Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We also put green tea in there, and green tea has tremendous anticancer properties. It's a very powerful anti-inflammatory with antioxidants just like turmeric. Green tea and turmeric actually have synergistic effects together, which means that each one makes the other more effective. Green tea will enhance the anticancer effects of turmeric by three times and turmeric will enhance the anticancer effects of green tea by eight times.
Mike:Of course, both are well represented in your formula. Turmeric is 3,000 milligrams per serving. There is 500 milligrams of green tea leaf extract. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 GREEN TEA
Widely consumed in Asian countries, green tea is believed to have antioxidant and anticancer effects. Steeping fresh leaves in very hot (not quite boiling) water makes green tea, which inactivates oxidizing enzymes and leaves intact polyphenols, which have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties in animal models. Based on this evidence, many consider green tea to be healthful, and many Japanese drink large quantities of it. Green tea extracts sold as supplements in the U.S. are promoted as having cancer-prevention properties. |
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| USE HERBS AND SPICES OFTEN
Garlic, anise and other herbs, as well as ginger and other spices used in cooking, contain high levels of anticancer phytochemicals. To increase flavor, add herbs and spices to your foods instead of salt, sugar or fat.
What most people don't know: Cutting or smashing fresh garlic 10 minutes before cooking preserves the high levels of its anticancer compounds.
SOY: A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY
Soybeans contain many anticarcinogenic compounds, including the phytoestrogen genistein. |
Mark Sircus
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 Relationship between magnesium, cancer and carcinogenic or anticancer metals. anticancer Res. 1986 Nov-Dec;6(6): 1353-61.
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13 Mei W et al. Study of immune function of cancer patients influenced by supplemental zinc or selenium-zinc combination. Biol Trace Elem Res; 28(1 ):11-9. Jan
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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Broccoli: The latest discovery in fantastic anticancer nutrients.
5. Kale: Dark-green leafy vegetables like kale are very healing for heart disease and stroke, and they help your vision.
6. Spinach: One of the best natural sources of folic acid, excellent for preventing heart disease. Also a great brain tonic.
7. Sea vegetables: Provide ten times the mineral content of broccoli!
8. Almonds: One of the oldest healing foods in the world, almonds contain complete protein, good fats, and fiber, making them an ideal food for anyone, from children to elderly people.
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Devra Davis
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 Anticancer campaigns told women to overcome these familial and social teachings and to do in doctors' offices what they had been expressly taught not to do anywhere else: lie down with their skirts up, their underwear off and their legs apart, exposed to a man not their husband. It's hardly surprising that women would avoid pelvic examinations. The term "false modesty" belittled female anxieties and denied the sexualized and dangerous meanings of displaying women's bottoms to male eyes. |
Bill Sardi
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 Chest 118:290-5, 2000
Definition of a successful cancer drug
Contrary to what you may believe, pharmaceutical companies don't have to submit data to the FDA that their anticancer drugs improve survival. They only need to show what percentage of patients experience a 50% reduction in tumor size for one month or more, not whether patients live any longer. [Food & Drug Administration] Cancer chemotherapy today is about slowing down the disease and handling symptoms and side effects, not about curing cancer. The problem is that tumor shrinkage is not correlated with survival. |
| Source: Garth Powis, DPh, The Toxicity of anticancer Drugs, Pergamon Press, J 991
Does cancer or chemotherapy cause the side effects?
Cisplatin induces a depletion of magnesium in up to 90% of treated patients. Symptoms caused by magnesium shortage are often indistinguishable from cancer itself.
- Muscle spasms
—? Seizures
—? Muscle weakness
—? Twitching eyes
—? Psychiatric manifestations
—? Heart rhythm irregularities
—? Depression
—? Anorexia
—? Irritability
—? Constipation
[Cancer Treatment Reviews 25: 47-58, 1999]
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| Pharmacological Research 48: 231-36, 2003] It does not develop drug resistance as do many current anticancer drugs. [Biol Pharm Bulletin 25: 1555-61, 2002] Yet there has been no fast-track urgency to test this drug in human trials.
