The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In one study where participants were asked to eat 300 gram of Brussels sprouts per day, which is one of the cruciferous vegetables higher in isothiocyate precursors, increased glutathione s transferase circulating in their blood plasma by about 1.4fold, while overall oxidative DNA damage went down by about 28%.
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Brussels sprouts 300 grams a day. This lowered another marker of oxidative damage by about almost 30%.
Broccoli two 250 grams a day. People that ate um broccoli for two 250 grams of broccoli a day lowered their um oxidized oxidized DNA damage by 41%.