Cancer breakthrough: Grape seed extract kills colorectal cancer cells

(NaturalNews) Cancer researchers are working to find chemotherapies that destroy cancer cells but are harmless to normal cells. It turns out, a natural substance already exists that does just that. University of Colorado Cancer Center scientists have just published a study in the journal Cancer Letters that shows grape seed extract (GSE) is a powerful weapon against colorectal cancer. It halts the growth and survival of colorectal cancer cells and kills them in large numbers, too, while leaving healthy cells completely alone.

And the news about GSE gets better: the more advanced the colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE shuts down the malignant cells' growth and survival. The scientists think that GSE targets colorectal cancer by causing oxidative stress that leads to the programmed cell death known as apoptosis.

"We've known for quite a while that the bioactive compounds in grape seed extract selectively target many types of cancer cells. This study shows that many of the same mutations that allow colorectal cancer cells to metastasize and survive traditional therapies make them especially sensitive to treatment with GSE," Molly Derry, doctoral candidate in the lab of Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, said in a press statement.

Derry pointed out that the GSE findings are especially important due to the increasing rates of colorectal cancer. Unfortunately, 60 percent of patients diagnosed with this form of cancer have already reached the advanced stage of the disease.

As the research team performed their experiments on colorectal cancer cell lines representing all stages of the disease, they came up with another startling finding. Although it usually takes much more chemotherapy to kill a stage IV cancer cell than a stage II cancer cell, the exact opposite was true when it came to grape seed extract.

"It required less than half the concentration of GSE to suppress cell growth and kill 50 percent of stage IV cells than it did to achieve similar results in the stage II cells," Derry revealed in a media statement.

"A colorectal cancer cell can have upwards of 11,000 genetic mutations -- differences from the DNA in healthy cells. Traditional chemotherapies may only target a specific mutation and as cancer progresses more mutations occur. These changes can result in cancer that is resistance to chemotherapy. In contrast, the many bioactive compounds of GSE are able to target multiple mutations. The more mutations a cancer presents, the more effective GSE is in targeting them," Derry added.

The Agarwal Lab studies the effectiveness and action of dietary compounds against cancer and is encouraging further exploration of their findings in clinical settings with patients. "Finding a way to selectively target advanced colorectal cancer cells could have major clinical importance," Derry stated.

As NaturalNews previously reported, researchers from the University of Kentucky have also conducted groundbreaking research into the anti-cancer properties of grape seed extract. They found the natural substance triggered the death of 76 percent of leukemia cells exposed to the extract in a laboratory experiment. Their study, published Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, showed that grape seed extract triggered the destruction of leukemia cells by apparently "turning on" a protein known as JNK that regulates the cancer cell killing pathway.

Sources:

http://www.cancerletters.info/article/S0304-3835(12)00732-X/abstract
http://www.coloradocancerblogs.org
http://www.naturalnews.com 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438351200732X

