Grape Seed Extract May Beat Chemo in Late-Stage Cancer

Grape Seed Extract May Beat Chemo in Late-Stage Cancer









The benefits of grape seed extract in cancer are well
documented, but modern medicine won’t do anything with it until the
mechanism of action has been found, so that it can be isolated,
purified, made poisonous and owned by a single company for enormous
profits.


Photo by Jeff Devries


by Heidi Stevenson

The more advanced cancer is, the less effective chemotherapy is.
However, a new study has shown that grape seed extract has exactly the
opposite quality: The more advanced the cancer, the less extract that’s
needed to kill it. On top of that, the study also shows that grape seed
extract targets the cancer cells that become most resistant to
chemotherapy.

In the face of this remarkable new development, it’s likely that
grape seed extract is more effective in treating late-stage cancer than
modern medicine’s chemotherapy. Not only does it take less and less of
the substance to kill cancer cells, it’s able to target the cells that
have become drug resistant, thus making chemo useless!

Yet again, the common misperception that modern medicine’s treatments
are stronger or more potent or better in any way is shown to be
mistaken. Sadly, it’s a mistake that can kill.

Grape Seed Extract Exposes Modern Medicine’s Failings


The study in question was produced in the University of Colorado Cancer Center and published in the journal Cancer Letters. It
was an in vitro study, not in vivo. That is, no living creatures were
involved. The study was performed on cell cultures. That might make it
seem relatively insignificant. However, much prior research has already
documented grape seed extract’s ability to control and kill cancer, so
that’s not in much doubt. What this study discovered is a plausible
means by which it happens. This is the kind of information that modern
medicine craves.

Have you ever noticed how there’s so much focus on the idea that
cholesterol causes heart disease? It doesn’t, but that doesn’t deter the
ongoing research that assumes it to be true. That’s because modern
medicine demands to know how something works—or at least to be given an
explanation, whether true or not. There’s an assumption that, if you
know that A is associated with B, then controlling A will prevent or
cure B. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s true, only that it sounds
plausible.

The “Plausible” Mode of Action


Rather than focusing on what really counts—survival and return to
health—medicine focuses on markers that are based on plausible modes of
action.

Once a “plausible” mode of action idea has caught on, research funds
get directed towards it. A search goes on to find ways to control that
presumed connection. That’s why we have statins. They’re associated with
heart disease. They don’t cause it, but a seemingly plausible theory
was produced saying that cholesterol causes heart disease. Therefore,
since statins can reduce cholesterol, they’re the first thing a doctor
prescribes when someone has any sort of heart disease sign—even just
being past the age of 40 or 50.

Statins don’t produce health. In fact, they destroy it, causing
memory loss, muscle damage, and death. But they’re a perfect example of a
plausible idea getting research funding, drugs being developed to cause
a change in a marker, doctors prescribing it, and enormous profits
getting funneled to Big Pharma.

Ultimately, does it matter whether a treatment can meet some
arbitrary marker, or is it more important that it heals you? The answer
should be obvious—and it is to everyone but a medical system that’s gone
awry. Modern medicine wants a product that’s owned by Big Pharma
because that apparently means it’s science-based. That it invariably
costs an exorbitant amount and doesn’t cure isn’t of concern. All that
matters is that arbitrary markers be met.

Therefore, while it’s interesting to learn something about how a
treatment works, let’s get on with it. Let’s focus on the fact that
grape seed extract does work and inform people so they can take
advantage of it.

Health Benefits of Grape Seed Extract


It’s well established that resveratrol, which is found in both grape
seeds and skins, is the active ingredient that does so much good. So,
what can resveratrol, or grape seed or grape skin extract do for you?
Let’s take a look at what studies have shown:

• Pancreatic cancer cell proliferation is inhibited by resveratrol.
  
• Resveratrol is protective against several types of viruses, though the means by which protection is accomplished is unknown:
  
  
  
  • Herpes simplex 1 infections.
    
  • Varicella zoster (chicken pox and shingles)
    
  • Human cytomegalovirus
    
  • Epstein-Barr virus
    
  • Enterovirus type 71 (which can cause paralysis, including the heart)
    
  
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• Growth of colorectal cancers are halted by resveratrol.
  
• Resveratrol has been shown to stimulate cognitive function in mice.
  
• Fungal infections, which are notoriously difficult to treat, have
  been shown to respond to resveratrol, and without the adverse effects of
  standard drug therapy.
  
• Resveratrol exerts a protective effect on the cardiovascular system.
  
• Autoimmune myocarditis in rats was shown to improve with application of resveratrol.
  
• Alzheimer’s disease may be warded off by grape seed extract.
  
• Head and neck cancer cells are destroyed by resveratrol, but healthy cells are unharmed.
  

Every item in this list comes from a scientific study.

We must all make our own choices regarding health. However, the
medical world is waiting for a Big Pharma-sanctioned product made from
grape seeds—one that will likely have been sliced and diced until all
symbiotic interactions with other ingredients are lost and harmful
effects naturally mitigated through that symbiotic action are enhanced.
Until that time, you won’t see grape seed extract offered by any modern
medical doctor.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t take it. At least, right now. The day
is coming when agencies like the FDA will tell us that we don’t have
that right, as discussed in FDA Gives Sole Herbal Product Rights to Big Pharma.
We’re already seeing parents denied the right to have their children’s
medical needs treated naturally. If you care about your health, be sure
that you can maintain access to all those natural substances that Big
Pharma is maneuvering to have taken from us.
Source:-
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-01-23/grape-seed-extract-beats-chemo-in-late-stage-cancer/