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Archive for August, 2009

Firestone with his colleagues showed that I-3C inhibits the enzyme elastase, which has high levels in cells of breast cancer and announces a poor prognosis: as a reduction of the response to chemotherapy, the reduction in response to the treatment endocrine and the reduction of the survival rates.

The “Elastase” is an enzyme that shortens a cellular process chemical, the ciclina E, which acacelerates the cell cycle, making the cancer cells proliferate more rapidly, Firestone showed that the I3C prevents the reduction of the elastase of ciclina E, which stops the development of cells of breast cancer.

For more than 15 years, Firestone, Bjeldanes and his colleagues have studied the fight against cancer and the benefits of the vegetables such as the family of cabbage grouped in the gender of the Brassicas and because of the cross that shows the willingness of their flowers, often referred to the same as crucifers.

Despite the fact that the fight against cancer and profits have been recognized from the 1970S, the mechanism is only now possible, since it was discovered in part thanks to the work of Firestone, Bjeldanes and colleagues at UC Berkeley.

“We have connected the dots in a very important” by which indole-3-carbinol works, said Firestone. Read the rest of this entry »

Days ago we only one of the benefits that vitamin D poses to our body. The synthesis of vitamin B12 is especially useful for our health cerebral, and therefore we must take into account an acquisition enough of the same.

We know that the eggs, dairy products or fish are an excellent appeal of the vitamin. Another resource, as is well known, is the sun. Without however is it enough with a bit of sun to assimilate sufficient quantities?

Well, the fact is that despite the fact that the sun is a good way to synthesize the vitamin D; in turn our astro king may prove to be a double-edged sword for the damage that the exposure exaggerated to the sun can generate in our skin. Read the rest of this entry »