Consuming sufficient phytochemicals has the potential to decrease the risk of developing certain cancers as well as Diabetes, hypertension, and Heart disease by:
- Stimulating the immune system
- Blocking substances we eat, drink, and breathe from becoming carcinogens
- Reducing the kind of inflammation that makes cancer growth more likely
- Preventing DNA damage and helping with DNA repair
- Reducing the kind of oxidative damage to cells that can spark cancer
- Slowing the growth rate of cancer cells
- Triggering damaged cells to self-destruct before they can reproduce
- Helping to regulate hormones
