NEW RESEARCH Shows Avocados Can Help Treat Leukemia

Learn how avocados can help treat leukemia and why does the FDA deny all of these. Check out the article we found over at Natural News.

A new study has found that a lipid found naturally in avocados can be used to fight acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, but to hear the federal Food and Drug Administration tell it, there is no such thing as an “anti-cancer” food.

While avocados have widely been credited with providing a number of health benefits – they are packed with vitamins and are great for the skin – now, according to research conducted by Prof. Paul Spagnuolo of Canada’s University of Waterloo, they appear to shatter the FDA’s claim.

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“We’ve performed many rounds of testing to determine how this new drug works at a molecular level and confirmed that it targets stem cells selectively, leaving healthy cells unharmed,” he continued.

The researcher said that avocatin B “eliminates” the source of AML, and because of its targeted nature, it is less toxic to the rest of the body.

While the lipid is years away from being harnessed in a useable clinical form, Spagnuolo is nonetheless preparing for clinical trials.

As noted by the university’s press release:

There are multiple potential applications for Avocatin B beyond oncology, and the drug is just one of several promising compounds that Spagnuolo and his team have isolated from a library of nutraceuticals. Most labs would use food or plant extracts, but Spagnuolo prefers the precision of using nutraceuticals with defined structures.

“Extracts are less refined. The contents of an extract can vary from plant to plant and year to year, depending on lots of factors – on the soil, the location, the amount of sunlight, the rain,” said Spagnuolo.

“Evaluating a nutraceutical as a potential clinical drug requires in-depth evaluation at the molecular level,” he added. “This approach provides a clearer understanding of how the nutraceutical works, and it means we can reproduce the effects more accurately and consistently. This is critical to safely translating our lab work into a reliable drug that could be used in oncology clinics.”

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