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Cancer can be effectively prevented in many ways. After all, cancer is not a disease that appears one day without causes. That is an important fact that people know little about.
Breast cancer
The basis of prevention is usually a healthy diet, regular physical activity or sports, avoiding stress and also toxins from the environment.
And in the case of breast cancer there is one more thing. More precisely, a substance that is often missing in our European diet.
Iodine
At first glance it may seem hard to believe, but it is really so. If you want to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, give your body a proper dose of iodine.
Iodine is usually associated with the thyroid gland. But iodine doesn’t support proper function only there, but also other systems and organs in our body
Among other organs dependent on iodine are the breasts in women and the prostate in men.
Iodine-deficient diet
If your diet contains only a small amount of iodine, the thyroid gland captures most of it and there is none left for the rest of the body.
Iodine is also important for brain development, especially in children. Adequate iodine reserves in the body ensure that a child develops properly mentally and intellectually.
Iodine deficiency
Low iodine levels in the body increase the sensitivity of breast tissues to estrogen, which creates a perfect breeding ground for the development of breast cancer.
Incidence of breast cancer
As the article’s title already reports, Japanese women have up to a 66% lower incidence of breast cancer compared to our women. And as it turned out, the difference is attributed precisely to iodine.
In our recommended tables of amounts of vitamins and minerals, the value for iodine is stated as 150 micrograms per day.
The average intake among Japanese women is up to 25 times higher!
Breast cancer is also greatly influenced by environmental toxins, which bind to iodine receptors and thus block its activity.
Natural sources of iodine
The human body cannot produce iodine (just like any other basic element), so we must obtain it through our diet.
The following foods are known for their high iodine content:
- cranberries
- beans
- whole potatoes (including skin)
- eggs
- tuna
- shrimp
- salmon
- lobster
