Study Finds Chlorophyll Can Help Prevent Cancer

Great study that also reveals flaws in other testing methods that identify supplements as being harmful - http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/01/12/study.finds.chlorophyll.can.help....


"There's considerable evidence in epidemiologic and other clinical studies with humans that chlorophyll and its derivative, chlorophyllin, can protect against cancer," said Tammie McQuistan, a research assistant working with George Bailey, a professor emeritus in the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU.

This is yet another study that identifies the protective effect of veggies against cancer.

"It also found that the protective mechanism of chlorophyll is fairly simple -- it just binds with and sequesters carcinogens within the gastrointestinal tract until they are eliminated from the body. At the lower carcinogen doses and cancer rates relevant to humans, chlorophyll was strongly protective.

"The central assumption of such experiments is that intervention effects at high carcinogen dose will apply equally at lower carcinogen doses," the researchers wrote in their report. "Contrary to the usual assumption, the outcomes in the major target organ were strikingly dependent on carcinogen dose."