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Latest study about antioxidants. May boost cancer cells to spread faster.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 1/24/16 at 10:55 pm
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Since the term "antioxidants" made the leap from the realm of biochemistry labs and into the public consciousness in the 1990s, Americans have come to believe that more is better when it comes to consuming the substance that comes in things like acai berries, green tea and leafy veggies. A provocative new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature raises important questions about that assumption.
Antioxidants — which include vitamins C and E and beta-carotene, and are contained in thousands of foods — are thought to protect cells from damage by acting as defenders against something called "free radicals" which the body produces as a part of metabolism or that can enter through the environment.
That's all great for normal cells. But what researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found is that antioxidants can work their magic on cancerous cells, too — turbo-charging the process by which they grow and spread. Researcher Sean Morrison and his colleagues conducted experiments on mice that had been transplanted with skin cancer cells (melanoma) from human patients. They gave nothing to one group. To the other they gave doses of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) which is a common antioxidant that's used in nutritional and bodybuilding supplements and has been used as a treatment for patients with HIV/AIDS and in some children with certain genetic disorders.
The results were alarming: Those in the second group had markedly higher levels of cancer cells in their blood, grew more tumors and the tumors were larger and more widespread than in the first. "What we're starting to learn is that there can be bad cells from cancer that appear to benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells," he said in an interview.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 10:56 pm to RedRifle
I just eat chicken breasts and drink water.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 10:58 pm to Tiger Ryno
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I just eat chicken breasts and drink water.
Been there.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 10:58 pm to RedRifle
Does bacon have antioxidants?
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:00 pm to kilo1234
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Does bacon have antioxidants?
Bacon is manna from heaven, the perfect food. You can eat as much as you like, and the more you eat, the healthier you will be.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:00 pm to RedRifle
That sucks
I've been actively trying to work more antioxidants in to my diet lately. so much for that
I've been actively trying to work more antioxidants in to my diet lately. so much for that
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:01 pm to Tiger Ryno
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I just eat chicken breasts and drink water.
Are you sick Ryno? Miss you man! Haven't talked to you in a while!
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:03 pm to Lee Chatelain
I'm on the mend lee. Thanks for asking.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:08 pm to RedRifle
Contradiction of current treatment being done on humans. In many countries, cancer patients are getting vitamin c treatments in the hospital. Massive, massive amounts of vitamin c. The results are crazy successful. Many doctors tried to push this treatment in the USA and of course it was shot down by the fda.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:09 pm to RedRifle
Well if I have to give up my antioxidants, I'm picking smoking back up.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:11 pm to RedRifle
We are gonna die from everything at this point. No point in reading these studies.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 11:21 pm to RedRifle
You/we have to change to a plant-based diet.
More than you ever thought you could learn about this is at NutritionFacts.org
Watch the videos and subscribe (free), run by an MD.
It will change you.
More than you ever thought you could learn about this is at NutritionFacts.org
Watch the videos and subscribe (free), run by an MD.
It will change you.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 12:28 am to RedRifle
In other news, you can now safely drink an entire bottle of wine per night. Up from two glasses the year before and one glass 5 years ago.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 12:33 am to iamAG
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Contradiction of current treatment being done on humans. In many countries, cancer patients are getting vitamin c treatments in the hospital. Massive, massive amounts of vitamin c. The results are crazy successful. Many doctors tried to push this treatment in the USA and of course it was shot down by the fda.
Please provide one peer-reviewed scholarly article backing this success claim.
Or provide a link where the FDA denied this treatment or refutes its effectiveness. I'm honestly interested to see.
Some hack "doctor" in Metairie sold this line of BS on my grandpa as a "much higher success rate" than what mainstream medicine can deliver. He went for 5 weeks to this outfit on causeway to get massive doses of Vitamin C via IV. He passed after week 6.
Still miss him.
This post was edited on 1/25/16 at 12:39 am
Posted on 1/25/16 at 12:33 am to G Vice
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You/we have to change to a plant-based diet.
More than you ever thought you could learn about this is at NutritionFacts.org
Watch the videos and subscribe (free), run by an MD.
It will change you.
Into a gay.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 12:36 am to RedRifle
But they help me clean out my system faster.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 2:19 am to G Vice
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You/we have to change to a plant-based diet.
Posted on 1/25/16 at 2:24 am to iamAG
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Contradiction of current treatment being done on humans. In many countries, cancer patients are getting vitamin c treatments in the hospital. Massive, massive amounts of vitamin c. The results are crazy successful. Many doctors tried to push this treatment in the USA and of course it was shot down by the fda.
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