Aspirin is the magic pill for prevention of some cancers, heart attacks and strokes

In the most recent issue of the Scientific American, the role of Aspirin has been shown to contribute to the prevention of many cancers. It even has value in people with some cancer in limiting the metastasis of malignant tumors. The mechanism was explained by the impact of aspirin on our platelets, the small particles that help us clot our blood when we cut ourselves to stop bleeding. Aspirin has been known for some time to weaken the ‘stickiness’ of platelets and we know that the value of this action is significant in people who might have a heart attack or stroke, i.e. it is the clotting at the wrong time and the wrong place that causes strokes and heart attacks. But the article focused on some new evidence on the mechanism on the mechanisms that cancers exploit platelets to to their ‘bad things’ to us. When the platelets are less sticky, cancers have difficulty to hijack these platelets for their nefarious purposes. You don’t have to understand this logic or the science behind it, all you have to do is to take one baby aspirin each and every day of your life.  This single pill should be part of everyone daily routine.