Dr. Lucia Aronica
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553 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Apr
Dr. Lucia Aronica’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the boss of your body's own antioxidant army.
It switches on a genetic master switch called NRF2.
This activates more than 200 protective genes involving detoxification, inflammatory defense, antioxidant defense,
And this is the best part.
While direct antioxidants like vitamin C disappear in a few hours, sulforaphane switches on those genes for up to three days.
So it's enough to eat cruciferous veggies two, three times a week to keep your antioxidant genes switched on.
The problem is that there's actually no sulforaphane in this broccoli.
Did I buy the wrong kind?
You need to chop it or chew it.
And here's why.
Think of sulforaphane as a glow stick for your genes.
Professor is in the house.
She's holding a glow stick if you're listening.
So those light up tubes you bring at concerts, when you break them to compound mix,
starting a light reaction.
And sulforaphane works the same way.
A compound called glucoraphanin mixes with an enzyme called myrosinase.
And boom, this creates sulforaphane.
So the problem is that most people buy frozen broccoli, and frozen broccoli is quickly blanched, so quickly boiled before freezing, and this destroys myrosinase.
So no myrosinase, no glow stick reaction, no sulforaphane.
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