DCA Destroys Cancer, Natural Ibuprofen Alternatives, Turmeric Turns Bad Fat Into Good

Mainstream smear campaign can't stop this dynamo from DESTROYING cancer

By Melissa Young with Institute of Health

If you're living with cancer... you'll do everything in your power to make sure you don't DIE from the disease.

That may mean letting your doc cut you open, burn you with radiation, or poison you with chemotherapy.

You might even be so desperate that you'll travel the world for cures. Maybe you'll subject yourself to experimental treatments.

You're at your most vulnerable... but you're not stupid OR gullible.

Yet that's exactly how the mainstream treats you when you even TRY to reject their sickening treatments in favor of something that's both SAFE and EFFECTIVE.

There's one smear campaign in particular that really gets my goose.

Because there's a simple molecule that's been shown to fight cancer.. yet conventional medicine has DRAGGED its name through the mud.

Hard-to-treat cancer SUCCUMBS to DCA

Anytime a natural or alternative therapy shows promise in fighting cancer, traditional docs and mainstream media are first to protest that it's NOT a cure.

Well, methinks they protest too much......Take, for instance, DCA (a.k.a. dichloroacetate).

This simple chemical has been used to treat rare metabolic disorders for years. Its safety profile when given at reasonable doses was proven long ago.

Then, scientists started noticing its "remarkable cancer-killing properties," as reported in New Scientist.

In 2007, Canadian researchers witnessed the ability of DCA to wipe cancer out of lab animals.

Three years later, the researchers found that DCA can alter cell behavior in patients with a type of tumor that typically resists treatment, glioblastoma.

In that same study, brain scans showed that the cancer had REGRESSED after treatment with DCA.

And the response from the ultra-mainstream American Cancer Society?  "Don't become the victim of a cancer scam."

That's good advice -- especially for those cancer patients who've been OVERTREATED by therapies that could just as well SPREAD their cancer or cause them to develop a SECONDARY cancer.

DCA doesn't do either of those things.

Instead, it works on the metabolism of cancer cells to induce cell apoptosis (or "cell suicide") and weaken them so they can't grow or multiply. Because healthy cells contain healthy mitochondria... and their metabolism works normally... they're not affected by DCA.

And when it comes to complementary and alternative therapies for cancer, it's not always a matter of "either/or."

DCA may also help traditional therapies work better -- which means lower amounts of them are needed, which reduces their toxic effects on YOU.

A word of caution...

You do have to use this therapy in the right way -- which means you shouldn't go treating yourself with any version of it that you can get your hands on.

Your cancer doc can prescribe pharmaceutical-grade DCA "off-label" for you, or a cancer clinic can provide it. If you can't find one near you that will, it may be worth taking a cross-country trip... or crossing the border to Canada or even Mexico to get it.

Finally, DCA gobbles up your body's supply of glutathione, the "master antioxidant" that detoxes your body. So if you're taking DCA, you need to also supplement with glutathione.

Six Natural Ibuprofen Alternatives Backed by Clinical Research

Written By: Sayer Ji, Founder

Copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2019

With the public's growing awareness of the deadly side effects associated with the regular use of synthetic painkillers like ibuprofen, the need for natural, evidence-based alternatives has never been greater.

People generally think that over-the-counter drugs are safer than physician-prescribed ones. Unfortunately that does not hold true for drugs like ibuprofen, consumed at a rate of billions of doses, annually, and responsible for thousands of cardiovascular disease-related deaths each year.

Did you know that Merck's blockbuster drug Vioxx caused more than 27,000 deaths and heart attacks between 1999 and 2003? In fact, it was the FDA's own drug safety researcher, David Graham, who blew the whistle on the agency in 2004 at a Congressional hearing, estimating that over 60,000 Americans died as a result of its use, and the FDA's inaction around their well-known side effects.

What does this have to do with ibuprofen? Researchers have known that ibuprofen is at least as dangerous as Vioxx for at least six years. But millions continue to take this drug, daily, without receiving adequate warning, while heart disease and cardiac mortality statistics continue to expand unabated.

