An ingredient in olive oil that appears to kill cancer cells
A Rutgers nutritional scientist and two cancer biologists at New York City’s Hunter College have found that an ingredient in extra-virgin olive oil kills a variety of human cancer cells without harming healthy cells.
The ingredient is oleocanthal, a compound that ruptures a part of the cancerous cell, releasing enzymes that cause cell death.
Wouldn't it be better to get dosed with the active ingredient rather than the whole oil? Assuming you are treating cancer?
BTW THC in combination with CBD appears to operate similarly.
From the link:
Scientists knew that oleocanthal killed some cancer cells, but no one really understood how this occurred. Breslin believed that oleocanthal might be targeting a key protein in cancer cells that triggers a programmed cell death, known as apoptosis, and worked with Foster and Legendre to test his hypothesis.
“We needed to determine if oleocanthal was targeting that protein and causing the cells to die,” Breslin said.
After applying oleocanthal to the cancer cells, Foster and LeGendre discovered that the cancer cells were dying very quickly — within 30 minutes to an hour. Since programmed cell death takes between 16 and 24 hours, the scientists realized that something else had to be causing the cancer cells to break down and die.
From my research cannabis appears to function similarly. It also has the following properties in addition to apoptosis:
antiproliferative
antiangiogenic
antimetastatic
So far the results for olive oil are just lab studies. For cannabis we have anecdotes such as " Dr. William Courtney brain tumor " (look it up). Which is the next best thing to human trials. Which are not allowed in the US. Because Big Brother loves you. As do Progressive Prohibitionist Republicans.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
