Anti-Angiogenesis: Cutting Off Tumor Supply Lines
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-07-12

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DESCRIPTION: Cancer cells are commonly present in the body, but cannot grow into tumors without hooking up a blood supply. Angiogenesis inhibitors in plant foods may help prevent this from happening.

The cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 is another angiogenic factor, helping tumors turn on the gravy train. This may be another reason plant-based diets protect against cancer, since as few as two weeks on a healthy diet can lower IGF-1 levels. See my series on the elegant experiments that discovered this:

• Ex Vivo Cancer Proliferation Bioassay (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/developing-an-ex-vivo-cancer-proliferation-bioassay/)
• IGF-1 as One-Stop Cancer Shop (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/igf-1-as-one-stop-cancer-shop/)
• Cancer-Proofing Mutation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-proofing-mutation/)
• The Answer to the Pritikin Puzzle (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-answer-to-the-pritikin-puzzle/)
• How Plant-Based to Lower IGF-1? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-plant-based-to-lower-igf-1/)

One way cancer turns on the tap is silencing certain tumor suppressor genes. How do you turn them back on? See, for example, Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/apple-skin-peeling-back-cancer/).

How else can strawberries smack on the cancer kibosh? See Strawberries versus Esophageal Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/strawberries-versus-esophageal-cancer) and Cancer Fighting Berries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-fighting-berries-2/).

Because we all likely have cancer cells inside us, Cancer Prevention and Treatment May Be the Same Thing (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-prevention-and-treatment-may-be-the-same-thing/). To die with cancer rather than from cancer, we need to slow down cancer doubling time. Check out one of my oldie-but-goodie video Slowing the Growth of Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/slowing-the-growth-of-cancer-3/).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-angiogenesis-cutting-off-tumor-supply-lines/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: Jeff Kubina via flickr; Sun417, Evan-Amos, Amagill, and Igno2 via Wikimedia; and niusheng11.

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