The code of life
In our genome any function is encoded twice. Even if a person inherits one mutant gene, and the other is full. Just over time, the patient gene can interfere with the function of healthy and resulting in the development of the tumor. To replace the mutant gene on healthy medicine is not yet capable. But there was an idea: what if you try to activate a healthy gene, as the doctors say, to increase its expression in several times to fully offset the mutant and not given to develop the disease? Researchers began to search for substances that could activate a healthy gene. And found the so-called modulators of gene expression in 20 products.
If you look at our menu, it's safe to say that each of the products have a certain degree of activity, regulating the activity of genes. But in this list there favorites: green tea, broccoli, grapes and tomatoes. The harvest is past catches up just in these days.
3 bunches of grapes or 120 g of Apple juice
Its anti-cancer properties grapes obliged to the substance resveratrol, plant the pigment anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins. And grape juice not only prevents the risk of cancer, but also inhibits the growth and spread of cancer cells, improves the immune system. It is particularly effective for colorectal cancer and breast cancer.
American scientists from the University of Kentucky has opened new healing properties of grapes: it turns out that his bones to help fight leukemia. During the experiment, more than three quarters of the cancer cells died within 24 hours after exposure to the extract from grape seeds, actually destroying themselves and leaving other cells unharmed.
Previous experiments have revealed positive functions grape seed against certain tumors in the uterus. Doctors noticed that flavonoids are grapes contributed to the reduction of the tumor and kill the cancer cells.
And the fact that the grapes reduces the risk of developing stomach cancer, has proven a recent study at the University of California. The Americans discovered that contained in grapes, resveratrol blocks the intracellular receptors involved in malignant transformation of cells of the stomach. In addition, resveratrol can not only prevent, but also to slow the progression of already established tumors.
Daily treatment routine Skye dose of resveratrol contained in the three clusters of grapes, the researchers say. Mostly in black. The same amount of antioxidant can be obtained by drinking 120 g of concentrated grape juice.
460 g of tomatoes
Researchers from Harvard medical school found that among fans of tomatoes, the risk of developing prostate cancer is reduced by 21-34%. But Italian scientists have studied the life and diet of 2700 patients with cancer of the digestive tract, and compared with the life and diet 2900 healthy people daily consume tomatoes. The study showed that the adherents tomato diet the risk of developing colon cancer by 30-40% (depending on tumor localization) less than those who eat tomatoes from case to case.
Another study conducted by the American Association of oncologists in Philadelphia and a group of scientists from the cancer Institute in Detroit. They reported the preventive effect of lycopene contained in tomatoes, if you have prostate cancer. Oncologists found that in patients treated before surgery lycopene, deleted tumors were smaller, and cancer cells showed a lower propensity to metastasis than patients who lycopene did not accept.
But, as the researchers note, the benefits of tomatoes is only when they are eaten with vegetable oil or cheese. Because lycopene is soluble in fats, and fats are digested in the intestine.
By the way, your red tomato owes the lycopene. Watermelon and pink grapes also contain lycopene, but in much smaller quantities. Other gifts of nature red (strawberry, raspberry, red pepper) do not contain lycopene. Didn't show up in yellow or pale pink tomatoes. Want to help genes - eat dark red tomatoes.
5 cups of tea and 300 grams of broccoli
One of the most "magical" products is green tea. Its anticancer action, he obliged the catechins, a powerful natural antioxidants. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is the main catechin of green tea - successfully activates a healthy gene, which suddenly stops due to the influence of the patient. No wonder statistics from the Chinese and Japanese, constantly drinking good green tea, breast cancer occurs much less frequently than women in America and Europe.
Another substance - indole-3-carbinol is found in broccoli, previously known for its beneficial properties.
In order to obtain the desired dose of EGCG, you need to drink at least 5 cups of good green tea. And elanee tea, so it is more useful as a healing connection is hidden in the top of the tea Bush in 5-6 little pieces. And in order to stimulate the expression of the healthy gene, every day we need to eat 300-400 grams of broccoli.
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