Turmeric for Cancer? Study Says the Spice Shows Promise

by Christina Sarich
Natural Society

The spotlight shines on a common kitchen spice

A major breakthrough study shows what many of us in the alternative health community have suspected for some time – that turmeric for cancer is truly worth noticing and researching. It’s about one hundred times less toxic than chemotherapy, and possesses noteworthy anti-cancer properties.

Scientists from the UK have demonstrated for the first time in patient-derived colorectal cell lines that a turmeric extract (curcumin) is an effective aid for enhancing conventional chemotherapy and that it may be even more effective all by itself. Curcumin is highly available in elevated concentrations in turmeric.

Published in August 2015 in Cancer Letters, “Curcumin inhibits cancer stem cell phenotypes in ex vivo models of colorectal liver metastases, and is clinically safe and tolerable in combination with FOLFOX chemotherapy” finds that a diet high in diet-derived curcumin not only aids chemotherapy patients, but might be able to circumvent the need for chemo entirely.
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