The benefits of brocoli

The broccoli has a high content in sulforafane, a substance that would help to maintain the arteries cleared, turning to Trans within its many healthful properties the prevention of a heart attack or stroke (LCA), according to the new study.

This chemical found in vegetables and in particular in the family of the crucifers or the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc, improve the system of defense of the agency in addition to clean the arteries.

The discovery made by scientists at the Imperial College in London, able to decrypt the code, to use the crop ingredient in the treatment of cardiac patients.

The professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the Foundation British Heart, which financed the research, revealed in this investigation that could lead to diet more specific, as well as medical approaches to prevent or reduce the disease that leads to heart attacks and accidents cerebro-vascular.

The researchers found branches arterial (double) that are more susceptible to disease because they lack a protein called NRF2, in contrast with the tranches upright in the artery that are protected by the protein, which prevents cells swell, an early indication for the development of heart disease.

When the Nrf2 is off in areas of arterial branches, disappears protection, but the sulforafane what reactive restored the capacity of the arteries to care for themselves.

The compound is found naturally in the broccoli, so that our next steps include test whether simply eat broccoli and other vegetables of your family, has the same protective effect.