What is a Superfood?

I'm here with Dr. Mark Hyman and I've been getting a lot of questions that I need to go to the source, the person who demythologizes Jeff Bland. So, Mark, we're going to do a little Q and A together. That'll be fun repertoire. So let me start with the question. What is a superfood?

What is a superfood? It's a food that's full of super powerful stuff that makes you healthy. And essentially, firstly, what we're talking about when we talk about superfoods is the qualities and compounds in food that regulate every single aspect of your biology, that regulate inflammation, detoxification, that regulate your microbiome, that affect how your body makes energy, how you detoxify, how your hormones are regulated, even what you're made of. These compounds are everywhere in nature. They're called phytochemicals or phytonutrients, and commonly referred to as superfoods. We've heard about them, the acai berry or, or blueberries or green tea or broccoli or whatever. But within these compounds is a secret to our longevity and our health.

So I'd like to just add one thing to that, because superfoods could either be things that you use as a supplemental portion to bring these nutrients you're describing into your diet, or they could be something that is a complete food that you can actually eat as a sole source of nutrition. That would be like a super, super food. Like, you can't live on berries alone or icberries. No. But you can live on Himalayan turkey buck food as a sole source of nutri things.

You could.

So I think there's super.

At different levels of soup, there's stupendous foods.

Okay, thank you.