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Medical News - IMVA - Magnesium,Selenium and Zinc in Cancer Prevention

- March 10, 2006

 

 

Magnesium, Selenium and Zinc

in Cancer Prevention

International Medical Veritas Association

 

 

 

 

 

Since ending one's life with cancer is not pleasant

it behooves all of us to be concerned with its prevention.

 

 

 

It certainly is time to get serious about cancer prevention, with the

disease predicted to surge in the next 15 years. The Association for

International Cancer Research (AICR) said that if current trends continue, the

number of people developing cancer was set to rise at an " alarming " rate. The

World Health Organization predicts that cases of cancer will increase by up to

50% worldwide by 2020.

 

 

 

The weight of evidence based on the findings of wildlife biologists,

toxicologists, and epidemiologists clearly indicates that the world's

populations are being exposed to a host of chemical contaminants that have

recently passed over an invisible barrier and is now more dangerous and

threatening than any combination of viruses. Chronic disease is the number one

killer in the United States, accounting for about four out of five deaths in

America each year. According to the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)

about 100 million Americans, more than one-third of the population, suffer from

some form of chronic disease like asthma, diabetes, cancer, heart and kidney

disease or arthritis.

 

 

 

Cancer is the second leading cause of death, exceeded only by heart

disease. Among children ages 1 to 14, cancer is now the leading cause of death

by disease. At current rates, invasive cancer will be diagnosed in half of all

men and in one in three women in their lifetime. More than 1.3 million new cases

of invasive cancer will be diagnosed in 2006 meaning that approximately 1,500

Americans will die of the disease everyday. " Whether it is cancer or autism that

is affecting our families and showing up in our examination rooms, the growing

rates of chronic disease compel us to search for clues and answers to determine

the true causes of these increasingly prevalent illnesses, " says the PSR.

 

 

 

Almost 100 percent of these people

are suffering from chemical poisoning.

 

 

 

" With rates of cancer incidence rising, mortality rates not falling,

and an ever increasing armamentarium of high-tech scanners, radiotherapy

equipment, and chemotherapeutic drugs being directed in what sometimes appears

as a losing battle, there is no more emotive nor scientifically charged issue

than cancer, " writes Dr. Sandra Goodman. Along with the rest of the allopathic

medical establishment the last thing oncologists want to admit is that the

population is suffering from poisoning from hundreds of carcogenic compounds and

that this, in large part, is a great part of what is driving the escalating

epidemic in cancer.

 

 

 

In March of 2004, the federal government issued an unusually detailed

alert to the nation's 5.5 million health care workers: The powerful drugs used

in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses,

pharmacists and others who handle them. Four years in the making, the alert was

issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

(NIOSH).Chemotherapy - the use of potent drugs to kill cancerous cells - is more

than 60 years old. The first such drugs were nitrogen mustards, originally

developed as chemical warfare agents. Modern chemotherapy drugs are so strong

that they can cause secondary cancers in patients; to a healthy person, they're

poison. Most health care workers are clueless about how toxic these agents

really are. Oncologists use treatments that cause cancer to treat cancer when

they use radiation and chemotherapy treatments. (See upcoming IMVA essay for

more information)

 

 

 

A Harvard thesis has shown a connection between water fluoridation

 

and a 700% increase in osteosarcoma in young men if they are

 

exposed to fluoridated water during their 6th to 8th years.

Dr. Paul Connett

The prevailing medical paradigm surrounding cancer today is in total

disavowal of nutrition as crucial in cancer prevention and treatment and this

clearly puts the cancer industry and health officials in opposition to many

distinguished research scientists. Though the data speaks for itself, in

thousands of studies, the majority of cancer specialists are patronizing to

patients who wish to use nutritional methods in their cancer treatment protocol.