What is intriguing is how artemisinin kills cancer cells. Artemisinin generates free radicals and kills cancer cells by oxidation, similar to the way a rusty nail can kill germs in water. Cancer cells utilize a large amount of iron for their growth. Artemisinin has an affinity for iron and enters tumor cells where it literally causes tumor cells to explode. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Potential weight loss, cholesterol lowering, and anticancer benefits aside—and those are pretty big benefits to put aside—grapefruit is a good low-calorie source of potassium and vitamin C. It even has a drop of calcium and magnesium, 20 mg of phytosterols, and a gram or two of fiber. The red and pink varieties also have vitamin A, beta-carotene, and the aforementioned cancer-fighting lycopene.
Don't take grapefruit juice with medicine. Why? It causes the medicine to stay in the bloodstream longer, which in some cases can boost the amount in your system to a dangerous high. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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The cabbage family has some of the most important anticancer compounds known to humans, yet most of us eschew all but broccoli. Funny little mini-cabbages, Brussels sprouts are usually ignored because they smell bad when they're overcooked, but here's a way to fix them that guarantees you'll enjoy'em! |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| CLA has been widely studied for its anticancer and tumor-fighting ability, as well as for its ability to reduce the accumulation of abdominal fat. (CLA supplements are among the most popular weight control supplements on the market.) When you feed a ruminant grain—even as little as 2 pounds a day—its production of CLA plummets. CLA may be one of the most potent cancer-fighting substances in our diet. In animal studies, as little as 0.5 of 1 percent CLA in the diet has reduced tumor burden by more than 50 percent.
Now that we've talked about cows, let's move on to the chickens and the eggs. |
Bill Sardi
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| Upon internalization into the cancer cell the conjugate (HA plus the anticancer drug) should be readily cleaved to regenerate (release) the active toxic agent." [Bioorganization Medicinal Chemistry 13: 5043-54, 2005] Hyaluronic acid is one of these cancer interceptors.
Researchers in Italy actually used hyaluronic acid coupled with butyric acid as cancer therapy. The result: 87-100% of animals were metastasis-free using this treatment, which is ten-times more effective than butyric acid alone. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Steeping fresh leaves in very hot (not quite boiling) water makes green tea, which inactivates oxidizing enzymes and leaves intact polyphenols, which have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties in animal models. Based on this evidence, many consider green tea to be healthful, and many Japanese drink large quantities of it. Green tea extracts sold as supplements in the U.S. are promoted as having cancer-prevention properties. One study that examined the risk of stomach cancer in Japanese men found that drinking green tea conferred no protective effect. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 It has important effects on calcium, bone, joints, and prevention of cancer by promoting the immune system's anticancer activities.
Zinc: A trace mineral found in the bones, teeth, hair, skin, testes, liver, and muscles. It is an activator of certain enzymes, and promotes the synthesis of DNA, RNA, and protein.
Inflammation
Without our immune system and the inflammation that it generates, we would die shortly after birth, our bodies consumed by a myriad of infectious agents. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and has important anticancer properties.
Third, multivitamins contain folic acid. While this B vitamin is known for helping prevent birth defects, it also appears to have an anticancer effect.
In June 2002, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended taking a multivitamin not just once a day but twice, to ensure adequate amounts of vitamins B12 and D.1 For women attempting to conceive, a multivitamin plus a 400-microgram folic acid supplement is recommended. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It contains an enzyme that breaks down these valuable glucosinolates into other compounds—isothiocyanates—that are actually responsible for the anticancer benefits: When you process the stuff, that enzyme is released. The enzyme, in turn, comes into contact with the glucosinolates, and presto, you've got the nutritionally beneficial isothiocyanates. worth knowing
If you've ever eaten sushi or sashimi, you've encountered wasabi, also known as Japanese horseradish —it's that very strong-tasting green stuff they put on the plate to mix with the soy sauce. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Certain foods and supplements can help improve liver function and have anticancer properties.
Liver detox systems are enhanced by broccoli sprouts, seaweed, and dark greens, and are proven to reduce the risk of cancer at various sites, including the prostate, lung, breast, and colon. How? These cruciferous vegetables rev up detoxifying enzymes at the genetic level. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Why Women Should Eat More Broccoli
The anticancer properties of broccoli are well established. Even the American Cancer Society recommends eating it and other cruciferous vegetables. Though there are many compounds responsible for its impact on our health, one that deserves special mention is the indoles. Broccoli contains indole-3-carbinol, which, in addition to being a strong antioxidant and stimulator of detoxifying enzymes, seems to protect the structure of DNA. It also reduces the risk of breast and cervical cancer.
