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Jed Fahey

Nutritional biochemist and former director of the Cullman Chemoprotection Center at Johns Hopkins, pioneer of sulforaphane and broccoli sprout research.

Nov 10, 2026

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And what did those reveal?
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So I'll tell you what they revealed, and that's also sort of what got us involved in the neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions study of them clinically.
34:46
We didn't know... a lot about or we weren't thinking a lot about the modes of action that you just sort of went through of sulforaphane at the time, but we were talking to a friend neurologist, pediatric neurologist at the Mass General, Andy Zimmerman, and he made the observation.
35:10
He came to Paul and me and said, You know, there's a study that shows that in vitro, I believe it was, that shows that sulforaphane has an effect on heat shock proteins.
35:28
And he said, and I and my group recently discovered or made an association between autism and the fever response or the febrile response in kids with autism.
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And the observation, which is confirmed by others who treat autism, is that when certain kids have fevers, kids with autism, severe autism, this wide array of symptoms in many cases, their symptoms are dramatically attenuated.
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In fact, there's an anecdote from a family, a child with autism, that the whole family came down with the flu.

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So could you not just chew the broccoli seeds? Because I end up doing that sometimes.
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turning it over to Jed.
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Great.
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Well, thank you.
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And thank you, Chef AJ and friends and my friends that are on screen.
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It's always such a pleasure to hear Ashley talk about nutrition.
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And in fact, Lisa, could you back up one slide to her last slide? Folks, don't forget this slide.
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It's so critically important.

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