Ip-6 : Potent Antioxidant To Help Fend Off Cancer

[Tallgreydogmom]

I was on some website where someone was using IP-6:( this potent antioxidant can help your body fend off cancer and heart disease ) with their greyhound with cancer. This is the first time I remember coming across this. Does anyone have any information or used this with their greyhound.

[Guest Pipi5]

Never heard of it, interesting though.

[TheFullHouse]

I found an interesting article on the use of IP-6 HERE

 

 

edited to add: The article is 10 years old.

Edited October 18, 2008 by JillysFullHouse

[ahicks51]

IP-6 is the same as phytic acid, BTW.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid

 

I think it proved useful in the test tube, but not in the organism. As usual.

[Guest longdogs]

Any antioxidant can 'fend off' cancer, at least those cancers that might be caused by mutations arising from the action of free radicals on DNA, that fail to be fixed by cellular repair processes or aren't prevented by naturally occurring antioxidants that should already be present. No non-destructive antioxidant is going to work against an established cancer. There is little scientific support for the belief that simply taking antioxidant supplements gives any measurable protection against cancer.

[ahicks51]

There is little scientific support for the belief that simply taking antioxidant supplements gives any measurable protection against cancer.

 

True- and there are interesting data supporting the notion that consuming more polyunsaturated fats runs a higher risk of cancer than those who consume *saturated* fats instead. This actually makes sense in that if the fats are saturated, then they are less readily oxidized. A number of studies in humans have indicated that while replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat *may* lower your chance for heart disease, the risk of dying early from cancer is elevated. Moreover, that risk is close to negating the benefits from lowering heart disease risk.