Harris Meyer, DC
Body Focus Health Center
415-956-3226
I don't know of any doctor who loves the anti-vampire herb more than I do. I've told you all for years now about it's potent ability to fight colds and flu. The key is EARLY administration. You will have the best result if you use it immediately upon noticing symptoms or better yet, when you know or think you've been exposed.
We have seen in the research literature its benefit on cholesterol and cardiac health for many years as well. Now as you will see in the article below, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have discovered its ability to actually kill cancer cells! As they note, much research is needed to exploit garlic's power in this situation but what great news!
One last thing before I let you read the short article picked up from Life Extension. The benefits from garlic are mostly ONLY FROM FRESHLY CRUSHED cloves. The chemical you need is called allicin and it completely breaks down in a matter of minutes once exposed to air. So crush and eat! I'm planning to make a video demonstrating just this so search me on You Tube soon and you should find it.
April 27, 2005
Garlic ingredient delivers death to cancer cells The February 2005 issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (http://mct.aacrjournals.org/) published the discovery of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel of a way to deliver allicin, a compound present in freshly crushed garlic, to cancer cells for their destruction. Allicin is formed by a reaction between the enzyme alliinase and alliin. The compound readily penetrates biological membranes to kill cancer cells, but the molecules are potent for only a short period of time, prompting the team to devise system for long term delivery.
The research team, led by Professor David Mirelman, attached alliinase to an antibody used in cancer treatment known as Rituximab, which marks tumors for destruction by the body's own immune system. When injected into mice implanted with human lymphoma cells, the drug bound itself to the target cancer cells. The researchers then injected alliin, which combined with the alliinase to form allicin on the cancerous cells' surface, resulting in the programmed cell death of almost all of the lymphoma cells within three days. A control group of mice who received Rituximab and alliinase alone experienced only a slight amount of cancer cell destruction.
Dr Mirelman calls the method "weaponizing" an antibody, because the antibody drug docks on the targeted cell and continuously reacts with the alliin molecules which are periodically injected. This allows a steady supply of allicin to reach the cancer cells and destroy them.
Dr Mirelman stated, "The medicinal value of garlic is no longer an ancient Chinese secret. Years of scientific research led to the identification and understanding of allicin's mode of activity and we are currently studying ways to target and deliver its toxic punch."
—D Dye
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