Considering the veritable nightmare of adverse effects associated with ibuprofen use -- the "pain killer" that is 'so effective' it permanently cures pain by killing the patient -- it behooves both the medical profession and the health consumer to find safer alternatives, even if that means going back to the time-tested, multi-culturally validated tradition of herbal medicine.

Here are a 6 clinically validated, natural alternatives worth considering:

1.       Arnica: a 2007 study found that arnica, applied topically, was as effective as ibuprofen for relieving symptoms associated with osteoarthritis of the wrist, and with less side effects. 
2.       Ginger: a 2009 study found that ginger was effective as ibuprofen for pain symptoms associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).
3.      Turmeric: a 2014 study found that turmeric extracts were as effective as ibuprofen for relieving symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.
4.      Thyme: 2004 study found that an extract of thyme was as effective as ibuprofen in reducing pain and spasm symptoms associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).
5.       Omega-3 fatty acids: a 2006 study found that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation with fish oil helped neurosurgery patients reduce their need for medications, and experienced results consistent with previous research indicating palliative effects at least as effective as ibuprofen.
6.       Cinnamon: a 2015 study found that cinnamon was as effective as ibuprofen for pain associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).

For related research, use the GreenMedInfo databases on natural anti-inflammatories and analgesics. Consider also that ibuprofen is not the only NSAID with debilitating and even lethal side effects. Learn more about the dangers of this chemical class, including aspirin, on our NSAID database.

Author - Sayer Ji 

Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation.

Turmeric's "Weight Loss Secret": It Turns Bad Fat Into Good

Information taken from GreenMed Info LLC

A groundbreaking study published in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry reveals that curcumin, a golden-hued compound in turmeric, may provide a unique solution for overweight individuals by altering the composition of fat cells in their bodies in favor of the calorie-burning type.

Obesity and overweight are global epidemics today, and are largely due to the now virtually universal Western type diet of highly processed, genetically modified, chemical contaminated, and evolutionarily incompatible foods, and which can have severe if not sometimes lethal adverse health effects. 

Diet, however, is not the only contributing factor. Like all conditions, the problem is multi-factorial, with exposure to a host of endocrine disruptors, chronic stress, a dramatically altered and/or depleted microbiome, and a lack of sufficient movement and exercise, all playing key roles. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on weight loss gadgets, bariatric surgeries, and both synthetic and natural pills, and yet the problem only appears to be growing worse.

What if we could strike closer to the root causes of serious weight problems using something as familiar, affordable, and safe as a common spice on our spice rack?

Indeed, turmeric contains a golden-hued compound called curcumin which appears to be capable of changing "bad" fat cells into "good" ones, among a whole host of additional beneficial properties.

Know the Difference Between Brown and White -- "Good" and "Bad" -- Fat

Fat used to be a really bad word. Today, however, a growing number of consumers and health enthusiasts are embracing the concept of incorporating more "good fats" into the diet, i.e. olive oil, avocado, coconut. That said, many still don't know that our bodies also contain both "good" (brown) and "bad" fat (white), and depending on our activity levels, environmental conditions, and what we do or do not eat, we'll have a particular ratio that will significantly affect our level of health as well as risk for an entire gamut of diseases.

Brown fat is colored darkly because of the high density of iron-containing mitochondria it contains. Brown fat cells, unlike white fat cells, are capable of diverting significant quantities of dietary caloric energy into thermal energy or heat. This makes the metabolic role of brown fat cells completely opposite to that of white fat cells whose primary function is to store energy for future use as adipose tissue.  To underscore how radically different brown fat cells are from white, they derive from an entirely different stem cell lineage; the same one that skeletal muscle cells differentiate from.

Since the vast majority of fat found within overweight and obese adults is of the white fat variety (we have the most when we are infants at about 5% by weight), and since abdominal obesity (belly fat) has been found to be a greater risk factor for heart attack than smoking, it behooves us to look at belly fat as a concern relevant to far more than vanity, and to find ways to reduce midsection fat naturally, or at least increase the ratio of brown to white fat in the body.

