Gravida Principal Investigator Associate Professor Mark Hampton featured on Radio NZ National's Our Changing World on 11 April 2013, describing how certain vegetables such as broccoli, wasabi and watercress can assist the body to make additional antioxidants and help ward off illness, treat or even prevent diseases such as cancer.
These vegetables contain compounds that not only supplement your diet, but also lead your body to boost production of its own endogenous antioxidants. These same compounds can react with, and cause damage to, cancerous cells.
Professor Hampton is based at the University of Otago’s Christchurch medical campus. In his current projects for Gravida he is looking at the role one particular type of antioxidant plays in embryo development.
Listen here as Professor Hampton and Emma Spencer are interviewed by Ruth Beran about endogenous antioxidants in the lab.