Man claims omega-3 fatty acids helped cure his cancer
The following is an article about a man who attributes his cancer recovery to omega-3 supplementation:
“Two weeks ago a study claimed that omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in ocean fish including salmon and tuna, don’t help protect against cancer. But that study was actually just a review of previous research on the subject.
Recently, I met a man who’s alive thanks to omega-3, and thanks to a neighbor who’s spent years looking into what it does.
Every morning, David Hall fills tiny bags with capsules containing omega-3 fatty acids, and takes handfuls of them throughout the day. He doesn’t mind because cancer should have ended his life five years ago.
“This is a disease called sarcoma. It’s an unusual adult tumors, where they come from was never clear,” said Dr. Steven Schiff, an oncologist.
The survival rate?
“If untreated, it is only months. It’s a vicious disease,” Schiff added.
However, fortune has smiled on David Hall. He lived across the street from Dr. Ron Pardini, a biochemist at the University of Nevada in Reno. For years, Pardini has raised immune-deficient mice in which human cancers easily grow.
That is, until the mice are fed a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids.
“It makes the tumors susceptible,” according to Pardini.
However, how do we know it was omega-3 that saved his life? The omega-3 was all he’s had to fight this cancer.
“When the patient (Hall) came in, he said he liked to try nutritional supplements, I said fine because I had nothing better to offer,” Schiff said.
So instead of going home to die, Hall went home and started taking omega-3 pills, some fish oil, and some from an algae derivative called neuromins — lots of them.
“I take 18 of each per day, every day” said Hall. “I put six packs aside in the morning — and check they’re all gone before I go to bed,” Hall said
Pardini’s theory is that, thousands of years ago, humans ate a diet that was balanced evenly between omega-3 and omega-6, which is found in vegetable oils, especially corn. But as agriculture became more efficient, that balance was altered.
“The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is now up to 14 or 30 to one,” Pardini said.
Pardini believes we should eat no more than three or four times as much omega-6 as omega-3 for best health. That has caused Hall to eliminate corn and corn oil from his diet.
“If they feed the mice corn it goes right off the chart — the cancer growth just skyrockets,” Hall said.
No one will tell you omega-3 cures cancer, but Pardini and his neighbor say it certainly has beneficial effects.
“And we’ve looked at human colon, mammary and prostate cancers and an omega-3 rich diet retards their growth and has almost wiped out mammary carcinomas,” Pardini said. “It has definitely wiped it out. I’ll find out in about eight weeks, but I fully believe by the next cat scan it’ll be nothing.”
Oncologists have heard of every fruitless scheme to beat cancer — but Hall’s doctor thinks this one might be different.
Has a patient survived?
“None that I can think of, it’s quite unusual,” Schiff said. “Clearly this is a hypothesis that needs further testing.”
Some people find taking 36 pills a day literally hard to swallow, and some have digestive problems. Plus, not eating corn may be tough in a town that values its tortillas and tamales.
But if the choice is death or living longer, perhaps a pound of omega-3 oil a month is not so bad.”
SOURCE: San Antonio Express News Ω