The discovery of radically differing types of fat in the adult body, and a deficiency or much smaller ratio of brown to white fat in those with weight problems, has led some researchers to hypothesize that increasing the brown fat cell phenotype could provide a novel intervention for obesity. Indeed, preliminary research on using cold temperatures to increase the brown fat in the mammalian body appear to have significant anti-obesity effects, but there is concern that these temperature changes may have unintended adverse effects for cardiovascular health.  Also, exposure to the cold is just plain uncomfortable, making it a less than ideal solution for many. A turmeric-based intervention could provide a much more convenient alternative.

Curcumin Brown Fat

Turmeric Extract (Curcumin) May Be An Ideal Weight Loss Supplement.  

In the study titled, "Curcumin induces brown fat-like phenotype in 3T3-L1 and primary white adipocytes," Korean researchers established for the first time that curcumin is capable of inducing browning of white fat cells (adipocytes) through at least four different mechanisms:

1.     By enhancing the expression of brown fat specific genes. This is a form of nutrigenomic "epigenetic modification," which means that a nutrient is capable of altering a cell's patterns of gene expression "from the outside in," as it were, resulting in significant changes in the structure and function of the cells involved.

2.     By stimulating the production of new mitochondria, as evidenced by increased activity of the electron transport chain and increased fatty acid oxidation. Mitochondrial biogenesis can be stimulated with other natural substances and therapeutic modalities and is an intervention that may be of special benefit in age-associated loss of muscle and brain function, enhancing athletic performance, and in improving mitochondrial disorders.

3.     By increasing protein levels of hormone-sensitive lipase and p-acyl-CoA carboxylase, two markers that play a role in increasing fat-degrading processes (lipolysis) and the suppression of new fat production (lipogenesis).

4.     By increasing the activity AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). AMPK activity is something of a cellular metabolic master switch that improves metabolic homeostasis, which is often out of balance in overweight and obese individuals.

In addition to these four mechanisms of action contributing to curcumin's brown fat supporting properties, the researchers also noted that because curcumin is a well-established anti-inflammatory agent, and because obesity and its various co-morbid states such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are conditions that involve upregulated and unremitting inflammatory and/or or dysregulated inflammatory response, curcumin's anti-obesity effects may be in part due to its inflammation-reducing properties.

One additional relevant mechanism of action not discussed in this study, but recently identified in a study published earlier this year in the journal Molecular Medicine Reports, is curcumin's ability to induce programmed cell death (apoptosis) in white fat cells. This may contribute permanently to reducing the overall ability of the body to store unhealthy fat.  

The study authors concluded,

"Our findings suggest that curcumin plays a dual modulatory role in inhibition of adipogenesis as well as induction of the brown fat-like phenotype and thus may have potential therapeutic implications for treatment of obesity."

Curcumin's Benefits Extend To A Wide Range of Health Issues 

Given the research discussed above, curcumin should be considered a pleiotrophic anti-obesity agent, as it is capable of "targeting" and ameliorating a variety of metabolic imbalances in the body simultaneously. In fact, curcumin is so diverse in its therapeutic actions as to boggle the imagination.

Our database project alone has characterized over 790 distinct health conditions that curcumin has been studied to prevent, treat, and in some cases reverse – something that puts every pharmaceutical drug on the planet to shame, especially considering that curcumin is immensely safer and has been time-tested for thousands of years in a wide range of different cultures. Add in the fact that curcumin has been studied in human trials to be at least as effective as Prozac for depression, a cardiovascular tonic as significant as exercise, and capable of preventing the progression of prediabetes to diabetes in an astounding 100% of those tested, it would seem unethical not to use it when the choices are either inaction or a pharmaceutical drug.

Until next time, stay healthy and happy

JD Roma

The information on this blog is provided for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical care, and medical advice and services are not being offered. If you have, or suspect you have, a health problem you should consult your physician (preferably a Naturopath).