The basis of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.
“The vast majority of cancer research is Dedicated Finding cures rather than finding new ways to prevent disease. The results of these skewed priorities are plain to see.” It has been nearly 55 years since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, yet deaths from the most common cancer in the United States continue unabated.
“We are looking at the nature of cancer the wrong way. Breast cancer does not begin when a lump is first felt or detected by a mammogram. All the common epithelial cancers (lung, colorectal, breast, prostate, pancreas and ovary), which account for most deaths, have long latency periods – often 20 years or more.” So, it’s not like you were healthy one day, then got cancer the next day. You are not healthy—cancer has been growing inside you for decades. In fact, there is a “bizarre misconception that people are ‘healthy’ until they have actual symptoms of aggressive cancer,” but “a barn with hay smoldering before bursting into flames is not a safe place.”
So, what does the pharmacology professor I quote recommend? Of course, drugs. Chemoprevention-giving medicines to people to prevent cancer. The pharmaceutical industry spends a lot of money promoting chemo prevention of heart disease and stroke with statins and blood thinners, so why shouldn’t people take drugs every day for the rest of their lives to prevent cancer?
There has to be a better way.
about what using the Diet and nutrition for cancer prevention and treatment? Well, what kind of cancer? There Are More than 200 types. But here’s the key: all of them share Same hallmark. In a series of papers cited more than 40,000 times in the biomedical literature, 10 hallmarks of cancer have been described Identified: :
- increased sensitivity to growth factors
- avoiding your body’s tumor suppressors
- Tricking your immune system
- to be able to grow forever
- tumor promoting inflammation
- ability to invade and spread
- Ability to connect one’s own blood supply
- Accumulation of DNA mutations
- Disabling self-destruct mechanisms in place
- hijacking cell metabolism
And, of course, there are many classes of medications to try counter Each of the chemotherapy agents is designed to target each piece of the cancer puzzle. You can see them below and in my video at 2:27 Fighting ten symptoms of cancer with food.
Now, ideally, there would be drugs capable of Target Multiple symptoms at one time, but medications don’t work that way. In fact, “the need to target multiple hallmarks is a major reason why, in the context of cancer research, there are many proponents of investigating plant foods because they can provide a cocktail of bioactive compounds” that can target most if not all hallmarks of cancer. down and 3:00 in my VideoYou can see a sample of the compounds found Fruits and vegetables — such as berries, greens, and broccoli — have been shown to be able to target each of the 10 hallmarks of cancer, at least in a petri dish.
Furthermore, they have the properties of an ideal chemopreventive agent. If you are to design the right candidates, you will want them to be selective for cancerous or pre-cancerous cells while sparing normal cells, be side-effect-free, target most types of cancer, be able to be consumed in the daily diet, be readily available almost everywhere, and be relatively inexpensive. Plants meet all these criteria. It’s no surprise that people who eat more plant-based foods have lower rates of cancer.
To be clear, we’re not talking about taking supplements containing extracts or pure phytochemicals, but rather eating whole plant foods themselves—a food system-based approach to targeting cancer symptoms. Foods prevent There are thousands of substances that result in a huge number of potential interactions, yet much of nutrition science has been around for a long time. directed Toward the effects of single dietary components.” Yes, this type of reductionist approach could highlight the role of foods or even individual nutrients in disease development, but let’s think about what the optimal research strategy would be to study the effects of bioactive natural plant compounds on disease prevention instead. using the Why not try isolated phytochemicals or whole foods for cancer management? Sometimes the whole, a concept, can be greater than the sum of its parts. known As food coordination.
Check out this study included to Simultaneous inhibition of a series of cancer stages in breast cancer cells using a phytochemical supercocktail. Two breast cancer cell lines were treated with six different plant compounds separately, and then all together, at levels found in the bloodstream after eating foods such as broccoli, grapes, soybeans and turmeric. And while the compounds were ineffective individually, together they significantly suppressed breast cancer cell proliferation by more than 80%, inhibited cancer cell invasion and migration, stopped the cancer cells in their tracks, and ultimately killed them all. The plant compounds did all this without having any harmful effects on the normal non-cancerous cells used as controls.
No wonder the foundation of cancer prevention-based On an update to the most comprehensive report ever published on diet and cancer – not pills, but plants, as you can see below and at 5:28 in my Video.
In other words, Cutting Reduce your intake of alcohol, soda, meat and processed junk foods and focus your diet on whole grains, vegetables, fruits and legumes.
doctor’s note
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