lördag 15 december 2018

Cancer and angiogenesis

The cancer cells are growing because they have a support of nutrition, they have a blood support and without these blood vessels they will not live. The forming of new blood vessels does not occur in a healthy grown up person unless there is a special cause for it, as for example menstruation,  childbirth or a wound.  The body can produce stimulators to blood vessel growth when it is necessary, and also inhibitors. This growth is called angiogenesis and when it gets out of balance it is associated with at least 70 major diseases that billions of people have today.

Science is of course interested in finding a method to inhibit this abnormal angiogenesis. The idea is to create a pill that blocks abnormal angiogenesis. Such an antiangiogenesis, an inhibitor, would deprive the cancer cells of the oxygen and the nutrients and they would die.

Most grown up people have small cancer cells (0,5 mm) in the body, but because of lack of nutrition these cells never grow big and they do not get dangerous. Our angiogenesis inhibitors defend us so these cancer cells that we have are harmless until the angiogenesis is turned on and they get blood supply.

Cancer and inflammatory diseases are linked to this extra blood flow. Inflammation and angiogenesis are two separate things, but they seem to stimulate each other. In inflammation, the balance is clearly tipped in favor of angiogenesis. Read more...

We have often heard that antioxidants in berries, fruits and vegetables are "anti-inflammatory" but here we can now ad a new concept. The same food seems to be listed also among the anti-angiogenesis. 

We now also know that vegetable oils, that we consume so much of (because they have fooled us into believeing that they are healthy), are inflammatory! Grains can also be listed here as they contain much omega-6-fat. We can take oils from grains and seeds.

Imagine that you are in an old healthy forest 20.000 years ago and you go out and search for food! Do you think that you would eat the grains from the grasses??? No! You would do the most easy thing - you would eat greens and fruits and then you would go down to the lake and get a fish (or a frog). Humans have no evolutionary basis for eating grass. Seeds are difficult to eat and raw beans are usually poisonous (five raw kidney beans can kill a person).

The two phenomena, angiogenesis and inflammation, have long been coupled together in many chronic inflammatory disorders with distinct etiopathogenic origin, including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Inflammation and angiogenesis can be triggered by the same molecular events and a treatment has to target both of them.

"Most current therapeutic strategies intended to stop the progress of the tumor vascularization are at a preclinical stage, and only a handful of these strategies are emerging as clinical reality." ScienceDirect

In this video we can see a list of medicines together with a list of natural foods. There are natural greens, herbs and fruits that have the same effect as the future miracle pill. Just start eating them!

And avoid junk food  I would guess that most of our "normal food" thay we see in the shop contain angiogenic growth factors. I already know that much of it is "inflammatory".




Dr Gundry speaks about the good and the bad gut bacteria and how these little things can send signals to other parts of the body to get what they want. I think that it must be highly likely that there are some bacteria that are allies with the cancer cells and help them get the desired blood vessels. Why not? The gut bacteria is of main concern in many videos.

The stories about antioxidants, inflammations, cancer, angiogenesis and gut bacteria sound as if they would just be the same story, seen from different angles.


When angiogenesis is “turned on”, and the cancer cells are fed by sufficient blood vessels, tumours can develop. Antiangiogenic therapy aims to starve the cancer of its blood supply, thus rendering the isolated cancer cells harmless.  Read more... 
Here is also a list with food that have antiangiogenic properties.... oranges, blueberries....

Previous article here.
Cancer, the gold mine of the pharmaceutical industry

More about inflammations (in Swedish).
Allergier, huvudvärk, migrän, astma, artrit, smärtor i kroppen...?


According to Dr Axe 
there is resveratrol also in blueberries,

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