One Flax Seed Muffin a Day for 30 Days kills 31% of Breast Cancer Cells in Newly Diagnosed Women
Flax seed lignans are a powerful anti-cancer food that is capable of powerfully killing cancer cells in the body.
(PRWEB) July 29, 2005 -- Attn: Health/Medical Editor
One Flax Seed
Muffin a Day for 30 days Kills 31% of Breast Cancer Cells in Newly Diagnosed
Women
Linseed oil, made from flax seeds, is an extremely useful natural
oil that is used as a preservative for wood, concrete, and as an ingredient in
the manufacture of paints, varnishes and stains. Little did anyone realize that
the discarded flax meal was a powerful therapeutic food for the treatment of
breast and other cancers.
The role of flax seed lignans as a treatment
for cancer has been studied in cell cultures and animals for years, but until a
few months ago it has never been tested in humans with diagnosed cancers.
Canadian scientists, following up on previous studies conducted in mice,
enrolled women newly diagnosed with breast cancer as volunteers to study the
effects of flaxseed on breast cancer progression. In this study, one flaxseed
muffin a day, containing a predetermined concentration of pre-lignans, was
consumed per day for 30 days. Tissue biopsies were preformed prior to and after
the 30 day period. The results showed that the flaxseed pre-lignans, converted
in the intestines by bacteria into powerful anti-cancer lignans, were extremely
efficient, in low doses, in killing the breast cancer cells in these volunteer
women.
The results were nothing short of dramatic. The growth index in
the cancer cells was reduced 34.2%, while the level of programmed cell death
increased 30.7%. Women who expressed the HER2 (c-erbB2) metastatic oncogene saw
its expression decrease by a dramatic 71%.
According to Dr. Stephen
Martin, Chief Scientist of Grouppe Kurosawa, data like this has never been
reported before.
“This study is critically important not only for breast
cancer patients, but for all cancer patients because lignans kill many kinds of
cancers, including the presently incurable melanoma. With the exception of
palmitic acid, the common saturated fatty acid, specific foods do not normally
have the ability to kill cancer cells. And we are only talking about one muffin
a day. What if we ate two? This study is so exciting that it has me jumping out
of my skin. This study and parallel studies are too important for the public
health to be ignored so we decided to send out a press release.”
The WHO
estimates that 1.2 million women will develop breast cancer in 2004. Since many
of these women lack adequate medical care, they will eventually die from this
disease. In the US, a country with unlimited medical resources, 211,240 women
will develop breast cancer in 2005, and 40,410 will die. African American women
in the US are particularly prone to develop and die from this cancer.
Medical costs are out of control in the US and throughout the world.
Natural medicines such as lignans are cheap, non-toxic, effective in low doses,
and the only hope for those without health insurance. Anyone can grind up
flaxseed and put it in muffins, smoothies, yogurt or animal food. The idea that
this simple seed can actually kill cancer cells in the human/animal body is
almost overwhelming in its implications for human and animal
health.
Grouppe Kurosawa, an organization dedicated to developing
treatment protocols for acute and chronic diseases using only natural medicines
and over the counter drugs, has compiled the information on lignans and cancer
into the Medicinal Nutrition folder on it’s web site. The folder contains
hyperlinked scientific references, and flax meal recipes
(http://www.grouppekurosawa.com/nutrition.htm) so people can
investigate the medicinal powers of flaxseed on their own.
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