Study shows eating dates protects the liver from toxins

Palm Tunisia - Nabil Zaghdoud  A study conducted by Tunisian researchers on lab mice, which was published in the German Experimental Toxic Pathology Magazine, discovered that eating dates helps with protecting the liver tissue from the impact of toxic compounds such as pesticides. The research team carried out several tests at the College of Medicine in Monastir University which showed “The critical role of antioxidants from food sources in the prevention of damages caused by toxic compounds, especially for people who are continuously and increasingly exposed to chemical compounds, such as organic phosphorus pesticides that stimulate the increased production of the so-called "free roots" responsible for changes in a cell." In addition, the researchers investigated the role of eating date extracts in protecting from the damage caused by oxidation or liver toxicity arising from exposure to the compound "Dimethoate" (with a daily average of one mg per one kg of body weight).  
Researchers also monitored the toxicity in the liver of mice upon eating "Dimethoate" (which comes from date extract), where they recorded an increase in four types of main liver enzymes resulting in huge changes in the oxidization-fighting system accompanied by changes in liver tissue, such as their death, congestion and enlargement in the inner vessels of liver tissue amongst to other things.  
On the other hand, the study discovered that eating date extract helps liver tissue with regaining its normal histological and chemical forms. Eventually, their results concluded that eating dates could be useful in protecting from Liver toxicity resulting from exposure to compounds that cause oxidation, such as the one used in their research.