Have you ever thought that it would be possible to beat cancer by eating.
In the TED talk we watched this week, doctor Li talked about the possibility to prevent and beat cancer by having the right diet, a diet that contains anti-angiogenic foods and drugs.
The body is made up of blood vesels, millions of them, most of which grow while you're still in the whoom. Angiogenicus is the cells that feed tumors and allow cancerous cells to grown and spread. Anti-angiogenic treatment is the act of starving cancers, not allowing them to grown and makinging them shrink or die out.
Doctors conducted a few tests on animals to see if anti-angiogenic treatments really worked to increase the life of animals with cancer. A dog with a large tumor on his shoulder was given anti-angiogenic food and creme, the dog lived about six times longer than the vetranarian predicted.
They realized that they were trying to treat cancer to late in the game. treating people who already have dangerous cancerous cells/tumors. Dr. Li found many foods that were anti-angiogenic, eating these foods to prevent cancer buy not letting them grow. red grapes, strawberries, pineapple, and even dark chocolote are just a few anti-angiogenic foods.
I find this fascinating because everyone says "eat right", but who knew that doing this made such a big difference, big enough a difference to fight off horrible things like cancer. Eating right in the first place is such a better alternative as to getting treatment for cancer. Chemo is used to kill cancerous cells, but at the same time it kills good cells too, I personally would much rather eat foods that are good for you and not have to deal with such a painful process