Prevent Colon Cancer With 5 Easy Ways

Research studies are now going on how best to prevent colon cancer as more and more people are diagnosed with this condition today. It is found that colon cancer usually starts in the large intestine, also known as colon, or the rectum. Colon cancer then develops from dead cells that have been accumulated in a lump over a period of time. The risk to getting colon cancer increases if you have a genetic medical background of parents or close relatives who have been diagnosed with colon cancer. Research also showed that that colon cancer is aggravated by unhealthy diets such as ready meals and fast food.
Hence, it is vital that you seek the advice of your doctor should you feel the discomfort of colon cancer symptoms. The symptoms to look out for include unhealthy bowel occurrence such as diarrhea, constipation or bowel infection, severe pain in abdomen, blood in the stools, narrow stools, anemia, intestinal obstruction and drastic loss of weight.
Prevention is still better than cure. So you really should consider the following 5 ways on how best to prevent colon cancer:
1. Adopt healthy habits. Colon cancer usually develops over a length of period before it actually shows. Hence you should not wait till you notice the symptoms of colon cancer before starting to adopt healthy habits. Eat healthy meals, exercise and have an adequate amount of sleep.
If your diet contains too much high fat and red meats with little fiber, you are definitely at a high risk of developing colon cancer. Fat accumulates on the walls of the intestine and rectum, forming lumps of dead cells. You should therefore adopt a balanced natural diet which includes lots of green vegetables, fruits and water.
Exercise helps by flushing out harmful toxins and waste matter which if left accumulated in your body can cause cancerous growth.
2. Know your family medical history. It appears that colon cancer is a genetic disease that is hereditary. As such, if you belong to the high risk category due to your family history, then you should take extra precautions by leading a healthy lifestyle.
3. Stop smoking. Chain smoking increases your chance to developing colon cancer. Inhaling tobacco can easily transfer carcinogen (a cancer agent) to your colon and rectum, thus resulting in colon cancer. Hence, do not hesitate to find ways to quit smoking.
4. Reduce exposure to radiation. Excessive exposure to radiation has been found to cause colon cancer. Radiation rays are harmful and can render healthy normal cells abnormal. By all means, avoid unnecessary X-rays, CT scans, mammograms so that you can best prevent colon cancer.
5. If you observe that you are experiencing symptoms like skin allergies, weak immune system, poor movement of bowels, bloating, etc, then it may be that you have too much toxins in your body. Consider colon cleansing as a way of detoxification. There are a couple of ways to perform colon cleansing. These include consuming herbs for colon cleansing and colon hydrotherapy.

By Sandra Kim Leong

How Constipation Creates Colon Cancer

In 1911 Dr. Alexis Carrel received the Nobel Prize for growing live tissue cells. He discovered that removing their digestive wastes every day, these cells could live indefinitely. When he did not remove their wastes for three days they become weak and unhealthy.
This simple experiment showed that whatever waste we create whether it's in our lymph liquid, our blood, or in the colon, it must be removed daily if we are to have excellent health.
Looking at colon waste, we should be having a bowel movement every day for every meal we eat. Most of us have only one or none each day. Many doctors say it's OK if you only have one bowel movement every two days. Yes, it's OK if you want to create colon cancer.
Studies have shown that if you have a bowel movement every 3 - 4 days, you are more at risk for having a heart attack, colon cancer, hemorrhoids, IBS, and many other illnesses.
As in 1911, Dr. Alexis showed cells become weak and die if they remain in their own metabolic waste for over three days or longer. This is exactly the condition called constipation.
Fecal matter that remains stagnant in the colon gives rise to bacteria that create colon wall irritations and inflammation. This then can lead to colon cancer.
And another thing, if you continue to have constipation, then this bacteria and toxic waste tend to slip into the small intestine where they can then get into your blood stream. There, this toxic matter goes all over the body creating damage and excess inflammation.
Here's how to make sure your fecal matter does not become stagnant in your colon and produces colon cancer.
Just by increasing the amount of fiber you eat daily by 3 / 4 ounce, you can dramatically change your risk of getting colon cancer and many other colon diseases. If you are like most people, you eat only 1 / 4 ounce of fiber. In terms of grams, you are likely eating 8 grams. Raise the amount of fiber you eat by 20 grams to 28 grams and reduce your likelihood of getting colon cancer.
Here's what fiber does in your colon:
* Increase the size of your stools
* Feeds your good bacteria and keeps them healthy and plentiful
* Traps carcinogens so they don't collect on your colon wall
* Reduces the amount of bile salts that are changed to carcinogens by bad bacteria
* Keeps you pH slightly acidic and in favor of good bacteria
* Reduces stagnation of fecal matter in colon - reduces constipation
* Traps water so stools are not hard
Here's how fiber works. By keeping your stools large, they move quicker in your colon and don't allow carcinogens to stay in contact with your colon wall for very long.
Large fiber stools brush along the colon walls keeping them clean and causing the nerves to activate peristaltic action.
Fiber provides food for the good bacteria and makes them stronger than the bad bacterial. This limits the carcinogen producing activities of the bad bacteria. When the good bacteria exceed the bad bacteria, the colon pH is slightly acidic and this makes your colon work better - less constipation and more nerve sensitivity
When your stools have more water, they are softer and move easily through the colon. Hard stools are hard to move through the colon. Since the colon sucks water out of the stool to recirculate it into the blood, less toxic material is pull out of a fecal bulk if it has plenty of water.
Add 3 / 4 ounce of fiber to your daily diet and avoid the misery and devastation that colon cancer brings to you and your family.

