Scientists from Harvard have found that a fatty diet reduces the number of immune cells and their ability to fight cancer.
When a person eats fatty foods, he begins to get fat. As a result of such a diet, fat becomes more available and metabolism changes in the formations. Too much energy causes tumors to grow faster. At the same time, T cells suffer from a lack of energy, which they spent on the fight against cancer, reports New Atlas.
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The study authors emphasized that they now know about the metabolic struggle that occurs between cancer cells and T-lymphocytes due to obesity.
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As a result of the experiments, the experts found that the tumors in the overweight mice increased in size much faster. However, this applied only to rodents with immunogenic cancer. The immune system responds more easily to this type of cancer. The research is published in the journal Cell.