Paul Saladino· MD
I think that it's less likely that it's a wash. I think it's less likely that we're walking a tightrope, a slackline among no benefit, no harm with these vegetables. I think it's likely they are either beneficial or harmful.
Direct evidence is thin. The claim is plausible and aligns with adjacent findings, but there isn't yet a body of high-quality work that would let us call it well-supported on its own terms.
I think that it's less likely that it's a wash. I think it's less likely that we're walking a tightrope, a slackline among no benefit, no harm with these vegetables. I think it's likely they are either beneficial or harmful.
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many plant defense chemicals very few of which have been tested in animal studies and we don't really know about humans there are some studies in humans that I can reference in this podcast looking at cell culture and looking at a process called clastogenesis whereby these chemicals may break DNA in cell culture whether that translates into real life for humans is unknown many of these things are difficult to study but there have been some small forays into actually studying these compounds but a lot of them are unknown