Rudy Silva

Cancer: Causes and Remedies (Part Two)

CAUSATIVE FACTORS OF CANCER
Parasites and Cancer
Many people are familiar with the great works and writings of Hulda Clark, author of The Cure For All Cancers. Do I agree that parasites cause cancer? NO! However, parasites may be implicated and involved in cancer as parasites can greatly survive in anaerobic environments.
Like many other individuals who practice wholistic and naturopathic modalities (and with great and miraculous results), Hulda Clark was ran out of the country by the federal U.S. government medical regulatory body (criminals, terrorists, tyrants) - FDA (Food & Drug Administration). She now operates in Mexico where most of your good alternative cancer clinics are located.
The Sun and UV Rays
The false notion that God's sun in the heavens causes skin cancer is absurd. The earth and everything on it is dependent upon the sun, so how in the world can the natural sun be the cause of cancer (abnormal cell activity and growth)?
No, it is the fact that the sun penetrates the skin and boils the toxins in the blood which causes skin cancer. The sun is merely cooking the toxins underneath the skin. The sun itself is not causing cancer. This is absurd!
If the sun causes skin cancer, how come animals don't get skin cancer? This is something to think about! The only thing the sun causes is natural vitamin D production in the skin and a tanning of the skin for certain light or fair-skinned individuals. However, Rev. Phil Valentine is 100% correct when he says our sun is now a purging sun instead of a healing sun due to all the poisons now circulating in the earth's atmosphere. When you think about it, man has done a lot of damage to the very planet he lives on and that sustains him. Surely man is at a loss!
Caucasians generally suffer from skin cancer because of the lack of melanin (dark pigmentation) in their bodies. However, Caucasians still need natural sunlight. They do not need or require long durations of direct sunlight, just a few hours of sunlight, especially in the morning. The best sunlight (for all of us) to get is in the morning with the rising sun. Why do you think every news station has a weather report telling you what time the sun rise and sets? This is done for those health conscious individuals who get direct sunlight every morning (from their glasshouses).
One should not think melanin is a guaranteed protector of skin cancer because heavily melanated individuals (Africans, Black people) are also developing and dying of skin cancer just like white people, although not at the same rate. Cancer is not a race thing! It doesn't discriminate. Every human being is subject to cancer.
Diet
Diet, a poor diet, undoubtedly plays a pivotal role in cancer. The greatest so-called food-based causation of cancer is MEAT. I have been saying for years that protein malutilization is the number one dietary causative factor of cancer.
It is a medical and scientific fact that eating cooked foods raises white blood cells (leukocytes) in the body. White blood cells only increase when a so-called foreign invader or substance is in the body. These cells do not attack the so-called foreign invader or substance but actually sacrifice themselves to protect the red blood cells. Yes, white blood cells sacrifice themselves for the benefit of red blood cells.
Why does eating cooked meat raise the white blood cells count in the body? Simply because MEAT is foreign to the human body and should not be in the human body.
The more you cook the flesh (meat), the greater your chances for cancer, especially colon and rectal cancer. African-Americans have the highest incidence of colon and rectal cancer because they cook their meat more "well done" than any other group or race of people.
I used to always wonder as a teen why many white people ordered their meat cooked "rare" and almost raw at restaurants. They knew something Blacks still don't know today. Heat produces carcinogens, especially the heat from barbecuing. And nobody barbecues more than Black folks. Black people, generally, love a good barbecue. Give them some pork ribs, some music, some brew (beer) and alcohol, and a set of dominoes and it's on and poppin'! Let me stop stereotyping! Naw, I'm just having some fun being real because the above scenario is true, generally-speaking, and plus, I witnessed this firsthand from family members and friends growing up.