Oncologist's vociferous and over-zealous protestations of the inherent

worthlessness and supposed quackery of nutrition in cancer treatment is

embarrassing to the institution of medicine. It exposes many of these doctors as

little more than human leaches, extracting money and profits on the backs of

cancer patients.[ii]

Most main stream physicians are unaware of the extensive depth of

evidence about nutrients preventing and alleviating many deadly diseases. This

is a disgrace since we can save countless lives and reduce needless suffering if

we apply the power of minerals and vitamins in the prevention and treatment of

cancer.

According to the National Foundation for Cancer Research the value of

minerals as part of an anticancer diet is frequently overlooked. However,

minerals can play a vital role in fighting cancer. A prime example is the

mineral selenium, which has powerful antioxidant properties. Selenium (Se) is an

essential micronutrient with important biological and biochemical functions in

organisms because of its unique antioxidant properties and its ability to

regulate thyroid gland metabolism. It is well known that Se is an antagonist

that moderates the toxic effects of many heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium,

mercury, and lead in organisms.

Data suggests that a diet rich in selenium protects against cancers

of the stomach, breast, esophagus, lung, prostate, colon, and rectum. According

to Dr. Harold Foster death rates in the USA for cancer are lower when blood

selenium levels are high. One important study found that high blood levels of

selenium is associated with a four- to fivefold decrease in the risk of prostate

cancer. Scientists at Stanford University studied 52 men who had prostate cancer

and compared them to 96 men who didn't.[iii] One surprising finding was that

blood levels of selenium generally decreased with age. It is well known that the

risk of prostate cancer increases dramatically as one ages.

Those who have studied geographical differences have seen that in

low-selenium regions, higher death rates occurred from malignant lymphomas and

cancers of the tongue, esophagus, stomach, colon, rectum, liver, pancreas,

larynx, lung, kidneys and bladder. In addition, cancer patients with low

selenium levels tend to have a wider spread of the disease, more recurrences and

die sooner.[iv]

In China, where the selenium levels in the soils varies much more

dramatically than in the United States and the population is less mobile, an

ecological study in 1985 showed dramatic results in linking cancer with selenium

deficiencies. Dr. Shu-Yu Yu measured the selenium content of blood stored in

blood banks in 30 different regions in China, and classified the regions as high

selenium, medium selenium, and low selenium. They then compared death rates from

cancer to the selenium rates and found there was an exact correlation. In the

low selenium classification, three times as many people died from cancer as in

the high selenium classification.

The West African country of Senegal is dominated by high

concentrations of selenium in the soil and thus in their foods, and as expected,

we find that Senegalese males had the world's lowest rates for cancer of the

trachea, bronchus and lung; stomach and colon; the fourth lowest for prostate

cancer and sixth lowest for esophageal cancer. Senegalese women had the lowest

incidence of cancers of the trachea, bronchus, lung, esophagus, stomach and

colon and second lowest for breast cancer and fifth lowest for cancer of the

uterus.

There is no doubt that selenium is essential for human health and

that these elements may protect against cancer and other diseases. For this

reason people in regions which are naturally rich in selenium tend to live

longer. Selenium, especially when used in conjunction with vitamin C, vitamin E

and beta-carotene, works to block chemical reactions that create free radicals

in the body (which can damage DNA and cause degenerative change in cells,

leading to cancer). Selenium also binds strongly with mercury protecting us from

its damaging effects.

Selenium helps stop damaged DNA molecules from reproducing, meaning

it acts to prevent tumors from developing. " It contributes towards the death of

cancerous and pre-cancer cells. Their death appears to occur before they

replicate, thus helping stop cancer before it gets started, " says Dr. James

Howenstine in A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work.

A 1996 study by Dr. Larry Clark of the University of Arizona showed

just how effective selenium can be in protecting against cancer. In the study of

1,300 older people, the occurrence of cancer among those who took 200 micrograms

of selenium daily for about seven years was reduced by 42 percent compared to

those given a placebo. Cancer deaths for those taking the selenium were cut

almost in half, according to the study that was published in the Journal of the

American Medical Association on December 25, 1996. In addition, the people who

had taken selenium had 63 percent fewer prostate cancers, 58 percent fewer

colorectal cancers, 46 percent fewer lung cancers and overall 37% fewer cancers.

