Ginger: 10,000x Stronger Than Chemo In Cancer Research Model

[donnay]

Ginger: 10,000x Stronger Than Chemo In Cancer Research Model



By Sayer Ji

A new study reveals ginger contains a pungent compound that could be up to 10,000 times more effective than conventional chemotherapy in targeting the cancer stem cells at the root of cancer malignancy.

A new study published in PLoS reveals a pungent component within ginger known as 6-shogaol is superior to conventional chemotherapy in targeting the root cause of breast cancer malignancy: namely, the breast cancer stem cells.

As we have discussed in greater detail in a previous article titled, “Cancer Stem Cells: The Key To Curing Cancer,” cancer stem cells are at the root of a wide range of cancers, not just breast cancer, and are sometimes referred to as “mother cells” because they are responsible for producing all the different “daughter” cell types that makeup the tumor colony. While cancer stem cells only constitute between .2 and 1% of the cells within any given tumor, they have the seeming “immortal” ability to self renew, are capable of continuous differentiation, are resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic agents, and are tumorigenic, i.e. are capable of “splitting off” to create new tumor colonies. Clearly, the cancer stem cells within a tumor must be destroyed if cancer treatment is to affect a lasting cure.

The new study titled, “6-Shogaol Inhibits Breast Cancer Cells and Stem Cell-Like Spheroids by Modulation of Notch Signaling Pathway and Induction of Autophagic Cell Death,” identified powerful anti-cancer stem cell activity in 6-shogaol, a pungent constituent of ginger produced when the root is either dried or cooked. The study also found that the cancer-destroying effects occurred at concentrations that were non-toxic to non-cancerous cells – a crucial difference from conventional cancer treatments that do not exhibit this kind of selective cytotoxicity and therefore can do great harm to the patient.

The authors of the study further affirm these points:

“Cancer stem cells pose serious obstacle to cancer therapy as they can be responsible for poor prognosis and tumour relapse. To add into the misery, very few chemotherapeutic compounds show promise to kill these cells. Several researchers have shown that cancer stem cells are resistant to paclitaxel, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, and platinum drugs [8, 16]. CSCs are thus an almost unreachable population in tumours for chemotherapy. Therefore any compound, that shows promise towards cancer stem cells, is a highly desirable step towards cancer treatment and should be followed up for further development.”

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[Ronin Truth]

That can't be true, if for no other reason than that ginger doesn't cost nearly enough.

[Zippyjuan]

Eating ginger won't help you. Levels of 6-Shogao are extremely low in fresh ginger. You would need pounds of the stuff. It has only 0.4 mg per gram (400 parts per million). https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ncer_potential

Also true that lots of things can kill cancer cells in a petri dish but not necessarily in a living person. Study found "reduced growth" but not killing of the cancer cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010581/

[donnay]

Eating ginger won't help you. Levels of 6-Shogao are extremely low in fresh ginger. You would need pounds of the stuff. It has only 0.4 mg per gram (400 parts per million). https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ncer_potential

Also true that lots of things can kill cancer cells in a petri dish but not necessarily in a living person. Study found "reduced growth" but not killing of the cancer cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010581/

The problem is we are the petri dishes. I'd rather use natural herbs then use the synthetic concoctions or pure poison that the medical mafia provide.

[Zippyjuan]

The problem is we are the petri dishes. I'd rather use natural herbs then use the synthetic concoctions or pure poison that the medical mafia provide.

6-Shogao IS a chemical. It has to be chemically extracted and synthesized.

How about the simple banana? What would an ingredient label for it look like if it had the same requirements as other foods for labeling? Just look at all those "chemicals" listed!

[donnay]

6-Shogao IS a chemical. It has to be chemically extracted and synthesized.

How about the simple banana? What would an ingredient label for it look like if it had the same requirements as other foods for labeling? Just look at all those "chemicals" listed!

Banana is not a natural herb.

Ginger dried rhizones can be ground into a powder an encapsulated to take internally.

The major pungent principles of ginger are gingerols and shogaols (dehydrated form of gingerols). The conversion of gingerols to shogaols is favored at higher temperature [7], and shogaols show stronger activity than gingerols [13]. As Japanese “Shoga” contains lower amount shogaol than Chinese one, heat processing is used for the production of herbal medicines derived from ginger.

[Zippyjuan]

You can't do that with bananas? http://www.iherb.com/Nutri-Fruit-Ban...oz-142-g/42000

[Zippyjuan]

Some of the chemicals in ginger root: http://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=ijbc.2007.38.46





Aspartate? Phenylalanine? Aren't those the ingredients of Aspartame- the cancer causing artificial sweetener? http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-li...e/faq-20058361

Glutamate? like MSG- monosodium glutamate?

