Wheat grass and cancer

breadmonkey

This was posted in self-defense/martial arts, in a thread about supplements.

"cancer victimes have used wheat grass and the Green Diet to cure themselves. tumors disappered totally"

Is this actually true? Any links?

DrIndy

I would like to see some evidence of this as well as it strikes me initially as quackery. I look forward to the opportunity of being corrected.

Capt'n Midnight

regression - cancers do that sometimes and then come back.

where was the original report ?

Pet

cancer victimes have used wheat grass and the Green Diet to cure themselves. tumors disappered totally

I think the idea behind it was that the foods in those diets contain compounds that have the following effects:
- anti-angiogenic (to stop new blood vessels being formed, and hence prevent the tumour from getting bigger)
- immuno-enhancing (to stimulate the immune system to attack and destroy the tumour)
- oxygenating (because apparently tumours prefer a low-oxygen environment)
(amongst others)

Now that would probably work for very small and/or undetected tumours, and would be preferable (in my opinion) to chemotherapy, but the problem with these diets is that people will grasp at straws even when seriously ill. And if you had a big, rapidly dividing tumour, no diet would be able to save you.