Eating raw veggies best for balancing your genome
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-sulforaphane-broccoli-glucose-diabetics.html
Excerpt: "A team of researchers from Sweden, the U.S. and Switzerland has found that treating rat liver cells with a compound called sulforaphane, which is found in cruciferous vegetables, reduced production of glucose. In their paper published in Science Translational Medicine, the group outlines the methods they used to isolate the compound and what they found when testing it with liver cells and in human patients.
Type 2 diabetes has been in the news a lot in the past several years due to its ties to the obesity epidemic in several countries, particularly the U.S. Prior research has shown that it is a condition in which the body mishandles glucose—cells fail to use insulin properly, leading to higher glucose levels, which can cause a wide variety of health problems. Current treatment includes modifying the diet and taking drugs such as metformin. But because the drugs used to treat diabetes can cause other problems, such as liver damage, researchers continue to look for alternatives. In this new effort, the researchers sought to find a compound that could alleviate symptoms in a more natural way. They created a genetic signature for the disease based on 50 genes that have previously been linked to the disorder and fed the results into a database, which used the genetic signature to look for compounds specifically related to gene expression in liver cells—sulforaphane showed the strongest known effects.
The researchers acknowledge that their results are preliminary and that more testing of the compound will be needed to prove that the compound or simply eating the right vegetables might someday replace drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. They note also that their technique for discovering the compound's usefulness in treating the disease could very well be applied to other diseases."
My comment: Broccoli contains sulphoraphane (C6H11NOS2) which is broken down into methyl groups and other important compounds in the gut. DNA, histones and long non-coding RNA-molecules need these CH3 groups for their epigenetic markers. These are used for correct and successful gene expression and several regulatory functions in our cells. Lack of methyl and abnormal methylation profiles are linked to unsuccessful cellular differentiation and malignant cellular behavior. This means diseases. Diet changes our genomes and poor nutrition exposes our genome to genetic errors.
Life is not driven by gene sequences. Genes are driven by lifestyle. There is no such a thing as mutation driven evolution. Don't get misled.
https://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-foods-with-sulforaphane.html
