Ginger destroys ovarian cancer
Go to the grocery store and buy some ginger. Put some on food at every meal, and you'll kill ovarian cancer cells growing in your body. Science-fiction? Maybe not.
An ordinary spice with extraordinary properties
According to recent research conducted by Dr. Rebecca Liu at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Michigan, ordinary powdered ginger from the grocery store may be the next big "drug" for ovarian cancer.
Dr. Liu put ordinary ginger into cultures with various lines of ovarian cancer cells and killed all of them. These lab experiments are important for several reasons. One of the most stunning is that different types of ovarian cancer cells were killed. Each line of cancer has a unique cause and growth mechanism, and drugs usually target one type of cancer. Ginger doesn't care why the cancer is there or how it grows, it kills all with equal authority.
Better than chemotherapy
Cancer cells are highly adaptive and often mutate to avoid destruction by chemotherapy. The Michigan researchers found that ovarian cancer cells did not successfully mutate when treated with ginger. In fact, the spice made the cells die by autophagy. This is different than normal cell death, known as apoptosis. Autophagy means the cells turned on their own and destroyed them. The cancerous cells became part of the solution!
Dr. Jennifer Rhode, one of Dr. Liu's colleagues, stated that ginger performed BETTER than "platinum-based chemotherapy drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer." Better than drugs - and cheaper. Unlike chemotherapy, ginger has no known side effects.
Don't wait for the clinical trials - start taking ginger now
The experiments conducted by Dr. Lui were not on animals or humans. These are to follow. Do you want to wait to hear the results in five or ten years? I didn't think so. Ginger is inexpensive, available everywhere and it's delicious. Get some - but be sure to buy organic. At least one of my approved retailers listed in the left margin will have organic ginger.
You can also buy ginger root and grate it fresh every day. However, the tests were conducted with dried ginger powder. It is unknown if fresh ginger will have the same results as powdered ginger.
Additional sources:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uomh-gco033106.php
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2006/ginger.htm
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I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
An ordinary spice with extraordinary properties
According to recent research conducted by Dr. Rebecca Liu at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Michigan, ordinary powdered ginger from the grocery store may be the next big "drug" for ovarian cancer.
Dr. Liu put ordinary ginger into cultures with various lines of ovarian cancer cells and killed all of them. These lab experiments are important for several reasons. One of the most stunning is that different types of ovarian cancer cells were killed. Each line of cancer has a unique cause and growth mechanism, and drugs usually target one type of cancer. Ginger doesn't care why the cancer is there or how it grows, it kills all with equal authority.
Better than chemotherapy
Cancer cells are highly adaptive and often mutate to avoid destruction by chemotherapy. The Michigan researchers found that ovarian cancer cells did not successfully mutate when treated with ginger. In fact, the spice made the cells die by autophagy. This is different than normal cell death, known as apoptosis. Autophagy means the cells turned on their own and destroyed them. The cancerous cells became part of the solution!
Dr. Jennifer Rhode, one of Dr. Liu's colleagues, stated that ginger performed BETTER than "platinum-based chemotherapy drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer." Better than drugs - and cheaper. Unlike chemotherapy, ginger has no known side effects.
Don't wait for the clinical trials - start taking ginger now
The experiments conducted by Dr. Lui were not on animals or humans. These are to follow. Do you want to wait to hear the results in five or ten years? I didn't think so. Ginger is inexpensive, available everywhere and it's delicious. Get some - but be sure to buy organic. At least one of my approved retailers listed in the left margin will have organic ginger.
You can also buy ginger root and grate it fresh every day. However, the tests were conducted with dried ginger powder. It is unknown if fresh ginger will have the same results as powdered ginger.
Additional sources:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uomh-gco033106.php
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2006/ginger.htm
I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
posted by Edith Gaylord | 12:00 AM
1 Comments:
Wow! I have been eating ginger for the past month, just a craving I had. But now I will try to use it at least once a day. Very interesting info. Thank you Edith. I'm glad I came upon your blog. I was actually on here for the gerd article. I have been suffering with it for a while now. I am drinking barley green and when i do, I don't have any reflux, but let a few days pass without it and I'm back to square one. I wrote down the info, thanks for your blogs!
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