Posted on 01/30/2014 9:48:59 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
(Reuters) - A decades-old medical mystery - why antioxidants such as vitamin E and beta carotene seemed to accelerate the growth of early lung tumors in high-risk populations such as smokers, rather than protect them from cancer, as theory suggests - may have been solved, according to research published on Wednesday.
In essence, "antioxidants allow cancer cells to escape cells' own defense system" against tumors,... That lets existing tumors, even those too small to be detected, proliferate uncontrollably.
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The antioxidants caused a 2.8-fold increase in lung tumors, made the tumors more invasive and aggressive, and caused the mice to die twice as quickly - all compared to mice not given antioxidants.
When the antioxidants were added to human lung tumor cells in lab dishes, they also accelerated cancer growth.
That result jibed with the many studies finding that "antioxidants do not protect against cancer in healthy people and may increase it" or promote it in those who already do, said Bergo.
The significant advance in the study was pinpointing how this can be. What seems to happen is that antioxidants indeed decrease DNA damage, as expected. But the damage becomes so insignificant as to be undetectable by the cell. The cell therefore does not deploy its cancer-defense system, which is based on a protein called p53.
Ordinarily, if the p53 system detects significant DNA damage, such as from ultraviolet light, it kills the cell before it can become malignant. By allowing cancer cells to stay below the radar of p53, antioxidants allow tumors to thrive, the study found.
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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
To heck with it all, I’m moving to China and taking up red wine drinking and out of control capitalism!
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Here we go again....What KIND of Vitamin E?
Here we go again....What KIND of Vitamin E?
It is difficult to keep up with all the changing advice.
____________ is the new miracle food, eat/drink it and you will live forever.
fast forward 10-20 years...
eating/drinking _______________ will now kill you.
People... STOP chasing these fads! do EVERYTHING in moderation.
Suicide in “moderation?” Heroin in “moderation?” Just a thought...
Fear not ! Agenda 21 and Codex Alimentarius coming here soon, all of our supplements will soon be taken away.
The 1000 page Farm Bill will send us on our way,in the Senate now. Have to say , it is mostly R’s voting for it. The lobbying and omnibus bills must be stopped.
Period.
Recently, someone told me that eating lettuce and consuming calcium can cause gallstones. We. Just. Can’t. Win.
My Mom is in her upper 70s and she still smokes, since a young adult.
She gets out of breath real easy but so far no cancer, still alive in home.
My dad gave up smoking at ~ 50 and died of heart attack at 60.
I know, I know...
I never smoked. Cancer at 46.
My mother smoked. Quit at 50. She’s 71 and never had cancer. I told her maybe I should’ve smoked. ;-)
Kind of interesting how a billion stories on nutritional supplements are bad for us are seemingly simultaneously piping up. It’s as though the groundwork is being laid to outlaw them
It does seem suspicious, doesn’t it?
True—until the next study is published. “Science is but an image of the truth.” Francis Bacon
Recently, someone told me that eating lettuce and consuming calcium can cause gallstones. We. Just. Can’t. Win.”
Life, although it doesn’t cause death, sets us up for it...
Recently D, now E.
but it’s science, the new religion. if the media says a scientist said it then we all little serfs must obey the gov sanctioned expert, the doctor, the scientist and the media.
actually no. I won’t believe anything they say nor will i do anything they say for me to do
and most scientists believe in the global warming hoax. gov science is garbage
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