Best Reason to Grow Your Own Food?

Salvestrol is a unique phytonutrient that selectively kills cancer cells.

Plants produce salvestrol as part of their immune response to predators and pathogens.

And it's only rich in ripe, naturally-grown fruits and vegetables ... but not so much in produce that is picked before peak ripeness, grown conventionally, stimulated to grow faster than normal, and/or not exposed to natural pests.

Wild, huh? (no pun intended)

In other words, wild-grown foods picked at peak ripeness will have the highest salvestrol content.

Even organically-grown foods that are overly-protected from pests and/or picked prior to peak ripeness have lower levels of salvestrol than foods grown via methods that use biodiversity to control pets and allow some pest activity, for example in a garden or Permaculture food forest.

So what makes salvestrol unique and valuable?

An enzyme in our bodies called cytochrome P450 1B1 (CYP1B1) turns salvestrol into a highly toxic compound ...

... and this enzyme is overexpressed in cancer cells yet absent or present at very low levels in normal cells.

So the high level of CYP1B1 in cancer cells produces a lot of the toxic metabolyte of salvestrol, poisoning the cancer cells from the inside out.

But this doesn't happen to normal cells because they have little to none of the CYP1B1 enzyme. 

That means that your garden can supply highly-selective "natural chemotherapy" that makes you feel great instead of causing your hair to fall out.

Cancer therapies (like Gerson Therapy) emphasizse juicing freshly-ripened, garden-grown fruit and vegetables because they are much richer in phytonutrients like salvestrol.

So if you've been needing a little more motivation to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, how about them apples?

Although apples have some salvestrol, here are some of the fruits and vegetables highest in salvestrol, especially when grown "wild" and picked at peak ripeness:

• blackberries

• strawberries

• cranberries

• oranges

• pumpkin

• bitter lettuces

• dandelion greens

By the way, heirloom varieties tend to produce more salvestrol. Salvestrol has a bitter flavor and is lower in modern varieties that have been bred for more sweetness. 

Yikes! We've bred much of the medicine out of our food!

-Brandon Morehead