The study showed that sulforaphane blocked cartilage-destroying enzymes by intercepting a molecule that causes inflammation.
Sulforaphane is released when eating cruciferous vegetables such as:
In addition to protecting bone-cushioning cartilage in your joints, it will help prevent cancer, diabetes, gastro distress, heart disease and protect your liver.
Steamed, puréed, in soups and in stir-fries, or oven-roasted – even raw – this cruciferous vegetable delivers two bioactive chemicals: Sulforaphane and indole-3-carbinol.
The sulforaphane seems particularly joint-friendly and, when teamed with its partner indole-3-carbinol, it helps every system in your body.
For maximum joint protection, make sure to eat plenty of those tasty veggies and other ant-inflammatory foods.
Those include strawberries, blueberries and carrots, as well as healthy olive, walnut and canola oil, and fatty fish with omega-3 DHA; we like salmon and ocean trout.
I also suggest you take 900 mg daily of an algal oil DHA supplement. You’ll stay flexible, reduce pain and feel younger.
Do you eat a lot of broccoli? What is your favourite way to cook it?