The human body is an interconnected processing system where one raw material enters a physiological process, its waste product feeds another process, and so on; for example, folate from leafy greens converts to methylfolate, which downregulates the inflammatory amino acid homocysteine, which becomes methionine and travels to the brain to quiet the mind and improve sleep—demonstrating that it's not the spinach leaf itself that helps sleep but what the spinach leaf becomes.
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“We take one raw material, we put it into a physiological process, and then we take the waste product from that process and we feed another process...we'll take um folate from green leafy vegetables. We'll convert that into methylfolate...which then turns into something called methionine, which then goes up to the brain and helps to quiet the mind...it's not that the spinach leaf is helping you sleep, it's what the spinach leaf has become that's helping you sleep.”
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