(actually they are amino acids- protein building blocks)

[donnay]

You can't do that with bananas? http://www.iherb.com/Nutri-Fruit-Ban...oz-142-g/42000

Sure you can dehydrate the banana and then grind it to a powder.

[CPUd]

The problem is we are the petri dishes. I'd rather use natural herbs then use the synthetic concoctions or pure poison that the medical mafia provide.

Massive oversimplification here. The human body at the cellular level is arguably as complex an ecosystem as the entire planet. A petri dish begins as a sterile environment, then you introduce 1 or more substances into it in a controlled fashion. That is sort of the point- it is used to determine a very specific activity, like whether or not an organism causes alpha or beta hemolysis (or neither) when grown in blood agar. That is simply 1 piece of information we might be able to use in a greater context.

[RJB]

So that's how you got full of bananas.

You can't do that with bananas? http://www.iherb.com/Nutri-Fruit-Ban...oz-142-g/42000

[Ronin Truth]

Irrelevant factoid: 'Ginger' was the project name for the Segway.

[donnay]

Irrelevant factoid: 'Ginger' was the project name for the Segway.

Hmm...also was the movie star from Gilligan's Island.

[GunnyFreedom]

Ginger: 10,000x Stronger Than Chemo In Cancer Research Model



By Sayer Ji

A new study reveals ginger contains a pungent compound that could be up to 10,000 times more effective than conventional chemotherapy in targeting the cancer stem cells at the root of cancer malignancy.

A new study published in PLoS reveals a pungent component within ginger known as 6-shogaol is superior to conventional chemotherapy in targeting the root cause of breast cancer malignancy: namely, the breast cancer stem cells.

As we have discussed in greater detail in a previous article titled, “Cancer Stem Cells: The Key To Curing Cancer,” cancer stem cells are at the root of a wide range of cancers, not just breast cancer, and are sometimes referred to as “mother cells” because they are responsible for producing all the different “daughter” cell types that makeup the tumor colony. While cancer stem cells only constitute between .2 and 1% of the cells within any given tumor, they have the seeming “immortal” ability to self renew, are capable of continuous differentiation, are resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic agents, and are tumorigenic, i.e. are capable of “splitting off” to create new tumor colonies. Clearly, the cancer stem cells within a tumor must be destroyed if cancer treatment is to affect a lasting cure.

The new study titled, “6-Shogaol Inhibits Breast Cancer Cells and Stem Cell-Like Spheroids by Modulation of Notch Signaling Pathway and Induction of Autophagic Cell Death,” identified powerful anti-cancer stem cell activity in 6-shogaol, a pungent constituent of ginger produced when the root is either dried or cooked. The study also found that the cancer-destroying effects occurred at concentrations that were non-toxic to non-cancerous cells – a crucial difference from conventional cancer treatments that do not exhibit this kind of selective cytotoxicity and therefore can do great harm to the patient.

The authors of the study further affirm these points:

“Cancer stem cells pose serious obstacle to cancer therapy as they can be responsible for poor prognosis and tumour relapse. To add into the misery, very few chemotherapeutic compounds show promise to kill these cells. Several researchers have shown that cancer stem cells are resistant to paclitaxel, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, and platinum drugs [8, 16]. CSCs are thus an almost unreachable population in tumours for chemotherapy. Therefore any compound, that shows promise towards cancer stem cells, is a highly desirable step towards cancer treatment and should be followed up for further development.”

Read more: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/ging...ing-email-list

I am so in...

[pcosmar]

Eating ginger won't help you. Levels of 6-Shogao are extremely low in fresh ginger. You would need pounds of the stuff. It has only 0.4 mg per gram (400 parts per million).

More Ginger Cookies.
More Ginger Beer.

I don't think I would have any trouble increasing my ginger intake.

and I ain't even concerned with Cancer.

[libertyjam]

Hmm...also was the movie star from Gilligan's Island.

The beautiful Tina Louise. Married to radio announcer Les Crane, who I am going to conjecture was at least partly whom the character Les Nessman, at least in name, was caricatured on the show WKRP in Cincinnati.

[donnay]

More Ginger Cookies.
More Ginger Beer.

I don't think I would have any trouble increasing my ginger intake.

and I ain't even concerned with Cancer.

Moscow Mule, has ginger beer. Mmmmmm