In the course of the study, experts concluded that caffeine clearly prevents the development of skin cancer.
The experiments were carried out on laboratory mice, deprived of hair, whose skin was exposed to UVB rays, which cause skin cancer. The first group of experimental animals drank water with caffeine, the mice from the second group did physical exercise – they ran in a wheel, and the animals of the third group both consumed an analogue of coffee and underwent physical exertion. As a result, the mice from the third group showed the best results in resistance to ultraviolet irradiation.
The thing is that when solar radiation hits the skin in the cells, the structure of the DNA sections changes. This is what leads to the development of cancer. Caffeine, on the other hand, has the unique property of destroying destroyed DNA, as a result of which damaged skin cells cannot further divide and turn into malignant ones.
In order to prevent the development of cancer, it is necessary to drink three to five cups of coffee a day or use special creams or gels made on the basis of coffee. In addition, such cosmetic preparations improve skin color.
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