25 Cancer Stem-Cell Killing Foods That Are Smarter Than Chemo and Radiation By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A new scientific review has identified 25 of the top foods and herbs which kill cancer stem cells at the root cause of cancer malignancy. There are thousands of natural compounds that have been studied with demonstrable anti-cancer activity (check out over 600 on GreenMedInfo’s cancer research database), but only a small subset of these have been proven to target and kill the cancer stem cells which lie at the root of cancer malignancy. Turmeric, for instance, we have featured a number of times for its “smart kill” property of targeting just the heart of cancerous tumors. More recently, ginger has been found in pre-clinical research to contain a compound up to 10,000 times more effective than the chemotherapy drug Taxol at killing breast cancer stem cells. Even common foods like blueberry have special cancer killing properties, as discussed in a previous article for GreenMedInfo: Research: Radiotherapy Causes Cancer, Blueberry Kills It. A new study published in the journal Anticancer Research, titled “Natural Products That Target Cancer Stem Cells“, has made our job much easier of identifying this special category of cancer killers by reviewing the extant literature on the topic and listing the top 25 substances in this category. They are listed here below, along with some of their commonly recognizable dietary sources. 25 Cancer Stem Cell Killing Foods Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) – Green Tea 6-Gingerol – Ginger ?-Carotene – Carrot, Leafy Greens Baicalein – Chinese Skullcap Curcumin – Turmeric Cyclopamine – Corn Lilly [we do not suggest consuming this plant; this simply illustrates natural components exist that kill cancer stem cells] Delphinidin – Blueberry, raspberrry Flavonoids (Genistein) – Soy, red clover, coffee Gossypol – Cottonseed [we do not suggest consuming this plant; this simply illustrates natural components exist that kill cancer stem cells] Guggulsterone – Commiphora (myrrh tree) Isothiocyanates – Cruciferous vegetables Linalool – Mint Lycopene – Grapefruit, tomato Parthenolide – Feverfew Perylill alcohol – Mint, cherry, lavender Piperine – Black pepper Placycodon saponin – Playycodon grandifloruim Psoralidin – Psoralea corylilyfolia Quercetin – Capers, onion Resveratrol – Grapes, plums, berries Salinomycin – Streptomyces albus Silibinin – Milk Thistle Ursolic acid – Thyme, basil, oregano Vitamin D3 – Fish, egg yolk, beef, cod liver oil Withaferin A – Withania somnifera (ashwaganda) Why are these substances so important? The primary reason why conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy have failed to produce any significant improvements in cancer survival rates is because cancer stem cells are resistant to these interventions. In fact, chemotherapy and especially radiation are both capable of increasing the number and virulence of these cells in a tumor, while at the same time having the well known side effect of further damaging the patient’s immune system. While the cancer industry is still very much resistant to incorporating the implications of these findings into their standard of care (which is highly unethical), there are an increasing number of health practitioners that will not turn their back on the truth and are very much interested in alternative ways to prevent and treat cancer using food and/or plant-based approaches. The new study addresses the relevance of cancer stem cells as follows: The cancer stem cell model suggests that tumor initiation is governed by a small subset of distinct cells with stem-like character termed cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs possess properties of self-renewal and intrinsic survival mechanisms that contribute to resistance of tumors to most chemotherapeutic drugs. The failure to eradicate CSCs during the course of therapy is postulated to be the driving force for tumor recurrence and metastasis. Recent studies have focused on understanding the unique phenotypic properties of CSCs from various tumor types, as well as the signaling pathways that underlie self-renewal and drug resistance.” At present, the cancer industry has failed to produce a single drug that targets the cancer stem cell population of cells within a tumor, as confirmed by the study: If indeed the CSC response is a vital criterion for cancer treatment evaluation, there are still no drugs in clinical use that specifically target CSCs. The ability to selectively target cancer cells, and cancer stem cells in particular, while leaving intact the non-tumor cells in tissue is extremely important. We have created a section on the GreenMedInfo database that indexes research on these substances and now includes 67 of them here. We are also building a section that collates research cancer stem cells, a topic will no doubt become a central part of the future of cancer treatment, assuming the priority is to actually alleviate suffering and not just make money off of patients. Recommended articles by Sayer Ji: Better Than Chemo: Turmeric Kills Cancer Not Patients Mammography Is Harmful and Should Be Abandoned, Scientific Review Concludes Cinnamon May Be Superior to Ibuprofen for Menstrual Pain, Study Reveals “Killer Germs” Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke Smudging, Study Reveals Coconut Water: A New Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment? Turmeric’s ‘Smart Kill’ Properties Put Chemo & Radiation To Shame 6 Evidence-Based Ways Drumming Heals Body, Mind and Soul Tylenol Kills Emotions As Well As Pain, Study Reveals Research: Plants Cure Cancer, Not Chemicals Beet Juice Boosts Cognitive Function In One Dose 13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil About the author: Sayer-JiSayer Ji is an author, educator, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO-Free Coalition (GGFC), advisory board member of the National Health Federation, and the founder of GreenMedInfo.com – an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. His writings have been published and referenced widely in print and online, including Truthout, Mercola.com, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, New York Times and The Well Being Journal. In 1995 Sayer received a BA degree in Philosophy from Rutgers University, where he studied under the American philosopher Dr. Bruce W. Wilshire, with a focus on the philosophy of science. In 1996, following residency at the Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, he embarked on a 5 year journey of service as a counsellor-teacher and wilderness therapy specialist for various organizations that serve underprivileged and/or adjudicated populations. Since 2003, Sayer has served as a patient advocate and an educator and consultant for the natural health and wellness field. Visit GreenMedInfo online and on Facebook, or sign up for GreenMedInfo’s e-Newsletter. PrintFriendly and PDFPrint Friendly or Save as PDF

HOW POOR LIFESTYLE AND NUTRITION CHOICES DAMAGE YOUR IQ

Lets face it. A polluted and toxic mind can’t be trusted to produce an optimal mind set or to manufacture optimal decisions. Our society today is continually asked to swallow a massive paradox and that paradox revolves around the idea that although we know an unhealthy lifestyle can make our body sick, we’re conditioned to ignore or not even to believe that an unhealthy lifestyle can make our mind sick as well. Unfortunately an unhealthy lifestyle negatively affects our IQ and rational thought patterns instantly. The solution is simple. Knowledge is power. Time to power up and learn the connection between optimal health and optimal brain function. This is the basic science of how an unhealthy lifestyle reduces our ability to think clearly and to manufacture optimal decisions, which would make our life easier, as we age. The truth of this cycle is also easy to see in real life, as most of the public today only encounter a worsening of their finances, stress and general living conditions as they age. This of course is counter intuitive because as we age, our cumulative life experience is supposed to grant us the knowledge to make our life easier but of course we don’t see much of this in real life. The reason for this is often connected to how an unhealthy lifestyle and sub-optimal diet destroy the minds’ ability to act in a rational and logical manner. The flight or fight mode is a concept we’re all familiar with. Our body comes equipped with a set of standard and built in reactions, our fight our flight mode being one of those. Our fight or flight mode operations are very simple. If we’re threatened, certain chemical reactions start occurring in our body, as a way to increase our survival potential, in the face of a threat. T The reactions to fear or a threat, which the body produces are numerous and well documented. Those reactions include a dilation of the pupils to take in more light and more visual information regarding the perceived threat. The heart rate increases in order to pump more blood into legs and arms, regarding either fighting or running away. The liver reduces sugar in a massive wave, in order to inject instant energy into the muscular system regarding the energy laden event that’s right around the corner. Here’s where the problem comes in. One of the body’s reactions within the flight or fight metabolic set up, is a lowering of IQ. Why does the body purposely lower IQ when faced with a threat and how does the flight or fight system get activated when someone eats poorly? Let me explain. First of all, when the body is faced with a threat, it understands quite clearly that the higher brain functions aren’t going to be needed during the fight or flight situation. Oddly enough the higher brain functions, if left on, would lessen the body’s chance of survival because the higher brain functions include love, compassion, connection and other peace based applications. The body doesn’t need nor want this part of the brain operating if a fight breaks out because any hesitation of violence, during the fight or flight reaction could see the aggressor get the upper hand. These peaceful and higher level brain functions, located in the frontal lobe, are there when we need to act within the peaceful societal parameters set out within our cultural conditioning and this is exactly why the body shuts this part of the brain down in preparation for violence. When this part of the mind is shut down during the fight or flight mode, IQ plummets and overall intelligence is severely compromised. The fight or flight reaction can reduce an intelligent human to cave man like IQ status in the blink of an eye. Here’s where it gets interesting. Rapid reductions of blood sugar sets off this fight or flight mode as does any ingestion of a substance, which the body doesn’t categorize as real food. Just because we can fit it in our mouths and swallow it, doesn’t meant the body is going to see it as