Can Avocado Help Treat Leukemia? by Hannah Joy on April 30, 2021 at 4:04 PM
This compound helps treat patients with leukemia
Avocatin B can also prevent diabetes and manage obesity
Yes, a compound that is present only in avocados offers to treat leukemia better, reveals a new University of Guelph study.
The compound targets an enzyme that scientists have identified for the first time as being critical to cancer cell growth, said Dr. Paul Spagnuolo, Department of Food Science.
Can Avocado Help Treat Leukemia?
Published recently in the journal
Blood, the study focused on acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which is the most devastating form of leukemia.