LONDON (Reuters) – A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.
Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin — a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color — and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.
The cells also began to digest themselves, they said in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Previous scientific studies have suggested curcumin can suppress tumors and that people who eat lots of curry may be less prone to the disease, although curcumin loses its anti-cancer attributes quickly when ingested.
But Sharon McKenna, lead author of the Irish study, said her study suggested a potential for scientists to develop curcumin as an anti-cancer drug to treat esophageal cancer.
Cancers of the esophagus kill more than 500,000 people across the world each year. The tumors are especially deadly, with five-year survival rates of just 12 to 31 percent.
McKenna said the study showed curcumin caused the cancer cells to die “using an unexpected system of cell messages.”
Normally, faulty cells die by committing programed suicide, or apoptosis, which occurs when proteins called caspases are ’switched on’ in cells, the researchers said.
But these cells showed no evidence of suicide, and the addition of a molecule that inhibits caspases and stops this “switch being flicked’ made no difference to the number of cells that died, suggesting curcumin attacked the cancer cells using an alternative cell signaling system.
U.S. researchers said in 2007 they had found curcumin may help stimulate immune system cells in the Alzheimer’s disease.
The power of Alkaline Water! Texas State University is about to release results of a study that could mean a new way to fight cancer. Don’t run out and buy alkaline water yet, this testing was done in vitrio and with alka-v6/alkav6 only.
News 8’s Todd Boatwright has more on the two Texas State researchers’ findings.
The news comes as the number of breast cancer patients in Central Texas alone is expected to reach 900 this year.
Dr. Dhiraj Vattem, a professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Texas State Department of Agriculture Chair Dr. Reed Richardson co-investigated the new compound.
“We have a product we’ve been testing in the laboratory. All we’ve done so far is in vitro testing, which is artificial settings outside the organism,” Dr. Richardson said. “It is a compound that looks very effective in changing some of the metabolic pathways that are responsible for the cancer to either attach or grow.”
Dr. Richardson said that with the particular compound (alkav6) they have been testing, results were very consistent.
“It’s a silicon-based compound, and we use this at different levels to test these different systems, within cancer cells, as well as the HIV virus,” Dr. Richardson said. “We got real promise and results from that.”
Texas State researchers and Orizon Research Institute will present their current findings in a press conference at 2 p.m. Wednesday on the second floor of the Agricultural Building on the Texas State Campus.
For cancer, in vitro tests, the compound (alkav6) prevented cancerous cells from attaching to other cells, which slows down cancerous cells’ growth rate, Dr. Richardson said. The compound also reduced harmful mutations in the DNA and increased the likelihood of apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Finally the compound stimulated anti-oxidant enzymes responsible for some of the metabolic pathways.
“We measured a lot of different things in vitro, but they all got nice responses from the standpoint of pointing us toward a direction for a mode of action on this product,” he said. “It’s very important to say, that second phase, where we go in vivo, inside organisms within organisms’ systems, is the definitive step.”
The data from the in vivo studies is expected to be published later this year.
There has been a rush within the past few years towards natural plants and berries that have high anti-oxidation properties. Why the rush? Usually, these rushes to the “flavor of the day” are usually more because of well timed, well placed advertising media than for strong double blind “New England Journal of Medicine” type reasons.
In the case of a few products however, like Resveratrol and Acai Berry there seems to be a few who disagree as to the potential usefulness of the product, a few who are neutral and a great many whom agree that the product is useful but whom want to wait for further tests in order to throw their weight behind it.
Alka-V6/Alkav6 formerly known as AlkaVita, is one of those lesser known products that appears to have so many health benefits that it risks being labelled snake oil by the masses. In a nutshell, Alkavita is basically pure water with a PH Balance that is stratospheric. Where your blood should be more or less neutral at approximately 7, 0 is extreme acidic, and extreme alkalinity is measured at above 14. Alkavita has an incredible but legal Alkaline Ph of 14.3.
