Caffeine + Exercise Fight Skin Cancer
Low to moderate amounts of caffeine together with exercise have been found to protect against the destructive effects of the sun’s ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation - known to induce skin cancer: the caffeine and exercise seemingly conspire in killing off precancerous cells whose DNA has been damaged by UVB-rays.
Such were the findings of a research team at Rutgers University on mice studies conducted in the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers’ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
Compared to the UVB-exposed control animals, the caffeine drinkers showed an approximately 95 percent increase in UVB-induced apoptosis, the exercisers showed a 120 percent increase, while the mice that were both drinking and exercising showed a nearly 400 percent increase.
Of course findings such as these should be taken first to the next level until a concrete conclusion can be drawn.
Results of the said study appear in the July 31 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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