The current webpage makes additional research available concerning how various meats, dairy, seafood and seaweed or their major bioactive components improve triple negative (ER-/PR-/HER2-) breast cancer risk and prognosis. At the bottom of this webpage are links to studies relating to the beneficial foods in this category listed in Foods to eat & avoid for triple negative breast cancer.
While there is preliminary evidence that probiotic yogurt might be beneficial, most land-based animal products incorporating compounds known to inhibit triple negative breast cancer should be limited or avoided for other reasons. For example, beef is a good source of selenium, but has a variety of unfavorable attributes. Therefore, the category meat, dairy, seafood & seaweed consists only of seafood and seaweed for triple negative breast cancer. These foods inhibit triple negative disease through the actions of the following compounds:
- Astaxanthin (a marine carotenoid found in lake trout, salmon)
- DHA & EPA (fatty fish such as Artic char, herring, mackerel, sardines, and to a lesser extent, halibut, as well as the fish above)
- Fucoidan (a complex sugar found in brown seaweeds such as mozuku, wakame, kombu, bladderwrack)
- Fucoxanthin (a marine carotenoid found in brown seaweeds such as fukuronori, wakame, forkweed, kombu)
- Selenium (halibut, herring, mackerel, sardines, and to a lesser extent, lake trout and salmon)
- Vitamin D (herring, lake trout, mackerel, salmon, sardines, and to a lesser extent, Artic char and halibut)
Please read the applicable food webpages when making your own food lists since these pages contain important advice, food rankings (e.g., highly recommended, recommended in moderation), consumption limits, and other pertinent information.