So, why is this beneficial to us? Primarily because nearly every meat, soft drink and many other products adds to our acidic level. Our blood must stay at a neutral 7 so the body hustles the extra acid off to other areas of the body until it can either dissipate it or get rid of it.
It is thought that the types of symptoms caused by this storage of higher acidic material in joints and other places around the body can mimic arthritis at a minimum and in other cases auto-immune type diseases that a poor doctor has no possible way of treating in a 1 hour visit.
Alka-V6 concentrate is intended to make 1 gallon of alkaline water that the body will use to heal itself and maintain your health and energy. The nature of the modified liquid silicon allows the body to absorb the water easier and most diseases cannot survive or multiply in an alkaline environment. Skin is able to absorb water more easily and so makes wrinkles less noticeable. There are no preservatives added.
You have more energy as your body has more oxygen in it, and your quality of life simply rises.Watching what you eat is still urgent. This is not a miracle potion, it is a safe product, mineral, that will increase your body’s alkalinity and help accelerate the natural healing process we all enjoyed when we were young.
Alka-V6 is also a natural antibiotic so it will help heal cuts, bites, scratches and itches in a healthy and natural way.
Alkavita will not interfere with any medications, often it enhances the medications.Diabetics should monitor their sugar levels when taking AlkaVita because it will often decrease the need for insulin.
98% or more of our body systems is comprised of water or H2O.
It is not much of a secret that most cities were built beside either a fast flow stream of water or with direct access to a lake or even larger body of water.
Most of us think, half correctly, that the reason why was so that the inhabitants of those small towns could have ready access to drinking water. This is but half of the story, the other half of the story is that that same water provided cleaning solutions for both industry and for carrying away waste products both human and chemical.
The truth is though, that even a small village of 100 to 200 people could foul the water for those downstream and this was pretty well known and even fought over a few hundreds years ago.
So, if the waste products from a few hundred people was problematic a few hundred years ago, what in the world do people who live in cities a million or more do?
Well, most would logically say, cities use different industrial sized underground pipes for both clean water and human waste disposal. Absolutely correct, but forget the pipes, what about the water?
Have we suddenly discovered billions of gallons of underground reservoirs to tap into? In a few cases, yes, but the real answer is that we mostly recycle the **waste** or bad water and drink it after a process of cleaning. When I first heard this story as a kid, my response was, “I will never drink tap water again !”
To this day, there are tens of thousands who live in cities and who almost never drink the tap water from their own city — and for many good reasons.
The original recycling plants were optimized for cleaning human waste. Today, however people throw their entire medicine cabinet contents down the toilet and millions of birth control pills and waste is flushed into the recycling system monthly. Since the water recycling facilities were not optimized to handle that guess what has inevitably started happening ?
Ok, so the water is not 100% clean but will that kill you?
Perhaps that depends on how healthy you were to start off with, but that’s a topic for another day.
So, all of this being no particular secret, there are hundreds of thousands of city dwellers who routinely purchase gallons or liters of “spring water” from their local stores. We all know that some **spring water** isn’t actually spring water at all, but simply tap water in a jug that has been intentionally incorrectly labeled, but that doesnt happen that often and it isn’t the focus of of this article either.
Too little water and our kidneys have too little moisture with which to dissolve and flush out toxins from the body.
What about “pure water”, you have heard this term before. It generally refers to water that has been created by a distillation process ( boiling to steam, running off the condensed water droplets into sterilized containers ). This is a truly different type of water and contains so little impurities and in fact tastes considerably different to those who have never tried it before.
So, whats wrong with this pure water?
Well in the old days, this distilled water was used in car batteries only – but that doesn’t make it bad, does it?
No, it doesn’t, in truth, this type of water can be medicinal. It is so pure that it attempts to dissolve the plastic casing of any plastic bottle that it is placed in. Coke and Pepsi discovered this the hard way, when they switched to pure water in order to lower the amount of sugar required to make their drinks taste sweet.
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