INS and cancer: Although MedDiet mechanisms still need to be completely elucidated, it is known that they involve a reduction in both inflammatory and oxidative stress markers, atheroprotective and antithrombotic properties, lipid-lowering effects, increased insulin sensitivity and endothelial functions, protection against platelet aggregation, modification of hormones and growth factors that participate in the pathogenesis of cancer, inhibition of nutrient sensing pathways, and the production of metabolites via gut microbiota to influence metabolic health [183,185].