Worried About Skin Cancer? Then This Is Your Surprising Vegetable Solution

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Worried About Skin Cancer? Then This Is Your

Surprising Vegetable Solution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rubbing

an extract made from broccoli sprouts on your skin may help you to prevent

skin cancer, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.

 

Broccoli, and the sprouts in particular, contain a chemical called

sulphoraphane, which activates cancer-fighting enzymes inside your cells.

 

The researchers spread broccoli sprout extract on the skin of six people,

then exposed them to high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The areas of

skin covered by the extract had 37 percent less redness and sunburn than skin

not covered -- both indications of skin damage that could lead to cancer.

 

Sunscreen, meanwhile, did not offer any protection against the UV rays, the

researchers said.

 

Whereas sunscreen works by deflecting UV rays, and therefore must be

reapplied often to work, broccoli sprout extract works by penetrating skin

cells and stimulating their natural cancer-fighting mechanism.

 

Since sulphoraphane extract from broccoli sprouts appears to fight cancer in

your skin, the researchers believe it may be effective against cancer in

other organs as well.

 

Sources:

 

 

Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences October 30, 2007, vol. 104, no. 44,

17500-17505

VOA News October 23, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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