Medical portal reveals properties of 7 food and drinks which stop feeding cancer cells and inhibit the development of tumors. It’s not about starvation, but for a set of universal favorites like tomatoes, blueberries, curry and green tea.
Scientists claim that these foods can be even more effective than chemotherapy.
What caused their hidden power?
In a few words – they stop the blood supply to the tumor cells, or have anti-angiogenesis properties. Angiogenesis is a normal process of creation of blood vessels in the body. In some periods of your life it is enhanced – for example in newborns, while in adults this function is “unlocked” rarely – such as in wounds when tissues and capillaries need to be restored. Angiogenesis is regulated by activators and inhibitor molecules. Typically, the inhibitors predominate, but it becomes necessary activators of angiogenesis and stimulate increased vascular cell growth for the formation of new blood vessels.
Are supplied with nutrients and spread throughout the body (metastasis) through the blood. For this purpose they need additional blood vessels. That is, to grow, there needs tumor angiogenesis. Fully it established that cancer cells release their activators of angiogenesis – molecules that “cheat” the body and stimulate the growth of new blood vessels that supply the tumor to nutrients and oxygen.
There are modern drugs – inhibitors of angiogenesis, which, in contrast to chemotherapy, are not attacking the cancer cells and inhibit the growth of blood vessels to the tumor.
Here’s the key issue: how to help themselves as prevention against cancer? We could regulate angiogenesis by selecting from food, thus we do not allow their microscopic tumors in phase to grow and spread.
Foods that stop angiogenesis:
Tomatoes. Harvard study found that men who eat cooked tomato / tomato sauce more than four times a month have up to 50% reduction in the risk of prostate cancer. This is due to the fact that tomatoes are high in lycopene, which is anti-angiogenic. Lycopene is a substance which is dissolved in the fat, and as such requires their proper absorption through the digestive tract.
In contrast to vitamin C content of lycopene in the tomato products increases when these foods are processed under high temperature or cooked with oil.
The dishes with curries include another useful substance:
Turmeric– superfoods that melts fat and makes us more healthy.
In the food “chemotherapy” include and two favorite drinks – green tea and coffee.
The rich, dark colors of blueberries and raspberries come from phytochemicals that protect against many cancers (similar to red grapes) reducing oxidative stress and stop angiogenesis. They are an important weapon in the fight against deadly overion cancer.
Source: Healthy Life Centar
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