Cancer Genes Influenced by The Things We Eat

Are you eating your vegetables? When you plan your meals do you include green leafy veggies on a regular basis?

You should!

Why? Well we have always heard that eating our vegetables are good for us haven’t we?

Mom says “Now son finish eating your carrots for they will help you grow big and strong”.

Dad says “You eat those carrots right now, they’ll put hair on your chest”.

Science has been trying to understand for decades the complexities of disease so medications could be developed to help individuals with these diseases. As they research and look a little closer at disease they begin to realize the power in natural whole foods that gives us adequate protection.

Some studies in test labs have shown a certain compound found in cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage and a chemical found in soy beans that can help repair DNA from the increase of specific proteins. These compounds are called genistein and indole-3-carinol (i3c) and published in the British journal of Cancer.

Even Georgetown University Medical Center researchers say that DNA repair
in cells appear to be enhanced by chemicals contained in certain vegetables. “It is now clear that the function of crucial cancer can be influenced by compounds in the things we eat” says Professor Eliot M. Rosen, MD, PhD, from Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also says "Our findings suggest a clear molecular process that would explain the connection between diet and cancer prevention."

This special study by Rosen actually exposed prostate cancer as well as breast cancer to mega doses of the chemical and compound genistein and i3c. He found, as stated above that the repair proteins BRCA1 and BRCA2 production was elevated.

Rosen theorizes that giving i3c and genistein the ability to boost production of these repairing proteins is explanation of their protective actions. This is a ray of hope since other studies show cancer cells have a decreased amount of these repairing proteins and turbo charging them actually might be a big breakthrough.

So, as we have always known but are not always obedient, eating our veggies is more than a good idea, for the more we include these in our diet on a regular bases the better chance we have to live a disease free lifestyle.