Nutralize Carcinogenic Pesticides and Herbicides

September 27, 2009

from Newsmax.com Healthy Alerts

by Russell Blaylock, M.D.

When I was a resident in neurosurgery, I can remember laughing at my friend's wife because she washed all her vegetables religiously. I thought she was going overboard — a real health nut. Only now do I see just how smart she was.

Crops in this country — on about 900,000 farms and millions of acres of land — are sprayed with 1.2 billion pounds of pesticide a year. About 70 percent of livestock also are doused regularly with poisons, and that may play a major role in the proliferation of Creutzfeld-Jacob (mad cow) disease.

The Environmental Protection Agency has banned many pesticides, such as aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, and heptachlor, that have been proved harmful to humans. The problem is that a significant amount of our food is grown in other countries, where the use of these chemicals still is legal. For a discussion on how poisons in your food can make you sick, Go Here for my special report "How to Avoid Poisonous Foods."

It has been determined that people living in the industrialized world have as many as 75 pesticide and herbicide residues stored in their fat cells. Most of these compounds are fat-soluble and therefore are trapped in the body for an entire lifetime. A recent study uncovered a strong correlation between pesticide exposure in young men and the early development of aggressive prostate cancer. Those exposed to pesticides lived only half as long as those not exposed.

Another study found that postmenopausal women exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (an organochlorine pesticide commonly referred to as PCBs) had a higher risk of developing breast cancer — if they inherited a defect in a special detoxification enzyme. Pesticides also can give the human papillomavirus more power to induce breast cancer.

This shows how a number of cancer-causing chemicals and factors can act together to produce cancer. Sometimes they combine, in a process called synergism, to become infinitely more powerful than they would be alone. In our everyday lives, we are exposed to a number of carcinogenic agents — some weak, some strong. Many act synergistically, enabling two weak carcinogens to have a very strong cancer-causing effect. For information, read my report "Prevent Cancer Before It's Too Late." Go Here

The EPA does not test for synergistic or additive cancer-causing effects. The watchdog agency tests only individual compounds. This puts us all at risk. But many compounds found in fruits and vegetables can neutralize the cancer-causing effects of pesticides and herbicides. These include:

Curcumin, found in the spice turmeric.

Epigallocatechin gallate, a component of green tea

Quercetin, a flavonoid found in cranberries, apples, onions, and teas

DHA, a component of omega-3 fats (found in fish oils)

Glucosinolate, found in Brussels sprouts, kale, and broccoli

These food products neutralize the cancerous effects of pesticides and herbicides by stimulating the body's detoxification systems, both in the liver and in all cells.

Another way to avert danger is by removing the pesticide and herbicide residues from your fruits and vegetables. Like my friend's wife, you should cleanse all produce carefully in a vegetable wash.

Some produce (peppers, squash, cucumbers, etc.) is coated with a wax that pesticides have permeated, so it must be scrubbed with a vegetable brush. I also would avoid the skin on apples, as poisons penetrate several millimeters into the peel. I have never seen a cancer prevention study in which washed vegetables were used, so you can see how most studies are misleading. For ways to protect your family against cancer, Go Here.

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