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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,â€

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,â€

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.â€

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.â€[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 ealth 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 International Medical Veritas Association

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