Which legumes are best at inhibiting matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?
Although we to spend With billions of dollars spent on new types of chemotherapy, the overflowing tank that is cancer treatment is expected to grow by nearly 70% over the next two decades, as drugs are used only to clean up the mess, not turn off the faucet. You can’t really give people drugs to prevent cancer because of the side effects and cost, but it says “there is a lot of evidence that the dietary bioactive compounds found in whole plant foods have significant anticancer and chemopreventive (cancer prevention) properties.”
I used to talked about the effect of diet and nutrition on 10 signs of cancer. The conclusion is the proof points to a diet with a minimum of animal products and, perhaps more importantly, a maximum of plant foods. Some foods that appear to be particularly beneficial are fruits (especially berries), vegetables (especially greens), legumes (beans, peas, chickpeas, and lentils), nuts and seeds (especially flaxseeds), onions, garlic, mushrooms, herbs, and spices (such as turmeric and green tea).
Chemotherapy is not even possible to be especially good at cleaning up messes. “Cancer drugs often reduce the quality of life and do not prolong the patient’s life.” Let me put it another way: you’re paying for drugs—maybe selling your house to pay for drugs—it can make your life worse. there is no benefit. Some have suggested that we demand at least three months of life extension from the drug, but if we demand that the chemo really works, will companies stop trying new cancer drugs? On the other hand, by claiming clinically important benefits – what a concept – perhaps Big Pharma will allocate resources to target more important cancer processes such as metastatic spread, since it is tumor metastases that account for 90% of cancer-related deaths. Who cares if some medicine reduces your initial swelling if it spreads and shortens your life?
About what? to control metastatic cancer with some of those natural biological compounds in plants? Apparently, “phytochemicals (plants) have been shown to be able to inhibit almost every step of the cascade of invasion of metastasis”, at least in vitro (in a petri dish). Below is a list of some dietary sources of antimetastatic phytochemicals you can also see at 2:27 in my video Inhibition of the cancer enzyme MMP-9 by beans and peas.
All these are foods is shown to block any number of cancer signaling pathways, but let me focus on one: matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Because about 90% of disability and death from cancer is due to the spread of cancer (metastasis), let’s talk about MMPs, which are “actively involved in the entire metastatic journey.” Matrix metalloproteinases are enzymes that to allow the cancer tunnels through the surrounding tissue and enters the lymph or blood vessels, then allows it to colonize and grow elsewhere.
So Big Pharma developed matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor drugs that worked very well in animal models, however caused severe adverse effects in humans. So how? to use food? Legumes (soybeans, chickpeas, chickpeas, and lentils) contain special proteins that reduce MMP activity. But what is the leading legume? The researchers tested eight different types: lupine beans, chickpeas, split peas, black-eyed peas, lentils, more common beans (such as kidney, black or pinto), fava beans, and soybeans. Which do you think worked best?
Without any beans, matrix metalloproteinase activity dropped by nearly 100%, and sprinkling some protein from split peas didn’t seem to do much, but black-eyed peas, lentils, kidney beans, and fava beans reduced enzyme activity by more than 50%. Guess what reduced activity by over 90%? Lupine beans, peas and beans, as you can see below and at 4:08 in my video.
But it does translate to slow the spread of cancer?
The researchers placed a single layer of human colon cancer cells in a petri dish and then removed a thread to remove a slit in the middle. Within 48 hours, the cancer will quickly come together to fill the gap. But when a little protein from lupine beans, peas, or beans was sprinkled in, the cancer cells seemed to struggle to close the gap, as you can see below and at 4:33 in mine. video.
Well, but they is used raw beans. You won’t know that these cancer-fighting proteins are destroyed in cooking until you put it to the test. Researchers found that matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors remain active in beans at least after cooking.
So, it is perhaps not surprising that eating legumes reduces risk of colon cancer. Yes, but colon cancer that grows from the lining of the colon can come into contact with some of these soy proteins. It is likely that they do not enter the bloodstream.
Those to eat A vegetarian diet seems to have lower levels of matrix metalloproteinases, but that’s just it he thought due to their low levels of inflammation, similar to smoking habits have low MMP levels. This is good because this enzyme is not only a cancer biomarker, but may also be involved in autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular diseases. The machete-type nature of this enzyme can right by cholesterol-laden atherosclerotic inflammation that clogs the patient’s arteries and causes the plaque to rupture. People know that those who eat a more plant-based diet have less heart disease, but don’t realize that they have a significantly lower risk of cancer, especially among those who eat a strict plant-based diet.
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The video I mentioned Fight the ten signs of cancer with diet.
For more videos on cancer metastases, check out the related posts.
