 Hello everyone, so today we are going to talk about sulphur, one of the very important mineral in our body. Mainly derived from sulphated amino acids, mainly derived from protein. Some of the sulphated amino acids are methionine, cysteine, homocysteine, torene, methionine is an essential amino acid, means you need to have it in your diet on a day to day basis. Cysteine, homocysteine, those are non-essential amino acids which are formed in the body. Some amount of sulphur, organic sulphur is found directly into the food, from the food and this onion, garlic, cruciferous vegetables, any food you know, specifically some of these vegetables which have some smell and that have organic sulphur in it. Sulphur is also called Gandhak in Hindi, Gandhak means it smells, so sulphur gives that smell. I don't know if any of you have gone to, you know, Vajrashtri, any of your hot geysers, you know, in your country or in your state, this particular, you know, hot geysers have a sulphur in it, it's sulphated water, okay. So when you're going there to take a bath, you will see that smell coming out of that water and that's your sulphur and if you ask, you know, if you find out that what the people who are coming to this hot geysers primarily are the people who have some joint problems or they have some skin problem, so that means basically there is probably kind of that knowledge coming from, you know, generations that, you know, when you take a bath in that hot geysers, it's a sulphated water, so probably sulphur or that mineral heads with the joint pains and skin and, you know, I mean, if you look at it, if you, you know, obviously I'm going to go in detail, but you'll understand that it does help because it produces a lot of those organo-sulfur compounds, you know, and that has effect on your joints and skin and hair and pretty much everything, okay, so we'll go in detail. Sulfur is also present in two vitamin Bs, okay, so which are those two vitamin Bs, thiamine and biotin. Now, biotin, if you remember, a lot of people take the supplements biotin for hair, right, people who have hair loss, they take biotin, okay. Now, what are the functions of sulphur? So, let's talk about each and every important function that sulphur has, so cellular energy production in metabolism. So, sulphur is important for, you know, crepe cycle because the acetyl-CoA and CoA, those compounds are made from sulphur, so that's your kind of some of the, you know, products or byproducts I could say of that crepe cycle. So, it is definitely, as I said, it is important for formation of energy, you know, it gives you energy. It also maintains blood glucose levels, so sulphur is important for maintaining blood glucose level. Why? Because insulin, insulin is your, you know, hormone which requires sulphur, okay. Sulfur also protects nerve tissue, it synthesizes neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are important. Of course, as you know, some of them are acetyl-Colene, serine, your serotonin, some of those sulphurs are very important. It improves memory, it dampens excessive firing. It has antioxidant protection, so glutathione. Glutathione, which scavenges or neutralizes free radicals and recycles oxidized antioxidants. So, glutathione, I'm sure a lot of doctors and nutritionists who are taking this course would know what glutathione is. It's basically one of the most powerful antioxidants which is present in our body, which scavenges free radical. So, free radicals are basically, you know, radicals which causes damage, okay, causes inflammation in the body. So, it prevents the excessive damage to, you know, through free radicals by scavenging it, okay. Then, sulphur is also important for blood flow. Why it is important for blood flow? Because fibrin, orginine, and heparin, those two important, those are two important organo-sulfur compounds. So, it produces both blood clotting factor as well as anticoagulant, okay. Anticoagulants, but it prevents the coagulation of blood. It prevents clotting, okay. And blood clotting factors are basically factors which helps with the clotting. So, if you have a say, nick on your skin, and if you're bleeding, basically that, you know, fibrinogen will immediately clot that bleeding. It will stop that bleeding, okay. So, sulphur is required for that also. Cartilage and bones. So, remember I told you that a lot of these people, they go, they go to hot geysers. So, why? Because the sulphur is important for formation of glycosaminoglycan, and also convert in sulphur in hyaluronic acid. And they are part of cartilage and bones, okay. So, to have your healthy bones and your cartilage joints, it's important that we take enough amount of sulphur or sulphur to the amino acid, which is your methionin, okay. Detoxification, of course, by means of conjugation, chelation, sulphur is important for detoxification, means to get rid of toxins in the body. And that's primarily because of glutathione, okay. Regulation of DNA replication and transcription. So, basically to maintain your DNA, you know, that would prevent cancer actually, you know. So, you want to make sure that to maintain your DNA health, you required sulphur. Other effect of sulphur, it helps in digestion, because it helps in production of hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is acid, which is present in your stomach, okay, for digestion of food. It supports healthy lipoprotein balance. So, you remember, I'm sure everybody knows about cholesterol, LDL, HDL, you know, there's a good cholesterol, LDL, HDL is a good cholesterol. And so, for formation of this cholesterol and, you know, to have this balance of good cholesterol, bad