cancer ping
“Pan’s technique uses nanotechnology to deliver a synthesized element similar to the venom found in bees, snakes and scorpions.”
That is just ever so slightly different from what the headline suggests. CNN’s headline makes it sound like rubbing some snake venom on it will cure cancer. The technology is fascinating, and sounds promising. Maybe people will read past the goofy headline.
Results will be released in 2021, just prior to the lead researchers retiring.
If I found out I had cancer, I’d take a single, 30 200mg pure grape seed extract capsules and see how much existed after a week or two.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061018093946.htm
That’s roughly the amount this study used for my physical weight. Grape seed extract is GRAS.
There are plenty of newer studies for grape seed extract to support this. However, direct human studies, and not mouse, are only now under way.
When something blows up cancer cells and it’s cheap, funding isn’t as easily available.
Both the polyphenols and the gallic acid have been shown to impact cancer.
I’m not a doctor, so this for what it’s worth. There’s more to this than I can say here, though.
...that we'll never hear about again.
Not at all surprised to read this. As a general rule, the word among beekeepers is that beekeepers do not get cancer. In all my years of keeping bees, I’ve known only two bee keepers who had cancer. One of them was a very well known guy in California who died from cancer and myself who in four more months will be labeled “cancer free”. The implication is that honey been venom protects a body from cancer.
As for the article’s claim that honey bee venom is damaging to the heart, I have never heard this before and I question the source of this comment. Bee venom, for example, has been shown to lower blood pressure (a South Korean study) by an average of 20 points on both sides of the BP scale.
Possibly because the writer was aware of the use of snake venom by the alternative medicine crowd.
There are hundreds of chemicals that will kill cancer in lab tests. Unfortunately, most don't work in the human body.
Which means it's just like the thousands of similar claims that have been made over the years.
MAY? Here comes smore grant requests!