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Ellagic Acid is a natural
nutrient found in many potent anti-cancer fruits and nuts. By
itself, it is not a cancer treatment, but it is important to
understand the importance of this nutrient when putting together
your cancer treatment and especially your “cancer diet.”
Chapter on Natural Treatments For Advanced Cancer Patients
How It Works
Ellagic acid is a naturally occurring polyphenolic constituent found
in 46 different fruits and nuts such as grapes, pomegranate, red
raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, and walnuts. “Ellagic acid]
prevents the binding of carcinogens to DNA and strengthens
connective tissue, which may keep cancer cells from spreading.”
Ellagic Acid has the ability to inhibit mutations within a cell's
DNA. Furthermore, it is considered to be a cancer inhibitor which
has the ability to cause apoptosis or normal cell death in cancer
cells.
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First, ellagic acid kills cancer cells:
Healthy cells have a normal life cycle of approximately 120 days
before they die. This process is called apoptosis (natural cell
death). The body replaces these dying cells with healthy cells.
Conversely, cancer cells do not die. They multiply by division,
making two cancer cells, then four, eight, 16, 32 and so on. In lab
tests, Ellagic Acid caused the cancer cells to go through the normal
apoptosis process without damaging healthy cells. Chemotherapy,
radiation and most conventional treatments cause the death of cancer
cells and healthy cells indiscriminately, possibly destroying the
immune system in the process. Ellagic Acid is clearly the sensible
choice.
Second, ellagic acid stops the growth of tumors:
Rats that consumed 5-10 percent of their diet as freeze-dried black
raspberries and strawberries showed dramatic reductions in the
growth of precancerous cells and tumor progression, the researchers
found. And in other animal tests, Stoner told Reuters Health, the
berries reduced colon cancer growth by 80 percent. The Ohio
Department of Agriculture supported the research Stoner presented at
the meeting.
Third, ellagic acid causes G-arrest:
The Hollings Cancer Institute at the University of South Carolina
has conducted a double blind study on a group of 500 cervical cancer
patients that had everyone excited. Nine years of study have shown
that a natural product called Ellagic acid is causing G-arrest
within 48 hours (inhibiting and stopping mitosis-cancer cell
division), and apoptosis (normal cell death) within 72 hours, for
breast, pancreas, esophageal, skin, colon and prostate cancer cells.
Fourth, ellagic acid helps prevent cancer, birth defects, etc.
European medical studies also demonstrate that Ellagic Acid is known
to lower the incidence of birth defects, promote wound healing,
reduce heart disease, and may reduce or reverse chemically induced
liver fibrosis.
Fifth, ellagic acid does a lot of other good things:
From Dr. Glen Halvorson's Book, Chemopreventive Properties of …Phytochemicals,
we learn that ellagic acid is antibacterial, [it] destroys the H.
pylori bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers, [it] protects the
liver and liver function, [it] binds with carcinogens (chemicals
that cause cancer) making them inactive, [it] prevents carcinogens
from binding to DNA [and it] reduces glucose levels (aids in
management of diabetes).
Sixth, ellagic acid (i.e. from ellagitannins), is combined with
glucose, making sure that cancer cells get a larger dose of ellagic
acid than normal cells because cancer cells consume about 15 times
more glucose than other cells. This means cancer cells probably get
far more ellagic acid than normal cells:
Although ellagic acid is the bioactive agent that offers protection,
the phytochemical is generally ingested in the form of another
biochemical called ellagitannin. Plants produce ellagic acid and
glucose that combine to form ellagitannins, which are water-soluble
compounds that are easier for animals to absorb in their diets.
Consequently, small amounts of ellagitannins derived from natural
sources may be more effective in the human diet than large doses of
purified ellagic acid.
Here are some comments about blueberries:
Extremely rich in a wide range of powerful antioxidant flavonoids (phenolic
compounds). Blueberries/bilberries have more anthocyanins than any
other food – three times more than the second richest source, green
tea. They are also high in quercetin and ellagic acid – two other
powerful flavonoids.
Flavonoids can also attach themselves to proteins, modulating the
action of enzymes, including the kinase enzymes necessary for cell
proliferation. In this way, they are a very useful complement to
cancer therapy. When high doses of flavonoids are taken, all cell
proliferation is inhibited; but this does not harm normal cells
which can simply ‘rest' – however, cancer cells cannot survive in
the resting state.
Flavonoids also lower blood sugar levels, can restrict angiogenesis,
help to keep nitric oxide within a healthy range and raise the
body's level of the endogenous antioxidant glutathione. Berries are
also rich in vitamin C. (Original Page Down)
Here is how it works:
Ellagic Acid is a phenolic compound that has become known as a
potent anti-carcinogenic/anti-mutagenic compound. It also has
antibacterial and antiviral properties. Ellagic Acid itself is not
thought to be naturally present in plants. Instead, polymers of
gallic acid and hexahydroxydipenoyl (HHDP) are linked to glucose
centers to form the class of compounds known as ellagitannins. When
two gallic acid groups become linked side by side within a tannin
molecule an HHDP group is formed. Ellagic Acid is the result when
the HHDP group is cleaved from the tannin molecule and spontaneously
rearranges. It is the ellagitannins that are present in red
raspberries.
Supercharging This Treatment
At the current time, ellagic acid supplements are generally not used
as a stand-alone treatment for cancer. Rather, ellagic acid
supplements are usually used in conjunction with other treatments.
However, ellagic acid is found in fruits and nuts that are part of
major alternative cancer treatments, such as the grape cure, Budwig
Flaxseed (when walnuts are used), the Raw Food diet, etc.
Source
It would probably be a mistake to take ellagic acid supplements
without also consuming many natural, whole, raw foods that contain
ellagic acid in order to get necessary enzymes and other synergistic
nutrients.
The Hope For Cancer website, linked to below, uses an Ellagic Acid
protocol and has had good results with lung cancer patients.