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DESCRIPTION: If the antioxidant amino acid ergothioneine does indeed turn out to be an essential nutrient, what are the best dietary sources? If you were thinking, “What’s an intramitochondrial antioxidant?” see Mitochondrial Theory of Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mitochondrial-theory-of-aging/). Other examples of the magic of mushrooms can be found in Making Our Arteries Less Sticky (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/making-our-arteries-less-sticky/), Vegetables Versus Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetables-versus-breast-cancer/), and Breast Cancer Prevention: Which Mushroom Is Best? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-prevention-which-mushroom-is-best/). Probably best to cook them though, see Toxins in Raw Mushrooms (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/toxins-in-raw-mushrooms/). Plants are powerful! (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/power-plants/)
Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/ergothioneine-a-new-vitamin/ and he’ll try to answer it!
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Thanks so much for the info!
You're giving it away by putting mushrooms in the thumbnail.
Erm… How much of this new vitamin do we need a day?
Given the fact chickens and pigs retain stores in their kidneys and liver; we must be getting adequate dosage by eating grains alone. Yes?
Cool, I eat 200 gr of raw white mushrooms each day 🙂
I eat quinoa w/ black beans, red onions, and mushrooms daily…sounds like I am covered, then. 🙂
That's like saying new research comes out showing how to avoid cancer. But you don't have to do this since you wasn't doing it before. Ha. It doesn't matter what I was doing before I want the optimum health. 😉
They dont use dirt? lol what kind of witchcraft are they doing in those dark rooms
Maybe the Ergothioneine would be in the straw and manure? The straw would of been in a open field. But idk if there would be any in the cow manure after it digests the grass or feed. They should test those store bought mushrooms too see
My thetan levels have been very low lately, will Ergothioneine help this?
Shiitake, oyster, bolete, maitake, protabellas, criminis, and white buttons
sciencedaily. com/releases/2005/09/050912080429. htm
Oh, but I horribly misspelled portobello. I'll never forgive myself for that.
what kind of mushrooms?
Oyster mushrooms
Oyster mushrooms
Interessante!
And I already loved mushrooms to begin with. This is fantastic news!
Looks like there's even more of a reason to have beans as a staple in your diet. Especially if you don't like mushrooms.
It's pronounced like methionine, because of the German root, the "ei" is pronounced like "Ai" or a long "i".
Soooooooooooooo you're saying I have an excuse to eat all the mushrooms I want? Got it…
how much is all that compared to how much we need of it though?
I love all your vids, and I've probably seen most of them, and almost all your lectures – I even pre-ordered your new cookbook today yay! But here's a question I'm sure you probably don't get very often…. Which software/web tools do you use to animate your videos? Kind of unrelated I know but a valid question! I am a chef (20 years nearly!) in the UK though, and currently studying with the intention of becoming a nutritional therapist, having had IBD for 17 awful years before discovering a whole food plant based diet, and I'd like to help others!
I’m off to buy some mushrooms
Mushroom 🍄 for breakfast 🍳 lunch 🍲 and dinner 🍴 every1
Ow yeah,shrooms are the good stuff!
I wonder,does it varry betwene species?
It's the fungus among us ! The best of all the foods
Dr Fuhrman says eat mushrooms every day and he never even mentioned this vitamin!
As if I needed more reasons to be obsessed with mushrooms! 🍄❤️😊
Is there a comparison between fungus species? is it destroyed during cooking?
thanks
Do you know why everyone liked the mushroom? He was a fun-guy…… 😁
Does cooking the mushrooms have any effect on the ergothionine?
Is there scientific Data indicating the reduction of ergothioneine when cooked? No one seems to be able to answer this simple, OBVIOUS question! It proves there are no real scientists involved in these youtube videos, only talking heads looking to milk the youtube audience of their time without giving real relevant information.
good to know
wanna try and grow my own
Refer to Dr. Fuhrman's GOMBS!
Although it can't be a vitamin since it is an amino acid, I do however, consider it an essential amino acid just like main 8 essential amino acids. So it would be the 9th.