Exciting Updates On Natural Cancer Prevention
Whey protein supplementation prevents and inhibits cancerous growths
Over the past 100 years, cancer has advanced from
the status of an obscure and fairly rare disease to a more prominent
position as the #2 killer of American people.
In 1900 the incidence of cancer was 1 in 500 among
Americans. Today cancer claims 1 out of 3 lives, and the percentage
is still climbing.[1]
Despite the fact that cancer now has the power to
kill more people than it ever has in the past, traditional American
Medical Association (AMA) approved health care practitioners receive
little, if any, exposure in their formal training to the more effective
alternatives that seem to be working quite well in the battle against
cancer.
Whey
protein is an excellent example...
Now more than ever, Nutritional scientists are discovering
and documenting the hidden mechanisms by which whey proteins can prevent
cancers as well as wage an all out war against cancerous tumors that
have already developed.
As clinical trials have progressed, researchers have
found that whey delivers powerful enabling proteins like lactoferrin.
In the bloodstream, lactoferrin triggers the production of glutathione,
an extremely effective antioxidant and tumor fighter par excellence.
To illustrate this, researchers at the Department
of Food Science & Technology at Ohio State University demonstrated
quantitatively that glutathione
levels in prostate cells were increased by 50% as a direct result
of whey isolate supplementation (containing lactoferrin).
They concluded that this level of increase in glutathione
was responsible for preventing the development of prostate cancer
compared to control groups that did not receive the whey supplementation.[2]
With the evidence for whey's curing ability mounting
so rapidly, Anticancer Research took notice and published the following:
“This non-toxic dietary intervention, which is not based on
the principles of current cancer chemotherapy, will hopefully attract
the attention of laboratory and clinical oncologists.”[3]
Knowing that whey can help to prevent cancer is exciting.
This ability of whey lies in the fact that it delivers lactoferrin
to our body, which, as stated above, boosts glutathione levels in
the body. Glutathione serves several important roles that protect
us from cancer.
For instance, glutathione is a natural antioxidant.
It helps clean up metabolic by-products known as free-radicals. Excess
free-radicals have been shown to induce various forms of cancer and
are also responsible for over 60 kinds of age-related diseases.
Glutathione is also a powerful detoxifying agent for
our body. Through a process known as "conjugation", it can
rid the body of cancer causing substances by attaching to them and
subsequently carry them out of the body and into the toilet. When
you think about it, that's a pretty good place for cancer causing
toxins.
Because of the number of prevention and tumor battling
activities glutathione can bring to bear, whey is the kind of thing
your body should not be without. Simply put, it's a very handy health
maintenance tool.
In biochemistry, glutathione is classified as a phase
II enzyme. Enzymes are compounds that carry on many of the "life
oriented" chemical functions at the cellular level.
Because whey increases the production of glutathione
it is both logical and scientifically sound to assume that whey also
increases the production of other phase II enzymes like trypsin and
chemotrypsin.
Together, these enzymes are known to be powerful inhibitors
of cancer and are considered to be the body's natural "cancer
fighters". Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Tsukuba University
in Japan have confirmed this.
When referring to these phase II enzymes, researcher
Paul Talalay, M.D of Johns Hopkins stated that 20 years of research,
“confirms that raising the levels of phase II enzymes can offer
a highly effective way to achieve protection against carcinogenesis
(development of new cancer).”
Since these enzymes are known to be potent inhibitors
of cancer, whey supplementation should not only be considered a cost-effective
cancer prevention tool but also an effective tumor dismantling method.
Current research efforts are confirming these assumptions
as fact. Human and animal studies have shown that adding lactoferrin
can inhibit colon cancer by about 42%.[4] Lactoferrin has also been
found to inhibit esophagus, lung, bladder, and tongue cancer in rats.[5]
Cancer Letters stated: “Epidemiological and
experimental studies suggest that dietary milk products (such as whey)
may exert an inhibitory effect on the development of several tumors.”[6]
This potent inhibition action of phase II enzymes
is not hard to explain. Phase II enzymes fight cancers by destroying
"trophoblast cells". These cells act as a protective shell
and protect cancer from our immune system, thus allowing cancer to
proliferate.
Without this protective shell, cancer becomes an easy
target for the body's immune system. Now able to recognize the newly
exposed cancer, the white blood cells attack it and destroy it.
As research continues, more anti-cancer benefits of
whey are being discovered. Last year, researchers at Lund University
in Sweden reported that alpha-lactalbumin proteins found in whey solids
in combination with an unnamed component of human breast milk, have
demonstrated the ability to kill all the known types of breast cancer
cells.
Their peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal
of Biological Chemistry suggested that when consumed by the body,
alpha-lactalbumin is configured into an unknown protein that selectively
induces apoptosis (programmed cell death, A.K.A. suicide) in cancerous
tumors.[7]
And last but not least, there is now some very strong
evidence that whey proteins render cancerous cells more vulnerable
to chemotherapy and radiation while protecting healthy cells from
their devastating side effects! But unlike chemotherapy and ionizing
radiation, whey proteins have no toxic side affects.
Whey literally... does the patient no harm.[8]
I sincerely hope doctors will read this report. In
1990, $3.53 billion was spent on chemotherapy in the United States.
By 1994 that figure had more than doubled to $7.51 billion.
This massive increase in the use of toxic chemotherapy
was accompanied by corresponding increase in patient deaths.[9] Yet
chemotherapy is performed every day in physicians' offices across
the nation!
Ladies and gentlemen, isn't it time to dispense "real"
healing instead of slow poisonous death?
The World Health Organization recently reported that
the number of new cancer cases worldwide is expected to increase by
50 percent over the next 20 years, partly because “poor nations
are adopting unhealthy Western habits.” [10]
If everyone increased their dietary intake of whey,
more people would be able to live cancer free. No doubt, the pharmaceutical
companies might have to take some pay cuts.
Could this be why health-practitioners [Allopathic
doctors —Ed] have been reluctant to use natural methods that
are known to work?
References:
1. Day, Phillip. Health Wars. ISBN 0-953012-7-2
2. K.D Kent, J.A. Bomser, and W. J. Harper. Dept. of Food Science
and Technology. Ohio State University.
3. Anticancer Res 2000 Nov-Dec;20(6C);4785-92
4. Mutat Res 2000 Apr;462(2-3);227-33
5. Foods Food Ingredients J. Japa No. 200 (2002)
6. Cancer Lett 1991 May 1;57(2):91-4
7. J Biol Chem 1999 Mar 5;274(10):6388-96 Exp Cell Res 1999 Feb 1;246(2):451-60
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ brocosystem.htm
8. Nutr Cancer 2000;38(2);200-8
9. Roger Scott Cathey Reource Center. http://www.navi.net/~rsc/
10. By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer. WHO: Cancer May Rise 50 Percent
by 2020 Apr 3, 6:13 PM ET
Shane Ellison, M.Sc.
HealthFX Nutraceuticals
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