Apples Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer

From the core

Recent research out of UCLA has revealed a potential new weapon in the war against pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. The study, published in the April issue of the International Journal of Cancer, reports that a specific antioxidant compound found in apples slowed the growth and curbed the spread of pancreatic cells in mice. Of course, further studies will be required to determine if the compound can treat or prevent cancer in humans, but the results of this study take a promising first step in that direction.

Antioxidants to the rescue once again

Each year 30,000 people in the U.S. alone are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer- and for most, by the time it’s detected, there’s little that can be done. Pancreatic cancer is often considered a silent disease – hard to detect and diagnose, and nearly impossible to treat, unless it is caught very early. That’s what makes prevention efforts all the more important.

With that in mind, the UCLA researchers decided to examine the preventative effects of natural antioxidants on pancreatic cancer. They knew that quercetin, a powerful antioxidant found in apples, had shown promising cancer-fighting potential against other types of cancer. So they set out to determine how quercetin and three other food-derived compounds might impact pancreatic cancer.

Their study was divided into two phases. The first measured the effects of quercetin on pancreatic cancer in a strain of mice specially bred to have no immune system. Human pancreatic cells were introduced into the mice, and cancer cells were injected. Mice treated with quercetin survived an average of 34 percent longer than untreated mice. The quercetin effectively inhibited the spread of malignant cells and triggered apoptosis, a series of reactions that cause cancer cells to self destruct.

The second phase of their study investigated the effects of several different plant-based polyphenols on pancreatic cancer cells. Rutin, found in green tea; trans-resveratrol, found in grapes and wine; genistein, found in soybeans; and quercetin were each combined with pancreatic cancer cells in a laboratory. Except for rutin, all of the polyphenols exhibited potent cancer-fighting properties. In both phases, the researchers concluded that polyphenol antioxidants like quercetin can inhibit pancreatic cancer growth.

Apple polishing

As I said above, pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers. Often, by the time symptoms occur and a diagnosis is made, the cancer has spread, and by then it is too late to treat it effectively.

But there are steps you can take to avoid pancreatic cancer. In the August 29, 2001 e-Alert, I told you about research showing that modifying lifestyle factors like cigarette smoking and obesity can significantly decrease your risk of pancreatic cancer. Find possible links to pancreatic cancer.

Now it seems eating more apples, and adding more natural antioxidants into your meals, could be another important step. More research is needed before we can say definitively that quercetin and other polyphenols have therapeutic value against pancreatic cancer. But in the meantime, it certainly can’t hurt to grab a MacIntosh or Granny Smith when you’re looking for a snack. After all, we’ve heard for years that they keep the doctor away. Maybe now we know why.

Sources:

“Researchers Finally Uncover Possible Links to Pancreatic Cancer” e-Alert, 8/29/01
Reuters Health, April 16, 2002
InteliHealth

http://hsionline.com/2011/10/06/apples-fight-pancreatic-cancer/

Nature’s “Aspirin” Prevents Heart Attacks and Strokes without the Side Effects

The Institute for Natural Healing

Friday, November 2, 2012


Americans buy more than 44 million packages of aspirin a year to try and ward off heart attacks and strokes.¹

 
But that daily aspirin may be doing more harm than good. Sure, aspirin acts as a blood thinner. But it also strips away the stomach lining, causing ulcers and bleeding. And if ulcers aren’t bad enough, bleeding can occur inside the brain, resulting in death.

If you are one of the millions worried about having a heart attack there’s another alternative. Minus the bleeding, ulcers, and death.

New research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) found a natural alternative.² Even the FDA deemed it safe and effective. So safe and effective, that they want it for themselves.³

Dr. Robert Flaumenhaft, a professor at Harvard Medical School, led the study. His group of researchers administered this natural supplement orally to rats. And they discovered that this natural cure had anti-thrombotic properties.

Thrombosis is commonly known as a blood clot. Clots block blood flow to the brain and to the heart. This leads to heart attack and/or stroke.

Researchers tested over 5,000 compounds and this particular one proved to be the most potent.
What is this life-saving compound?

Rutin…

Maybe you’ve never heard of it. But rutin is a flavonoid that proves the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” It can be found in many fruits and vegetables including onions, citrus fruits, and – you guessed it – apples. You can also buy it in supplement form.

And it does more good than any of those dangerous drugs…

Because rutin not only proved to prevent arterial clots. But it also showed effectiveness in preventing venous clots. Those can cause deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms. Anti-clotting drugs such as aspirin, Plavix, and Coumadin only target one type of clotting.

“A safe and inexpensive drug that could reduce recurrent clots could help save thousands of lives,” said Dr. Flaumenhaft.

And rutin may just be the answer.

This isn’t the first study that has shown its effects on the body’s blood flow in veins.

In another study, published in the journal Minerva Cardioangiologica, researchers studied how rutin benefits people suffering from chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).⁴ CVI is when leg veins cannot pump enough blood back to the heart. It results in varicose veins, ankle swelling and leg cramping.

Researchers gave 30 patients with CVI a combination of rutin and other supplements including vitamin E. After just 30 days patients showed improvement.

What’s next for rutin?

Researchers still have to conduct clinical trials on humans. Since the FDA has already said rutin is safe, tests on humans can begin without the time and expense to establish the safety of a new drug.

But if you’re interested in this supplement, you may want to hurry and stock up.

The FDA has its sights set on it. This compound is so effective, the FDA wants to make it an approved drug. That would ban it as a supplement. You’d need a prescription to get it. And chances are, it’s going to cost a heck of a lot more too.

