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Curry spice 'kills cancer cells'

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An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown.

The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.

Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre show it can destroy gullet cancer cells in the lab.

Cancer experts said the findings in the British Journal of Cancer could help doctors find new treatments.

Dr Sharon McKenna and her team found that curcumin started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.

'Natural' remedy

The cells also began to digest themselves, after the curcumin triggered lethal cell death signals.

Dr McKenna said: "Scientists have known for a long time that natural compounds have the potential to treat faulty cells that have become cancerous and we suspected that curcumin might have therapeutic value."

Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK, said: "This is interesting research which opens up the possibility that natural chemicals found in turmeric could be developed into new treatments for oesophageal cancer.

"Rates of oesophageal cancer have gone up by more than a half since the 70s and this is thought to be linked to rising rates of obesity, alcohol intake and reflux disease so finding ways to prevent this disease is important too."

Each year around 7,800 people are diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the UK. It is the sixth most common cause of cancer death and accounts for around five percent of all UK cancer deaths.
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25 comments // Curry spice 'kills cancer cells'

  • Mitch_Mayer
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      Mitch_Mayer  
    • Fire up some Cannabis Oil. I made some the other weekend and decided to try and use it topical, on a wart I have had on the top of my thumb. I applied a small drop and rubbed it in about once a day for 4 days. The wart is almost totally gone. I used to cut the tip off with nail clippers every week. Seems that Cannabis attacks any abnormal mutating cell and kills it while leaving healthy cells alone. Hence why cannabis smokers don't get lung cancer.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Hospitals & doctors get paid the high $$$$ by doing partial fixes (that bring people returning sick of something else), by always having left something undone. That's their only income. To make money ~and profit~ they have to fail. It's in their interest not to treat dental (so that diseases drift in and hit the vital organs). It's in their interest to treat one cancer (but not look for other cancers and treat them too while the patient is prepped for a body scan).

      They're paid for running locomotives together & making planes crash.

      Health insurance providers only copied the system they found.

      Everybody is mashing the gas to go forward with the

      transmission always in partial reverse.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Cannabis oil cures cancer and most other diseases - for this reason, the Pharmaceutical and Cancer industries put pressure on governments to keep cannabis illegal because such a simple and effective cure for most diseases would ruin the Pharmaceutical and Cancer industries.

    • 2 years ago
  • tangibleparadox
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • I put together some capsules having aloe vera (capos), Green Food Feast (both from www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com), and Oxy-Nectar (www.vitaglo.com) with an added small amounts of Stacker II and Mega Hoodia. Over the past year & more my throat has been sort of getting thicker, and recently as two months ago I noticed even harder to swallow food or pills.

      But I started taking the capsules (Size 00) and two weeks ago I had a strong burning feeling inside my throat and, quite frankly, suddenly a lot of that swelling immediately disappeared. I had gobs of new space inside my throat. hehehe I wasn't sure what was going on, whether I was about to croak or the powders had eat out some bad stuff.

      Sometimes Healing feels a lot like Dying. The emptiness has now sprung back to normal, so I imagine what was going down was I was likely having throat and / or esophageal cancer starting big time, and the powders ingredients wiped the floor of it all.

      Actually, truth be told it was more than a "strong burning". It was more like one of those burning torches I used on a job once for cutting up used & rusted out old coal railroad cars. It happened very fast too. If it was going to be good for me or bad for me didn't matter. What was happening was too fast for medical intervention to stop. hehehehe Not many people fight to walk in my shoes.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Thanks royulery I'll start adding them next month! Maybe they'll do a number on the nasal fungus / mold that keeps trying to mess me up. Most the time I irrigate with a 10% hydrogen peroxide 90% filtered water. A couple years ago I had mold roots sinking into my brain and also outward into my cheek. It was quite distressing. I've had a lot of battles with this stuff. It's mostly gone now that I've gotten control of the situation.

      Viruses, bacteria, molds fungus, about all they are is billions of MICROSCOPIC TAPEWORMS that spread into all the human body. They establish themselves especially into our high quality human fat, highest calorie fat of any animal.

      If a child gets fat and doesn't lose it right away these symbiotic tapeworms get in there and form a living latticework that transforms the fat into a bulwark. About the only way to lose it then is surgery but conveniently none of the insurance providers will cover it even though it is extremely low cost surgery... so the mass of overweight Americans may as well be hanging on a cross beside Jesus.

    • 2 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
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      CarolynGillis  
    • Great stuff.
      Using your mind to find solutions is the best way..don't listen to our faulty medical system for profit.
      I just got word from my Integrative MD that because of my new vegan and gluten free diet and exercise that my cholesterol went down to near normal levels from over 300.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • CarolynGillis:

      That's fantastic news! I don't know what mine is but a couple months ago I checked my resting pulse & it's just under 60, not bad for being male 57 and 270 lbs. I incurred some heart valve damage back in 1998 from GNC products. As about two weeks ago I suddenly became aware it has fully healed... which of course all medical literature claims is impossible.

      I think they forgot to tell my body and stem cells that.

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
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      royulery  
    • world market sells a good curry, high tumric content, cheap. curries can have anything in them, some don't have tumric. tumric gives the bright yellow color to mustard.
      indian food uses an ancient holy scripture called the ayair veda (medicinal yoga) to balance the energies of the body. one powerful additive used to balance the air in the body is ginger root. it will clear congestion right now.
      indian food is the best tasting in the world.

