The Best Detox
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-03-19

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DESCRIPTION: The most powerful natural inducer of our liver's detoxifying enzyme system is sulforaphane, a phytonutrient produced by broccoli. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/the-best-detox/ and I'll try to answer it! This "glow stick" reaction is similar to what happens in garlic. I talked about it in #14 of my Ask the Doctor Q&A blog (http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/12/25/ask-the-doctor-qa-with-michael-greger-m-d-week-14/). There is a level at which sulforaphane may become toxic, but that appears to be only at extremely high doses (see Liver Toxicity Due to Broccoli Juice http://nutritionfacts.org/video/liver-toxicity-due-to-broccoli-juice/ and How Much Broccoli Is Too Much? - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/liver-toxicity-due-to-broccoli-juice/). Watch my 18 other videos on liver health (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/liver-health/), as well as hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/). Note that most of the sources for this video are open access, so you can download them by clicking on the links above in the Sources Cited section.

Also, please check out my associated blog post: http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2012/04/12/the-best-detox/!

Image Credit: Fir0002 and Jawahar Swaminathan via Wikimedia Commons, and Bruce Wylde and Spencer.

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