Do Broccoli Sprouts (Sulforaphane) Actually Improve Your Detoxification with Dr. Christine Houghton

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Dr. Christine Houghton, the Founder and CEO of Cell-Logic, and a private Clinician in Nutritional Medicine. They discuss the properties of the super ingredient called sulforaphane. Key Takeaways: 1. What Is Nutrigenomics? Nutrigenomics is the science that looks at how food molecules affect gene expression. Depending on the food, the genes will either benefit and be protected or suffer and get predisposed to various health issues. 2. What Is Sulforaphane? Sulforaphane is a compound that comes from plants like broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower. When these plants are exposed to dangerous factors, like insects, the myrosinase enzyme transforms glucosinolate into sulforaphane, which acts like an insecticide. 3. What Does Sulforaphane Do for the Human Body? Sulforaphane stimulates antioxidants and detoxification enzymes that protect our bodies from tiny particles that weaken and damage healthy cells, and it helps reduce inflammation. Dr. Christine Houghton, the Founder and CEO of Cell-Logic, and a private Clinician in Nutritional Medicine with thirty years of experience. She is the author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers and wrote Switched On - Harnessing the Power of Nutrigenomics to Optimise Your Health. Dr. Houghton regularly publishes, speaks, and educates on how nutrition affects our genes.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.
0:06.0	Today, I am talking with one of my favorite researchers, Dr. Christine Houghton, all about the super ingredient
0:12.5	known as sulfurophane from broccoli sprouts. Dr. Houghton has her PhD in nutritional biochemistry
0:18.2	and is the founder and CSO of Cell Logic, a company that focuses
0:22.6	on functional foods and nutraceuticals with nutrigenomic effects. She regularly publishes,
0:29.2	speaks, and educates on the topic of how nutrition affects our genes, including my favorite
0:35.7	phase two detoxification support,
0:38.2	sulfurophane.
0:39.4	It was an absolute pleasure talking with her today,
0:42.4	as I have been following her and her work for a long time.
0:46.5	Here's a clip from today's conversation.
0:48.7	In the plant's cell also has an enzyme sitting beside it
0:52.4	in a separate little cell within the plant or a little
0:56.0	sack called morocinase. When you bite or chew or cut one of those cruciferous vegetables,
1:02.8	the morocinase enzyme acts on this other molecule and that produces sulfurophane. Now that's a long
1:08.8	answer to your question because there is no plant that contains sulfuricane. Now that's a long answer to your question because there is no
1:11.7	plant that contains sulfurophane. You have to actually produce it on the fly. So this
1:18.3	sulfurophane molecule was actually, we think, put into those plants by mother nature as the
1:25.1	insecticide for the plant. So if you're a little grasshopper and you're nibbling on
1:30.6	some cabbage leaves, let's say, the amount of sulforaphane that's produced as that grasshopper's nibbling
1:37.6	is potent enough that it can actually kill the grasshopper, but in a human adult, 60, 70 kilos, whatever your weigh,
1:46.9	whatever that is in pounds, I don't remember,
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