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Eat Your Way to Healthier Teeth: Israeli Study Finds Brassicas Fight Cavities · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello there and welcome back to
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  Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host, Dr Russell Sharp, the inventor of gold leaf as it's known in
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  the US, or liquid gold in the UK, the complete fertilizer that gets you from
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  seed to harvest with just one bottle.
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  Today I said I would be talking about an interesting story to do with Israel
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  and it's a bit positive news I thought would be good and it's a really interesting one this one.
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  It's to do with hydroponics but also with
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  soil cultivation as well and it's about how eating
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  certain vegetables can actually help prevent dental
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  cavities and tooth decay now cavities
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  is caused by is a disease caused by bacteria in
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  the mouth primarily streptococcus mutans
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  so it forms plaque on teeth
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  and in the presence of sugar and warm temperatures
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  the bacteria multiply producing acids and that
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  damages the tooth enamel and then the decay sets in now the interesting bit
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  a research team from israel has found that a camp a compound disrupts the plaque
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  forming process and the molecule is diindolemethane,
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  or D-I-M for short.
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  Diindolemethane.
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  Say that again.
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  It's produced during the digestion of.
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  Brassica vegetables or cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli,
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  cabbage, kale, cauliflower.
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  These are all brassicas. And so they all contain certain levels of this DIM chemical.
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  Now, in this study published in the journal Antibiotics, DIM was shown to stop
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  the growth of this bacteria and break down the biofilm layer that caused the plaques.
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  That's amazing that because that's a natural antibiotic that
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  is not killing infectious diseases in the
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  in your blood or in or on
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  your skin or things like this it's actually just cause preventing the
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  natural bacteria that cause damage in
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  your mouth and research the researchers
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  observed that dim limits bacterial reproduction and reproduce
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  and the production of the adhesive materials that allow
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  the bacteria to stick to the tooth surfaces obviously it's
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  it's a safe chemical because it's in these brassica plants
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  that we all eat and it's previously been studied for anti-cancer
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  properties it shows low toxicity to healthy
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  cells and it potentially could be integrated into
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  toothpaste or mouthwash or you could just encourage
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  people who are suffering from problems with
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  their teeth to eat more brassica vegetables
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  and just have this
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  as an early benefit you know you don't need
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  to go to turkey to get your teeth done if you eat your brassica vegetables
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  now professor ariel kushmaro of the ben gurian university very good university
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  over there said this molecule which was found to be safe with low toxicity may
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  in the future be integrated into things like toothpaste mouthwash and significantly
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  improve our ability to maintain oral hygiene. Now.
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  What else can we say about that? No clinical trials have been carried out on
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  humans and therefore there's no approval for DIMM in oral hygiene products.
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  However, there might be options for including brassica extracts and things like
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  this. So that's really interesting.
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  We always think of brassicas as being a really powerful vegetable for its anti-cancer properties.
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  Isothiocyanates are a chemical that's thought to be important in that.
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  The sulfur-containing compounds, but then there's this one, this DIMM product, a DIMM chemical as well.
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  What else can we say about brassicas? Also used as a green manure in soils for
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  breaking down soil pathogens because of the volatile chemicals in there.
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  So it is a very powerful group of chemicals.
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  Some brassicas contain more bioactives than others.
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  There was a famous case of where Marks and Spencers,
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  the very high-value supermarket in the UK,
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  they got a team of researchers to breed brussel sprouts
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  so they didn't have the chemical in that was really
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  astringent and some people especially children found really
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  unpleasant and unpalatable however they
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  bred so they bred this chemical out and then the researchers found that this
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  chemical was the anti-cancer one of
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  the anti-cancer chemicals so was not
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  great for that perspective other brassicas have hardly
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  any of the of the bioactive chemicals
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  in and you can eat them you know without any issues
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  at all so like cauliflower that doesn't have
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  a very strong taste does it whereas cabbage is probably
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  somewhere in the middle and so and
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  then you've got your things like wasabi and horseradish
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  which are really really powerful and will have loads of
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  bioactive chemicals in them as i
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  said the other name for brassicas is cruciferous vegetables
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  you'll often see this on google translate they'll because it's the old name
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  for them the crucifer family the reason why is because there isn't this name
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  the way this name comes from is it's the flowers have four petals and.
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  Because of the way the four petals are arranged, people used to think that it
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  resembled the cross that Jesus was crucified on, hence the crucifer family.
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  Top fact. And he was crucified in Israel as well. So all goes back round again,
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  doesn't it? Where was he crucified?
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  You may have a think. Back to my Sunday school days.
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  Calvary. I should have known that. Had to Google it. Anyway, there you go.
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  Also was researching some stuff on israel for positive
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  things about hydroponics didn't realize that the a
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  lot of traffic has not is no longer going through the suiz
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  canal and now there's a ceasefire between hamas and israel that a lot of the
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  ships will be returning to the the red sea and the suiz canal i that had completely
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  passed me by that one and you think oh well that doesn't relate to hydroponics,
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  but a lot of fruits and vegetables will still be transported by sea.
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  A lot of apples, ginger, garlic, things like this.
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  So some of those wouldn't be possible to go around Africa to get to Europe from
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  say like China and vice versa.
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  Turmeric can be transported by sea, however it's on the edge of its shelf life
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  by the time it gets to Europe from say like,
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  papua new guinea or wherever it's grown down in southern pacific so
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  you may start to find prices decrease
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  for certain vegetables now there's been a ceasefire watch that
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