Many people avoid regularly eating cheese over fears of what it may do to their waistlines.
Yet, eating aged cheeses, including cheddar, brie and parmesan, could boost your liver health.
These cheeses contain a compound, known as spermidine, that stops damaged liver cells from replicating.
This may prevent liver fibrosis – the accumulation of scar tissue that occurs in most disease of the organ, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the most common form of liver cancer.
Liver disease is the fifth biggest cause of death in England and Wales, and claimed over 11,000 lives in the UK in 2014. HCC makes up around half of the approximate 5,500 new liver cancer cases each year in the UK.
Researchers at Texas A&M University analysed spermidine treatment in mice.
When give over their entire lifespan, life expectancy increased by 25 per cent.
If the compound gave this life-length boost to humans, it could help them to reach 100, rather than the current life expectancy of 81, The Express reported.
Yet, any amount of spermidine could be beneficial.
Further research is required to determine if the compound can be made into a supplement.
Source: Cheese contains a compound that could prevent liver cancer | Daily Mail Online
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