Guest guest Posted October 29, 2000 Report Share Posted October 29, 2000 Hi, if you have cancer there are two paths. 1. become a helpless victim of the medical system. Give all responsibility to someone else. 2. try and become an informed patient. Take some responsibility for choice of treatment yourself. If you choose the latter, which I reccommend, then you would be well advised to learn about the immune system and immune activation. Immune activation will work in synergy with the raw vegetable diet, Laetrile B17 therapy, oxygen therapy etc. Healthy active Macrophages can kill cancer cells. Macrophages are usually asleep and can do nothing. Macrophages can be woken up or activated by macrophage activators, like mushroom extracts, beta glucan or mannin, Vitamin D binding protein and herbs like astragalus. Waking up or activating the macrophage is just the first step. Macrophages need food after awakening. One food that macrophages need is VITAMIN C. This is a consumable item, something that cant be stored and will need continual supplementation for optimal macrophage health. The amount of Vitamin C in the macrophage can be a thousand times higher than in the nearby blood serum. To run the car you need two things...1, the ignition key. 2. the Petrol. The ignition key is analagous to the macrophage activator like beta glucan or vitamin D binding protein. The Petrol or macrophage fuel is Vitamin C. Animals with a diet low in Vitamin C develp very small macrophages, those with lots of Vitamin C develop larger macrophages. Animals with low Vitamin C have macrophages that can not move around the body to where they are needed, the place where the disease is. Animals with low Vitamin C, have macrophages that can not make the anti-cancer substances that the macrophage uses to kill the cancer cells. Lack of Vitamin C leads to functional impairment of the cancer killing macrophage cell. No Vitamin C - poor health and activity of macrophages. No immune activator like Beta Glucan, macrophages go to sleep and fail to reach the cytotoxic cancer killing stage of activation. 1: Am J Clin Nutr 1976 Jul;29(7):762-5 Macrophage function in vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs. Ganguly R, Durieux MF, Waldman RH Guinea pigs were fed a vitamin C-deficient diet and at various time periods thereafter their peritoneal cells were tested for biological activity.Fewer macrophages were obtained from the peritoneal cavities of deficient animals and in structural appearance under the phase contrast and light microscope they were smaller in size. The macrophages, however, exhibited significantly reduced migration on glass as compared to the normal cells. In vitro addition of vitamin C partially reversed this reduced migration. PMID: 937230, UI: 76228710 1: Allerg Immunol (Leipz) 1985;31(1):37-43 Macrophage functions in aging: effects of vitamin C deficiency. Ganguly R, Waldman RH Groups of young adult and senescent guinea pigs were fed normal and vitamin C deficient diets for 4 weeks and tested for their peritoneal macrophage functions. Adverse effects of vitamin C deficiency were enhanced in aged animals. Deficient senescent animals had greater decline in macrophage random migration and bactericidal capacity. Following phagocytic stimuli, superoxide anion generation also significantly decreased. Data suggest that vitamin C deficiency might affect macrophage functions in the aged more profoundly and could compromise parameters of host defenses effective against microbial infections. PMID: 2986438, UI: 85195884 moonbeam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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