A case report in the Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases describes a 78-year-old man whose inoperable high-grade dysplasia colon adenoma disappeared eight months after two injections of Viscum album (European mistletoe) extract into the tumor.
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Nutrition
Vitamins, minerals, supplements, herbs and diet: the research on how what we eat shapes our health.
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Curcumin may fight ovarian cancer
A Cancer Letters study by South Korean researchers reports that curcumin raised cytosolic calcium by inhibiting SERCA activity, triggering apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells but not normal cells, with the effect depending on dose and time.
Supplements
CoQ10 may fight high blood pressure
A Florida State University review of three trials found CoQ10 at 100 to 120 mg a day lowered systolic blood pressure by about 10 mmHg and diastolic by 6.6 mmHg versus placebo. The authors still decline to recommend it as an antihypertensive, citing possible bias in those studies.
Nutrition
What keeps us busy - Newsletter 091616 from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety says its legal team is preparing a federal lawsuit challenging the new federal GMO labeling law as unconstitutional, and lists recent wins including blocking 2,4-D-tolerant crops and passing a California law restricting antibiotics in livestock.
Supplements
Food News: Ganeden Earns Non-GMO Project Verification on Probiotic Ingredient
Ganeden's probiotic ingredient BC30 earned Non-GMO Project Verification after third-party evaluation. The company says the strain is also certified kosher, halal, gluten free and allergen free, and was the first spore-forming probiotic to receive GRAS status from FDA.
Supplements
Glucosamine, chondroitin protect colorectal cancer
Drawing on the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer that taking glucosamine or chondroitin was associated with about 23% lower colorectal cancer risk. How they might help is unclear.
Diet
DASH diet may cut risk of depression, metabolic syndrome
Following 14,051 people for eight years, researchers found good adherence to the DASH diet tracked with 24 to 37 percent lower depression risk, depending on how depression was defined. The association was inverse but not linear, and the authors call for more work.
Phytochemicals
Apigenin may be effective in treating many types of cancer
Studies reported over the past decades suggest apigenin, a flavonoid concentrated in parsley, celery, chamomile, red grapes and herbs such as rosemary and thyme, may work against cancers including pancreatic, lung, breast, prostate and skin cancer, as well as leukemia.
Food
Saturated fat, trans fat linked to breast cancer risk
In a case-cohort study within the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort, women with the highest serum phospholipid saturated fatty acids were 64% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, while high dietary DPA intake was tied to up to 43% lower risk.
Diet
Ketogenic diet may not help fight cancer
One study found a calorie-restricted ketogenic diet slowed brain tumour growth, but a calorie-restricted ordinary diet did the same, pointing to the calorie cut rather than ketosis. Rats fed a ketogenic diet freely got no protection, and their gliomas oxidized ketone bodies.
Food
Eating carbohydrates, fiber reduces prostate cancer risk
A pooled analysis of 15 cohort studies covering 842,149 men and 52,683 prostate cancer cases found men eating the most carbohydrate were 10 percent less likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, and those eating the most fiber 12 percent less likely to develop fatal disease.
Vitamins
Vitamin D fights pancreatic cancer
A case report describes a woman with pancreatic cancer who mistakenly took 50,000 U of vitamin D daily, reached a very high blood level without symptoms, and whose cancer stayed stable for eight months without conventional treatment. The authors only ask whether the dose helped.
Diet
Plant-based diet helps prostate cancer
A 2012 case report describes a 73-year-old man in Iligan City, Philippines whose PSA fell from 24.21 to 5.29 ng/mL after ten days on a vegan diet of unpolished rice, fruit and vegetables, with no conventional treatment. His CEA dropped as well.
Food
Tea, cocoa lower death risk from cardiovascular disease
Tracking 774 Dutch men aged 65 to 84 over 25 years, researchers tied high intake of epicatechin, found in tea and cocoa, to 38% lower cardiovascular death risk overall and up to 46% lower among men already diagnosed with cardiovascular disease.
Diet
Calorie-restricted ketogenic diet helps brain cancer
A 2010 case report in Nutrition & Metabolism describes a 65-year-old woman with glioblastoma who followed conventional treatment plus a 600-calorie ketogenic diet after partial resection. No tumor tissue was detectable after 20 days, but it returned 10 days after she stopped the diet.
Supplements
Essiac tea may help treat prostate cancer
A case report in the Canadian Journal of Urology describes a 64-year-old man whose hormone-refractory prostate cancer responded well to Essiac tea. Research on the herbal tea is mixed, with some studies finding no anticancer effect.
Diet
Antioxidants prevent aggressive prostate cancer
A Nutrition and Cancer study counting 45 antioxidants from diet and supplements found men with the highest total antioxidant capacity, equal to more than 1,500 mg of vitamin C a day, were 69 percent less likely to have aggressive prostate cancer than men below 500 mg.
Food
Red meat, dairy products linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma
A meta-analysis of 33 observational studies ties red meat to 22% and dairy products to 26% higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk, while fish and seafood track with up to 29% lower multiple myeloma risk. The authors note observational data cannot establish cause.
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