Flashback Friday: Can Flax Seeds Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-04-10

Flax seed consumption may play a role in preventing and treating breast cancer by blocking the inflammatory effects of interleukin-1.

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The first half of the video is basically just a review of all the flax and breast cancer work I’ve already covered:
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-prevention)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Epidemiological Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-epidemiological-evidence/)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-clinical-evidence/)

Flaxseeds may also help fight hormone-mediated cancers in men. See Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer and Was It the Flaxseed, Fat Restriction, or Both?  (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-prostate-cancer/ and https://nutritionfacts.org/video/was-it-the-flaxseed-fat-restriction-or-both/)

What else can these puppies do? See:
• Flaxseeds vs. Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/)
• Flax Seeds for Sensitive Skin (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-for-sensitive-skin/)
• Flax Seeds for Breast Pain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-seeds-for-breast-pain/)

I have another 100+ videos on breast cancer if you want to become an expert and help take care of yourself and/or the women in your life. Here’s a few recent ones to get you started:
• Fiber vs. Breast Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fiber-vs-breast-cancer/)
• Breast Cancer and Alcohol: How Much Is Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-and-alcohol-what-much-is-safe/)
• Breast Cancer Survival Vegetable (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-survival-vegetable/)
• BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/brca-breast-cancer-genes-and-soy)
• Cholesterol Feeds Breast Cancer Cells (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-feeds-breast-cancer-cells/)
• Breast Cancer and Constipation (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-and-constipation)

Since this video originally came out, I’ve got even more videos on flax. See them all at https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/flax-seeds/
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