Caffeine May Prevent Melanoma

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer is deadly. To protect themselves from the disease, now is the time you become an active coffee drinkers.

Adding caffeine in sunscreens can be more reliably protect yourself from skin cancer. This discovery has been made by scientists from Rutgers University in the United States.

Research has shown that caffeine has a chemical element that when applied to the skin, absorbs ultraviolet radiation and preventing tumor development. Thus was launched from Genius Beauty, Thursday (10/06/2011).

Experiments conducted on mice. Rodents that have been used are genetically modified to artificially reduce the enzyme activity of ATR.

This substance is usually protect damaged cells, which then can become cancerous due to poor exposure to sunlight. Caffeine inhibits the action of enzymes ATR. Thus, researchers have created the effect of caffeine on mice.

After that, rats exposed to ultraviolet radiation, the tumor growing in her body three weeks later. In the case of mice with ATR enzymes when comparing them with normal mice, during the week-19 experiment, mice genetically engineered to have 69 percent fewer tumors than non-modified.