Calcium D-Glucarate, Cancer, Nutrition
In this video, Thomas Slaga spends about 28 minutes speaking on "Calcium D-Glucarate, Cancer, Nutrition" at the 31st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Thomas Slaga
THOMAS SLAGA, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Biology and Chemistry from The College of Steubenville, Ohio and his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from The University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock. He currently holds the positions of Scientific Director of the AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver, Colorado and Deputy Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. From 1982 until 1997, Dr. Slaga served as the Director of the Science Park–Research Division of the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. Under his direction, the Science Park Division earned a reputation for research excellence in carcinogenesis and cancer prevention.
A recognized expert in the field of cancer study, Dr. Slaga has been involved in scientific studies of cancer research for more than 35 years. He is a member of numerous national and international scientific committees and professional societies and has been editor-in-chief of Molecular Carcinogenesis since 1987. He has more than 380 publications to his credit and has edited more than 20 books dealing with causes of cancer and cancer prevention.
He is the author of the book The Detox Revolution, published by McGraw-Hill in 2003, which is Dr. Slaga’s guide on how to boost the body’s ability to fight cancer and other diseases. It explains how to cleanse the body of toxins and slow down the aging process by eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes and supplementing one’s diet with key vitamins, minerals, essential fats and beneficial phytochemicals. The book also explains why moderate exercise and stress control are critical to a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Slaga also wrote the health guide D-Glucarate: A Nutrient Against Cancer, which is based in part on the results of extensive research he and his coworkers have conducted in the past few years. D-Glucarate is a phytochemical that supercharges the body’s detoxification system.
Dr. Slaga may be contacted by fax at 303-239-3400, website www.amc.org, and e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
Thank you, it's a great pleasure being here. And I enjoyed the last yesterday and hopefully you also enjoy today. The major things that I deal with and actually in cancer research has been how important prevention is.
And I just want to emphasize that right from the beginning, the majority of cancers and now we estimate that probably over 80 percent of all cancers can be prevented.
So if one does the right things and if you start early enough, you have a great chance of preventing you, even if you have bad genes. And now get to some discussion in how you can modify, even if you inherit bad genes related to cancer.
In terms of a rational approach to cancer prevention, one has to take a lot of different factors into consideration.
One has to understand, first of all, the environmental factors that relate to the induction of cancer, be it chemicals, radiation of different types, ionizing ultraviolet light, physical agents, viruses, bacteria. And obviously everybody knows how bad for youth smoking and tobacco products are. And I assume that no one in the audience smokes diet. Nutrition is very, very important overall and now is thought to represent maybe about 35 percent of all cancers are related to bad nutrition. Also, in terms of how your environment interacts with your genetic code, your genes is very important in how they're regulated. So genetic susceptibility or resistance. And there are conditions that people are very sensitive to, the induction of cancer and other cases very resistant. The importance of a healthy immune system that's been discussed.
The law, hormone and growth factors are involved in a large number of cancers also and understanding how the cancer is really induced in the various stages that lead to the induction of cancer.
There's three major stages that I've worked on over the years called in tumor initiation, promotion and progression in trying to target the the early events or the promotion or delayed events to progression is extremely important.
I already mentioned about how important antioxidants are. And in today, I'm not really in a talk that much about it.
But there is a general approach in having combinations of antioxidants are grimly important inhibiting the induction of cancer and it seems to affect every stage in the induction of cancer. And there's very specific approaches that we can actually destroy critical enzymes involved in induction of cancer through what we call suicide substrates. And there's a lot of different types of phytochemicals that behave in this manner. But overall, it's a combination of different types of inhibitors, of different stages of the induction of cancer that are extremely