cholesterol, you require sulphur. Adrenal glands support and hormone production. So, there are some of these hormones, which required sulphur. Your cortisol, aldosterone, testosterone, you know, those are important, you required sulphur for that. Then also imagine for proper immune response. So, enhancing, you know, your infection fighting cells. So, your lymphocytes, your cytotoxic T cells, natural killer cells, these are all the very important cells, which kind of prevents infection, it enhance your immune system, okay. And for that, you also require sulphur. Now, one more thing, which I will go a little bit more in detail is anacetyl cysteine. Now, anacetyl cysteine has a lot of function in the body. Now, one of the most important function is it protects against mucus formation in the lungs, okay. So, a lot of time when you have bronchitis and when you have a lot of this cough, you go to doctors and doctors will write a NAC prescription. Anacetyl cysteine is also called NAC. Now, this for NAC actually, some more, I mean, all the doctors would know that when the patient comes with Crocin, you know, toxicity, we give NAC. And what NAC does, it basically increases the glutathione level, which detoxifies or which removes cross and from the body. It helps in removal of, you know, acetaminophen from the body, okay. So, NAC is very, very, very important and you require sulphur for formation of NAC, okay. Then for eyes, you know, your sulphur is important because it decreases the cataract formation. And keratin, one of the, you know, most highly spoke about organo-sulfur compounds, especially among women, because obviously we always say, you know, I buy keratinized shampoo and this and that, you know, we spend so much money on the shampoos, you know, which has keratin. But think about if we have food which is hand sulphur, which will help form this keratin, okay. So, for formation of skin, hair, nails, keratin is present, keratin is present in the skin, keratinized epithelial cells, we know it, you know, keratin is present in your cornea, it's present in your hair. So, sulphur is important for formation of keratin, okay. Here, we have just kind of listed all the important organo-sulfur compounds, which we just discussed. So, I am not going to go too much in detail in that. Some of the sulphur rich food, so these are sulphur rich food, which are primarily, you get organic sulphur from this food. So, here your, you know, your onion, your cauliflower, you know, of course, your beet, you know, your drumstick leaves and drumstick, you know, who do I say seeds, your drumstick seeds are very high in sulphur. In fact, you know, in US, we have this, you know, this drumstick seeds powder available in the capsule and a lot of people with joint problems, they take it. So, I do recommend that we should have this drumsticks in our diet on a day-to-day basis. So, you know, either you can put drumstick leaves, we also call moringa leaves, you know, you can make a powder, put moringa leaves in the food or you can just have a drumstick, you know, vegetable or you put it in a curry, you put it in a dal that you make, you know, so that is how you get your sulphur. Some of the other food which you can get sulphur from is your garlic, your eggs, of course, your fish. So, this is some of the good source of organic sulphur, directly sulphur comes from this food. Sistine, remember I told you about sistine, sistine is formed in the body, but you can get sistine from food also. Some of the sistine rich food is primarily your, you know, your garlic, again, pretty much, you know, garlic, your eggs, your chowli, some of the fish, you know, seeds are high in the sistine, you know, so your black til, your sesame seed, black sesame seed, your white sesame seed, peanuts, okay, soya, this is your soya over here, okay, and your coconut and some of the other foods. So, sistine can be available from food also besides being formed in the body. Methionine is another essential amino acid, extremely important to have it in your diet, okay, as I told you that this sulphated amino acid will release sulphur, that sulphur will be used in formation of all this organic sulphur compound that I spoke about, okay. So, which are the food, which are high in methionine? Again, remember I talked about peanuts, so you make peanut powder, put it in your food, for children food also, you can put peanut powder, for adults they can just put peanut in the dal or vegetables, you know, make peanut curry, sesame seeds, also your liver, you know, your dairy products are very high in methionine. So, make sure that your children have, you know, after 2 years of age, you know, if mother wants to start the top milk, you know, they can start the dairy or even young children 6 months to 2 years of age, you can give them dahi, paneer, you know, this is paneer over here on right side corner, lower corner, and over here this is khoa, khoa is basically kind of made from milk, you know, mawa, we call it mawa, khoa. So, do use khoa in your curries, you know, very high in sulphur, actually very high in methionine, which gives out sulphur, okay. And of course, your non-witch food are high in sulphur. Children who have a good amount of non-witch food, we do see that they do have a good height. And what I have seen actually is, there is an article by Dr. Michael Golden, and he has written extensively about sulphur, you know, and he feels that basically for your linear growth, sulphate and amino acids are very, very important, okay. And that is why I am kind of stressing on this foods, which you must give it to children, you know, which will help with the linear growth.