Does Olive Oil Really Help Lower The Risk Of Breast Cancer?

From past scientific reports the Mediterranean dietary intake has been proven to offer protection against many diseases.

In US studies researchers have found out in what way the Mediterranean food diet that contained a high portion of olive oil can protect against breast cancer. A component of the olive oil could even find itself in the close future used in cancer therapy.

Investigations conducted on the population of south Europe pointed out that a Mediterranean diet with a lot of fish, fruit, vegetables and olive oil protects against a row of diseases, among them are some kinds of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

In particular an illness-preventing effect is associated with olive oil and the unique oleic acid contained within it. The researchers around Javier Menendez before that Northwestern University Fine Mountain School OF Medicine in Chicago examined it at a cellular level to see the effects of the cell in contact with the acid.

Gene activity braked

The tests showed that oleic acid decreases the activity of a gene, that with the emergence by breast cancer in connection with the gene-
Her-2/neu-Gen. Within approximately 20 per cent of all breast cancer patients this gene is overactive.

It comes on with an aggressive tumor growth and female patients connected with it have a smaller chance of survival. In the cell tests oleic acid lowered the genes activity by 46 per cent, reports the scientists in the "Annals OF Oncology".

Beyond that oleic acid increased the effectiveness of the cancer means "Herceptin". This affected likewise the Her-2/neu-Gen and can extend the life expectancy of the female patients.

Possibly oleic acid can emerge as one of the solutions to become another resistance for use by medicine to help prevent or at last stop, this aggressive cancer reports Menendez.

Because it affects a protein, which plays a role in the emergence of Herceptin.

It still remains to be seen whether the results of the cell attempts can be transferred to humans, their investigation however supports the epidemiological studies, which showed a Mediterranean Diet offered a protecting effect.

Riz Stone writes exclusively for [http://www.cancer-treatment-help.com]