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DESCRIPTION: One reason why soy consumption is associated with improved survival and lower recurrence rates in breast cancer patients may be because soy phytonutrients appear to improve the expression of tumor suppressing BRCA genes.

Legumes leading to a longer life? See my last video, Increased Lifespan From Beans (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/increased-lifespan-from-beans/).

No matter what genes we inherit, changes in diet can affect DNA expression at a genetic level. For examples see:

• Black Raspberries versus Oral Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/black-raspberries-versus-oral-cancer/)
• Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/apple-skin-peeling-back-cancer/)
• Mitochondrial Theory of Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mitochondrial-theory-of-aging/)
• Convergence of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convergence-of-evidence/)
• Plant-Based Diets and Cellular Stress Defenses (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-and-cellular-stress-defenses/)

I've previously covered the available science in Breast Cancer Survival and Soy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-survival-and-soy/). Other effects detailed in:

• Milk Protein vs. Soy Protein (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/milk-protein-vs-soy-protein/)
• Soy Foods & Menopause (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/soy-foods-menopause/)
• The Effect of Soy on Precocious Puberty (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-effect-of-soy-on-precocious-puberty/)
• Soy Worth a Hill of Beans? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/soy-worth-a-hill-of-beans/)
• Waistline Slimming Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/waistline-slimming-food/)

It may be possible to overdo it, though (How Much Soy Is Too Much?, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-soy-is-too-much/).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brca-breast-cancer-genes-and-soy/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: The Big Lunch, IITA Image Library, and Gage Skidmore via flickr; and United States National Institutes of Health.

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