I find it hard to believe that there are not some doctors out there who wouldn't be willing to see if their patients with cancer could be cured with 2 to 5 g of just resveratrol, and do so in a systematic way. There are also many doctors and scientists in other countries.
Can you link to two studies that show resveratrol cured cancer in animals? I haven't seen those.
I'm curious why you ignore the potential for ferulic acid to actually work against two types of tumors.
To Anthony: It says vitamin D 300%, composition (of total product) 365mg and then lists 100mg of trans resveratrol, rice bran phytate and ferulate, quercetin. maxwatt claimed to know the amount, so I'd be curious if he would share that here. The link he provided didn't have that informmation.
There are doctors recommending resveratrol in addition to conventional treatment to their patients. I expect we will be seeing case reports in medical journals one day.
Two links to studies showing efficacy of reseratrol against cancer in animals? The first report was from 1997:
Cancer chemopreventive activity of resveratrol, a natural product derived from grapes.
Jang M, Cai L, Udeani GO, Slowing KV, Thomas CF, Beecher CW, Fong HH, Farnsworth NR, Kinghorn AD, Mehta RG, Moon RC, Pezzuto JM.
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Resveratrol, a phytoalexin found in grapes and other food products, was purified and shown to have cancer chemopreventive activity in assays representing three major stages of carcinogenesis. Resveratrol was found to act as an antioxidant and antimutagen and to induce phase II drug-metabolizing enzymes (anti-initiation activity); it mediated anti-inflammatory effects and inhibited cyclooxygenase and hydroperoxidase functions (antipromotion activity); and it induced human promyelocytic leukemia cell differentiation (antiprogression activity). In addition, it inhibited the development of preneoplastic lesions in carcinogen-treated mouse mammary glands in culture and inhibited tumorigenesis in a mouse skin cancer model. These data suggest that resveratrol, a common constituent of the human diet, merits investigation as a potential cancer chemopreventive agent in humans.
PMID: 8985016
This study "Role of Resveratrol in Prevention and Therapy of Cancer:Preclinical and Clinical Studies" by Aggarwal
et al, summarizes the
in vivo studies as of 2004, and summarizes the various metabolic pathways involved. One fact stands out: Resveratrol exerts much of it's beneficial effect against tumors by inhibiting angiogenesis. You have recommended using a ferulic acid containing supplement for a canine's cancerous tumor, and ferulic acid is known to stimulate angiogenesis, which would have the opposite effect of resveratrol, and would be expected to make the tumor grow by improving its blood supply. THIS IS BAD ADVICE.
The
in vitro studies you cited to show a putative benefit of ferulic acd on cancer are meainngless, dealing with cell cultures that originated from tumors. I can design such a study and show that
anything kills cancer cells. Just use enough of it. A tumor in an animal is another matter.
BS is not providing the current formulation of his Pill in complete detail. He is required to list ferulic acid on the label, however, by the FDA, so we know it's in there.
Edited by maxwatt, 15 July 2009 - 03:24 AM.