Exotic spice could help ZERO IN on a vulnerability of tough-to-treat cancer
Your doc says you have breast cancer…
And you think the news couldn’t be WORSE.
But then the other shoe drops – because you find out that the type of breast cancer you’ve got doesn’t have a lot of treatment options.
Friend, I know this scenario sounds TERRIFYING…
And it’s enough to make anybody’s stomach drop… or their heart jump into their throat.
But the latest news from the scientific community may offer a glimmer of hope.
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) has been called the “queen of spices”… perhaps because it’s the world’s third-most expensive spice (by weight).
It’s also one of the world’s most ANCIENT spices… with records of it dating back to the 16th century B.C.
Native to Himalayan countries like India, Nepal, and Bhutan… and beloved in Southeast Asian cuisine… this delicious, aromatic spice is actually a member of the ginger family.
You’ve read before right here in eAlert how cardamom could help CONQUER gastric ulcers…
But that’s not all.
Turns out, this prized spice could hold the key to UNLOCKING a treatment for one of the most STUBBORN forms of cancer.
I’m talking about triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
This type of breast cancer is so TOUGH to treat because it doesn’t respond to the 3 most common targets for drugs:
- estrogen
- progesterone
- HER2
Even worse, TNBC tends to grow and spread QUICKLY and AGGRESSIVELY… which makes survival rates WORSE.
That’s why by the time it’s discovered, it’s often in a MORE ADVANCED stage.
And it also has a HIGH recurrence rate.
It’s no wonder that patients with TNBC may feel HOPELESS…
And may fear that their disease is UNTREATABLE.
It’s true that the mainstream doesn’t have a lot to offer them…
But a recent in vitro study presented at the Experimental Biology conference reveals that a compound in the spice cardamom… called cardamonin… may be able to CHANGE THE GAME.
Because in the study, cardamonin not only helped stop TNBC cells in their tracks…
But it also influenced a certain type of genetic expression that helps TNBC dodge the immune system.
Now, this all happened in a lab dish… and not in real cancer patients.
And the study hasn’t yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
But this isn’t the first time that the cancer-fighting powers of cardamom have been uncovered…
As a 2016 study found that cardamonin helped chemo drugs work better in defeating breast cancer…
And a 2017 study found that this compound could help LIMIT the invasiveness of TNBC.
Still, we’re a long way off from being able to recommend that any cancer patients consume cardamom for their disease.
But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t talk to an integrative oncologist about what your natural options might be – especially ones that might ENHANCE the effects of conventional care.
