Add some flaxseed to your daily diet and you could reduce your risk of breast cancer.
Flaxseed includes lignans, compounds that help the gut communicate with mammary gland RNA and stop breast cells proliferating and migrating, a process that’s needed for cancer to start and spread.
As with almost every disease, breast cancer starts in the gut microbiome, say researchers at the University of Nebraska.
They tested the effects of flaxseed on young female mice, and discovered it generates miRNA (microRNA) responses in the mammary gland that keeps it healthy and cancer-free.
The findings echo earlier research that flaxseed reduces the risk of breast cancer death in postmenopausal women.
Add to that the other proven benefits of flaxseed—improved digestion and reduced heart disease risk—and it’s definitely something that should be in everyone’s diet, especially if you’re a woman.
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