Indole-3-carbinol is of particular importance to women. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Those genes are the storm troopers and flight surgeons of the anticancer corps. Scientists have identified dozens of these genetic guardians—when they're shut down, cancerous cells have free rein.
A recent article in Science News told the story of two identical twins, Elizabeth and Eleanor (not their real names), who were born on November 19, 1939. From the moment the twins were born, they were treated the same because their mother never wanted either girl to feel she was more—or less—favored. |
| The powerful anticancer drug is another tree bark derivative—in this case from the bark of the Pacific yew.
Around 60 percent—or more—of the world's population still relies directly on plants for medicine. Probably isn't such a bad idea for us to drop in every once in a while, take a look at what they're cooking, and wonder why.
CHAPTER V
OF MICROBES AND MEN or thousands of years a parasitic worm called Dracunculus me-dinensis—which means "little dragon"—has plagued humans across Africa and Asia. It causes a terrible disease. |
| The scopolamine in jimsonweed that causes temporary madness is a bitter-tasting alkaloid—but so are some of the compounds in broccoli that have anticancer properties. So today, especially in developed countries where the need for a natural alarm bell against plant toxins has pretty much faded away, it may be a disadvantage to have a strong reaction to bitterness. Now, instead of steering you away from poisons, it's steering you away from food that's good for you. |
| Methylation of those genes would take them out of the cancer suppression business—by inhibiting their methylation, green tea keeps them in the anticancer fight.
The same Duke team responsible for the original study of vitamin-triggered methylation in agouti mice has demonstrated a similar methylating effect from genistein, the estrogenlike compound found in soy. They've speculated that genistein may also help to reduce the risk of obesity in humans, perhaps even helping to explain why Asian rates of obesity are comparatively low. But again, their speculation is tempered with a note of caution. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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Lewin L, Gifte und Vergiftungen, 6. Aufl., Nachdruck, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1992. |
Tom Bohager
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 Herpes zoster can occur due to stress or because the immune system has been weakened, either by disease, such as lymphoma or Hodgkin's disease, or by treatment with immunosuppressant or anticancer drugs. The first indication of a herpes zoster outbreak is excessive sensitivity in the affected area of skin, soon followed by pain, and then (after about five days) a rash, which may leave scars after crusting.
People who have herpes zoster should see a doctor immediately. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Theanine has caught the eye of cancer researchers, since this green tea extract enhances the effectiveness of some anticancer medications while minimizing their side effects.
Green tea is certainly in a class unto itself in terms of the diverse ways it supports good health. Almost every system of the body is beneficially affected by green tea, since green tea lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, which reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke; prevents cancer from starting and spreading; boosts immunity and fights infection; and even helps prevent dental cavities. |
Elaine Magee
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 People who ate the most garlic had a lower risk of all cancers studied except breast and prostate cancers, and again, the anticancer benefits were highest in the people who ate the most garlic. The protective effect of onions and garlic didn't disappear after the researchers controlled for the total amount of vegetables eaten, which suggests that there is some definite effect apart from simply eating more vegetables.
The most promising findings, according to Environmental Nutrition, have been for stomach, colon, and prostate cancers. |
| Overall, the evidence of lycopene's prostate-saving effect (and anticancer effect in general) is more evident in people who eat plenty of tomato products than in those who take supplements. Eating combinations of fruits and vegetables rich in carotenoids—a sweet potato and a carrot and a mango, for example—automatically offers you a nature-made mixture and possibly the best protection.
In the meantime, the research on this amazing phytochemical family just keeps stacking up. |
| There's so much more to vitamin D than enhancing calcium absorption; its anticancer benefit is just one other possibility. Most of 63 recently reviewed studies found a protective effect between vitamin D status and cancer risk. A study presented at the 2006 American Association for Cancer Research meeting suggested that an increase in vitamin D lowered the risk of developing breast cancer by up to 50 percent.
How might vitamin D help? |
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