Selenium was found to reduce the risk of lung cancer to a greater degree than

stopping smoking.[v]

Magnesium

It is generally accepted that a higher magnesium intake

in the drinking water is associated with reduced cancer

incidence and reduced frequency of cardiac infarction.

Information is scarce about the relationship between cancer and

magnesium but researchers from the School of Public Health at the University of

Minnesota have just concluded that diets rich in magnesium reduced the

occurrence of colon cancer.[vi] A previous study from Sweden[vii] reported that

women with the highest magnesium intake had a 40 per cent lower risk of

developing the cancer than those with the lowest intake of the mineral.

Preliminary data also suggests a relationship between

low intake of magnesium and kidney cancer.

Several studies have shown an increased cancer rate in regions with

low magnesium levels in soil and drinking water as well. In Egypt the cancer

rate was only about 10% of that in Europe and America. In the rural fellah it

was practically non-existent. The main difference was an extremely high

magnesium intake of 2.5 to 3 g in these cancer-free populations, ten times more

than in most western countries.[viii]

Dr Seeger and Dr Budwig in Germany have shown that cancer is mainly

the result of a faulty energy metabolism in the powerhouses of the cells, the

mitochondria. ATP and most of the enzymes involved in the production of energy

require magnesium. A healthy cell has high magnesium and low calcium levels. The

problem that comes with low magnesium (Mg) levels is the calcium builds up

inside the cells while energy production decreases as the mitochondria gradually

calcify.

" Mg2+ is critical for all of the energetics of the cells because it

is absolutely required that Mg2+ be bound (chelated) by ATP (adenosine

triphosphate), the central high energy compound of the body. ATP without Mg2+

bound cannot create the energy normally used by specific enzymes of the body to

make protein, DNA, RNA, transport sodium or potassium or calcium in and out of

cells, nor to phosphorylate proteins in response to hormone signals, etc. In

fact, ATP without enough Mg2+ is non-functional and leads to cell death. Bound

Mg2+ holds the triphosphate in the correct stereochemical position so that it

can interact with ATP using enzymes and the Mg2+ also polarizes the phosphate

backbone so that the 'backside of the phosphorous' is more positive and

susceptible to attack by nucleophilic agents such as hydroxide ion or other

negatively charged compounds. Bottom line, Mg2+ at critical concentrations is

essential to life, " says Dr. Boyd Haley who asserts strongly that, " All

detoxification mechanisms have as the bases of the energy required to remove a

toxicant the need for Mg-ATP to drive the process. There is nothing done in the

body that does not use energy and without Mg2+ this energy can neither be made

nor used. " Detoxification of carcinogenic chemical poisons is essential for

people want to avoid the ravages of cancer. The importance of magnesium in

cancer prevention should not be underestimated.

The School of Public Health at the Kaohsiung Medical College in,

Taiwan, found that magnesium also exerts a protective effect

against gastric cancer, but only for the group with the highest

levels.[ix]

Among other effects, magnesium improves the internal production of

defensive substances, such as antibodies and considerably improves the

operational activity of white, granulozytic blood cells (shown by Delbet with

magnesium chloride), and contributes to many other functions that insure the

integrity of cellular metabolism.

A Dr. Hans A. Nieper, back in 1961, introduced cardiac therapy based

on magnesium aspartate. He was surprised to observe that hardly any new cancer

occurrences appear in the group of patients so treated. The rate of new

cancerous diseases with long-term magnesium therapy was reported to be less than

20% of the frequency otherwise expected. In an uncontrolled trial, researchers

in the UK found that intravenous magnesium relieves neuropathy pain in patients

with cancer.[x] Magnesium acts as a noncompetitive antagonist of the

N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, which has been implicated in the transmission of

pain, according to Dr. Vincent Crosby and colleagues at Nottingham City

Hospital.

