Curcumin suppresses HPV oncoproteins and restores the p53 gene
Curcumin has the ability to prevent Human papillomavirus creating cervical cancer cells. This important research finding (1) has the potential to help over 6 million Americans who are infected currently with HPV. The study examined the pathways involved in developing cervical cancer and showed that curcumin inhibited tumorigenic factors such as cancer cell spread while […]
CURCUMIN HELPS TO KNOCK OUT HPV IN CERVICAL AND ORAL CANCERS
Alok Mishra from Emory University in Atlanta has shown that curcumin can suppress the growthand cancer effects of the human papillomavirus (HPV) . In addition to the anti-cancer and antiviral properties, the research has claimed turmeric to be an excellent source of oral health. “Since HPV-related oral cancer cases are on the rise, we tested […]
CURCUMIN WAKES UP TUMOUR SUPRESSING GENE
Cheryl Myers, an American integrative health nurse, author, and expert on natural medicine, is the head of Scientific Affairs and Education for EuroPharma, Inc. She refers to curcumin as the anti-cancer herb, because of its success in stopping cancer formation, replication and spread. Interestingly research shows curcumin increases the activity of certain cancer drugs while protecting normal organs such […]
CURCUMIN INHIBITS METASTASES IN PROSTATE CANCER
A research team from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany has shown that curcumin can inhibit the formation of metastases in prostate cancer tissues and other cancer lines such as breast cancer, as well. This finding is very important for prostate cancer patients. Prostate cancer normally progresses very slowly and as long as it does not metastasis, it can be controlled through […]
CURCUMIN RESEARCH ON LIVER TISSUES
Significant new research published in the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand found that Curcumin is able to repair and even regenerate the liver tissues in diabetic rats. Researchers at the Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok administered curcumin to rats afflicted with diabetes and whose livers demonstrated the characteristic pathology and destruction of tissues and microvasculature. The […]
CURCUMIN WITH CHOKEBERRY HELPS TO KILL BRAIN CANCER CELLS
A decade later, researchers from the Department of Natural Sciences at Middlesex University have shown that both chokeberry extract (Aronia melanocarpa) and turmeric (Curcuma longa) can work together to stop the spread of malignant cancer cells, as well as induce cancer cell death (apoptosis). (Oncology Reports) The research evaluated the effects of both Aronia and curcumin on a specific glioblastoma line […]
SOME BENEFITS OF CURCUMIN
Curcumin is the most researched compound in medicine! And new research is coming thick and fast. Curcumin/turmeric has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years as a cleanser of the body. It appears to work at a number of levels: 1. It can inhibit unwanted bacterial action in the stomach and intestine: For example (i) , […]
CURCUMIN AND ITS ANTI-CANCER BENEFITS
In the journal ´Genes and Nutrition´ (2011, 6(2) 93-108) the whole issue of ´Epigenetics´ was exposed. It used to be thought that your genes controlled all and a problem in a gene meant you were in someway ´doomed´. This theory has been disproven and replaced by one that shows genes are just your blueprint; these blueprints are controlled, activated or suppressed by […]
CURCUMIN REDUCE THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER WITH HRT
HRT means HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY HRT contains synthetic hormones, and while natural progesterone has plenty of research to support it as a breast cancer risk reducer, the same cannot be said of its synthetic sister, progestin. Far from it. And progestin is what is used in the combination HRT pill. Now University of Missouri researchers have found […]
CURCUMIN WITH MILK THISTLE HELPS TO HEAL COLERECTAL CANCER
Researchers from the University of Saint Louis have shown that combining two herbs, milk thistle and curcumin, can be very powerful in the treatment of colorectal cancer (June 23rd, 2016, Journal of Cancer). “The combination of phytochemicals from the two herbs inhibited colon cancer cells from multiplying and spreading,” said Uthayashanker Ezekiel, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical laboratory science. “In addition, when the […]