I wrote about the benefits of broccoli sprouts years ago, and now researchers are confirming the usefulness of sprouted vegetables, an incredibly inexpensive and healthy source of nutrients.

Both broccoli and radishes are on the list of the 25 disease-fighting vegetables and highly recommended vegetable list. It is important to keep in mind that although these vegetables contain many healthy benefits, they might actually throw off your biochemistry if they don't fit in with your nutritional type.

To give you an idea of this, I am a protein Metabolic Type and broccoli pushes my biochemistry in an unhealthy direction so it helps me to avoid it and that is what my body tells me to do.

However, the DIM found in broccoli is also in other cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, which happens to be good for protein types.

So it is very important to understand your body at a deeper level because if you were to eat broccoli and you were a protein type, the other effects of broccoli might push your metabolic biochemistry in the wrong direction and thus override the benefits of the DHT inhibition.

The best way to understand specifically what foods are ideal for your body in particular is to learn your metabolic type. Properly eating for your particular nutritional type will lead to increased daily energy, improved emotional well being, a feeling of satisfaction and, of course, optimized health and weight so you live longer. You'll also understand how beneficial eating generally healthy foods like broccoli really is compared to other foods that might be even better for you.

However, even if you were a mixed or vegetarian/carb type and broccoli were good for you, there are likely better ways to get the benefits than eating whole broccoli.

Growing broccoli sprouts yourself is easy and inexpensive. You can purchase organic broccoli seeds and your local library or health food store may have some instructions on sprouting seeds.

The other major benefit of the sprouts is that they don't smell, as you don't have to cook them. They are eaten raw, usually as an addition to salad. I suspect that there are similar benefits for many of the other vegetables when eaten as sprouts.

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