Despite the fact that excessive salt intake is harmful to the heart and blood vessels, scientists managed to find an area where its use has a positive effect.. This is a cancer treatment..

Experiment with mice helped convince specialists. Subject rodents with skin cancer and breast cancer were fed low salt foods. At the same time, a second group of mice with the same diseases was fed salty foods.. The experiment lasted 16 days.

As it turned out, in the group of rodents eating salt food, the size and weight of the tumors was lower than that of their counterparts from another group.

Scientists have studied the mechanism by which tumor growth has stopped. It turned out that salt reduces the accumulation of myeloid suppressor cells in the blood and, directly, the tumor itself. Myeloid cells have immunosuppressive properties, but on the “salty” diet they differentiated into immunostimulating ones, which led to the restoration of immune defense and reduced tumor growth.

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