What the overwhelming majority of Black people (and all other people, for that matter) don't know about barbecuing and its carcinogenic effect is that when you cook slaughtered animal flesh (meat) on an open grill, the juice from the meat (which is usually beef, chicken and pork) falls on the charcoal briskets and converts into HAs (Hetero-cyclic amines) which in turn rises in the form of smoke and deposits itself in the source flesh (meat) and creates a new substance called PAH (Poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon). Basically, this is cooked-originated cancer.
Meat lacks enzymes unlike fruit and vegetables, so therefore, meat inhibits the digestive process by sitting in the colon (causing constipation) and just rotting and putrefying. Nothing causes fouler flatulence (gas) and stools than meat does.
Meat sits in the colon and rectum and just rots and decay. This process causes the cells to become abnormal and the result is cancer of the colon and/or rectum.
A meat eater (disillusioned herbivore acting as a carnivore) would be very wise to periodically perform enemas and go get a series of colonics (hydrotherapy) performed to help flush the intestinal tract of decayed animal flesh (meat), mucoidal plaque, and worms and parasites.
Yes, yes, yes! Meat is a serious causative factor of cancer, especially colon and rectal cancer. You like eating: steak, pork ribs, pork chops, lamb chops, fried chicken, pastrami, hamburger, Deli slices (salami, bologna, etc.); ham, turkey, and fish? Just understand the risk involved.
Did you know that many of your commercial so-called foods contain industrial products? Supermarket cupcakes and other pastries may contain propylene glycol which is used in car antifreeze. Now what in the hell is an industrial chemical doing in so-called food? Check your ingredients, People!
And these so-called cooking oils - soybean oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, lard, cottonseed oil, palm or palm kernel oil, and canola oil, are deleterious to human health. Many so-called foods are cooked in these oils and at very high temperatures. Nothing is alive that has been cooked in oils at temperatures ranging from 400-1200 degrees. To be technical, nothing cooked at a temperature of more than 118 degrees is alive. If a thing is dead at 118 degrees, then you tell me what the thing is at 800 or 1200 degrees.
Americans are paying for all of their so-called luxury foods and habits. All the Starbucks coffee, smoking cigars and cigarettes, eating cheap fast food burgers and fries; pastries (pies, donuts, cookies and cakes); acidic beverages, especially the effervescent ones (soda pop - Coca Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Sprite, etc.); and the new pseudo energy drinks (Red Bull, Turbo Charge, etc.); lattes and cuppacinos; quick snack/junk foods (potato chips, crackers, popcorn, etc.), etc, etc. ARE DOING AMERICANS IN!
Pulling up to Micky D's (McDonald's), Burger King (Booger King), Taco Bell (Taco Hell), H. Salt Fish & Chips (H. Salt Fish and Shit), Chick-Filet (Shit-Filet), Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Shit-ken), Harold's Chicken (Harold's Shit-ken), Wendy's (Farty's), Jack-N-The Box; Krispy "Casket" Crème donuts, etc. and ordering death from their menus will eventually do you in. This stuff is not food, People! The ingredients used in these fast food products will eventually kill you. Just watch the movie "Super Size Me." The dude in this movie almost died from just eating McDonald's stuff/junk alone for one month. Now you may not eat at McDonald's everyday, but you may be supplementing McDonald's with other fast foods which ingredients are just as dangerous as McDonald's which was displayed in "Super Size Me."
The so-called foods your child(ren) is being served at the Public Fool System (Public School System) is just as insalubrious as the crap sold at fast food restaurants. These schoolhouse meals are laced with genetically engineered foods, SUGAR, and chemical additives which negatively impact learning and behavior. Watch the documentary entitled "Hidden Dangers In Kids Meals" (www.GMFreeSchools.org)
The same thing applies for the foods served in American penal institutions and corrections facilities. It's all crap to keep the people deaf, dumb and blind and DEGENERATE!
There is a food conspiracy in the U.S. which helps to dumb us down, to make us frightened and fearful (just like many of these animals we are unwisely consuming), to enhance stress in our lives, to weaken and debilitate us, to make us savage more savage, violent and brutal; to make us more fleshly and lustful, and to change our demeanor and attitudes.
The lack of real foods containing life force (aura), enzymes, nutrients (minerals, so-called vitamins), chlorophyll (liquid sunlight), and fiber is causing premature death due to cellular degeneracy predicated upon oxygen and alkaline deficiency.

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