Eating Mushroom Helps Prevent Cancer
Eating mushroom helps prevent cancer
Food Consumer, Xingshu Huang
Published July 15, 2006
Editor's note: 40 percent of Americans are expected to develop at least one cancer during their lifetime. Cancer may have become the number one killer in the United States. Without any cure for the often times deadly disease, prevention is not an option, but a necessity. **
Luckily, most of cancer cases are preventable. Huang Xingshu, a retired professor of Public Health from a prestigious Chinese University, wrote the following article to address one point: eating certain mushrooms can help prevent cancer. Professor Huang developed a product from mushroom maitake, which is so effective that it literally saved two relatives of his own. Readers who have any questions may contact
Professor Huang directly at hxshz@mail.hz.zj.cn
Eating mushroom helps prevent cancer
"Be your food your medicine." ----- Hippocrates
In 2003, Environmental Working Group and Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested the blood and urine samples from 9 healthy American adults for pollutants and hazardous chemicals. They found that there were (average) 91 chemical pollutants with 53 carcinogenic to humans and 77 toxic to immune system. You may wonder if these people would get cancer later in life.
Among the three main factors - environment, food and immune system that influence the cancer risk, food is the common and main source of hazardous chemicals such as pesticide residues, food additives and chemicals in food package materials. It was estimated that diet accounts for 35-50 % of cancer risk.
DNAs in our body encounter 3 x 1018 attacks each day by hazardous agents including chemicals, radiation, ultraviolet rays, some drugs, and pathogenic microbes and viruses. The hazardous chemicals in human tissues may damage DNA, causing transformation of normal cells to cancerous cells
Certain substances toxic to the immune system consistently and constantly invade immune cells, resulting in one's body more vulnerable to common diseases such as cold and the flu as well as serious diseases such as cancer.
How can we prevent cancer?
The first and foremost important thing to do is protect against the environmental pollution, purchase and use only the safe consumer products. What individuals can do is keep the body's immune system normal, protect the DNA and decrease the risk of the damaged cells developing into cancer cells.
There is a persistent "body war" inside the body. The enzymes repair the damaged DNA and the immune system fights against the cancer cells and/or the invaders-- pathogenic microbes. Immune cells are "guards" that search and identify these enemies and then send messages to the headquarter of the immune system so that other groups of immune cells, the "troops", can be ordered to move to the spots, attack and destroy the cancer cells. The "troops" comprise of macrophages, natural killing cells (NK cells) and killer T cells.
If the immune system functions normally and all the invaders are recognized and destroyed in time, the body remains healthy. On the contrary, one may gradually get "clinical cancer" as the cancer cells multiply rapidly and continuously and form a cancerous mass. Even though one gets cancer, if it is small and is detected and treated early, he can get his cancer under control or even cure it, and he is still healthy.
How to maintain your normal immune system?
One effective way to protect the immune system is to add to your diet Maitake (Griola frondosa) - the king of mushroom or Agricus blazei - mushroom of God. Both types of mushroom are rich in nutrients and substances called polysaccharides. When one eats the mushrooms, the polysaccharides are absorbed through intestine wall and get into the blood. They will increase production of the immune cells i.e. macrophages , NK cells and killer T cells and activate them so that they have the strength to recognize, attack and destroy cancer cells anywhere in the body. If all the cancer cells are destroyed, one will not get clinical cancer.
This is why these mushrooms can prevent cancer.
MAITAKE ( HEN OF WOODS )
Scientists have done large-scale epidemiological studies on the anticancer effects of mushrooms and the results are positive. Researchers at the National Cancer Center Research Institute of Japan studied the anti-cancer activities of mushroom from 1972 to 1986 in Nagano, Japan. The study of 174,505 people in the Nagano Prefecture compared the cancer death rate in mushroom farmers who grow mushroom species Flammuina velutipes to that in the rest of the population. They found among the farmers, the cancer death rate was 97.1 per 10,000 compared to 160.1 per 100,000 among the rest of population. The difference in the cancer death rate is significant.
