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Should the active ingredient in aspirin be considered an essential vitamin? Note: around minute 3:40, Dr. Greger says "What happened to the other 799?" He meant "792." Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ If you missed the first two videos in this series, I discuss the pros and cons in Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-take-aspirin-to-prevent-heart-disease) and Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-take-aspirin-to-prevent-cancer). The drug-like anti-inflammatory power of certain plant foods may make them a risky proposition during pregnancy. See Caution: Anti-inflammatory Foods in the Third Trimester (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/caution-anti-inflammatory-foods-in-the-third-trimester/). Herbs and spices don’t just have some of the most anti-inflammatory properties, but also the most antioxidant power. See Antioxidants in a Pinch (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidants-in-a-pinch/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plants-with-aspirin-aspirations and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plants-with-aspirin-aspirations. You’ll also find a transcript of the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image Credit: Food & Function https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Cancer is big business, no doubt about it. But did you know that the treatment your doctor orders could actually increase the likelihood that you will become a repeat customer? Conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation actually promote cancer. Yes, you read that correctly... they promote cancer! Cancer is increasingly becoming a survivable disease, yet the treatments cause considerable collateral damage – including initiating new, second cancers. Second cancers are cancers unrelated to the original cancer, which can be triggered by the very same imbalances or cancer-causing agents that led to the first cancer. In fact, doctors sometimes refer to

Point 4 for Cancer Success - Dr Conners explains that an understanding of circulating tumor cells is essential for every cancer patient

Ever since chemotherapy and radiation became the 'standard of care,' oncology has been in the Dark Ages. Could the scientific community finally be waking up to the incomparable power of foods to cure what conventional treatment only makes worse?

A Chinese herbal regimen called TSY-1 (Tianshengyuan-1) TSY-1 increased Telomerase activity in normal blood cells but decreased it in cancer cells, research has demonstrated. Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for the production of telomeres, which play an important role in the regulation of normal cell division. These results indicate that Telomerase-based treatments may be of significance in treatments for both blood cell deficiency and cancer.

Vitamin A may have a role to play in tackling the commonest form of pancreatic cancer, scientists have discovered. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common type of malignancy of the pancreas, is extremely aggressive and very difficult to treat. Many scientists are currently investigating the genetic mutations and biochemical signalling pathways that enable cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body.

The specific combination of the drugs dasatinib and demcizumab impairs the growth of KRAS-driven lung tumors, the most aggressive sub-type and with the lowest survival rates. The research was conducted on mouse models and samples of human tumors. The experts are confident they can soon start clinical trials which will make it possible to transfer the discoveries to cancer patients.

A combination of cannabis oil and chemotherapy healed this man’s “incurable inoperable” lung cancer.

A Chinese herbal regimen called TSY-1 (Tianshengyuan-1) TSY-1 increased Telomerase activity in normal blood cells but decreased it in cancer cells, research has demonstrated. Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for the production of telomeres, which play an important role in the regulation of normal cell division. These results indicate that Telomerase-based treatments may be of significance in treatments for both blood cell deficiency and cancer.

PRESS RELEASE A team of researchers from the Dr. Rath Research Institute in California has developed a cancer vaccine that is effective in reducing tumor growth. A peptide-based vaccine, it targets sp...

By age 60, it is believed that 80% of men have some level of prostate hypertrophy. This article goes into 12 ways to improve your prostate.

Chris Wark talks about his new book Chris Beat Cancer with Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison on Home & Family on the Hallmark Channel.

PAD4 has been observed in cancers but its role was unclear. An Oxford University team have found that PAD4 citrullinates protein E2F-1, which causes it to form a protein complex with BRD4 that drives expression of inflammatory genes.

A new study has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.

Sodium bicarbonate is an excellent agent for a natural alkaline approach in the treatment for all sickness and disease, including cancer.  S...

Cimetidine has Anti-Cancer Activity by Reversing Tumor Immunity

For years the medical community has side stepped the issue of sugar and cancer. Look at the menu of any hospital today and you'll see the problem. Now, a new study shows that sugar not only feeds cancer, but can cause it

Researchers have identified a striking signature in tumor DNA that occurs in five different types of cancer. The specific signature results from a chemical modification of DNA called methylation, which can control the expression of genes like a dimmer on a light switch. Based on this advance, the researchers hope to spur development of a blood test that can be used to diagnose a variety of cancers at early stages.

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The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers have packaged it in containers derived from a patient's own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed by the body's own defenses and bringing the entire payload to the tumor.

