Fight cancer with whole plant foods

The basis of cancer prevention is plants, not grains.

“The vast majority of cancer research Custom To find cures, rather than find new ways to prevent the disease. The results of these skewed priorities are clear to see. It has been nearly 55 years since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, yet deaths from the most common type of cancer in the United States continue unabated.

“We have been looking at the nature of cancer in the wrong way. Breast cancer does not start when a lump is first felt or detected on a mammogram. All common epithelial cancers (lung, colorectal, breast, prostate, pancreas, ovary), which account for the majority of deaths, have a long latency period – often 20 years or more.” So, it’s not like you were healthy one day and then got cancer the next. You were not healthy, the cancer had been growing inside you for decades. In fact, there is a “strange misconception that people are healthy until they show actual symptoms of an invasive cancer,” but “a barn in which the hay burns before it catches fire is not a safe place.”

So, what does the pharmacology professor I was quoting recommend? Drugs of course. Chemoprevention – giving people drugs to prevent cancer. The pharmaceutical industry spends tons of money promoting chemoprevention of heart disease and strokes with statins and blood thinners, so why shouldn’t people take drugs every day for the rest of their lives to protect against cancer?

There has to be a better way.

What about Use Diet and nutrition to prevent and treat cancer? Ok, what type of cancer? there We are More than 200 species. But here’s the key: they all are Share Same distinctive features. In a series of papers that have been cited more than 40,000 times in the biomedical literature, 10 hallmarks of cancer have been identified. It has been identified:

• Increased sensitivity to growth factors
• Evading tumor suppressors in your body
• Evading your immune system
• The ability to grow forever
• Tumor-promoting inflammation
• The ability to invade and spread
• The ability to connect its own blood supply
• Accumulation of DNA mutations
• – Remove existing self-destruct mechanisms
• Hijacking the cell metabolism

Of course, there are classes of medications you can try counter Each of them are chemotherapy agents designed to target each piece of the cancer puzzle. You can see it below and at 2:27 in my video Fight the 10 signs of cancer with food.

Now, ideally, there would be medications that can do this goal There are several distinguishing features at once, but that’s not how drugs work. In fact, “this need to target multiple hallmarks is one of the main reasons why there are so many proponents of studying plant foods, in the context of cancer research, because they can offer a cocktail of bioactive compounds” that may target most, if not all, of the hallmarks of cancer. Below and at 3:00 in my country videoYou can see a sample of the compounds Found In fruits and vegetables — such as berries, greens, and broccoli — they have been shown to be able to target each of the 10 hallmarks of cancer, at least in a petri dish.

Moreover, it has the qualities of an ideal chemopreventive agent. If you want to design the perfect candidate, you want it to be selective for cancer or pre-cancerous cells while leaving normal cells alone, be free of side effects, target most cancers, be consumable in a daily diet, be readily available almost everywhere, and be relatively inexpensive. Plants meet all these criteria. No wonder people who eat more plant foods tend to have lower rates of cancer.

To be clear, we’re not talking about taking supplements containing purified phytochemicals or extracts, but rather eating whole plant foods themselves — a diet-based approach to targeting the hallmarks of cancer. foods It contains Thousands of substances give rise to huge numbers of possible reactions, yet much of nutritional science “was a long time ago wave Towards the effect of individual food components. Yes, this kind of reductionist approach can reveal the role of foods or even individual nutrients in disease development, but let’s think about the ideal research strategy for studying the effects of natural, bioactive plant compounds on disease prevention. instead of Use Isolated Phytochemicals to Control Cancer Why Not Try Whole Foods? Sometimes the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, and that’s understandable known Such as nutritional synergy.

Check out this study Involve Simultaneous inhibition of a series of cancer stages in breast cancer cells using a superior phytochemical cocktail. Two breast cancer cell lines were treated with six different plant compounds individually, and then all together, at levels typically found in the bloodstream after eating foods such as broccoli, grapes, soy and turmeric. Although the compounds were not effective individually, together they significantly suppressed breast cancer cell proliferation by more than 80%, blocked cancer cell invasion and migration, stopped 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 a control.

No wonder the basis of cancer prevention —Based on In an update to the most comprehensive report on diet and cancer ever published — not grains, but plants, as you can see below and at 5:28 in my article video.

In other words, He cuts Limit alcohol, soda, meat, and processed foods, and focus your diet on whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans.

Doctor’s note

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