In 2019 people are definitely more open to the health benefits from taking on a plant-based diet. In a recent article we covered how you can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes from a vegan diet.
In the US alone there was approximately 1,735,350 new cases of cancer and out of those diagnosed approximately 609,640 people died from cancer in 2018 alone.
Scientists have been looking at the potential advantages of a vegan diet in reducing the risk or even killing cancer cells however many people are still very skeptical.
When media sources from around the world constantly report about the lack of any kind of working advancement in the treatment of cancer and the false news that a vegan diet can be ‘bad’ for you (when done right) convincing people that veganism can be helpful in killing cancer cells is an uphill struggle.
The main focus for vegans in this instance is usually medical studies as there’s not much anyone can say against the incredibly important proof that they carry.
The US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health carried out a study which focused on the dietary and lifestyle changes that are suggested to men with prostate cancer despite the fact that the impact of the changes are not very well recorded.
Their study took a handful of volunteers who had not chosen to undergo conventional treatment which provided them with an unusual opportunity in that they had a nonintervention control group which was also randomized and there fore would avoid confounding effects that radiation, androgen deprivation therapy as well as surgery would usually have.
93 volunteers were assigned at random to an group asked to take more comprehensive diet and lifestyle changes to the usual care group containing the other volunteers.
The results of the study were incredible, they found that no one in the experimental group had to undergo further conventional treatment whereas 6 of the control patients did have to undergo conventional treatment due to an increase in PSA and a progression of the cancer.
They also found that the cancer had decreased by 4% in experimental group compared to a 6% increase in the control group! This means that the growth of the prostate cancer cells was inhibited almost eight times more in the control group.
In conclusion they did state that further tests would be necessary however it showcased that a intensive switch in both lifestyle and diet to plant-based vegan can aid in killing cancer cells the progression of early low grade cancer.
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