healthy food. The body is as afraid of low blood sugar as it is afraid of a lion attack. Both qualify as threats because our life is threatened equally in both situations. A wild animal attack and not getting proper food (stable blood sugar – what we need to live longer) can all result in death. Junk food and unhealthy living sets off our fight or flight system because the body sees eating poisons as an instant threat. For example, alcohol consumption can set off this reaction and lower IQ substantially in minutes. This effect is also measured to last much longer than most people believe, setting the blood sugar on a wild up and down roller coaster ride, for days or even weeks after ingestion. Most people are not eating optimally and that could be the understatement of the century. Then these people are applying their polluted and lowered IQ’s to a frenzy of various decisions, which effect their short term and long term futures. It’s like a bad infomercial because…wait there’s more. The toxins ingested and inhaled during toxic living bio accumulate so the IQ lowering effect of a bad lifestyle increases with time. The longer someone lives an unhealthy lifestyle, the worse their brain works. The results are easy to predict. When someone is polluted and unhealthy, they’re going to be manufacturing key life decisions out of a sub standard mind, hard wired for low IQ and faulty perception. For more information on this IQ lowering effect of a bad diet, one can watch Dr. Russell Blaylock’s lecture free on Youtube titled “Nutrition and Behaviour". For anyone interested in what it really means to live a healthy lifestyle they can pick up the book by Paul Chek titled, “How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy" or Dr. Mark Hyman’s book titled, “Ultra Metabolism". Jason Christoff Bio & More Posts - Author's Website Follow Me: Facebook

Everything you ever wanted to know about Elon Musk’s Hyperloop super train JOHN KOETSIER AUGUST 13, 2013 8:40 AM TAGS: ELON MUSK, FEATURED, HYPERLOOP, SPACEX, TESLA

Everything you ever wanted to know about Elon Musk’s Hyperloop super train JOHN KOETSIER AUGUST 13, 2013 8:40 AM TAGS: ELON MUSK, FEATURED, HYPERLOOP, SPACEX, TESLA hyperloop Image Credit: Tesla Love reading VB using RSS? We’ve migrated our RSS feed to FeedBurner. Click here to subscribe and read VentureBeat in your favorite RSS reader. Inventor, philanthropist, billionaire, and titan of industry Elon Musk unveiled a 57-page plan yesterday for a super-speed train that would take passengers between LA and San Francisco in just 30 minutes. We previewed it, and we covered it. But there’s a lot more to know about the Hyperloop — a high-speed train-in-a-tube that makes all other high-speed trains look like they’re stuck in first gear — including the current fastest train in the world in regular operation, the 268 mph Shanghai maglev train, which I’ve personally ridden. You could all read those 57 pages — or scan these Cole’s Notes. The basic Hyperloop concept in a nutshell: People-carrying capsules running through a long metal tube 28-person capacity 40 total capsules in activity at rush hour Almost a cross between the pneumatic tube delivery systems in old buildings and a Japanese bullet train Capsules float on cushions of air like hockey pucks Tube is elevated on 25,000 concrete pylons Gallery: Gallery Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.28.45 AM Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.10 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.34 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.52 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.05 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.22 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.31.39 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.32.07 AM The Hyperloop’s speed and initial routes: Up to 760 miles per hour, or Mach .91 at the tube’s air pressure Slowing to 300 mph for turns Compares to most airplanes’ speed of 550 mph At Hyperloop speeds, travel time from L.A. to San Francisco is 30 minutes Additional cities to be added later: San Diego, Sacramento, and Fresno Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.32.07 AMCosts: Passenger capsules: $1.3 million each Car and cargo capsules: $1.5 million each Stations: $125 million each Tube, pillars, and stations: $4 billion, or $5.31 billion for a larger tube with higher capacity Total cost: $6.1 billion Comparison: the proposed California High Speed Rail project is estimated at $68.4 billion Air, pressure, and pumping: Atmospheric pressure inside the tube: 17 percent of the pressure of Mars, which is already only 1 percent of Earth at sea level Equivalent to the air pressure on earth at 150,000 feet, four times higher than most airplanes fly There’s still too much pressure against the capsules, so each capsule pumps air from the front to the back via a compressor — and uses some of it to float on like a hockey puck Power: All power is provided by solar panels on the top of the 381-mile-long tube Energy cost per passenger: less than 100 megajoules (about 3/4 of a gallon of gas) Energy cost per car in cargo capsules: about 220 megajoules Per-passenger comparisons: car (800 MJ), motorcycle (900MJ), airplane (1100 MJ) Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.22 AMTicket prices and round-trip travel times: Hyperloop: $40 round-trip 1 hour 10 minutes total travel time Airplane: $158 round-trip 2 hours 30 minutes total travel time Car: $115 round-trip (gas only) 11 hours total travel time Proposed California High Speed Rail: $210 round-trip 5 hours total travel time Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.05 AMSafety and reliability Capsules always connected via radio with station operators Redundant power supplies on-board Backup mechanical braking mechanism in case electrical motors fail Oxygen masks for passengers deploy in case of depressurization Tube can be rapidly re-pressurized if needed Tube built with flexibility to withstand earthquakes Motors Motors are in the tubes, not the capsules Hyperloop uses linear induction electric motors, similar to those in the Tesla The linear induction motor works via electromagnetism Motors are only required for about one percent of the tube: initial speed-up and quick top-ups every 70 miles Most of the time, capsules simply coast AI. Messaging. Bots. Arm yourself for the next paradigm shift at MobileBeat 2016. July 12-13 at The Village in San Francisco. Reserve your place here.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Elon Musk’s Hyperloop super train JOHN KOETSIER AUGUST 13, 2013 8:40 AM TAGS: ELON MUSK, FEATURED, HYPERLOOP, SPACEX, TESLA hyperloop Image Credit: Tesla Love reading VB using RSS? We’ve migrated our RSS feed to FeedBurner. Click here to subscribe and read VentureBeat in your favorite RSS reader. Inventor, philanthropist, billionaire, and titan of industry Elon Musk unveiled a 57-page plan yesterday for a super-speed train that would take passengers between LA and San Francisco in just 30 minutes. We previewed it, and we covered it. But there’s a lot more to know about the Hyperloop — a high-speed train-in-a-tube that makes all other high-speed trains look like they’re stuck in first gear — including the current fastest train in the world in regular operation, the 268 mph Shanghai maglev train, which I’ve personally ridden. You could all read those 57 pages — or scan these Cole’s Notes. The basic Hyperloop concept in a nutshell: People-carrying capsules running through a long metal tube 28-person capacity 40 total capsules in activity at rush hour Almost a cross between the pneumatic tube delivery systems in old buildings and a Japanese bullet train Capsules float on cushions of air like hockey pucks Tube is elevated on 25,000 concrete pylons Gallery: Gallery Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.28.45 AM Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.10 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.34 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.29.52 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.05 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.22 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.31.39 AMScreen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.32.07 AM The Hyperloop’s speed and initial routes: Up to 760 miles per hour, or Mach .91 at the tube’s air pressure Slowing to 300 mph for turns Compares to most airplanes’ speed of 550 mph At Hyperloop speeds, travel time from L.A. to San Francisco is 30 minutes Additional cities to be added later: San Diego, Sacramento, and Fresno Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.32.07 AMCosts: Passenger capsules: $1.3 million each Car and cargo capsules: $1.5 million each Stations: $125 million each Tube, pillars, and stations: $4 billion, or $5.31 billion for a larger tube with higher capacity Total cost: $6.1 billion Comparison: the proposed California High Speed Rail project is estimated at $68.4 billion Air, pressure, and pumping: Atmospheric pressure inside the tube: 17 percent of the pressure of Mars, which is already only 1 percent of Earth at sea level Equivalent to the air pressure on earth at 150,000 feet, four times higher than most airplanes fly There’s still too much pressure against the capsules, so each capsule pumps air from the front to the back via a compressor — and uses some of it to float on like a hockey puck Power: All power is provided by solar panels on the top of the 381-mile-long tube Energy cost per passenger: less than 100 megajoules (about 3/4 of a gallon of gas) Energy cost per car in cargo capsules: about 220 megajoules Per-passenger comparisons: car (800 MJ), motorcycle (900MJ), airplane (1100 MJ) Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.22 AMTicket prices and round-trip travel times: Hyperloop: $40 round-trip 1 hour 10 minutes total travel time Airplane: $158 round-trip 2 hours 30 minutes total travel time Car: $115 round-trip (gas only) 11 hours total travel time Proposed California High Speed Rail: $210 round-trip 5 hours total travel time Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 8.30.05 AMSafety and reliability Capsules always connected via radio with station operators Redundant power supplies on-board Backup mechanical braking mechanism in case electrical motors fail Oxygen masks for passengers deploy in case of depressurization Tube can be rapidly re-pressurized if needed Tube built with flexibility to withstand earthquakes Motors Motors are in the tubes, not the capsules Hyperloop uses linear induction electric motors, similar to those in the Tesla The linear induction motor works via electromagnetism Motors are only required for about one percent of the tube: initial speed-up and quick top-ups every 70 miles Most of the time, capsules simply coast AI. Messaging. Bots. Arm yourself for the next paradigm shift at MobileBeat 2016. July 12-13 at The Village in San Francisco. Reserve your place here.