Use broccoli helps prevent chronic lung disease.
It was proved that the composition of this vegetable antioxidants stop the degradation of NRF2, the key components of defense system against inflammatory processes, whose concentration decreases in lung injury.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medical School (USA) and the National Institutes of heart and lung (London, UK) have made such conclusions after analyzing tissue samples from the bodies of patients with lung problems, including severe emphysema, and determine the levels of biochemical substances regulating NRF2.
It was said that an increase in consumption of broccoli in patients with markedly decreased activity of the oxidative stress markers, and the amount of protein increased NRF2 vice versa.In addition, components such as broccoli sulforaphane possible to restore important detoxifying enzymes counteracting inflammation. As noted physicians, sulforaphane stimulates production of useful genes in epithelial tissues and blocked the destruction of NRF2. After the enrichment of the diet of broccoli dishes people have also noted improvement in respiratory function.
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