Can broccoli help in Osteoarthritis
In the June 2017 edition of Nature’s Scientific reports, researchers in the United Kingdom reported on their continuing studies on the effects of broccoli on osteoarthritis. The research team lead by the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich and with the University of Liverpool had previously reported that sulforaphane, a dietary isothiocyanate (a sulfur based chemical group found in broccoli), derived from its glucosinolate precursor (glucose,amino acid) can prevent cartilage destruction in cells. These results were reported in animals and in laboratory experiments. In the next phase of this research, the researchers enrolled 40 patients with knee osteoarthritis undergoing total knee replacement into a proof-of-principle trial. (A first phase study that suggests benefits in humans. Knee replacement patients were chosen because they clearly had degenerative knee disease.) Patients were randomly divided to either a low or high glucosinolate...