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Title: Does Honey Have the Characteristics of Natural Cancer Vaccine?
Post by: bwallace23350 on April 01, 2017, 11:24:04 AM
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942905/

Interesting read.

Honey could be considered the most sustainable food produced naturally. It contains sugars, vitamins, minerals and has high anti-oxidant activities. Cancer is on the rise in most countries. Carcinogenesis is a multi-step process and has multi-factorial causes. Among these are low immune status, chronic infection, chronic inflammation, chronic nonhealing ulcers, smoking, obesity etc. Published studies thus far have shown that honey improves immune status, has anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties and promotes healing of chronic ulcers and wounds and scavenge toxic free radicals. Recently honey has been shown to have anti-cancer properties in cell cultures and in animal models. The mechanisms suggested include induction of apoptosis, disruption of mitochondrial membrane potential and cell cycle arrest. Though sugar is predominant in honey which itself is thought to be carcinogenic, it is understandable that its beneficial effect as anti-cancer agent raises skeptics. With increasing number of people seeking therapy from nature, this area of research has recently gained attention.--- This is the abstract
Title: Re: Does Honey Have the Characteristics of Natural Cancer Vaccine?
Post by: iddee on April 01, 2017, 02:59:40 PM
I don't know about honey, but bee venom kept Clinton alive for 18 years after the doctors said he had 3 weeks or less. I heard him speak at several events and he would demonstrate his stinging sessions.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57147499