True, it’s uneasy and irritating to experience morning sickness or nausea, especially for a pregnant woman. But, like the pleasure of suffering the pains and uneasiness of pregnancy for nine long months, you can now have enough reasons to extract a ‘feel-good-factor’ from this nausea. It is recently found that this ‘suffering’ – if you call it as, after finding out what it indicates — from pregnancy-related nausea can assure of the fact that you have a lowered breast cancer risk. Yes, nausea during pregnancy is linked with a 30 per cent reduced chance of developing the disease later in life in comparison to mothers-to-be who sailed through nine nausea-free months, according to the new research. A hormone– human chorionic gonadotropin — made in the placenta and affects foetal development, is found to be able to potentially protect a woman against cancer. Presenting the findings last week at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research in Boston, Massachusetts, study leader David Jaworowicz Jr, a Buffalo doctoral candidate said, Although the exact mechanism responsible for causing nausea and vomiting during pregnancy has yet to be pinpointed, it likely is a result of changing levels of ovarian and placental hormone production, which may include higher circulating levels of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin. In-vitro studies have shown that this hormone possesses several activities that have potential protective effects against cancer cells. So, though nausea during those hard pregnancy days is not welcome, it is sure to assure you of breast cancer-free life in later years.