Cancer, Family
In this video, Jerry McLaughlin spends about 32 minutes speaking on "Cancer, Family" at the 31st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Jerry McLaughlin
JERRY McLAUGHLIN, Ph.D. received his Degree in Pharmacognosy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For the next 34 years he served as a Professor of Pharmacognosy at University of Michigan, University of Washington, Seattle and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. In 1999, Dr. McLaughlin became the Vice President of Research and Development/Quality Assurance and Chief Scientific Officer of Nature’s Sunshine Products located in Spanish Fork, Utah. He can be contacted by phone 801-798-4161 and fax 801-798-4108.
Dr. McLaughlin has made over 300 scientific presentations and his work is chronicled in over 330 refereed publications, supported by nearly 80 different grants and contracts.
He is best known for his research with natural medicinal products. He describes his type or work as “grind and find” research in which he grinds up a plant and tries to find its bioactive components. The methods of his brine shrimp lethality bioassay, first published in 1982, have now been cited over 1,000 times in the scientific literature.
Dr. McLaughlin’s most important work lies in his contributions to our knowledge concerning the Annonaceous acetogenins. Following his observations in 1982 that the North American paw paw tree was potently bioactive, his group identified some 50 acetogenins in its seeds and bark with antitumor and pesticidal properties. The acetogenins not only selectively inhibit cancer cells, but they also thwart multiple drug resistant tumor cells.
Paw paw is now in capsule form as a supplement and over the past 1½ years some of the 100 cancer patients who have been taking the product have experienced lowered tumor antigen count, shrinkage of tumors and more energy.
Transcription
Well, thank you. Can you hear me all right? Yeah. Thank you very much for the invitation to talk.
And I'm going to try and summarize in about 27 minutes, 26 minutes now. My lifetime's work, and that's happened essentially since 1976 when I first started working on the Popoff plan. First set to put this disclaimer up to satisfy the lawyers.
U.S. cancer facts and figures, I'm not going to go over those. We've already gone over those a lot. I just want to point out to one guy and two is gonna get cancer, one woman and three, one woman and eight will get breast cancer.
Six hundred thousand people die per year of cancer.
That's as many people who died in the civil war in four years. We were in a war against cancer since 1971. President Nixon declared that war.
And yet, since 1991, we've had a 19 percent increase in cancer. So we obviously haven't won that war.
I was trained to do grind and find research that means you grind up plants, you try to find the active components in the plants. And I've been training my students to do that as well. And all my life, I've been inspired by essentially three great people. Gordon Swoboda, who discovered the Vink Alkaloids of the Eli Lilly, Drs. Monreal and Wante at Research Triangle Institute who discovered Taxol in capital. And if they could do it, I could do it. That's what I always felt. And so my question was to get all the plants that I could get my hands on and screenname for any cancer activity. I've been able to get my hands on 4000 plant species in my career and now I'm retired and I got through thirty-five hundred of those plant species before I did retire. And when I'm going to talk to you tonight is about the best plant of thirty-five hundred plants as far as anticancer activity is concerned. And that's the Popol plant. And maybe those plants that I screened were obtained from exotic places Australia, South America, Africa, Indonesia.
And guess where we found the Popol plant two miles from my office. So many of the plants in the world, you know, are being ignored.
Probably only three percent of the plants in the world of early been screened for useful, biologically active compounds.
And as the rainforests are falling to the chainsaws and to grazing and pasturing in agriculture, we are losing biological diversity. And I could go off on a whole lecture on that. So this is a picture of the pop-up over here. These are the fruits of Pol Pot.
We're aware, aware of