Fighting Cancer with Vitamins and Antioxidants Hot

This is both a scholarly work and full of practical preventive and supportive advice for anyone concerned about cancer. The insights on nutritional support he shares are eye-opening, and very relevant to all of us exposed to a multitude of external stressors.It is unfortunate that this book reads like an extended scientific paper, because you need to be motivated to plow through it. If you or a family member have or had cancer, however, this book has important information that you can use to protect yourself from succumbing to cancer, and to protect your healthy cells from damage from chemo and radiation therapy and metastases.

Of interest to us all is that the antioxidant vitamins – A, Beta Carotene, C, E, Selenium, Zinc and Co-Q10 – also help protect us from radiation damage caused by x-rays, mammograms, CT Scans, cell phones, frequent flying and nuclear fall-out.

Dr. Kedar Prasad is the former director of the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and served as a President of the International Society of Nutrition and Cancer. He has been researching cancer and nutrition His passionate recommendations to supplement with a mix of antioxidants and vitamins is based on over 20 years of intensive and highly regarded research.

In a nutshell, the medical establishment, including the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, has told cancer patients to avoid antioxidants in the belief that they will protect the cancer cells from radiation or chemotherapy. These conclusions were based on limited studies with single vitamins like A and E and usually at preventive, but not therapeutic doses. In his work, Dr. Prasad has shown that a single vitamin will be overwhelmed by the free radicals in the diseased state, and has demonstrated that a combination of antioxidants will be effective in both helping the therapies kill cancer cells, and protecting the healthy cells from being affected too.

There are different protocols and combinations of antioxidants, depending on one’s situation, so his book is a valuable guide to understanding which ones to take, under what circumstances and when (twice a day probably for life.) It is interesting that Dr. Prasad left academia (I imagine in frustration) and set up a company to continue his research and market these micronutrient combinations. His website is: mypmcinside.com

Although he mentions the importance of a good diet and stress reduction, he does so almost in passing and he does not go into details. For our pill-addicted culture it makes sense to recommend supplements, but I would strongly suggest combining them with a highly nutritious diet. Some good books on the subject are Primal Body, Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas, Perfect Health Diet by Paul Jaminet and Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman.