This vegetable can save you from a stroke

Broccoli specific effect on the brain.

Newspaper the Daily Mail reported the finding of scientists from king’s College London, who verified that a well-known component of broccoli in a specific way acts on the brain. The properties of the substance they observed during the experiments on mice.

During the experiments, the doctors ascertained that sulforaphane (a compound from broccoli) reduced the severity of stroke in mice. Sulforaphane activates in the brain the protective enzyme, experts believe.

Enzyme referred to prevent the intensity of oxidative stress, which is cell damage by free radicals. With this process, associated with the most hazardous disorders in the body, including the emergence of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Previously, scientists have discovered that broccoli contains a substance nikotinamidadenindinukleotida (NMN), can prevent deterioration of liver function, vision, metabolism, and reduced bone density – that is, those factors that are decisive in the aging process.

As sulforaphane, that research has repeatedly shown its anti-cancer properties.

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