Fish oils block chemotherapy drug
By James Gallagher
12 September 2011 Last updated at 17:14
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882108
Fats found in fish oil supplements can stop chemotherapy drugs working, according to researchers.
Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, they advise cancer patients not to take the supplements.
The two fatty acids involved, which are also produced by stem cells in the blood, lead to tumours becoming immune to treatment.
Cancer Research UK advised patients to ask their doctor whether they would be affected.
Scientists in the Netherlands were investigating how tumours develop resistance to treatments.
Fat shield
Experiments on mice showed that stem cells in the blood responded to the widely-used cancer drug cisplatin. The cells started producing two fatty acids, known as KHT and 16:4(n-3).
These fatty acids begin a series of chemical reactions, which mean cancerous cells become resistant to chemotherapy.
Using drugs to block the production of the fatty acids prevented this form of resistance which “significantly enhances the chemotherapy,” the study says.
However, researchers warned that these fatty acids were “abundantly present in commercially available fish oil products”. They showed that off-the-shelf fish oil supplements, given to mice, could stop chemotherapy working against some tumours.
Prof Emile Voest, lead researcher at University Medical Centre Utrecht, said: “We show that the body itself secretes protective substances into the blood that are powerful enough to block the effect of chemotherapy.
“These substances can be found in some types of fish oil.
“Whilst waiting for the results of further research, we currently recommend that these products should not be used whilst people are undergoing chemotherapy.”
Jessica Harris, health information manager for Cancer Research UK, said: “This interesting study suggests one possible option for stopping cancers becoming resistant to treatment, but it is at an early stage and much more research would be needed to develop ways to halt resistance.
“The results also suggest that fish oil preparations may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.
“Cancer patients who are taking or thinking of taking these supplements should talk to their doctors to find out whether they could affect their treatments.”
Please remember that what this shows me and proves is that fish oils are very powerful protectants for the body. Chemo is one of the worse poisons in existence and anything which can block its vile actions shows the power of healing the blocker has within the body. We must also remember that tumors are trophoblast cells which formed you and is nothing more than your natural body. Remember this is why your body does not fight the Cancer, its normal, in fact a form of pregnancy this is why tumors form teeth and nails etc within them by the designer trophoblast cell that failed to go back to the gonad or ovarie area after its work was completed in forming you.
This is why Cancer cells have a negative polarity the same as your immune system so the immune system will repel away from the Cancer. This polarity is given off by a sheath protecting the proliferation site. The idea is to break apart this sheath and expose the positive polarity and thus allow an immune response after building up the Spleen and Kidneys for greater immunity. So think about it, if anything strengthens this tumor like this fish oils do then you can see how it has a protecting method against poisoning for the whole body as many have highlighted in the past.
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