Tuesday 31 January 2012

Grape seed extract kills cancer cells

Fitness Tips...Washington: Cancer cells, which kill nearly 12,000 people in the US alone every year and affect more than half a million worldwide, could be eradicated with grape seed extract, reveals a study.
The extract creates conditions unfavourable for the cancers' growth by damaging both their cells' DNA and stops the pathways that allow repair.
"It's a rather dramatic effect," said Rajesh Agarwal, study investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
"Cancer cells are fast-growing cells. Not only that, but they are necessarily fast growing. When conditions exist in which they can't grow, they die," said Agarwal, according to a university statement... Read More click on Lifestyle news

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