Comments on: Cancer Myths Debunked: Antioxidant Supplements Protect You From Cancer

By: johnnie

johnnie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:25:58 +0000

This is very true. Most vitamins due more harm than good. For instance, taking centrum is horrible. Your body only obsorbs less than 10% percent of the vitamin, and the remaining 90% percent become oxidants. Resulting in more cancer cells. There are many companies out there, like Melaleuca, who claim that if you take their vitamin you’ll obsorb 75%percent of the vitamin.. and that’s still not good. Why? Well there’s 25% left to destroy you. If you have cancer, the only supplements you should be taking are herbal supplements and like discussed in this article, vegetables. The only problem with this article is that you claim that vitamins enhance cancer cells. Well, don’t vegetables have vitamins? I think so! So you are therefore contradicting yourself! The problem isn’t the vitamins enhancing cancer cells, the MAIN problem is taking vitamins from a bottle rather than fresh raw fruits and vegeatables! And please make sure your fruits are organic. e-mail me for more questions.

johnathanrodriguez@ymail.com

By: Constant Tinople

Constant Tinople — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:53:07 +0000

In some circumstances antioxidants can treat some cancers. I know this because I have cured my own cancer with antioxidant pills and a good diet. There are too few studies about the subject because such a cure cannot be patented and the pharmaceutical industry is not interested.Most people also take pills and have a very bad diet or smoke and the result is dramatic.To treat a cancer using antioxidants one must know exactly what one does because the result on cell growth will depend on the cell types involved , the mixture of substances and the dose.I do not believe that antioxidants protect cancer cells (though it hapens in cultured cells)but a lack of antioxidants impairs the defense the body has against the disease.Acyually some studies have established that antioxidants kill cancer cells while protecting normal ones. Sometimes also some substances considered to be antioxidants act in fact in a different way, for exemple as inducers of apoptosis.The interactions between antioxidants, free radicals ant the cell signaling pathways is quite complicated, subtle and varied , to a point that we just begin to understand the subject.Sadly, as diet and natural substances cannot generate much profit for the industry we will not see a lot of studies in order to devise cancer treatments with non patentetable drugs and worse, the insustry will hinder such possibilities.

By: Top Antioxidant Supplements

Top Antioxidant Supplements — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:03:59 +0000

I think antioxidants protect us from a good number of diseases like cancer and heart diseases. Thanks for the info.

By: Darren Thomas

Darren Thomas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:50:00 +0000

According to my knowledge, the study on which this article was based is flawed in the sense that many of the participants were smokers, and could have had undetected, or pre-cancerous growths – which the antioxidant nutrients went on to feed. Also, what is very important, was the fact that you have different quality vitamin supplements, we don’t know the actual quality of the supplements given; lots of evidence suggests poor grade and synthetic supplements/nutrients such as vitamins and hormones can do more harm than good, maybe even no good!

If there was a study that was purely based on non-smokers, and quality supplements then the findings could be more enlightening. From what was shown, yes some nutrients (and these may only be be poor grade nutrients) may possibly feed cancer cells. But right now the results are purely speculative.

For now, there is too much evidence in favour of antioxidant supplements. The issue is, which companies do you trust, because there is a lot of crap out there.

Darren Thomas
Health & Nutrition Consultant
Wembley, London, England.

da.thomas@yahoo.com

By: Anti Toxic

Anti Toxic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:25:35 +0000

Have you ever used any Top Form Nutrition Supplements ? They make a products called “My Hero” that contains alot of antioxidants.

By: James Joyce

James Joyce — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:16:17 +0000

A most informative guide on lung cancer, thank you, it has provided me with some comfort

By: Cancer

Cancer — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:54:31 +0000

There is a big difference between eating foods that are high in antioxidants and taking vitamin supplements. There is also a big difference between whole food supplements and vitamin supplements.

People were designed to eat food and are not going to die from too much vitamin A of vitamin D from eating foods. But vitamins do not grow on trees and do not exist in nature. They are not foods. From taking vitamin supplements you can die from taking too much vitamin A or D from liver failure. Taking to much causes hypervitaminosa A or hypervitaminosa D. Herbal supplements are whole food supplements.

By: colon cleansing

colon cleansing — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:34:32 +0000

The quality of the info is what keeps me on this site, thanks!

By: Wyatt Martinez

Wyatt Martinez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:32:43 +0000

Well this is true, but i can’t say the same for natural antioxidants, such as what is found in white tea, (Natural white tea) and other things of the sort.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:04:52 +0000

How could you possibly ask ten people on the street a question and get one response from 9.5 of them? Doesn’t that imply that the other response comes from half of one person? Has the tenth person got a multiple personality disorder or something?