From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 19:11:00 MDT
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> For the consensus I would nominate:
[snip]
> 4) Consumption of raw vegetables (with some exceptions), and most types of
> fruit, is good for you
This one is very tricky Rafal -- people clearly have different detoxification
systems (at the gene level) and I think it remains a very open question as
to whom should consume higher levels of vegetables, particularly those that
may be higher in sulforaphane or curcumin that would induce the Phase II (2)
detoxification system [1].
I suspect there are some people for whom this would be very helpful -- but
others for whom that might not be the case. Bruce Ames has this great story
about some vegetable (brocolli or cabbage I think) that was developed years
ago -- the farmers loved it because the insects wouldn't go near it -- then
the vegetable pickers started coming down with rashes on their hands. Turns
out the breeding process has significantly upregulated the production of the
"natural" insecticides to the point where handling the vegetable was toxic.
Generally speaking activating the Phase II detoxification system is probably
a good thing -- but you can take a good thing too far.
Robert
1. Do a pubmed search on "Talalay P" and/or Phase II/Phase 2.
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