Activate Your Body’s Defense System

Our gut is called our second brain as it plays a key role in proper immune, cognitive, and metabolic function. Sulforaphane is clinically demonstrated to normalize gut microflora (feeding your gut bacteria) while enhancing the gut barrier (helping to prevent leaky gut). Sulforaphane’s ability to reduce inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract leads to healthier digestion, better nutrient absorption, reduced bloating, and enables the restoration of a healthy gut lining and microbiome.

Within the first days of consistent use, these important changes can contribute to improved regularity, digestive improvements, better sleep quality and boosted energy.

“The ‘Secret Weapon’ Ingredient a Gastroenterologist Eats for Breakfast” -Well+Good

Reducing and preventing inflammation is central to us being well. Sulforaphane works by boosting our natural defenses, blocking signals that cause inflammation, reducing inflammatory chemicals, helping detoxify our bodies, and improving gut health. All these actions together help lower and prevent inflammation.

Boosting the Body's Defense System:

Sulforaphane activates a protein in our cells called Nrf2. Think of Nrf2 as a switch that turns on the body's natural defense system. When this switch is on, our cells produce more antioxidants, which are substances that protect cells from damage. This helps reduce inflammation.

Blocking Inflammatory Signals:

There's a protein complex called NF-κB that tells our body to produce substances that cause inflammation. Sulforaphane can block this protein, which means fewer inflammatory signals are sent out.

Lowering Inflammatory Chemicals:

Inflammation is partly driven by chemicals such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). Sulforaphane helps reduce the levels of these chemicals in the body.

Helping the Body Get Rid of Toxic Chemicals:

Sulforaphane boosts the activity of enzymes that help detoxify the body. By getting rid of harmful substances, it reduces the triggers for inflammation.

Improving Gut Health:

A healthy gut helps control inflammation in the body. Sulforaphane promotes the growth of good bacteria in the gut and reduces gut inflammation.

We each have efficient detoxification systems made up of your main detoxification organs - the liver and kidneys as well as your lymphatic system, digestive tract, skin, and lungs. Sadly our detoxification systems weren’t built for this modern toxic world where 80,000 toxic chemicals are approved for use in the US. Sulforaphane is one of the best known detoxifiers and this mechanism is why every human should take it – every day. 

Sulforaphane offers a process called Phase II detoxification. When toxic chemicals enter our bodies, our detoxification system works to remove them. If they are not removed, Phase II detoxification processes them through again to help prevent them from reaching our cells and causing damage.

"Sulforaphane is a potent inducer of phase II detoxification enzymes, which are essential for the body's defense against carcinogens and other harmful compounds. These enzymes enhance the elimination of these toxic substances from the body."-Dr. Jed Fahey, Sc.D., nutritional biochemist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine