Comment There already exists a cancer cure... (Score 1) 87
The thing that is very frustrating to me about all of these efforts to find a cure for cancer is that they fixate on drugs that can be patented and sold at high prices, or replicating exotic substances from exotic locations. A cure for cancer that is inexpensive and very effective is already known: Curcumin.
Curcumin is the active component of turmeric, the spice that gives curry and old-fashioned mustards that yellow color. And turmeric is not only rather cheap, but the process for extracting and concentrating curcumin has been around for a long time, and cannot be patented and monopolized.
Curcumin induces apoptosis in cancerous cells without harming the healthy cells around them. (Not that Wikipedia is a medical authority, but apparently, this observation has been noted there as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcumin ) This is something many chemotherapy drugs can't even claim. The mother of a friend of mine was slowly dying from both a metastasized cancer and the chemotherapy she was receiving, which, in theory, was supposed to kill the cancer before it killed her. She then gave up on chemotherapy, and went onto curcumin therapy, taking large doses of concentrated curcumin with piperine (the spice from pepper) to boost absorption (since curcumin doesn't absorb well through the intestines without it). What happened after that was that her health improved, and the cancer was less and less present every time her doctor examined her, and she is still alive today.
One woman's experience with curcumin therapy is described in her cancer blog: Life with Myeloma
Here's her account of going onto curcumin therapy.
Right now, the problem for sponsors of cancer research isn't that we don't have any medicines that kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells; their problem is that the medicine that does this won't make them the kind of money they want. Our problem is that without corporate sponsorship, nobody knows about the cures.
The other pair of cancer cures is the combination of inositol hexaphosphate (usually abbreviated as IP6) taken along with inositol; both of these substances are naturally produced by our cells, and cannot be patented. However, the margins of this comment are too small for me to expound on this amazing cure. Google it. ^_~
Curcumin is the active component of turmeric, the spice that gives curry and old-fashioned mustards that yellow color. And turmeric is not only rather cheap, but the process for extracting and concentrating curcumin has been around for a long time, and cannot be patented and monopolized.
Curcumin induces apoptosis in cancerous cells without harming the healthy cells around them. (Not that Wikipedia is a medical authority, but apparently, this observation has been noted there as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcumin ) This is something many chemotherapy drugs can't even claim. The mother of a friend of mine was slowly dying from both a metastasized cancer and the chemotherapy she was receiving, which, in theory, was supposed to kill the cancer before it killed her. She then gave up on chemotherapy, and went onto curcumin therapy, taking large doses of concentrated curcumin with piperine (the spice from pepper) to boost absorption (since curcumin doesn't absorb well through the intestines without it). What happened after that was that her health improved, and the cancer was less and less present every time her doctor examined her, and she is still alive today.
One woman's experience with curcumin therapy is described in her cancer blog: Life with Myeloma
Here's her account of going onto curcumin therapy.
Right now, the problem for sponsors of cancer research isn't that we don't have any medicines that kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells; their problem is that the medicine that does this won't make them the kind of money they want. Our problem is that without corporate sponsorship, nobody knows about the cures.
The other pair of cancer cures is the combination of inositol hexaphosphate (usually abbreviated as IP6) taken along with inositol; both of these substances are naturally produced by our cells, and cannot be patented. However, the margins of this comment are too small for me to expound on this amazing cure. Google it. ^_~
