Posted on 09/05/2023 5:16:29 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Taking vitamin or mineral supplements could be feeding tumours and allowing them to grow, suggests new research.
Common antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, and selenium and zinc when taken additionally can all cause blood vessels in cancer to grow.
The discovery has come as a surprise as antioxidants were believed to be protective.
The researchers said that natural levels in food were fine but if people take supplements containing antioxidants as well then the extra amount can fuel tumour growth.
The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, was carried out by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
It concluded that Vitamin C and other antioxidants stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in lung cancer tumours.
They say this could apply to all cancers and the spread of cancer.
Study leader Martin Bergö, professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, said: “We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumours to form new blood vessels, which is surprising, since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect.
“The new blood vessels nourish the tumours and can help them grow and spread.”
Antioxidants neutralise free oxygen radicals, which can damage the body, and are therefore commonly found in dietary supplements. But overly high doses can be harmful.
Professor Bergö added: “There’s no need to fear antioxidants in normal food but most people don’t need additional amounts of them.
“In fact, it can be harmful for cancer patients and people with an elevated cancer risk.”
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If it says made in the USA, how do I know it's not ? . . . . . phuquit . . . I'm 75 and use very few OTC and Pharm's
I didn’t say take nothing. Just stating the facts. I’m 83 and take D3 only.
It’s just what I feel I need. My test results have been good for years.
I hope it doesn’t come from China, but who knows?
Good Luck!
You mean Hulk Hogan wanted us to get cancer all this time?
I do have to take heart, thyroid, statins, and seizure meds. I look to see where they come from but it doesn’t tell me a thing about where they were truly manufactured.
Eating sugar sure causes cancer to grow.
I had a cancer doctor explain this to me over 30 years ago... The way chemotherapy was discovered was a doctor decided to do a double blind study on ‘healthy food’. One group of hospital patients was given the best of foods and vitamins and the other group wasn’t. It turned out the group being given the healthy foods died sooner. So the Doctor/researcher wondered if the opposite would work - so he poisoned one group and gave the other group normal food. The group poisoned lived longer. That was the birth of modern chemotherapy. Cancer cells eat faster and more - the poison killed those cells off faster than the normal cells. The doctor told me the story because I had decided to bring healthy food to the hospital to help save a friend. So he took the time to explain how chemo was discovered.
EXACTLY!!
Try typing this into your search engine-”What proportion of prescription drugs are Chinese?”
… and what is their effect on a low-carb/keto diet and/or with intermittent fasting/fasting mimicking diet? Oh, those things are FREE, so they aren’t studied.
Don’t smoke, drink moderately and use a lot of hot sauce!
Bottom line, eat reasonably well and normally and you get what you need.
The other way to look at it is that you are handing 100% revenue those innocent vitamin pushers. No research, no development, no guarantee you get why they say it is. And you pay it, period. No insurance.
“The solution to ending cancer is obvious.”
Ban cancer charities!
Everybody needs a little cancer I think. It’s good for you. Keeps you on you’re toes. Besides, I ain’t afraid of cancer...I had broccoli for lunch. Broccoli kills cancer. A lot of people don’t know that, it’s not out yet. It’s true. You find out you got some cancer...(click) get yourself a bowl of broccoli. That’ll wipe it right out in a day or two.
Cauliflower too. Cauliflower kills the really big cancers. The ones you can see through clothing from across the street. Broccoli kills the little ones. The ones that are slowly eating your way from inside...while your goofy, half- educated doctor keeps telling you, “your doing fine Jim.”
In fact bring your doctor a bowl of broccoli. He’s probably got cancer too. Probably picked it up from you. They don’t know what they’re doing, it’s all guesswork in a white coat. Here, let me have a few more sips of industrial waste. Ahh, maybe...maybe I can turn them cancers against one another.
That’s what you gotta hope for you know, that you get more than one cancer so they eat each other up instead of you. In fact, the way I look at it, the more cancer you got, the healthier you are.
-George Carlin (Who didn’t die of Cancer!)
I need Tamsulosin to
keep me open and V to keep me hangin’ . . . no OTC, not even D3, C or multi Vit.
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