Posted on 09/03/2024 4:04:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Salt could help to boost the immune defense against cancer. This is suggested by research findings.
Recently, adoptive T-cell therapy in particular has developed into an effective treatment tool.
In adoptive T-cell therapy, the patient's own immune cells (T cells) are isolated from the blood and modified and multiplied in the laboratory in a therapy-specific manner. They are then reinfused into the patient and destroy tumor cells.
The team has now discovered one of these factors: Sodium ions—a component of sodium chloride—increase the efficiency of antitumoral T cells. The researchers were able to show that breast cancer tumors have a higher sodium concentration than healthy tissue and that T cells act particularly strongly against tumors when the immediate environment has a higher sodium concentration. These patients then even have a longer survival time.
"We were able to show that sodium enhances the immune response of CD8+ T cells," says Chang-Feng Chu. CD8+ T cells are immune cells that can recognize and kill tumor cells or cells infected with viruses in the body.
"Previous research has already shown that sodium regulates other types of T cells involved in autoimmune diseases and allergies," explains Shan Sun.
The researchers found that the salt improved the metabolic fitness of the CD8+ T cells by increasing the uptake of sugar and amino acids and thus energy production in the cells. As a result, the immune cells were better able to eliminate tumor cells, as the experiments on cell cultures and mice have shown. "Pancreatic tumors shrank in the mice after we injected them with T cells pre-treated with salt," says Chu.
Her colleague Chu adds, "The salt also protects the T cells from becoming exhausted too quickly. This is important because exhausted T cells gradually lose their ability to fight cancer cells."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
They caution this is not about getting a lot of salt in your diet, but they do suggest it has its place.
Uncommon salts are?
Yea I know... but we don’t load up our common food with them...,
It is almost if we evolved to live in our natural environment. Or created that way...
This may explain my craving for anchovies when I underwent chemotherapy , now 15 years agol
Just a couple hours ago, salt was being blamed for Multiple Sclerosis!
So now my high-sodium diet is doing the opposite of killing me??! Woohoo!
LOL Wait til tomorrow
Maybe it is the iodine in the salt
google: iodine and cancer
AI:
Iodine is an essential element in human biochemistry. It has antioxidant, antiseptic, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, which are more than enough to help in the treatment of cancer. But iodine is increasingly being acknowledged to be anti-carcinogenic and have cell differentiation properties as well as being capable of causing apoptosis (cancer cell death).
Trust the Science!
Essential Saltes....
That article was my first thought when I saw this one. The end rule of thumb is to ignore people claiming that some food is good or bad for you. Just eat what you want in moderation.
:-)
Watching “regular” cable, tonight, for the first time in months.
Amazing the obesity ads put on, nonstop, for drugs to lose weight.
How about just stop eating so much? Portion control? Exercising?
I know ... radical ideas, to BigPharma.
https://celticseasaltusa.com/blogs/news/unlocking-the-power-of-celtic-sea-salt-and-water-hydration-with-barbara-oneill
Celtic sea salt crystals on the tongue, followed by water
I ate one of the best steaks I’ve ever had in my life recently. Both sides had a light covering of Sea Salt before frying.
I lost 25 lbs in a year and a half. I quit eating potatoes. Seems to work for me. I’m nearly a hard-belly now. Scary look for someone in their 70s, lol.
So, pouring salt on my French fries IS good for me. Of course, the French fries will kill me.
The salt on a steak creates the “sear”. That carmalization of the sugars in the meat is enhanced by salt.
It makes a steak taste….like a steak. And that is delicious.
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