CoQ10-a Cancer Killer?
April 25, 2007 at 9:20 pm | In Alternative health, Health, Health and Fitness, Life, Medicine, Opinion, Random, Vitamins | 2 Comments
Several promising studies on the effects of Co-enzyme Q10 were cited in a recent article in the Life Extension Foundation Magazine. The article states
CoQ10 is so closely associated with heart and brain function that few people understand its role against cancer. Scientists investigating the effects of CoQ10 have uncovered evidence that CoQ10 can selectively kill cancer cells-something that conventional chemotherapy cannot do.
In one trial, rats with artificially grown mammary tumors were divided into four groups. One group received tamoxifen, one group received CoQ10, one group received tamoxifen and CoQ10, and the last received a placebo. The tumors in the placebo group were three times heavier at the end of the study. The group receiving tamoxifen and the group receiving CoQ10 had substantially lower tumor growth, and the group receiving the combination therapy had virtually no tumor growth.
In another small study, that three women breast cancer patients took 300-390 mg of CoQ10 per day. One patient had complete remission of liver cancer metasteses, another had remission of a tumor that had spread to the chest wall, and the third had no microscopic evidence of remaining tumor.
The article then quotes the NCI as reporting that:
[B]lood levels of coenzyme Q10 are frequently reduced in cancer patients and [it] reported on a successful European srudy showing 100% survival in breast cancer patients supplementing with 90 mg per day of CoQ10. The NCI report also stated that all breast cancer patients who supplemented with CoQ10 experienced decreased use of painkillers, improved quality of life, and an absence of weight loss.
It further stated:
In reviewing anecdotal reports appearing in peer reviewed scientific literature, the NCI reported that Coenzyme Q10 has been shown to lengthen the survival of patients with pancreatic, lung, rectal, colon, and prostate cancers.
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A good friend of ours just went through an ordeal with breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer has increased to 1 in 8 women, with 4,000 new cases weekly.
You might ask, could there be a preventive measure which is safe, cheap and widely available that has been overlooked?
The answer is YES , and it’s the essential mineral, Iodine , which was added to table salt in 1924 as part of a national program to prevent Goiter. It turns out that this same Iodine in table salt is the key to breast cancer prevention as proposed by the following list of prestigious doctors: Guy Abraham, MD, Robert Derry MD PHD, David Brownstein MD, George Flechas MD, Donald Miller, M.D.
Dr. B.A. Eskin published 80 papers over 30 years researching iodine and breast cancer, and he reports that iodine deficiency causes breast cancer and thyroid cancer in humans and animals. Iodine deficiency is also known to cause a pre-cancerous condition called fibrocystic breast disease.
Ghent published a paper in 1993 which showed iodine supplementation works quite well to reverse and resolve fibrocystic changes of the breast, and this is again the subject of a current clinical study.
Despite its obvious potential, not much has been done with Iodine treatment over the past 40 years in the United States. Since iodine isn’t patentable and is therefore unlikely to be profitable to market, there is no money to fund studies for “FDA approval”. However, FDA approval is not required since Iodine is already an additive to table salt at the supermarket.
For more information see my newsletter:
http://jeffreydach.com/2007/05/05/jeffreydachdrdachiodine.aspx
Jeffrey Dach MD
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