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ElIagic Acid hailed as the most potent way to
fight cancer
Ellagic acid is a naturally occurring phenolic constituent in certain fruits and nuts. With highest concentrations in red raspberries, ellagic acid has been proven an effective anti-mutagen, anti-carcinogen, and inhibitor of cancer.
Research at the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, SC indicate that ellagic acid slows the growth of abnormal colon ceils in humans, prevents the development of cells infected with human papilloma virus (HPV) which is linked to cervical cancer, and promotes apoptotic growth (natural death) of prostate cancer cells. The apoptotic process triggered by this antioxidant also has beneficial effects on breast, lung, esophageal, and skin cancer (melanoma).
Medical findings in Europe further show that ellagic acid reduces the incidence of birth defects, promotes wound healing, reduces and reverses chemically induced liver fibrosis, and is helpful in the fight against heart disease.
How Does it Work?
Ellagic acid is a phenolic compound that has become known as a potent anti-carcinogenic/anti-mutagenic compound. It also has anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Ellagic acid itself is not thought to be naturally present in plants. Instead, polymers of garlic acid and hexahydroxydipenoyl (HHDP) are linked to glucose centers to form the class of compounds known as ellagitannins. When two garlic acid groups become linked side by side within a tannin molecule an HHDP group is formed.
Eliagic acid is the result when the HHDP group is cleaved from the tannin molecule and spontaneously rearranges. It is the ellagitannins that are present in red raspberries. Some articles in which ellagitannins are quantified refer to ellagic acid because quantitation of ellagitannins is done by breaking them down into ellagic subunits and quantifying the subunits. The Meeker red raspberry is the best source of ellagic acid followed by Chillwak and Willamette. The Meeker variety is specific to the Pacific Northwest--grown primarily for commercial use in Washington State.
The availability to the body of ellagic acid from dietary sources has only beer confirmed with red raspberries. Other foods such as strawberries, pomegranates, and walnuts contain far lesser amounts of ellagic acid yet the bioavailability has not been confirmed.
Ellagic Acid Reduces the Incidence of Cancer
Ellagic acid acts as a scavenger to "bind" cancer-causing chemicals, making them inactive. It inhibits the ability of other chemicals to cause mutations in bacteria. In addition, ellagic acid from red raspberries prevents binding of carcinogens to DNA, and reduces the incidence of cancer in cultured human cells exposed to carcinogens.
Clinical tests conducted at the Hollings Cancer Institute at the Medical University of South
Carolina (MUSC) show that ellagic acid, a naturally occurring plant phenol with highest concentrations in red raspberries, may be
the most potent way to prevent cancer, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and arrest the growth of cancer in Dersons with a genetic predisposition for the disease.
Dr. Daniel Nixon, MUSC, began studying the ellagic acid in red raspberries in 1993. His recently published results show:
· Cervical Cancer Cells—HPV (human papilloma virus) exposed to ellagic acid from red raspberries experienced apoptosis (normal cell death).
· Ellagic acid leads to G1 arrest of cancer cells, thus inhibiting and stopping mitosis (cancer cell division).
· Ellagic acid from red raspberries prevents destruction of the P53 gene by cancer cells. P53 is regarded as the safeguard of mutagenic activity in cervical cells.
· Tests reveal similar results for breast, pancreas, esophageal, skin, colon, and prostate cancer cells.
· Consuming one cup (150 grams) of red raspberries per day prevents the development of cancer cells.
Additional studies suggest that one of the mechanisms by which ellagic acid inhibits mutagenesis and carcinogenesis is by forming adducts with DNA, thus masking binding sites to be occupied by the mutagen or carcinogen.
21 st Century Nutriceuticals recently announced the development of its Ellagic.Red21 product. President and CEO of the company, Wayne B. Watson, declares, "The recently released studies from the Medical University of South Carolina demonstrating that ellagic acid promotes natural death of prostate cell, and other studies confirming that breast, colon, lung, esophageal, and skin cancer (melanoma) may benefit from the apoptotic process triggered by the acid is a major brealthrough in the baffle against the insidious disease called cancer. European medical studies also demonstrate that ellagic acid is known to lower the incidence of birth defects. promote wound healing, reduce heart disease, and may reduce or reverse chemically induced liver fibrosis."