It is known that carcinogenesis induces magnesium distribution

disturbances, which cause magnesium mobilization through blood cells and

magnesium depletion in non-neoplastic tissues. Magnesium deficiency seems to be

carcinogenic, and in cases of solid tumors, high levels of magnesium inhibits

carcinogenesis.[xi] Both carcinogenesis and magnesium deficiency increase the

plasma membrane permeability and fluidity.

Zinc

No modern chemotherapy includes zinc adjuvant even

though zinc serum levels are usually low in leukemic children.

Epidemiologic studies suggest that zinc deficiency may be associated

with increased risk of cancer.[xii] Zinc supplementation is associated with

decreased oxidative stress and improved immune function, which may be among the

possible mechanisms for its cancer preventive activity.

Zinc is essential for health. It's needed for the enzymes that

regulate cell division, growth, wound healing, and proper functioning of the

immune system. Zinc is an essential co-factor in a variety of cellular processes

including DNA synthesis, behavioral responses, reproduction, bone formation,

growth and wound healing. Zinc is a component of insulin and it plays a major

role in the efficiency of most of the functions of the body. Zinc is necessary

for the free-radical quenching activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), a

powerful antioxidant enzyme which breaks down the free-radical superoxide to

form hydrogen peroxide. Zinc is required for the proper function of

T-lymphocytes. The mineral also plays a role in acuity of taste and smell. And

zinc is required for proper functioning of genetics, immunity, formation of red

blood cells, organ, muscle and bone function, cell membrane stability, cell

growth, division, differentiation and genetics. Importantly, zinc is vital for

the metabolism of Vitamin A.

A paper by Dr. Mei and colleagues at the Anhui Medical University,

Hefei, China, suggests that some aspects of immune function can be enhanced by

treatment with zinc. The authors state that it would be " reasonable to expect

that zinc is instrumental in restoring failing immunocompetence of cancer

patients. Mei studied the influence of zinc and selenium-zinc upon the immune

function (T-cells, granulocytes and NK cells) of cancer patients. The results

showed that immune response was strengthened.[xiii]

Leukemic cells contain much less zinc than normal lymphocytes,

suggesting an error in zinc metabolism, which appears correctable with zinc

treatment. Zinc also is known to have some beneficial interactions with

chemotherapy drugs. In one recent case, upon noting low blood levels of zinc in

a 3-year-old 11.3 kg girl, zinc at the rate of 3.18 mg/kg body weight/day was

administered from the start of chemotherapy through the full 3 years of

maintenance therapy. Dosage was split with 18 mg given at breakfast and 18 mg

zinc with supper. The result was a bone marrow remission from 95+% blast cells

to an observed zero blast cell count in both hips within the first 14 days of

treatment which never relapsed.[xiv]

Dr. Mathais Rath wrote that " 500 years ago, the Roman church was

making billions of Thaler (early dollars) by selling indulgences, an imaginary

" key to heaven " for its believers. Then the fraud scheme collapsed and with it

much of the power of the church. Today, the pharma business uses the same fraud

scheme. It tries to sell the " key to health " to millions of people and takes

away billions of dollars in return for an illusion: the deception that the

pharmaceutical industry is interested in your health. " [xv]

The cancer industry is among the most aggressive areas in the medical

arena and the FDA will swoop in with automatic weapons into doctors' offices if

they step out of line with acknowledged oncology protocols. Medical fascism is

perhaps at its worst in the cancer area with oncologists insisting that

poisoning patients with chemicals and radiation is the only and best way to go.

Minerals are essential for life and health and provide the keys for

the prevention of cancer. Minerals (in the form of cesium chloride)[xvi] also

provide a reasonably safe way to treat advanced stage four cancer without

resorting to the slash and burn tactics of radiation and chemotherapy.

It's a frightening world when it comes to cancer and that fright is

made much worse by the medical authorities who insist their way is the only way.

Not only do they let the ball drop by not informing us about how to avoid

cancer, but if we get it, they will use therapies that are as dangerous to live

healthy cells as they are to the cancer cells. Cesium chloride on the other hand

aggressively kills cancer cells by turning their internal chemistry alkaline.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

Director International Medical Veritas Association

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