Cancer is a ravaging disease that is not really easy to fight. It is a group of diseases involving uncontrolled cell growth/ proliferation with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. It is tasking on the sufferers and people around them, financially and mentally. Good news is that nature has blessed us with herbs and seeds that makes treating it easier.

Good news is that nature has blessed us with herbs and seeds that makes treating it easier.

These plants/foods are been shown by research to have cancer-fighting benefits. They can be safely consumed either as part of your natural cancer treatment regimen, or in combination with orthodox cancer treatment regime. They are great superfoods with powerful nutrient components that are needed in your battle against cancer. Though the list is not limited to those treated in this post. These superfoods although have powerful properties that help in the treatment or management of other disease conditions, are being treated here specifically for their cancer benefits.

Since cancer cells are known to undergo mutation as they progress or metastasize, a combination of different cancer-active and cancer-protective foods are ideal for incorporating into daily dietary regimen.



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Kale is a cruciferous vegetable and has a high concentration of Vitamin C and Vitamin K. Research has shown it to be powerful against prostate and colon cancer, lung cancer and breast cancer.



The reasons you should pay attention to Kale; the cancer benefits of Kale.

Kale is so nutrient-dense that 100g it contains

Vitamin A: 206% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (from beta-carotene)

Vitamin K: 684% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance

Vitamin C: 134% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance

The explanation below shows how these Vitamins help fight Cancer



Carotenoids act as antioxidants themselves and stimulate the body’s own antioxidant defenses, decreasing free radical damage to DNA that can lead to cancer. Very high levels in cell studies, however, can have an opposite effect, promoting damage from oxidation.

Beta-carotene and lutein promote cell-to-cell communication that helps control cell growth. These carotenoids also increase carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes and stimulate the self-destruction of abnormal cells. The body uses beta-carotene to form vitamin A, which helps protect against cancer through the immune system and expression of genes that regulate cell growth.

RETINOIC ACID, another Vitamin A precursor found in Kale has been found to help restore pre-cancerous cells.

Sandra V. Fernandez, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor of Medical Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University, and colleagues, used a model of breast cancer progression composed of four types of cells each one representing a different stage of breast cancer: normal, pre-cancerous, cancerous and a fully aggressive model.

When the researchers exposed the four breast cell types to different concentrations of retinoic acid – one of the chemicals that the body converts vitamin A into – they noticed a strong change in the pre-cancerous cells. Not only did the pre-cancerous cells begin to look more like normal cells in terms of their shape, they also changed their genetic signature back to normal. Dr. Fernandez’s pre-cancerous cells had 443 genes that were either up or downregulated on their way to becoming cancerous. All of these genes returned to normal levels after treatment with retinoic acid. “It looks like retinoic acid exerts effects on cancer cells in part via the modulation of the epigenome,” says Fernandez.

“We were able to see this effect of retinoic acid because we were looking at four distinct stages of breast cancer,” says Dr. Fernandez.



VITAMIN K

There have been a number of studies demonstrating the anticancer effects of vitamin K. It has been found to exhibit anticancer activity in a number of cell lines (stomach, nasopharynx, breast, oral epidermoid cancer and leukemia (Wu, et al, 1993).

Liver Cancer –
Following the realization that patients with liver cancer do not process vitamin K, research began on the relationship between vitamin K and hepatocellular carcinoma. It was observed that the vitamin K restored normal clotting to the cancerous cells and also stopped them from growing. A phase I/II trial of K1 with liver cancer patients resulted in decreased cancer growth. (Carr, 1994). A phase 1 study involving 40 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, who received high doses of vitamin K (40 mg per day) showed decreased cancer growth. Vitamin K has also been applied on pancreatic cancer cells, resulting in apoptosis (cell death) of the cancer cells.

Vitamin K has also been shown to be effective against brain cancer cells, Leukemia, and Oral cancer cells.

Vitamin K has been seen to suppress both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate cancer cell lines via apoptosis. Additionally, inflammatory genes were significantly down-regulated.

Lung cancers are notoriously aggressive and difficult to treat. In several different types of lung cancer, including small cell, squamous cell, and adenocarcinomas, vitamin K induces apoptosis through the activation of a suicide protein.

Vitamin K has been shown to stop liver cancer in research studies in Tokyo and Washington. And you can only get your vitamin K naturally from green foods and the action of beneficial bacteria on them causing its release.

VITAMIN C

Nearly 60 years ago Toronto physician William McCormick observed that cancer patients often presented with severely low levels of vitamin C in their blood and featured scurvy-like symptoms, leading him to postulate that vitamin C might protect against cancer by increasing collagen synthesis. In 1972, extending this theory, Ewan Cameron, a Scottish surgeon, hypothesized that ascorbate could suppress cancer development by inhibiting hyaluronidase, which otherwise weakens the extracellular matrix and enables cancer to metastasize. He began treating terminally ill cancer patients and published a case report of 50 patients in which some of the treated patients benefited from high dose vitamin C.



Encouraged by the result, Cameron teamed up with Linus Pauling to conduct clinical trials involving terminal cancer patients. In 1976, they published a study of 100 patients with terminal cancer treated with ascorbate. Their disease progression and survival rates were compared to 1000 retrospective control patients who were matched with the vitamin C-treated patients regarding age, sex, type of cancer and clinical stage and who were treated by the same physicians in the same hospital, and in the same way except that they did not receive vitamin C.



Although the study was not well designed by modern standards, mainly because they lacked the placebo-control group, the results demonstrated that patients treated with vitamin C had improved quality of life and a four-fold increase in their mean survival time. In a follow-up study, Cameron and Pauling reported that 22% of vitamin C-treated cancer patients survived for more than one year compared to only 0.4% of control patients. A clinical trial in Japan independently showed a similar result.



Kale is also loaded with other compounds that are believed to have protective effects against cancer. One of these is sulforaphane, a substance that has been shown to help fight the formation of cancer at the molecular level


It also contains indole-3-carbinol, another substance that is believed to help prevent cancer

CHLORELLA

Chlorella is a single-celled green algae found always near freshwater sources. It is said to represent one of the very first life forms on the earth, some 3.6 billion years ago. Interests in Algae as a source of food intensified in Japan after the Second World War.



In one study, chlorella’s anti-cancer properties were investigated in an effort to determine how this microalgae stops cancer from spreading. Researchers tested the chlorella in vitro. They treated cancerous liver cells with Chlorella and compared the results with normal liver cells, looking for the mechanisms by which Chlorella was able to induce apoptosis(natural cell deaths that must occur in order for new, healthier cells to form).

The researchers discovered that there was a 70% increased apoptotic rate in liver cancer cells treated with Chlorella compared to normal cells. The Chlorella also was shown to inhibit anti-apoptotic proteins in cancer cells while leaving the normal cells’ self-destruct mechanisms in place.



In another recent study performed at the Chemical Injuries Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, researchers wanted to find out if Chlorella could help reduce or eliminate some of the negative effects of smoking. Oxidative stress has been determined to be one of the key mechanisms that ushers in the harmful health effects of smoking, especially lung cancer.



The study evaluated the effect chlorella had on markers of oxidative stress in Iranian smokers. Thirty-eight smokers were recruited for the trial. All were administered Chlorella at 3,600 mg/day for a period of six weeks.

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