A compound found in oysters could help prevent and treat cancer, particularly breast cancer, a professor from Louisiana State University said Tuesday.
Jack Losso, Ph.D. and an associate professor in the food science department, has been doing research in this area since 2001 and has found that ceramide, a lipid found in oysters, prevents blood from getting to tumors in the body. Without nutrients from blood, cancer cells can’t multiply.
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