Common Kitchen Hero FIGHTS Cancer
There are plenty of reasons to get more fiber in your diet.
To start, it’s essential for digestion and gut health. It also supports weight loss by helping you feel fuller for longer. Fiber can even help balance your blood sugar levels.
But all those excellent reasons still aren’t quite enough to inspire the 90 percent of Americans who don’t eat the recommended amount of fiber to change their ways.
So, if you’re one of them, I have what may be the best reason yet to start getting more fiber in your diet.
A new study finds it could, quite literally, save your life…
The research is in and it turns out that fiber can help prevent cancer.
And how it accomplishes this incredible feat is really quite interesting…
When you eat high-fiber foods, it kickstarts a domino effect.
- First, your microbiome breaks them down into short-chain fatty acids.
- Then, two short-chain fatty acids—propionate and butyrate—cause epigenetic changes in genes that regulate cell growth.
Epigenetics refers to the on/off switch that controls your genes. This includes regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis (programmed cell death).
All are critical for the development and growth of cancer.
The BIGGEST influences on that switch are your…
- lifestyle and
- environment
The study confirms that eating plenty of high-fiber foods is one of the lifestyle factors that help regulate the genes that fight cancer.
Fiber is found in whole foods like beans, lentils, oatmeal, fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and more. Start boosting YOUR intake today.
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Nshanian, M., et al. (2025). Short-chain fatty acid metabolites propionate and butyrate are unique epigenetic regulatory elements linking diet, metabolism and gene expression. Nature Metabolism. doi.org/10.1038/s42255-024-01191-9.
