In his quest to learn about cancer herbal remedies my associate visited a natural herbal store. He asked for the most popular herbal concoction people buy to fight cancer. Surprisingly, the clerk came out with a bottle of essaic tea. Essaic tea is also known as Flor Essence, Tea of life, Herbal Essence or Vitalitea. .

What the components?

Originally, essaic tea consisted of 4 main ingredients. These herbs were burdock root, slippery elm inner bark, sheep sorrel and Indian rhubarb. Sheep sorrel and burdock root are known to kill cancer cells. But sheep sorrel is claimed to be the main cancer fighting ingredient. Burdock root and slippery elm bark strengthen the immune system and protect organs against inflammation. more…

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Here is another cancer cure supplement story. Can shark cartilage shrink cancer? Cartilages are semi-soft, elastic tissues found in most animals and humans devoid of blood vessels. Sharks skeletons are wholly cartilage. Shark cartilage are harvested, pulverized and packaged into capsules. They are sold as dietary supplement and sadly as anticancer pills.

What kick start this idea?

How is shark cartilage related to cancer? It started when doctor John Prudden utilized cow cartilage to heal surgical wounds in the early 1950s possibly with some success. Next, he experimented with cancer patients with 50 percent unconfirmed positive responses. Recently, Tiger Woods’ physician used similar technic to heal his worn out knee. But what really sensationalized shark cartilage is the book by William Lane PhD “Sharks don’t get Cancer” . This is a bogus claim. Sharks, as scientific studies revealed, do get cancer. more…

Can Vitamin A fight cancer? Vitamin A is essential for life. It supports a variety of functions. It is commonly included in most multi-vitamin pills sold in the market. In nature it is produced as an orange pigment naturally found in many fruits and vegetables.

Vitamin A is a member of the retinol family of chemicals. In its raw form, it exists as beta carotene and transformed into vitamin A upon ingestion. If not immediately utilized by the body, it is stored in the liver until needed. more…

Who is Max Gerson

He is a German doctor who developed a diet against his headaches. This diet was applied to other illness like tuberculosis and cancer. The Gerson Cancer Therapy is one propose alternative treatment for cancer. It utilizes a special diet with cold coffee enemas. At a closer look, we see here one element of a scam: cure multiple illness. more…

Just a little snack

Most of us know that excess baggage around our middle, is a risk factor not only for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes but especially so for cancer. We know that exercising to rid us of that beer belly is much better on an empty stomach than when we are full to the brim. Additionally, we have been enlightened that to lose our beer belly, we have to decrease our over all caloric intake.

Now comes another enlightening study revealing the relationship between the timing of eating especially our meals and when we take those snacks.

The study involved mice, nocturnal creatures who usually feed at night. These mice were fed during the day when they are supposed to sleep. They had been fed with a high fat caloric diet. After six months, the results show that they gained a 45 percent increase in weight as compared to the control group with only a 20 percent weight gain.
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We’re all aware of advertisements of acidophilus as a supplement to keep the bowel healthy. It is promoted as a treatment for diarrhea, yeast infection and lower cholesterol levels. And here’s what can floor you, it is advertised that acidophilus can prevent cancer.

We have billions of good bacteria in our intestines that produce essential nutrients necessary for health. One such nutrient is Vitamin K that aids in blood clotting. Also, acidophilus maintain the balance of intestinal flora and keep the harmful bacteria at bay. A good balance of good and bad bacteria prevents illnesses of the gastrointestinal tract.

Acidophilus became popular because of the observation that Balkan people consume large amounts of food with acidophilus. Consequently, they had long life spans. more…

Most cancer patients use a variety of supplements. These maybe multivitamins, minerals, herbal remedies or antioxidants. Experts still maintain that instead of concentrated supplements, eating a variety of fruits and vegetables is the best.

I’m aware of products circulating the net, promising a miracle cancer cure. Sometimes, we’re taken by their sales pitch until some side effects ensue. How will you know if they are indeed genuine? Are they really effective?

Signs of concern

The American Cancer Society recommends four basic signs to find out whether a product is fraudulent. So before you get yourself duped consider the following: more…

Food supplements including multivitamins and minerals are popularly sold online. Believing the claims of these supplements, unsuspecting cancer patients consume them like magic pills only to end up frustrated when their expectations aren’t fulfilled.

When it comes to cancer prevention, the best is still a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. As I have discussed in an earlier blog, vegetables eaten along with anti-cancer medications proved to be very beneficial in the fight against cancer. But, Vitamin B12, folic acid, even Vitamin A, carotene and Vitamin E proved to be harmful for cancer patients when taken in concentrated and capsule form. more…

In my quest for foods that fight cancer, I was able to discover two unlikely plant foods, though worlds apart but highly effective against prostate cancer, namely, the pomegranate and the soy based tofu.

Pomegranate is a native of Iran and found in the Mediterranean while tofu is an Asian delicacy common to Chinese, Korean and Japanese cuisine.

Pomegranate

Numerous studies and researches conducted on the anti-carcinogenic properties of the pomegranate have convinced me that there is a wealth of knowledge here that would highly benefit prostate cancer patients. In one study, cancer cells were exposed to pomegranate extract and these cells failed to thrive but were killed. The more concentrated the pomegranate extract was, the more potent it was in killing the cancer cells. more…

It is proven that fruits and vegetables have anti-cancer properties and are beneficial in preventing certain cancers.

Increase plant phytochemical

I came across a cancer research study that cites that there are about 20,000 to 30,000 phytochemicals – the cancer fighting compounds found in plants. Ironically, phytochemicals are produced as a defense mechanisms of plants when they are cut up, destroyed, bruised or are exposed to adverse temperatures, or are lacking in essential nutrients to thrive. When plants are exposed to Ultraviolet light and high temperatures anthocyanins, flavones, sinap esters, isoflavonoids and psoralens are activated and produced as a defense mechanism for the survival of the plant. At low temperatures anthocyanins are produces or when attacked by pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and viruses a number of pytochemicals such as pterecarpans, isoflavans, prenylated isopflavones, coumarins and a lot more are produced as defense against these pathogens. The same is true when nutrients in the soil are lacking. Low nitrogen soil content makes the plant produce flavonoids, isoflavones, a low phosphate soil content produces anthocyanins while a low iron causes pheolic acids to be produced. Like wise when plants are wounded numerous chemicals are produced. more…