Studies found Maitake extract prevents chemical mutagenesis - chemical causes mutation of normal cells. We demonstrated in experiments with Ames test and micronucleus test in mice that maitake extract inhibited mutagenesis of cells induced by chemical mutagens
Food Consumer, Xingshu Huang
Published July 15, 2006
Editor's note: 40 percent of Americans are expected to develop at least one cancer during their lifetime. Cancer may have become the number one killer in the United States. Without any cure for the often times deadly disease, prevention is not an option, but a necessity. **
Luckily, most of cancer cases are preventable. Huang Xingshu, a retired professor of Public Health from a prestigious Chinese University, wrote the following article to address one point: eating certain mushrooms can help prevent cancer. Professor Huang developed a product from mushroom maitake, which is so effective that it literally saved two relatives of his own. Readers who have any questions may contact
Professor Huang directly at hxshz@mail.hz.zj.cn
Eating mushroom helps prevent cancer
"Be your food your medicine." ----- Hippocrates
In 2003, Environmental Working Group and Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested the blood and urine samples from 9 healthy American adults for pollutants and hazardous chemicals. They found that there were (average) 91 chemical pollutants with 53 carcinogenic to humans and 77 toxic to immune system. You may wonder if these people would get cancer later in life.
Among the three main factors - environment, food and immune system that influence the cancer risk, food is the common and main source of hazardous chemicals such as pesticide residues, food additives and chemicals in food package materials. It was estimated that diet accounts for 35-50 % of cancer risk.
DNAs in our body encounter 3 x 1018 attacks each day by hazardous agents including chemicals, radiation, ultraviolet rays, some drugs, and pathogenic microbes and viruses. The hazardous chemicals in human tissues may damage DNA, causing transformation of normal cells to cancerous cells
Certain substances toxic to the immune system consistently and constantly invade immune cells, resulting in one's body more vulnerable to common diseases such as cold and the flu as well as serious diseases such as cancer.
How can we prevent cancer?
The first and foremost important thing to do is protect against the environmental pollution, purchase and use only the safe consumer products. What individuals can do is keep the body's immune system normal, protect the DNA and decrease the risk of the damaged cells developing into cancer cells.
There is a persistent "body war" inside the body. The enzymes repair the damaged DNA and the immune system fights against the cancer cells and/or the invaders-- pathogenic microbes. Immune cells are "guards" that search and identify these enemies and then send messages to the headquarter of the immune system so that other groups of immune cells, the "troops", can be ordered to move to the spots, attack and destroy the cancer cells. The "troops" comprise of macrophages, natural killing cells (NK cells) and killer T cells.
If the immune system functions normally and all the invaders are recognized and destroyed in time, the body remains healthy. On the contrary, one may gradually get "clinical cancer" as the cancer cells multiply rapidly and continuously and form a cancerous mass. Even though one gets cancer, if it is small and is detected and treated early, he can get his cancer under control or even cure it, and he is still healthy.
How to maintain your normal immune system?
One effective way to protect the immune system is to add to your diet Maitake (Griola frondosa) - the king of mushroom or Agricus blazei - mushroom of God. Both types of mushroom are rich in nutrients and substances called polysaccharides. When one eats the mushrooms, the polysaccharides are absorbed through intestine wall and get into the blood. They will increase production of the immune cells i.e. macrophages , NK cells and killer T cells and activate them so that they have the strength to recognize, attack and destroy cancer cells anywhere in the body. If all the cancer cells are destroyed, one will not get clinical cancer.
This is why these mushrooms can prevent cancer.
MAITAKE ( HEN OF WOODS )
Scientists have done large-scale epidemiological studies on the anticancer effects of mushrooms and the results are positive. Researchers at the National Cancer Center Research Institute of Japan studied the anti-cancer activities of mushroom from 1972 to 1986 in Nagano, Japan. The study of 174,505 people in the Nagano Prefecture compared the cancer death rate in mushroom farmers who grow mushroom species Flammuina velutipes to that in the rest of the population. They found among the farmers, the cancer death rate was 97.1 per 10,000 compared to 160.1 per 100,000 among the rest of population. The difference in the cancer death rate is significant.
Studies found Maitake extract prevents chemical mutagenesis - chemical causes mutation of normal cells. We demonstrated in experiments with Ames test and micronucleus test in mice that maitake extract inhibited mutagenesis of cells induced by chemical mutagens
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