The prevention and treatment of disease

Aspirin may also play a role in the prevention and treatment of disease.
The best known is the role of aspirin to relieve headaches. Scientific research, however, have proven that it can also play an important role in the prevention and treatment of diseases more serious, such as cancer and type 2 diabetes.

Now, Canadian, British and Australian scientists were able to identify how this process actually works in the human body.
 When ingested by humans, aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is broken down within the body in a compound called salicylate.

 The new research found that this compound, when it is in abundance in the human cell, is able to activate the enzyme AMPK -.

 Regulates this level of cellular energy, thus also responsible for inhibiting cell growth According to scientists, previous studies had already shown that such an enzyme can decrease fat and increase sensitivity to insulin in obese mice, so important in diabetes 2.

Have other studies found that a drug called motorman may be important in cancer prevention.
This drug is also able to activate AMPK, which indicates a possible efficacy of aspirin against disease.
 To reach these results, the researchers gave the mice that aspirin not carried AMPK, and the remedy did not produce effects.

 The study was published on Thursday (19) in the journal Science and signed by McMaster University in Canada, University of Dundee, Scotland, and University of Melbourne, Australia. "
Aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs in the world and undoubtedly the most successful.