This natural substance can stop cancer from spreading

If you or a loved one is fighting cancer, you know how frightening the thought of that cancer spreading, or metastasizing, is.

Rounds of radiation or chemo are often used to try and kill cancer cells that may have broken away before they can set up shop again.

But while doctors and drugmakers keep searching for new ways to stop cancer in its tracks, it looks like the most promising compound has been available to us all along.

In fact, it could be sitting in your kitchen right now!

The power of gold

I’ve been telling you about the health properties of curcumin – the active ingredient in the spice turmeric – for quite a while.

This pungent spice has been found to reduce plaque in the arteries, help with depression as effectively as drugs such as Prozac and be as potent as steroids in reducing inflammation.

Now, a new study has found that curcumin looks to be an extremely powerful agent in stopping cancer from spreading.

Researchers from universities in France and Australia have found that the compound can actually “interrupt” several metabolic pathways that cancer cells use to metastasize. Curcumin can also help in the fight against lung, breast, stomach, uterine and colon cancer.

In fact, these recent findings about colon cancer were so amazing that I devoted an entire eAlert to it a few months ago.

In that study, researchers at Saint Louis University found that curcumin, when used in conjunction with the herb silymarin, could inhibit colon cancer cells from both multiplying and spreading. And when they pre-exposed the cancer cells to curcumin and then treated them with silymarin, the malignant cells started dying off in droves!

It’s obvious that Big Pharma would love it if all this exciting news about turmeric would stay a deep dark secret. But what researchers have been finding out about the spice is just so amazing that drugmakers can’t seem to keep a lid on it.

Surprisingly, a recent segment in a CBS news show was actually devoted to turmeric and its healing properties. And if you watch any network shows for more than five minutes, you know how many drug ads they run. Why, the three networks are practically supported by Big Pharma!

That CBS segment even told how clinical trials are now running to test curcumin as an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

And Alzheimer’s is something Big Pharma’s hasn’t been able to crack, despite all the money it has poured into research.

A perfect example is the third epic fail of the Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s drug solanezumab. And this last dud experiment was with patients who were only showing mild symptoms of the disease!

Turmeric, on the other hand, appears to be able to do what all these experimental drugs haven’t — actually prevent amyloid proteins from clumping together in your brain.

At UCLA researchers found that curcumin supplements taken with vitamin D3, were able to stimulate the immune system enough to clear brain plaques. And that, along with finding an effective way to keep cancer from spreading, is the Holy Grail of what drug companies are trying to accomplish.

So if you have some turmeric sitting in your spice rack, you might want to move it front and center, and start using it more often. One study found that just adding it to your cooking for one dish a week is enough to deliver some real benefits to your brain.

And turmeric supplements are certainly easy enough to find.

One thing to remember is that turmeric can act as a blood thinner and should be avoided if you’re taking a prescription to thin your blood.

“Can herbs prevent a recurrence of prostate cancer?” Terry Graedon, November 28, 2016, The People’s Pharmacy, peoplespharmacy.com