Flashback Friday: Which Fruits and Vegetables Boost DNA Repair?

Every hour, there are 800 incidents of DNA damage in our bodies. Which foods help us patch back up: apples, broccoli, celery, choy sum, lemons, lettuce, oranges, persimmons, or strawberries?

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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[susanb]

01:50. Lemons, persimmons, strawberries, broccoli, celery, and apples!!

[Perenbarn]

when lives give you lemons: repair dna

[cameronbrown]

When are your videos on the ketogenic diet & intermittent fasting being released? You said they would be released at the beginning of this year...

[DrAdnan]

An apple a day really keeps doctors away

[UPRISINGK]

It appears that molecular hydrogen also helps dna 🧬 repair, check out the 2019 lourdes hydrofix, it’s amazing. If u want a link on a blood sample before and after, just ask and I can share.

[machiningpaper]

When studies observe the effects of boiling plants is the cooking water always discarded?
I love an unblended soup so the cooking water is consumed.
Is the boiling breaking down or dissolving out nutrients into the water?

[IcyfireGaming]

Is the implication that heating any of these fruits/vegetables, for example steaming my broccoli, I will lose the DNA repair benefits?

[muratakyuz]

Love the videos Dr. Gregor. What do you think about the beyond meat sausages, burgers, etc. Thanks

[johannesburgreal]

hey doc, thank you for the great contribution you have made to humanity!


will you be posting any research on the 'plant meats' (eg beyond meat, impossible burger, ) any time soon? thanks!

[wahidurrahmansaadi]

Dr. Gregor, you should post more really think you should do this more often. Not only for people in USA but for the whole world. Love from Bangladesh 👍

[eliakimjosephsophia]

Thank you, I used to suck lemons when I was a baby, my parents found that strange. I was body intuitive from birth.

[NotSoCrazyNinja]

I can't help but wonder how a smoothie with just these ingredients would taste...

[LAKSHMIANGELES]

ARE THE FRUITS & VEGGIES IN THESE STUDIES ORGANIC OR NON ORGANIC?
THNX FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US!
MANY BLESSINGS✌💖

[Millo]

How about limes instead of lemons? Does the lemon need to be eaten in its entirety?

[nes]

Hello Sir Greger, I am a huge fan and have read your book, How Not To Die. Just mind-blowing. I have recently realised that I have IBS and I am obliged to go on a FODMAP diet, which is very difficult on a plant-based diet. I was hoping you might have some tips for that and possibly discuss it a little. what can be done to eliminate this issue once and for all? Thanks.

[blueberry]

Garlic, onion, Berries, Wal Nuts (Pecans), cruciferous (beyond Broccoli) where are they? And Kiwi Fruits, sure!

[moviedude]

so is it the juice or the flesh or the lemon peel?

[carefulconsumer]

I wonder if carrot juice or tomato juice would protect DNA?

[davidmullerful]

Now I have a exvuse to eat raw lemmons:)
For some reason it makes you not hungry super fast, but it makes water taste sweet after :3

[sersha]

can you make a video on grassfed animals?? it would be greatly appreciated