Turmeric Curcumin Reprogramming Cancer Cell Death
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-03-17

The spice turmeric appears to be able to switch back on the self-destruct mechanism within cancer cells.

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All of my latest turmeric videos can be found at https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/turmeric.

This is the last of a three part video series on turmeric and cancer. If you missed the first two, check out: Back to Our Roots: Curry (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/back-to-our-roots-curry-and-cancer) and Carcinogen Blocking Effects of Turmeric Curcumin (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/carcinogen-blocking-effects-of-turmeric-curcumin).

Other herbs and spices such as garlic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/1-anticancer-vegetable/) and amla (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/some-ayurvedic-medicine-worse-than-lead-paint-exposure/) have similar selective effects against cancer cell.

I talk more about this concept of "apoptosis," programmed cell death in:
• Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-deletion-theory-of-immunity/)
• Ex Vivo Cancer Proliferation Bioassay (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/developing-an-ex-vivo-cancer-proliferation-bioassay/)
• Is It the Diet, the Exercise, or Both? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it-the-diet-the-exercise-or-both/)
• The Answer to the Pritikin Puzzle (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-answer-to-the-pritikin-puzzle/)

Image Credit: Lucidialohman and Donovan & Meggin Eastman via flickr, and Susan Arnold via Wikimedia. Original animation thanks to the wizardry of Amélie Bernier-Jean, M.D. and her husband, Shane Barrett.

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