THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE RECOMMENDS EATING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AS A CANCER PREVENTIVE, BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN THE ANTIOXIDANTS, VITAMIN C, VITAMIN E, AND BETA-CAROTENE. THEY ARE ONLY PARTLY RIGHT. VEGGIES DO PREVENT CANCER, BUT BY FAR MORE POWERFUL MEANS THAN MERELY THESE THREE VITAMINS. JUST WHEN THE MEDICINE MAN THOUGHT HE HAD A HANDLE ON ANTIOXIDANTS, RESEARCHERS BEGAN TO REPORT FROM ANIMAL STUDIES, THAT SIX OTHER CLASS OF COMPOUNDS IN VEGETABLES, PREVENT AND EVEN REVERSE CANCER AND A HOST OF OTHER DISEASES.
THESE HEALTHY-GIVING NATURAL COMPOUNDS OCCUR AS SOME OF THE FLAVANOIDS IN PRODUCE. SPECIFICALLY THEY ARE INDOLES, FLAVONES, PHENOLS, COUMARINS, ISOTHICYANATES, AND PYCNOGENOLS..AND MUCH OF THEIR ACTION IS ANTIOXIDANT TOO. SOME FOLK SEEM SURPRISED THAT SO MANY IMPORTANT CHEMICALS COULD HIDE FOR SO LONG IN SIMPLE VEGETABLES. DONT' BE. EVEN THE HUMBLE RADISH IS A MIRACLE OF COMPLEXITY FAR MORE INTRICATE THAN THE LATEST COMPUTER CREATION OF MAN. I AM INDEBTED TO MY FRIEND DR. PAUL D'AMATO FROM EMORY UNIVERSITY FOR POINTING OUT THAT KNOWN FLAVANOIDS IN PLANTS NUMBER OVER 200,000 AND ONLY 4,000 OF THEM HAVE YET BEEN CHEMICAL ANALYSED OR TESTED. UNDOUBTEDLY, THERE ARE MANY MORE WE DON'T YET KNOW ABOUT. BUT WE DO KNOW THEY ARE POWERFUL. AFTER DOING DAYS OF RESEARCH ON THIS TOPIC, MYSELF AS WELL AS MANY OTHER DOCTORS BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOW CERTAIN THAT THE ANTIOXIDANT FLAVANOIDS OBTAINED BY EATING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, CAN PROTECT YOU AGAINST MOST TYPES OF CANCER. IN FACT, THE REALIZATION IS SLOWLY DAWNING IN NUTRITION SCIENCE, THAT MANY OF THESE COMPOUNDS MAY BE ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAIN OPTIMAL HEALTH.
TOMATOES, CARROTS AND STRAWBERRIES ALL CONTAIN COUMARINS THAT PREVENT THE FORMATION OF CARCINOGENIC NITROSO COMPOUNDS IN YOUR INTESTINES. GREEN TEA CONTAINS PHENOLS, NOW SHOWN IN A PILE OF STUDIES TO INHIBIT STOMACH AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCER. CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, AND BROCCOLI CONTAIN INDOLES THAT PREVENT STOMACH AND BREAST CANCER. THEN THERE ARE THE PYCNOGENOLS. YOU MAY SEE THEM CALLED CATECHINS AND EPICATECHINS OR PROCYANADINS. THEY OCCUR IN PRODUCE TOO, BUT THE MOST POTENT SOURCE COMES FROM THE PINE TREE, PINUS MARTIMA, THAT GROWS ON THE N. ATLANTIC COASTS OF AMERICA AND CANADA. USED BY NATIVE INDIANS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, PINE BARK PYCNOGENOLS HAVE ONLY NOW BEEN RE-DISCOVERED BY MODERN SCIENCE. THEY ARE POWERFUL PROTECTORS AGAINST CANCER AND A VARIETY OF OTHER DISEASES, INCLUDING PROTECTING THE SKIN AND ORGANS FROM THE USUAL DAMAGE OF AGING.
