Originally published August 6 2005
Flax seed muffins aid in breast cancer fight
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new study has shown that flax seed muffins kill breast cancer cells.
Linseed oil, made from flax seeds, is an extremely useful natural oil that is used as a preservative for wood, concrete, and as an ingredient in the manufacture of paints, varnishes and stains.
Little did anyone realize that the discarded flax meal was a powerful therapeutic food for the treatment of breast and other cancers.
The role of flax seed lignans as a treatment for cancer has been studied in cell cultures and animals for years, but until a few months ago it has never been tested in humans with diagnosed cancers.
Canadian scientists, following up on previous studies conducted in mice, enrolled women newly diagnosed with breast cancer as volunteers to study the effects of flaxseed on breast cancer progression.
In this study, one flaxseed muffin a day, containing a predetermined concentration of pre-lignans, was consumed per day for 30 days.
The results showed that the flaxseed pre-lignans, converted in the intestines by bacteria into powerful anti-cancer lignans, were extremely efficient, in low doses, in killing the breast cancer cells in these volunteer women.
"This study is critically important not only for breast cancer patients, but for all cancer patients because lignans kill many kinds of cancers, including the presently incurable melanoma.
In the US, a country with unlimited medical resources, 211,240 women will develop breast cancer in 2005, and 40,410 will die.
Natural medicines such as lignans are cheap, non-toxic, effective in low doses, and the only hope for those without health insurance.
Grouppe Kurosawa, an organization dedicated to developing treatment protocols for acute and chronic diseases using only natural medicines and over the counter drugs, has compiled the information on lignans and cancer into the Medicinal Nutrition folder on it's web site.
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