Breast Cancer & the Importance of Vegetables | Dr. Sara Gottfried & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Like when you're at 5060 plus . And the most important time is when you're a teenager . Now , I have one daughter that eats vegetables , she loves them .

Breast Cancer & the Importance of Vegetables | Dr. Sara Gottfried & Dr. Andrew Huberman

And I have another daughter who eats food , that's beige and it's very hard to get her to eat the volume of vegetables , you know , five colors a day , which is what I do . And if you have evidence that you could show a 17 year old that they've got micronutrient gaps , I think that would be a motivator for them to eat differently at a time when it's so critical , even though it's , you know , 25 years in the future that it's going to potentially change this arc that they're on . What do you do for a young woman who doesn't like vegetables is or is not somehow able or willing to , to get those five colors a day of vegetable to help support the microbiome , you know , are supplements , uh a useful tool in that case .

Breast Cancer & the Importance of Vegetables | Dr. Sara Gottfried & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Even they're putting things into the smoothie . Yeah , I don't know if you can get a teenager to do that , but they often will use like I have them do steamed broccoli that's in the freezer because it's got very little taste so that they could do that in a chocolate smoothie . They could add some greens , I like greens powders or was super convenient .

Breast Cancer & the Importance of Vegetables | Dr. Sara Gottfried & Dr. Andrew Huberman

And the most important time is when you're a teenager . Now , I have one daughter that eats vegetables , she loves them . And I have another daughter who eats food , that's beige and it's very hard to get her to eat the volume of vegetables , you know , five colors a day , which is what I do .

Breast Cancer & the Importance of Vegetables | Dr. Sara Gottfried & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So I think his , his uh his gut project has really been helpful in terms of understanding what kind of modulators are going to be important . So what I try to get that person to do and I don't see many teens anymore other than NBA players , what I try to get them to do is to have a smoothie , very hard to get them to have a smoothie every day . But if I could get them to have a smoothie three times a week and to throw some of these vegetables in , that makes a huge difference .