Tag: cancer

Colchicum autumnale – Protected and very poisonous

Colchicum autumnale - Jena, Germany (16-09-2007)Colchicum autumnale (1)Colchicum autumnale (2)Colchicum autumnale (3)

Colchicum autumnale – Protected and very poisonous

Colchicum autumnale – It belongs to protected as well as very poisonous plants.

  • Deadly dose: 20 – 40 mg (5 – 10 seeds)
  • Death: to 4 days
  • Poison: colchicine
  • Aftermath: paralysis, pulmonary edema, renal failure
  • Where it grows: Southern and Western Europe
  • Occurrence in Poland: yes

One flower contains more than 20 alkaloids, the most dangerous of which is colchicine and its derivatives. Thanks to the appropriate dosage, they can be used for treatments of cancers. Medicinal products for rheumatism, ascites and kidney diseases are produced from wintering seeds. However, if you carelessly handle (for example when confusing with wild garlic leaves), poisoning may occur. Fowl and goat’s milk may also be dangerous. The first symptoms of taking harmful substances appear after 2 – 6 hours after ingestion. At the beginning you can observe mouth burning, vomiting or cramps. Without proper help, a man can die.

Chips threat – Health risk caused regular consumption

Chips threat - health risks caused regular consumption - potato-chips

Chips threat – Health risk caused regular consumption

Chips threat – Health risk caused regular consumption – Polish scientists from the Institute of
Food and Nutrition demonstrated health risks, which carries regular consumption of chips.
Chips contain unhealthy fats, high in salt and acrylamide, which is toxic to the nervous system.
Induces chronic inflammation of the body and increases the risk of cancer. The study was conducted
on a group of 14 persons who at the 4 weeks after every packet of potato chips (160 g).
It turned out that after this time in their increased blood levels of acrylamide compounds responsible
for inflammation in the body (CRP, IL-6) and bad cholesterol (LDL). Further demonstrated that
acrylamide bound to hemoglobin, so that it can not be efficiently removed from the body.

Quick cancer detection – Mobilizes the body to defend

Quick cancer detection - mobilizes the body to defend - Dendritic cell

Quick cancer detection – Mobilizes the body to defend

Quick cancer detection – Mobilizes the body to defend – British scientists have discovered
a receptor actuating an immune response to the emergence of cancer. It captures the body’s
signals of tissue damage or cancer and mobilizes the body to defend. It was found in dendritic cells (DC),
located in the immune system.

Pierre Curie – French physicist

Pierre Curie - French physicist

Pierre Curie – French physicist

Pierre Curie – French physicist – In 05.15.1859 was born French physicist Pierre Curie,
husband of Maria Curie-Sklodowska. He studied crystals and radioactivity.
He found with his wife elements radium and polonium. The first experience of
the use of radium in the fight against cancer conducted on himself.
In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize.

Valuable properties omega-3

Valuable properties omega-3 - DHA, omega-3 molecule

Valuable properties omega-3

Valuable properties omega-3 – Omega-3 fatty acid must be constantly supplied to our body with food, because it can not synthesize them itself. Omega-3 has a lot of valuable properties, including reduce the risk of heart disease and cardiovascular, diabetes or cancer. Among the many vegetable oils, omega-3 contains linseed oil which is fragile. Second place is rapeseed oil, which has 10 times more of these valuable fatty acids than olive oil.

Sharks also not immune

Sharks also not immune - Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

Sharks also not immune

Sharks also not immune – Researchers at the George Washington University in the US have discovered that sharks however suffer from cancer. Previously regarded as completely resistant – their cartilage was sold as a cure for cancer. Recorded dozens of cases of different types of cancer, especially kidney and lymph nodes.

Expenditure on esotericism

Expenditure on esotericism - Tao symbol

Expenditure on esotericism

Expenditure on esotericism – In 2010. Poles spent approx. 2 billion zl for the esoteric and the occult – talismans, horoscopes, fortune-telling or curse. Charitable foundation “Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy” has collected in the same year “only” 43 million zl for the early detection of cancer in children – indicates Club Skeptics Polish. These data indicate that still do not understand what it really means the end of the world. In fact, each of us is the death.

When established chemotherapy

When established chemotherapy - Sidney Farber (1903 - 1973)

When established chemotherapy

When established chemotherapy – During World War II, anti-cancer effect (cytostatic) discovered gas in combat, so-called. nitrogen mustard gas. Already in the early 40s he began to be used as the first cytostatic (under the name Mustargen). After the Second World War began further research cytostatics. This time is associated primarily with the activities of the “father of chemotherapy”, a doctor from Harvard, Sidney Farber (1903-1973).

Male breast cancer – Malignant lumps also in men

Male breast cancer - Male breast nipple

Male breast cancer – Malignant lumps also in men

Male breast cancer – Oncologists are increasingly recognizing that malignant breast lumps also appear in men. In the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer approx. 400 men per year. Patients are usually in shock, because not enough that they did not expect that he could touch them such a condition, it is often consider this a shameful affliction.