Dietary fiber vs prostate cancer

• April 24, 2024

The diet rich in dietary fiber may have the clinical potential to control the progression of prostate cancer in patients diagnosed in early stages of the disease, according to the study conducted by the Cancer Center of the University of Colorado (U.S).

Published in the magazine Cancer Prevention Research, in this study it is explained that said result is due to the anti-angiogenic effects of inositol hexaphosphate (IP6), which was administered as one of the main components of diets high in dietary fiber with a group of control mice.

In accordance with Rajesh Agarwal, member of the Cancer Center, and the representative of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (United States), Raina Koma , it has been observed that the tumor volumes of this group of rodents have been drastically reduced because "the IP6 slows down the speed at which the prostate cancers metabolizes glucose. "

Therefore, according to specialists, the prostate cancer can not grow or progress without this energy, once reduced the protein called GLUT-4, which plays a major role in the transport of glucose, to frequent consumption of dietary fiber.

In addition, these results allow us to understand that although the incidence rates of prostate cancer they are similar in Asia and the West; However, the tumors in the latter they tend to progress more, due to their low consumption of dietary fiber.

In this sense, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) It proved that one third of the types of Cancer if people maintain a healthy weight, perform constant physical activity, and take a diet based on vegetables and fruits, which provide dietary fiber.

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