Now more than ever, Nutritional scientists are discovering and documenting the hidden mechanisms by which whey proteins can prevent cancers as well as wage an all out war against cancerous tumors that have already developed.

As clinical trials have progressed, researchers have found that whey delivers powerful enabling proteins like lactoferrin. In the bloodstream, lactoferrin triggers the production of glutathione, an extremely effective antioxidant and tumor fighter par excellence. To illustrate this, researchers at the Department of Food Science & Technology at Ohio State University demonstrated quantitatively that glutathione levels in prostate cells were increased by 50% as a direct result of whey isolate supplementation (containing lactoferrin). They concluded that this level of increase in glutathione was responsible for preventing the development of prostate cancer compared to control groups that did not receive the whey supplementation.

Yet another reason to take whey protein besides its muscle building benefits.