But you don’t have to wait for the FDA. Rutin is safe. So skip the aspirin and deathly side effects.

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References:¹http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704511304575075701363436686.html
²http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/flavonoid-compound-can-prevent-blood-clots/
³http://www.anh-usa.org/exciting-compound-apples/
⁴http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/11292962/reload=0;jsessionid=ayTyOK8I0H1NmNjeFI6d.4

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A reader's comments on the above article:

Gertrude "Trudy" says: On November 3rd, 2012 at 5:07 pm. Permalink
Bromelain, a protein-digesting enzyme in raw pineapple and raw papaya, and as a supplement, does as much good as rutin and more. Up through most of 2011, Wikipedia and some other sites and published findings stated that bromelain was an anti-thrombotic, anti-ischemic, anti-angina, fibrinolytic, apoptotic (cancer-cell killer), anti-inflammatory, COX-1/COX-2/5-LOX inhibitor, selective prostaglandin inhibitor (against joint tissue destructive prostaglandins but not against joint healing and colds/flu fighting prostaglandins), blood thinner, anti-inflammatory, protein digester, plaque reducer, blood pressure normalizer, joint pain reliever, blood pressure reducer, atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis reducer, digests away roughened surfaces of damaged blood platelets and makes platelets slipperier. Until at least part of 2011, Wikipedia and other sites stated flatly that it was anti-thrombotic, anti-ischemic, anti-angina, apoptotic, fibrinolytic, and so on. By 2012, Wikipedia and the other sites now only say bromelain is a digestive aid and anti-inflammatory joint pain reliever, period. Censorship!

In my case, as a “brittle diabetes” elderly heart attack survivor who still smoked, in 3 weeks bromelain brought my 201/104 blood pressure and 2.8 blood thickness down to 134/80 and 1.0. In 6 weeks my life-threatening coronary artery blockage was gone, and my other issues of CAD/PAD/RLS were gone, too. My athero- and arterio-sclerosis were better, too, my cardiologist said. This despite still smoking. In a friend’s case, after a heart attack, 2 weeks on bromelain brought his blood pressure from stroke level to 125/75 and his other numbers normalized as well. He was back at work in less than a month. Puritan’s Pride and Swanson’s Vitamins online sell bromelain supplement pretty cheap and their quality is reliable. Or you can just eat raw pineapple (not canned or frozen–heat and cold kill enzymes). Raw papaya was even better–before GMO papaya came along. As a blood thinner, bromelain lets you eat all the healthy cancer-fighting foods that coumadin disallows. My brother-in-law believed his doctor after his stroke (he wouldn’t believe me BEFORE his stroke!) and after a couple of years on coumadin, he now has a small brain tumor growing. I bet he also won’t believe me that Essiac has a 98%-100% full and permanent recovery rate for all cancers they ever used it on, according to every source I ever read on it, including Dr. William C. Douglass II’s paid-subscription newsletter. And a flyer sent to me by the Sarasota Tea Co, Sarasota FL, in 1997 or 1998, stated that a 5-year study of terminal AIDS volunteers from the LA Projects found a 100% full recovery rate in all of them. They didn’t even have HIV remaining.

A dear friend with terminal AIDS tried Essiac along with her AIDS meds in 2001-2002–and her plateaued 250 T cell count rose to 500 in one month, to 750 by the end of the 2nd month and to around 1,000 by the end of the 3rd month. But when she went off her AIDS meds and only used Essiac alone, it fell down to around 800. Thing is–medical science says that once T-cell count falls below 250, it can rise up to 250 again with AIDS meds, but cannot rise above 250 no matter what! No wonder the AMA hopped all over itself to get Essiac information squelched in the 1960s. I was old enough to watch President Kennedy and his doctor on national TV, in a Presidential Message, tell how the doctor used 4-herb “Indian Herbal Tea” as his “only intervention”, he said, to cure–”Not in remission–I’m CURED!” the doctor’s own colon cancer. He promised to tell the ingredients to anyone who called his office next day–and he said he got there at 7 a.m. Next day he came back on TV to say he couldn’t tell us the ingredients. He said that after his broadcast the previous day, the AMA had gotten Congress to create a new law overnight, which means start a bill, pass it through both houses, and vote it into law with a quorum too large for President Kennedy to veto, all before 7 a.m. the next morning. This new law made it a federal crime for anyone,even a doctor, to tell anyone, even his own patients, about anything that cured anything–or to tell what ingredients were in it. So said the two Secret Service men who met him at his office door at 7 a.m. the next morning to advise him of this new overnight law, and they said if he told anyone what was in the Indian Tea they would arrest him and put him in federal prison. President Kennedy introduced him and stood with him on both days. There’s your kind and caring government intervention–and your honest and trustworthy AMA, too. Thank goodness for the Internet!

Bromelain and Essiac sheep-sorrel tea raw materials, recipes and supplements are all over the Web. Just don’t be pregnant, or trying to be pregnant, or nursing–sheep sorrel is an abortifacient, or so I read somewhere years ago. And, like bromelain, for it to do much good, it needs to be taken on an empty stomach, 5 nights a week, preferably as a liquid, sublingually, and held in the mouth awhile. Bromelain isn’t that picky, but it can either work for digestion or for the health stuff–but not both at once. Absorption is 40% on an empty stomach, but only 17% on a full stomach–it gets used up digesting protein in the food you ate. Too long a comment–but glad if it helps someone.

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