SALT

Could something as common as table salt be the key to advancing cancer treatment? Two new studies, published on Aug. 28 in Nature Immunology, find that increased salt levels can significantly enhance immune cells’ cancer-killing abilities. One of the two studies also showed that mice who consumed a high-salt diet also had reduced tumor sizes as a result. “We were very surprised to see that salt instead improved their vigor, metabolism, and killing function and that this also reduced tumor growth in [the] mouse model,” Dr. Christina Zielinski, lead author of one of the studies, told The Epoch Times in an email. “Salt turned out to be a surprisingly simple [but] overlooked factor” in boosting cancer-killing cells’ effectiveness, Zielinski, who is also the Chair of Infection Immunology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, added. While research suggests a salt-based approach could become a valuable tool for enhancing cancer treatments, the researchers said in a press sta...