Fish Oil and Cancer Revisted Part 1

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Fish Oil and Cancer Revisted Part 1

 

 

 

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:49:57 -0700

 

 

 

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Hi Elane,

 

If you aren't d to his list, you should be. Lots of good info.

 

Part two to follow.

 

Jan

 

Dr Dave <daaveland--23355012

Jan <Janslama-aaaa3387

Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:16:47 -0400

Fish Oil and Cancer Revisted Part 1

 

 

Dear Jan,

 

Fish Oil and Cancer, Part 1

 

Very shortly I will be releasing specific information about specific

cancers,

including Breast, Prostate Colon Lymphoma And Lung

 

The following is a reprint of an email sent out over 2 months ago to a

list that

has now grown immensely since that time. May of you were not getting my

emails

at

that time so in order to lay the ground work for the next series on

Fish Oil and

Cancer, I am resending it now. You will need it to understand much of

what is

to

come. Doc

 

Hi Doc,

You have said in your emails that your Fish Oil helps prevent cancer

and may

help to treat people with cancer already. I want to believe you, but it

seems

that there are always people out there who want to take advantage of

other

people’s suffering. I get the sense that you’re not one of them but

could your

address the cancer issue more specifically so I can take it to my mom’s

oncologist? Kim G Tallahassee, Fl.

 

 

Dr Dave, Cancer runs in my family. While I definitely feel better on

your

Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil (better sleep less joint aches much more

energy)

will it help me to not get Cancer? Jarred Levan, Portland Oregon

 

I actually have written a lot about Fish Oil and specific cancers such

as

Breast,

Prostate, and Colon but I am going to keep this one a bit more generic

and talk

about cancer in general.

 

In the case of Kim above, her Mom has Breast Cancer that is what is

know as

receptor positive. This means that the cancer cells express estrogen

receptors

on their surface, and the treatment takes that into account.

 

Jarred on the other hand told me that there were lung, colon and

lymphoma (lymph

node) Cancers in his family. Frankly if I had to pick families, I’d

pick

Kim’s!

 

Still fish Oil definitely has many many benefits for Kim’s mom as well

as Kim

herself (remember most cancers have at least some genetic component),

and Jarred

whose genetic cards are stacked against him.

 

There are 3 ways or types of studies that Fish Oil has been evaluated

in.

1) Molecular studies. We call these “Petri Dish†studies. A Petri

dish is a

nutrient rich plate that can support the life and growth of cell

cultures. A

cell culture is a clump of cells that are kept alive for study

purposes. Some

type of chemical or natural compound is dumped into the dish and the

results are

noted. Cancer has an amazing ability to stay alive in “Petri Dishesâ€.

You see

cancer cells don’t ever stop growing until their host (you and I!) dies

usually

as a result of the cancer! Somewhere out there is a lung cancer cell

line that

has been growing in a dish for over 70 years now, long after the woman

it was

taken from is dead and gone!

 

2) Animal studies. Here the cancer cells are usually injected or

actually

grafted (transplanted) into or onto the animal and various treatments

are tried.

 

Usually the animal has some genetic likeness to humans at least in the

system

that is being checked (lung, colon, brain etc).

 

3) Human Studies. NO WE DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE CANCER TO STUDY DRUGS! But

people

who

already have cancer are often enrolled in “protocols†which are

experimental to

evaluate the possibility that a new drug or compound benefits the

treatment of

cancer. Another subset of human studies is the population based study.

Example

take an isolated population say Greenland Inuit’s. The geographic

location and

social isolation of this population makes them genetically more alike

than many

populations. This allows genetics to be factored in or out depending

on what

you

are looking at. Studies of this particular population show a very low

incidence

of Breast, and Prostate Cancer, as well as heart disease. Why? Omega

3 Fatty

Acids (fish oils!) of course.

 

To anyone who does this sort of thing for a living I apologize for

making it

sound so simple. It is very complex and takes a lot of dedication.

Without

this

kind of research which I know I personally could never do ( I’m a

people

person!)

we would not have easy access to all of this great information!

 

In tomorrow’s email I am going to go into the many ways that Fish Oil

can help

nearly every kind of CANCER! So stay tuned! Doc

 

 

The FDA has not evaluated all of these statements. This email is for

educational

purposes only. Always consult your own personal doctor for medical

advice and

follow it even it contradicts what is said in this email.

 

Copyright 2004

 

Remember, do not stop or decrease any drugs you may be taking without

the

expressed permission of your doctor!