This is a YouTube video titled "The Best Detoxifying Foods" created on October 27, 2020. It features a conversation between Ask AI Mark and another speaker discussing top foods that support liver detoxification, focusing on cruciferous vegetables, allium foods, and their biochemical benefits for detox pathways.
What are those top foods that everybody should include every day to help their liver and body detoxify?
Right, good, good, yeah, important point. The cruciferous vegetables probably are number one. You know, there's so many compounds in there that we've identified. They are, there's quite a few, you know, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, arugula is in that family.
Collards, kohlrabi.
Yeah, a lot of really just the dark greens. And what they do, I mean, they have a lot of compounds, but the liver has two phases of detoxification and you really want to support both phases to have good detox. And the compounds like the sulfuraphane, which is probably most rich in broccoli sprouts, support both those pathways. So sulfation is a really important pathway that you want to support.
Yeah, because that builds up glutathione.
Right, it does. And it well, it upregulates two enzymes, right, that the glutathione will then bind onto toxins so they become water soluble. So that's the tricky thing. Like if you don't have good phase two detoxification in the liver and you get more toxins in the liver that can't be excreted. So you need the second phase and glutathione is a really important part of that. And these vegetables, they're bringing the sulfur that supports that, but they're kind of activating the glutathione. So it makes these toxins water soluble. So you can pee them out, you can poop them out. So that's really important.
So that's really top of the list. Every day, like I focus on where am I gonna get... Every day I have arugula or I have kale or I have broccoli or I have cabbage or I have collards or Brussels sprouts. Cauliflower. Cauliflower. I make sure that I eat these things every day because they are the basis of, and I have that gene that makes it hard for me to detoxify it for glutathione. I'm really focused on what are the other foods you want to talk about?
I like the allium foods, which is like the garlic family. Garlic, leeks, chives, onions, scallions. Again, sometimes digestion-wise if that's compromised, there are certain ones that can be a little bit more difficult initially, but there's a lot in that family and when you cook them, it makes them more digestible. So, those are really, really important. Spices and herbs, I think we overlook them a lot and they are some of the richest sources of antioxidants.
