molecule protections that can, that are anti-cancer, that you know, protect cardiovascular health, that protect cognition, protect your metabolism, and help promote insulin sensitivity to prevent type 2 diabetes and things like that.
	So again, I recommend go ahead and eat whatever plants you normally eat, but supplement.
	Supplement with superfoods or plant extracts in the form of supplements.
	For example, very few people eat enough turmeric in Western culture.
	Although turmeric consumption is very widespread in India, in Pakistan, in Iran, and in Middle Eastern cuisine, including Lebanese cuisine, you'll find a lot of turmeric in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, etc.
	But in Western cultures, you very rarely get turmeric.
	Except me, of course, I'm drinking it every day.
	That's why my dental work is orange, which always is entertaining for my dentist.
	Like, hey, it's Orange Man again.
	You're back.
	Yeah.
	You know, that filling you did two years ago.
	Yeah, it's orange now.
	That's because we're drinking turmeric and that's the right thing to do.
	you got to get more turmeric into your diet in my opinion and one of the best ways to do that of course is to consume it as a supplement you can take turmeric extracts I mean, we sell them.
	HealthRangerStore.com if you want turmeric extracts.
	But that's just one example.
	There are so many others.
	And oh, if you're searching for turmeric, by the way, it's T-U-R-M-E-R-I-C.
	Or some people say turmeric or turmeric.
	Whatever.
	Either way is okay.
	And the active or the best known chemical constituent in it is called curcumin, spelled with a C, curcumin.
	And there are ways to get things like, you know, grape seeds or grape skin.
	You don't have to just eat giant bowls of grapes.
	There are sources for concentrates of grape skins and seeds and stems and so on.
	And that can be incredible in terms of its nutritional density.
	Eating sprouts or dried sprouts is also a great strategy.
	So we sell, it's a, I forgot what it's called exactly, but it's got broccoli sprouts and other cruciferous vegetable sprouts in it.
	I think it's got the name sprout in it.
	That's funny.
	I use it every day, but I don't look at the label.
	But that has sulforaphane in it.
	What is sulforophane?
	Well, look it up.
	You can use our AI engine at brightu.ai.
	It's got all the knowledge of all the phytochemistry that's ever been published in the world, essentially.
	And if you go there and search for sulforophane, and it starts with the word sulfur, and then I think it's O-P-H-A-N-E, after that, sulforophane, I think that's how it's spelled.
	Then you're going to find out all the properties of sulforophane, which is synthesized by broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables.
	And again, you don't find this in meat.
	You're not going to find sulforophane in chicken breast.
	You're only going to find it in cruciferous vegetables, which have other astonishing nutrients in them that are highly beneficial to human health.
	So supplement, eat more vegetables.
	You do need the fiber.
	And in my opinion, based on all my years of research at my patents, etc., the best fibers are fruit fibers, not vegetable fibers.
	So another rule of thumb that I'll share with you is if you don't want to choke down tons and tons of celery, let's say, that's okay.
	Make sure you do eat fruit fibers, but you can consume vegetable extracts or concentrates to get all of those miraculous molecules out of the vegetables.
	You don't really need vegetable fiber.
	And frankly, if you've ever blended celery into a smoothie, you know that that gets really gross really fast.
	Oh my God, how much of this can I choke down?
	Whereas fruit fibers, which are based on things more like pectin, fruit fibers are, they actually go better in smoothies.
	So if you have a juicing machine, juice your vegetables, but blend your fruits.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Juice your vegetables, blend your fruits.
	That's a really important rule of thumb to remember.
	And then what you can do is you can take that vegetable juice and you can pour that into your smoothie.
	So juice your kale, juice your parsley, you know, juice cilantro if you like the taste.
	Some people think it tastes like soap, whatever.
	Hey, have a soap, a banana soap smoothie.
	Yeah, it's a whole new thing.
	Juice your vegetables, pour that juice into your smoothie, and then for your fruits, like I really like pears, you can blend in fresh whole pears into the smoothie, including the pear skin.
	Just make sure that you're buying organic, obviously.
	That's really important.
	Otherwise, you're juicing pesticides and herbicides and all kinds of other garbage.
	So buy organic and use it that way.
	All right.
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	And remember, increase your uptake of plants and especially plant concentrates and supplements of plants.
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