Nickname broccoli as a superfood is not new. Numerous studies have shown that vegetables this one does have a kind of a natural ingredient that can fight cancer cells.
Based on the latest news, experts in Britain have managed to identify and explain the content of anticancer mechanism of these substances interact with the genes responsible for the development of cancer.
As published in the journal BioMed Central Molecular Cancer recent issue, experts describe how the anticancer substance called sulforaphane works. Simply put, sulforaphane neutralize similar gene called PTEN. The gene involved in the formation of prostate cancer cells.
Under normal conditions, PTEN will inhibit cancer development. However, in certain cells, these genes would disappear and it is this which then would trigger the growth of cancer.
The presence of sulforaphane seem to be able to reduce the influence of cells and loss of PTEN could prevent the cancer to grow and develop.
This conclusion is obtained after scientists at the Institute of Food Research Norwich Research Park made a series of studies. The experts using prostate tissue from the male and cancer cells from rats. The discovery is certainly a new hope for the creation of a therapy for prostate cancer that attacks about 36,000 men each year.
Source: Telegraph
