*Essential for normal cell division and function.
*Important for acid-base balance.
*Important for detoxification, cell health, healing, and recovery.
*Important for the prevention and/or treatment of several cancers.
*Can be depleted* from a bad diet, sleep deprivation, high levels of stress, and acid-base imbalance or acidic blood pH.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 September 2010 08:26 )
- Michael Landon, Patrick Swayze, and YouTube founder Randy Pausch
- 95% Pancreatic cancer patients die within 5 years of diagnosis, only 2% of federal cancer funds.
- "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand" - Randy Pausch YouTube founder
- premature deaths among survivors was 11 times the number expected in the general population.
- largely due to exposure to radiation during treatment and to the more toxic cancer drugs.
- 7 percent due to a recurrence of their original disease, 77 percent due to new cancers, heart disease, and so-called cerebrovascular disease, which causes high blood pressure and strokes.
- Each 10 mg/dL increase in HDL levels reduced cancer risk by 36%.
- The risk of developing any type of cancer during follow-up decreased as a person's baseline HDL cholesterol levels rose.
- "Our most effective HDL-raising drug that's currently available is niacin," -- Niacin is a B-vitamin, but given in mega-doses. People can increase their HDL levels by exercising, eating well, maintaining a healthy weight, drinking moderately, keeping their weight under control, and not smoking.
- Participants with the highest-glycemic index diets were 78% more likely to have pancreatic cancer.
- It is possible that such diets could contribute to pancreatic risk, such foods influence the body's secretion of the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin -- And insulin encourages the growth and division of cells in the pancreas -- raising the possibility that the hormone could encourage the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer cells.