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"Liver Toxicity Due to Broccoli Juice?"
Targeting cancer stem cells - protecting DNA doesn't even scratch the surface of what broccoli and broccoli sprouts appear capable of.
Here's a sampling published in just one random month: anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory; another anti-inflammatory; may protect against colorectal cancer; helped fight cervical cancer;
may protect against sunburn, for goodness' sake, and protect cartilage. That's just one month in the medical journals. What's the catch? There has to be a downside.
Well, in Turkey recently, report of liver toxicity thought due to juiced broccoli. A 56-year-old woman drinking about 3 1/2 cups of pure broccoli juice a day for a month.
A commentator balked at the assumption that the broccoli juice per se was responsible for liver toxicity, suggesting that a more likely possibility is
that the pesticide residue levels in such a large daily quantity of the vegetable were such that they adversely affected her liver cells.
3 1/2 cups of juice is equivalent to eating about 18 cups of broccoli a day - 18 cups a day for 4 weeks, that's 500 cups of broccoli. Even if it were organic broccoli, 500 cups a month is a lot of broccoli.
This was just a case report. Thankfully, formal human toxicity studies have been done.
Here, for example, they gave some volunteers a week of broccoli sprout extract equalling the sulforaphane content of about 2 dozen cups of broccoli a day, and no problems were found.