Fiber isn’t the only thing our good gut bacteria can eat; starch can also act as a prebiotic. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ This is a follow-up to my video Is the Fiber Theory Wrong?(http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-the-fiber-theory-wrong) What is this butyrate stuff of which I speak? See: • Bowel Wars: Hydrogen Sulfide vs. Butyrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowel-wars-hydrogen-sulfide-vs-butyrate/) • Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden) • Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-ulcerative-colitis-with-diet) For videos on optimizing your gut flora, see: • Microbiome: The Inside Story (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-the-inside-story) • What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype?http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype • How to Change Your Enterotype (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-change-your-enterotype/) More on preventing colon cancer in: • Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/starving-cancer-with-methionine-restriction/) • Stool pH and Colon Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-ph-and-colon-cancer/) • Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/solving-a-colon-cancer-mystery/) If you’re eating healthy do you need a colonoscopy? Find out in Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-get-colonoscopies-starting-at-age-50). When regular starches are cooked and then cooled, some of the starch recrystallizes into resistant starch. For this reason, pasta salad can be healthier than hot pasta and potato salad healthier than a baked potato. Find out more in my next video Getting Starch to Take the Path of Most Resistance (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Getting-starch-to-take-the-path-of-most-resistance). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/resistant-starch-and-colon-cancer/ and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/resistant-starch-and-colon-cancer/. You’ll also find a transcript of the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image Credit: Ed Uthman via flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org #coloncancer #hownottodie #drgreger

Proceedings: AACR 107th Annual Meeting 2016; April 16-20, 2016; New Orleans, LA Resistance to chemotherapy is a significant impediment to the treatment of breast cancer. More than 30% of breast cancer patients present with intrinsic resistance to chemotherapy; almost all who initially respond will develop acquired resistance. Resistant tumors frequently exhibit constitutive activation of numerous survival signaling pathways, including ERK, AKT, NF-kB, and STAT3. We have reported that the circadian hormone melatonin inhibits the growth of both ERá+/ERá- breast cancers and, as well as the daytime induced phospho-activation of ERK1/2, AKT and NF-kB in breast tumor xenografts. We also demonstrated that dim light at night (dLAN), by decreasing nocturnal melatonin, resulted in constitutive phospho-activation of ERK1/2, CREB, NF-kB, and STAT3, promoting resistance to tamoxifen and doxorubicin therapy. Here we tested the hypothesis that dLAN, via phospho-activation of ERK1/2 and STAT3, promotes resistance to paclitaxel (Pax). Female nude rats with “tissue-isolated” MCF-7 breast cancer xenografts were housed in photoperiodic conditions of either LD 12:12, 12:12dLAN (0.2 lux), or 12:12dLAN supplemented with nighttime melatonin (0.05 õg/ml) in the drinking water, with lights on at 0600 hrs and off at 1800 hrs. When estimated tumor weights reached 2.5 g, animals were treated daily with either diluent or Pax i.p. (4õã/kg) 2 h prior to onset of dLAN or dLAN with nighttime melatonin supplementation. Blood samples collected during the mid-dark phase (2400 hrs) showed elevated nocturnal melatonin in the LD 12:12 group, but significantly suppressed melatonin in the dLAN group. Tumor xenografts from rats housed in dLAN showed a 3-fold decrease in latency-to-onset and a 2.8-fold increased growth rates vs. those from rats receiving melatonin supplementation. Tumor cAMP levels, linoleic acid, and tumor metabolism (Warburg effect) were significantly elevated in dLAN tumors. Numerous signaling pathways including ERK1/2, RSK2, and STAT3, were phospho-activated and others including AKT and HER2/3 were elevated at 2400 hrs by dLAN but repressed in dLAN melatonin supplemented tumors. Tumors from dLAN rats showed intrinsic resistance to Pax, whereas those in LD 12:12 or dLAN and supplemented with nighttime melatonin rapidly regressed. These findings show that temporally coordinated and integrated metabolic and signal transduction mechanisms, particularly the STAT3 pathway, underlying human breast cancer growth, can be activated by the host's exposure to LAN with profound effects culminating in rapid tumor progression and the development of resistance to chemotherapy. Citation Format: Steven M. Hill, Shulin Xiang, Robert T. Dauchy, Lulu mao, Lin Yuan, Adam Hauch, Victoria P. Belancio, Melissa A. Wren-Dail, David Pointer, Peter W. Lundberg, Whitney M. Summers, David E. Blask. Circadian/melatonin disruption by dim light at night drives paclitaxel resistance in breast cancer via activation of stat3. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 874.

The reason eating citrus fruit appears to protect against cancer may be because of DNA repair enzyme boosting powers of a compound concentrated in the peel. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ That’s why my favorite citrus fruit is kumquat, because you can eat the peel and all! For other foods that may keep our DNA intact, see my last video Which Fruits and Vegetables Boost DNA Repair? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-fruits-and-vegetables-boost-DNA-repair) Kiwifruit (Kiwifruit and DNA Repair (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kiwifruit-and-dna-repair/)) and broccoli (DNA Protection from Broccoli (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dna-protection-from-broccoli/)) may also fit the bill. More on citrus in Keeping Your Hands Warm With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/keeping-your-hands-warm-with-citrus/) and Reducing Muscle Fatigue With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-muscle-fatigue-with-citrus/). Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/citrus-peels-cancer-zest-life and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: PublicDomainPictures via Pixabay. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

The black-or-white extremism of the medical monolith needs to be redacted in favor of a more nuanced view of oncogenesis--one where cancer represents a spectrum of deviation from the norm, where carcinogenesis is an adaptive response to a radically divergent environment from the one in which we evolved

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Rigvir Group is a private organization constituted of several companies which have been developing oncolytic virotherapy since 2002. The core elements of the organization strategy are the production of the unique oncolytic virus ECHO-7 virus.