苦瓜汁能防胰臟癌
Bitter gourd juice can prevent pancreatic cancer
多喝苦瓜汁能防胰臟癌
苦瓜雖然很營養,但很多人不太敢吃苦瓜。美國科羅拉多大學癌症中心進行動物實驗發現,苦瓜汁或許可以預防胰臟癌,並可殺死胰臟癌細胞。老鼠食用苦瓜之後,罹癌風險減少約六成之多。
動物實驗顯示,苦瓜汁可以阻止癌細胞代謝葡萄糖,這樣癌細胞就會失去能量來源,最後慘遭殲滅。研究成果本周發表於「癌症形成」醫學期刊。
美國科羅拉多大學癌症中心癌症防治計畫主持人、藥學與製藥科學教授拉傑許‧阿加爾瓦爾表示,三年前進行培養皿實驗時,早發現苦瓜萃取物可以抑制乳癌細胞。
這次研究更進一步採用動物實驗,測試苦瓜對不同癌細胞是否也有抑制效果。這次實驗用的是苦瓜汁,許多亞洲國家都有吃苦瓜的習慣。
研究結果發現,苦瓜會干擾癌細胞代謝葡萄糖,讓癌細胞沒有食物可吃,癌細胞失去能量,就會邁向死亡之路。
另外,苦瓜也能調節胰臟β細胞分泌胰島素。研究人員發現,老鼠食用苦瓜汁後,產生胰臟癌的機率減少了百分之六十。阿加爾瓦爾指出,許多新藥研究想盡辦法要抑制癌細胞吸取能量,結果天然食物成分也許就能達到這種效果,成果讓人振奮。
Drink bitter gourd juice can prevent pancreatic cancer
Bitter although very nutritious, but many people do not dare to eat bitter gourd. University of Colorado Cancer Center conducted animal studies found that bitter melon juice may prevent pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cancer and can kill. Mice after eating bitter gourd, reducing risk of cancer about two-thirds as much.
Animal experiments have shown that bitter melon juice can prevent cancer cells metabolize glucose, so that cancer cells will lose a source of energy, and finally brutally killed. Research published this week in the "cancer formation," Journal of Medicine.
University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer Prevention Project Director, Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ‧ 阿加?瓦? Raj Xu said that three years ago and petri dish experiment, early detection of bitter melon extract can inhibit breast cancer cells.
The study further use of animal experiments to test whether the cancer bitter gourd have different inhibitory effect.
The experiments using bitter gourd juice, many Asian countries have the habit of eating bitter melon.
The results showed that bitter melon may interfere with glucose metabolism of cancer cells, cancer cells do not allow food to eat, cancer cells lose energy, it will move towards a death sentence.
In addition, bitter gourd can regulate insulin secretion from pancreatic β cells.
The researchers found that rats eating bitter gourd juice, resulting in reducing the chances of pancreatic cancer 60 percent.阿加?瓦? noted that many drug research to find ways to inhibit cancer cell absorb energy, the result of natural food ingredients may be able to achieve this effect, the results exciting.