    • 2 years ago
  • spacemikey
  • Kay_Bee
  • artemis6
  • bailey78
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  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Somewhat off the topic of cancer but relevant, I get a newsletter from a place called NorthStar Nutritionals. Anyone who wants to keep abreast of the latest most powerful discoveries should get their newsletter. In the last one they were telling about certain types of sugars that makes the outer wall of our body cells slicker... and that disease germs can't attach to them. They slide off and are disposed of properly. I imagine many of those sugars are probably in the Oxy-Nectar food ingredients anyway.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Animalia_libero you have a good point. It sounds like maybe you've had something a bit more than a complexion issue and you found the answer. Good for you! Some people blood type can't deal with certain Food Groups. We all have to find the foods that agrees with US no matter who tells us something else that works for "the average person" because we are all very unique. In fact, the longer we are alive the more unique we become due to encountering a different assortment of germs & viruses that alter us.

      This is why vaccines scare me to death as they are attempts at One-Size-Fits-All solutions. Gardasil is one of those. Foods that attack cancer's physical "Achille's heels" is far better, their weakness to high temperatures, their craving of food, their craving for extra oxygen. My health tonic formula contains specific ingredients known to contain cancer (Oxy-Nectar is in it) but also when we super-nutrition ourselves and do self-hyperbarics methods as has also been pioneered in India (breathing exercises for stopping depression) all of that raises our IMMUNE SYSTEM to where it is enabled to hold cancers in a slow-growing stasis.

      Effectively cured.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Rush Limbaugh has lost an enormous amount of weight since he started using Zi-Cam..... no dieting, just Zi-Cam, so perhaps the stuff is poisonous to fat cells... because for one thing, a fat cell (adipose) is actually a very weak do-nothing cell anyway that should be easily dispatched.

      The Obesity Epidemic as far as I'm concerned shouldn't even exist. It should be rather easily solved but the government has become addicted to the massive tax money coming in from people purchasing all the diet garbage that doesn't work, so the obesity epidemic is too big to fail. Even if they knew how to poison fat cells or otherwise chemically strangle the life out of them they wouldn't do it.

      The Gov would lose too much revenue rather quickly. Oh sure, they'll cry and wail in yer face how terrible it is but that's just part of the act. Tell ya something else too, they know my health tonic comes very close to being the obesity answer. They fight my health solutions the same way they fight all my energy source inventions.

      The US government is in the unenviable position of having to fight off the future.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • The overweight person has a higher incidence of cancer than anybody. I believe cancers use fat as an energy source. However, obesity belies a corruption of the cell energy process. Obesity shows an underlying cell mitochondria corruption... that eventually screws up i.e. the cell forgets what it's supposed to do and drops into cancerous growth. It's like the cell has a mental breakdown.

      When you correct the diet and strengthen the cells with nutrition the mitochondria regains correct function therefore incidence of cancer will let up. Only if the person is living or working in some environment or too much sun there will still be cancer. Chemicals ya work with like even computer repair work where the fellows touch some mighty bad chemicals on the motherboards that absorb directly through their fingers or they breathe them if the cpu overheats for instance.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • As I mentioned under another thread a few days ago, when I called the hospital I was on hold listening to their recording warning people away from people like me saying they can survive cancer and other diseases with nutrition. And yet everyone knows that many if not most most of their medicines are made from tree bark or tree roots or leaves off some bush.

      Or the mashed up entrails of some exotic bug found in a rain forest.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • All anyone really has to do to stop cancer is ask yourself what the cancer cell needs and then deprive it or what qualities the cancer cell has that can be magnified to kill them. A cancer cell is runaway growth (malignant) so it needs extra blood (nutrients and oxygen) to sustain an outrageously fast metabolic rate. So if a person is put in a hot tub with a fever temperature setting it will put cancers over the edge into temperature meltdown... possibly also filled to the brim with its own wastes.

      You can restrict blood, restrict food, or overfeed as I did. I had something hit me real hard two weeks ago that I suspect was cancer. I suddenly went into a super low oxygen condition and quite frankly I wondered if I was going to survive the day. Obviously I did but it was hairy for a while. Later I decided that when my oxygen dropped that low my normal cells were able to outlive the cancer cells because their metabolic rate was so much lower.

      So add oxygen starvation to the kill cancer quiver. However, I don't recommend it for everybody. My large size I think gave me an edge. A smaller person might not have made it.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • That's right Pakazak. A few years back they basically solved cancer anyway. The overall solution is to restrict blood supply getting to cancerous cells. So whether it's a tumeric or a curry or a mustard they are all probably causing the cells to draw up, thereby making it tougher for blood to get entry into cancer cells.

      Beats heck out of using a rope too.

      I beat a major cancer in 2006 with four products. Oxy-Nectar, hyaluronic acid, A THRU Z multivitamin-min and Ibuprofen. The Ibuprofen relaxes cell walls, allowing the powerful antioxidants and other ingredients to be gulped down by the energy starved cancer cell..... that proceeds to gluttony themselves silly on the nutrition, giving themselves a death by internal acid burn.

      I made a national news release a year later => www.prleap.com/pr/91843 in short, I discovered a combination punch "Home Chemo" the hospitals and entire health industry don't exactly want anyone to know about. I once had pre-cancerous nasal polyps before that in 2004 and I watched them shrivel up just from the Oxy-Nectar.

      The list of known cancer-fighting foods included in Oxy-Nectar is awesome => lutein, shitake mushrooms, garlic, so if I had at the time also added the tumeric, curcumin and mustard that I found out about later I would say most people should never have cancer unless they just plain live in the Love Canal.

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Yep, curcumin and also mustard, regular hotdog mustard. But something else is also at work here. The human body needs to be chemically challenged. These foods keep our cells exercised and ready for cancers when they come ("on their toes"). Conversely, people who choose the soft easy path run into many serious problems.

      When we always have air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter we suffer a degradation of bodily systems and the lymph system too. Our range of existence begins narrowing down even much more than we already live in, so that the simplest of flu germs comes along and causes a major problem it never should pose.

    • 2 years ago
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