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Re: ??pure maple syrup & aluminum free baking soda

Postby jscho » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:59 pm

As a Vermonter, it pains me to say that it makes no sense that pure maple syrup would have a therapeutic effect in fighting cancer. In fact, it seems likely that it would hurt matters, since the sugar in maple syrup would likely lead to an insulin spike and therefore more free insulin growth factor (IGF-1). In addition, the baking soda will have no effect on the pH of cancer cells, since the natural buffering system of the body tightly regulates the acidity of blood. Anti-oxidants are not going to help much either once cancer cells have taken root.

Still, real maple syrup is delightful stuff, and does wonders for the Vermont economy, so please don't use Aunt Jemima.

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Re: ??pure maple syrup & aluminum free baking soda

Postby Gaelen » Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:48 pm

jscho wrote:As a Vermonter, it pains me to say that it makes no sense that pure maple syrup would have a therapeutic effect in fighting cancer. In fact, it seems likely that it would hurt matters, since the sugar in maple syrup would likely lead to an insulin spike and therefore more free insulin growth factor (IGF-1). In addition, the baking soda will have no effect on the pH of cancer cells, since the natural buffering system of the body tightly regulates the acidity of blood. Anti-oxidants are not going to help much either once cancer cells have taken root.

Still, real maple syrup is delightful stuff, and does wonders for the Vermont economy, so please don't use Aunt Jemima.


thank you, Jeremy - so many of these "cures" and "supplements" completely ignore the body's own control and reaction mechanisms. Granted, some of those are broken at the cellular level which is how the cancer cells were able to mutate and grow...but adding in home remedies isn't, as you point out, going to affect the acidity of the blood, nor is it going to help a cancer patient to spike insulin and create more free IGF-1. And if some of the regulatory processes of the body are compromised by cancer, adding in a home remedy can do more harm than good.
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