Prevent Cancer Naturally

Prevent Cancer Naturally

breast cancer cells (in pale violet) attacking healthier cells (in blue green)

It is already a fact that cancer is one of the deadliest diseases that has ever hit the world. Despite what we know of cancer and how it affects the body, not much is known as to why it occurs in the first place. Adding to people’s concerns are the current strategies to treat and hopefully cure cancer. Available options for cancer patients include radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. Not only do these processes cause great discomfort to the patient, their success rate has never been much acceptable.

As such, the best way to fight cancer would be to stop it from taking place. Surprisingly enough, one does not have to take drugs in order to prevent cancer.

It is sometimes a paradox that our ancestors never had to face the wrath of cancer and be able to live longer than us, even though we are supposedly medically superior to them. At the same time many veterinarians concede that there are only a tiny amount of animal deaths were caused by cancer tumors. These striking data only confirm the belief that it is not just destructive cells that divide rapidly that is the cause of cancer. Cancer is the end result of our mismatched lifestyle.

It is true that cancer attacks almost anyone, but trends have started to show that cancer cells are encouraged by how we live our lives. If you eat too much, drink a lot, and smoke several times a day, you are more likely to have cancer.

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Top 10 Wonder Drugs

Since ancient man first discovered the therapeutic (or otherwise) use of plants, drugs have evolved from simple leaf concoctions to complex synthetic chemicals that modern man uses to treat ailments. The following are some of the greatest drugs that man has come up with.

Penicillin

Penicillin

1. Penicillin.
This most common of drugs is probably the most underrated. Its discovery is generally credited to Alexander Fleming of Scotland, who in 1928 demonstrated that by letting penicillium notatum grow in the proper substrate, it gives off material that has antibiotic properties. He called it penicillin. His discovery won him a Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945.
The Australian Howard Walter Florey, however, is the one who gets credit for developing penicillin as an antibiotic. Florey shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine along with his colleague Ernest Chain the same year Fleming did.

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