Posted on 09/17/2023 11:22:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Researchers suggest that the intervention of probiotics is a potentially feasible strategy for preventing colon cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. Most patients are diagnosed at the middle and advanced stages due to the longer development of malignancies in the colon and rectum, as well as higher concealment compared to other cancers, which results in a narrow treatment window and high mortality rate.
Gut microbiota and their secreted metabolites have a significant influence on the initiation and progression of colon cancer.
The researchers at IMP have irradiated probiotic JY strain by heavy-ion beams, and obtained an excellent mutant strain JY300-8 through selections of transit tolerance in the upper human gastrointestinal tract. In addition, from the intestine of mice with complete tumor remission, they isolated a strain of L. reuteri with a strong anti-proliferation ability on tumor cell.
After investigating Lactobacillus for colon cancer, the researchers found that the inhibition rates of these probiotics against mice colon cancer cells and human colon cancer cells were more than 50% and 70% respectively, reaching a higher level in similar research. They also found that dual probiotics could reduce the tumor formation rate and tumor volume, and could significantly inhibit the progression of tumors in colon cancer susceptible models in mice.
In addition, the researchers revealed the underlying antitumor mechanism through the alteration of gut microbiota and their metabolites. They combined the carbon ion radiation therapy with gut microbial therapy for the first time, which increases the survival rate of colon cancer model in mice by 50% compared with the control group.
This study enriched the resource of probiotics, and provided a tumor treatment strategy by combining the carbon ion radiotherapy with the gut microbial therapy, laying a theoretical foundation for the precise prevention and management of colon cancer.
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Normal strains should still help, but not likely anywhere to this extent. You can buy these probiotic bacteria, in many such supplements and some yogurts and kefirs.
I consume Greek yogurt, kefir milk and sauerkraut. Just a preventive measure. And I have been inundated with cologard fecal sample requests this year. I gave one in March and every 2 months since then I’m sent reminders and once a kit from my insurance. Just how many do they want from one person in a year? It’s starting to look like a fetish.
My wife and I eat LOTS of fresh green salads, almost every night for dinner. Wonder if that helps...
Oh yeah (forgot). The fecal sample kits. My Dr. is keen on those. Mine always come back negative.
You don’t like the flavor or texture or what about it? Can you add anything to it to enhance it or do you have some side effects from it?
It just tastes too sour-like to me. My wife loves it, though. Guess I’m just too used to the old regular stuff, LOL. Tough to teach an old dog new tricks.
Texture is good. Don’t like that thin Yoplait stuff. Add my own fruit to plain yogurt, I’m good to go!
The best thing to do is eat a wide variety of fermented foods (they each have their own bacterial colonies) as well as resistant starch and soluble and insoluble fiber. If you don’t give the good gut guys food, they die off and don’t produce the butyrate and acetates and other SCFAs.
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I love Greek Yogurt, especially vanilla 0 fat from Trader Joe. I mix frozen blueberries into it and have it for dessert most nights. Trader has organic wild blueberries, the best. Very good for you. You can buy frozen blueberries everywhere. Safeway has great organic blueberries in the freezer. Also strawberries.
Now, all I need is the iPhone 15 in my pocket for a little radiation, and I’m good to go!
I would love to be able to eat any of those berries but the seeds are great for generating Diverticulitis. I don’t like Yogurt. I suppose I can try harder to eat the Yogurt. I seem to be doing ok with what I’m eating. I’ve made it to 90 and taking care of myself.
No seeds in blueberries. I buy them frozen.
But what about those probiotic supplement pills/drinks? Do they do any good or are you just wasting money buying them?
There was an article on Daily Mail, today, along with pictures of recent young victims of colon cancer that made me wonder if this recent outbreak of colon cancer among young adults could be related changing sexual practices and herpes.
Herpes causes ovarian cancer and esophageal cancer. So, maybe it also causes colon cancer.
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