THE ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS C, E, AND CAROTENE IN PRODUCE DO HELP OF COURSE, BUT THE AMOUNTS IN MANY VEGETABLES ARE SO SMALL THAT THE EFFECTS ARE MINOR. CABBAGE FOR EXAMPLE, SUPPLIES LESS THAN 2% OF THESE VITAMINS IN THE AMERICAN DIET. YET THIS HUMBLE VEGETABLE CAN STOP CANCER COLD.
MOST BREAST CANCER IS LINKED TO A DEFICIT IN ESTROGEN METABOLISM. THE UNDER-NOURISHED FEMALE BODY CANT DE-ACTIVATE ITS ESTROGEN PROPERLY. IT USES WHAT IS CALLED THE ESTRADIOL 16-ALPHA HYDROXYLATION PATHWAY, WHICH LEAVES THE HORMONE STILL ACTIVE ENOUGH TO CAUSE CELL TRANSFORMATION IN THE BREAST (AND REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS). OVER YEARS THESE CELLS GRADUALLY TRANSFORM TO CANCER. THE PROPERLY NOURISHED FEMALE BODY, USES WHAT IS CALLED ESTRADIOL 2-ALPHA HYDROXYLATION PATHWAY, WHICH NEUTRALIZES THE HORMONE COMPLETELY AND NEVER LEADS TO BREAST CANCER.
TO DIRECT ESTROGEN METABOLISM THROUGH THE HEALTHY PATHWAY THE BODY USES A CHEMICHAL CALLED INDOLE-3-CARBINOL, ONE OF THE INDOLES THAT OCCURS IN CRUIFEROUS VEGETABLES. GREEN CABBAGE IS AN ESPECIALLY RICH SOURCE. BOTH ANIMAL AND HUMAN SUBJECTS GIVEN INDOLE-3-CARBINOL SHOW A 50-70% INCREASE IN HEALTHY METABOLISM OF ESTROGEN, AND A CONCOMITANT REDUCTION IN RISK OF CANCER.
NATURE MADE ALL THE LOCKS AND HOLDS ALL THE KEYS!
SCIENTISTS ARE NOW REALIZING THERE ARE PROBABLY THOUSANDS OF THESE NATURAL COMPOUNDS, MOST OF THEM YET UNKNOWN, EACH WITH SPECIFIC TASKS TO DO IN MAINTAINING HUMAN FLESH. THE DESIGN OF THE HUMAN BODY IS INEXTRICABLY ENTWINED WITH THESE SUBSTANCES, AND WITHOUT THEM, YOUR LIFE IS LIKELY TO BE PAINFUL, SAD, AND SHORT.
EVEN THOUGH THE SCIENCE FOR SOME OF THESE COMPOUNDS IS NOW WELL ESTABLISHED, THE PROFIT-MOTIVATED RESTRICTIONS OF OUR DISEASE INDUSTRY MAKE IT DOUBTFUL THEY WILL HIT MAINSTREAM MEDICINE ANYTIME SOON. WITH BREAST AND REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM CANCERS FOR EXAMPLE, WE ARE IN THE LUDICROUS POSITION THAT HOSPITALS CANNOT USE INDOLE-3-CARBINOL TO STOP THE DISEASE, BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN APPROVED DRUG. TO GET A GOOD SUPPLY YOU HAVE TO EAT CABBAGE.
IN CLOSING..AGAINST THE GLITTERING BACKDROP OF MODERN MEDICINE'S HIGH-TECH BELLS AND WHISTLES, A NUMBER OF CANCER HOSPITALS ARE NOW EFFCTIVELY TREATING BREAST CANCER WITH PLAIN, OLD CABBAGE JUICE. HMMM THATS JUST WHAT GREAT-GRANDMA USED TO DRINK BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN BREAST CANCER WAS A MUCH RARER MALADAY...NOW THATS FUNNY..SMH