| Exciting Update on Natural Cancer Prevention |  |
By: Shane Ellison
Edited by: Gil Eriksen
All Rights Reserved
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 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. Not 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 AKA 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 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
http://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
About the Author
Shane holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-
hand industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis.
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