Paul Saladino· MD
isothiocyanates also act as toxins and other places in the body and this is what people are missing with these plant compounds sure there are some of these Zeno hermetics that will increase your glutathione in the short term but we're never told about the fact that they do other damaging things in the body this is what I call collateral damage because they're from a different operating system the plant didn't make the plant didn't make this molecule the plant doesn't make so for a thing or an isothiocyanate to benefit you or me those are phyto alexinnz they're plant defense molecules those are chemical spikes from plants that have been evolved over plants for hundred million years to prevent animals from eating them those are plant defense molecules why would we think that a plant defense molecule would be good for us in the long run we have to think about this in terms of the net benefit or loss so what what David would argue is that glutathione is increased by this molecule and in the short term it is but number one do we need more glutathione if we're living a radical life and I think there are studies to say no we don't and I'll tell you about those it doesn't actually prevent provide any benefit and the second thing is that it's gonna circulate in the body and do other damaging things that were never told about in the case of sulforaphane it can inhibit the production of thyroid hormone by competing with iodine at the level of the thyroid and as it circulates throughout our body it's causing lipid peroxidation in our cell membranes the reason it's turning on the antioxidant response system the reason it's turning on nrf2 in the liver is because it's creating lipid peroxidation because it's an oxidative stress ER and so before the glutathione goes up you get damage to your cell membranes from so forth II and that you you see this in every single plant molecule I talk about this in my book every single plant molecule I've looked at we see the same pattern