Studies on plant consumption in healthy individuals may not assess potential harms like effects on micronutrient status, thyroid function, or hormone levels.

“if you're many of them are done in healthy individuals and there's no real benefit to including these plants in the diet now we have to appreciate and this is to alex's earlier point that in most of these studies they're only looking at oxidative stress markers dna double strand breaks things like this they're not looking at other markers that might give us an indication of how these vegetables specifically roots stems leaves and seeds could be harmful for them they're not looking at overall micronutrient status they're not looking at thyroid status they're not looking at overall iodine incorporation into the thyroid for instance they're not looking at male hormones”