Metabolic therapies include natural, botanically based substances that target cancer, based on cancer cells’ metabolic (enzymatic) limitations.

​

Hence, the cancer cells die while the healthy cells are either completely unaffected or enhanced. One of the therapies will be:

​

Curcumin

Curcumin (Curcuma longa) has as its main therapeutic substance, diferuloyl methane. It is derived from turmeric, a plant that belongs to the ginger family. Both laboratory, as well as epidemiological studies have shown that curcumin has a multitude of anticancer effects.

​

Turmeric is a spice that is grown in many Asian countries and is also known as Indian saffron, jiang huang, haridra and haldi. The main culinary product is curcumin powder. It has been used not only as a food condiment in Asian cuisine but also in all of the traditional medical disciplines throughout the world, including Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

​

Research has been able to show that there are low rates of cancer in countries where people eat 100mg to 200mg a day over long periods of time. Over 2,000 published studies have shown curcumin is effective against cancers of the breast, prostate, liver, colon, lung, pancreas and more.

​

Many of these studies have shown curcumin actually stops cancer cells from dividing. It causes them to “commit suicide”, prevents spread (metastases) and stops them from forming in the first place.

The beauty of this substance is that curcumin has the ability to target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. It is even protective. This is in broad contrast to chemotherapy, which destroys all cells, healthy as well as cancer cells.

 

Curcumin Targets Cancer in Multiple Ways

Curcumin changes both gene activity and expression and thereby not only destroys cancer cells but it promotes healthy cell function. In addition, it has anti-angiogenic properties, which prevent new blood vessels from forming so that the cancer cells cannot grow or spread.

​

Curcumin affects over 100 molecular pathways once it gets into the cell resulting in the following:

• Stops the growth and spread of tumor cells.

• Stops healthy cells from becoming cancer cells.

• Able to stop mutated cells so that they cannot spread.

• Decreases inflammation, which is how cancer stem cells spread and set up “camp”.

• Blocks the proteins necessary to form tumors.

• Stops new blood vessels from forming.