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Creation of cancer is usually more than just a one-shot event. Multiple toxic enzymes are stimulated by free radicals that activate more harmful enzymes and compounds which, after a varied cascading series of events, eventually cause cancer cells to develop. Other harmful organic compounds manufactured in your body from their free radical-caused cascading series of events aid the spread of cancer cells, and other highly specific organic chemicals cause really dangerous reactions. Therefore, there’s a good opportunity to block the development of cancer and its growth and spread in many molecular chain reaction sites.

Carcinogens are chemicals, molecules, which have been created in the body or enter through diet or skin, and alter cell DNA. Usually, a number of genes are damaged before a specific cell becomes cancerous. This rarely occurs from a single, unlucky, carcinogenic hit.

The body generates dozens of toxic organic compounds after its cells have been attacked by cancer-causing substances or energy. These carcinogens include solar ultraviolet radiation, cigarette smoke, toxic chemicals, and some foods you eat. Even exercise generates free radicals of various types, all of which have the potential to cause cancer.

Many carcinogens cause biochemical changes as they work. Scientists refer to these measurable carcinogenic chemical compounds as markers. Three of the most common are:

1. Ornithine de-carboxylase (ODC)
2. Hydroxy-peroxide production
3. DNA synthetase

Unfortunately, these are too often present in our skin and organs due to environmental factors. Different nutrients have different anti-carcinogen potency. For instance, the very potent carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene (B[a]P) tumor-initiating activity was inhibited as evidenced by a 66% reduction in the number of skin tumors with the topical application of ellagic acid.

As with most anti-oxidants and anti-cancer nutrients, the higher the concentration, the greater the effect. When the benefit realized from the use of a compound increases with higher dosage, that benefit is said to be “…dose-dependent.”

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