Flax seed muffin could help kill breast cancer cells

01/08/05 One Flax Seed Muffin a Day for 30 days Kills 31% of Breast Cancer Cells in Newly Diagnosed Women

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. Tissue biopsies were preformed prior to and after the 30 day period. 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.

The results were nothing short of dramatic. The growth index in the cancer cells was reduced 34.2%, while the level of programmed cell death increased 30.7%. Women who expressed the HER2 (c-erbB2) metastatic oncogene saw its expression decrease by a dramatic 71%.

According to Dr. Stephen Martin, Chief Scientist of Grouppe Kurosawa, data like this has never been reported before.

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. The folder contains hyperlinked scientific references, and flax meal recipes so people can investigate the medicinal powers of flaxseed on their own.

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