The Healing Power of Broccoli Sprouts

Broccoli Sprouts have the power to heal and prevent health issues

Broccoli sprouts are tasty. Is it not better to do something to prevent disease? It is so easy to use our food to do this. Broccoli Sprouts are one of them. It is a remedy from the Pharmacy of nature. Easy to grow at home and can always be available to use fresh in our kitchen.

Broccoli has anti-cancer properties and can kill cancer cells. The sprouts of Broccoli are even stronger. The seed is easy to find, and it needs only a jar and water to grow and always be fresh. It does not need pots and soil. A small place at the window is enough, and you have them always freshly available at every time of the year.
Start sprouting and prevent in a delicious way many Health issues.

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The Healing Power of Broccoli Sprouts

 

Science has proven time and again that Mother Nature is the best physician, and food is the best medicine. Broccoli, for example—and to an even greater degree, broccoli sprouts—have been repeatedly shown to be one of nature’s most valuable health-promoting foods, capable of preventing a number of health issues, including but not limited to:

• Hypertension1
• Allergies2
• Diabetes3
• Osteoarthritis4, 5
• Cancer

The Anti-Cancer Properties of Broccoli

Sulforaphane, a sulfur compound, has also been shown to kill cancer stem cells, thereby slowing tumor growth. Some researchers believe eliminating cancer stem cells may be key to controlling cancer.

This is something current chemotherapies cannot do, but food can! I have long touted the cancer-busting power of broccoli; ever since studies in the mid-1990s showed that the broccoli compound glucoraphanin — a precursor to sulforaphane – boosts cell enzymes that protect against molecular damage from cancer-causing chemicals.9, 10

Studies have also found that sulforaphane normalizes DNA methylation 11—a process by which a methyl group (one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms) is added to part of a DNA molecule. DNA methylation is a crucial part of normal cell function, allowing cells to “remember who they are and where they have been” and is important in regulating gene expression.

DNA methylation also suppresses the genes for things you don’t want, such as viral and other disease-related genes, and abnormal DNA methylation plays a critical role in the development of nearly all types of cancer.

Sulforaphane from broccoli

The sulforaphane from broccoli plays a role in activating more than 200 different genes. Specifically, broccoli appears to contain the necessary ingredients to switch ON genes that prevent cancer development and switch OFF others that help it spread. And you don’t have to consume a truckload of broccoli to reap its benefits.

In fact, a 2008 study published in PLoS One12 found that just four servings of broccoli per week could protect men from prostate cancer. One serving of broccoli is about two spears, so that’s only 10 broccoli spears per week. In this study, the researchers collected tissue samples over the course of the study and found that the men who ate broccoli showed hundreds of beneficial changes in genes known to play a role in fighting cancer.

Sulforaphane Works on a Wide Variety of Cancers

Other researchers have looked at sulforaphane’s effect on breast cancer and discovered that it hinders the growth of human breast cancer cells, at least in the laboratory. Here, they found that it does so by disrupting the action of protein microtubules within the cancer cells, which promote cell division and growth. Interestingly enough, certain cancer drugs also work in this manner. The upside of broccoli, of course, is that it doesn’t come with ANY of the side effects associated with synthetic drugs. Furthermore, as reported by PreventDisease.com13:
“Previous research has also proven that the compound blocks the formation of breast tumors in rats and can even force colon cancer cells to commit cell suicide. It seems that sulforaphane works its magic on the detoxification enzymes that try to defend the cancer-promoting substances.”

The interesting aspect of chemoprotection strategies is that they’re almost never organ-specific. Rather, chemoprotection produces a general cancer protective effect that blocks multiple steps — a cascade of steps — that are common to cancer formation. This is probably a reason why broccoli appears to work against a variety of different types of cancers.

Click here > to learn more. and > Broccoli Sprouts: One of Nature’s Top Cancer-Fighting Foods

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