By cleansing the liver, we’re talking about inducing the liver to purge all of the fats, old cholesterol deposits, gallstones, poisons, drug residues, and toxic waste stored therein. Probably nothing else you do (including even the colon detox) will make a greater difference in your overall health. The liver is so important to our well-being that many healers maintain that most diseases cannot develop in the body (that, in fact, no form of cell degeneration can occur) if the liver is functioning in an efficient, healthy manner. Conversely, an unhealthy liver is very likely at the root of most serious health problems.

By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health. Specific foods will assist in boosting your metabolism, optimizing digestion, while allowing you to lose weight and fortify your immune system.

The primary cause of death from breast cancer is the spread of tumor cells from the breast to other organs in the body. Northwestern Medicine® scientists have discovered a new pathway that can stop breast cancer cells from spreading.

Working with human breast cancer cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and invade other organs. When that protein is removed from cancer cells in mice, the ability of the cells to metastasize to the lung is dramatically decreased.

The protein, hnRNPM, helps launch a cascade of events that enables breast cancer cells to break away from the original tumor, penetrate the blood stream, invade another part of the body and form a new nodule of that tumor.

“Our research suggests that hnRNPM could be an effective target to stop cancer cells from spreading,” said…

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Luteolin is a flavonoid commonly found in fruit and vegetables. This compound has been shown in laboratory conditions to have anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties but results from epidemiological studies have been less certain. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Gastroenterology shows that luteolin is able to inhibit the activity of cell signaling pathways (IGF and PI3K) important for the growth of cancer in colon cancer cells.

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There are a host of herbal formulas that show anti tumor properties for various cancers in clinical studies.  Chinese researchers publishing in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology recently conducted a study looking at the effect of Shu Gan Liang Xue Formula on breast cancer tumors – particularly estrogen receptor positive breast cancer line ZR-75-1.  Researchers investigated these anti-tumor functions in vitro and in vivo.

Shu Gan Liang Xue is a traditional Chinese herbal formula, it is comprised of the following herbs:

• Chai Hu
• Bai Shao
• Wu Wei Zi
• Dan Pi
• Bai Wei
• Zi Cao

Researchers understand that estrogen is a driver behind breast cancer.  Two other substances, aromatase and steroid sulfatase are enzymes which contribute to estrogen synthesis.  The researchers found that Shu Gan Liang Xue inhibits aromatase and steriod sulfatase which decreases their expression and their effect of estrogen synthesis.  They found this both in vitro and in vivo.

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http://www.live5news.com/story/25711359/too-clean-homes-may-encourage-child-allergies-asthma-study

(HealthDay News) — Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but a home that’s too clean can leave a newborn child vulnerable to allergies and asthma later in life, a new study reports.

Infants are much less likely to suffer from allergies or wheezing if they are exposed to household bacteria and allergens from rodents, roaches and cats during their first year of life, the study found.

The results stunned researchers, who had been following up on earlier studies that found an increased risk of asthma among inner-city dwellers exposed to high levels of roach, mouse and pet droppings and allergens.

“What we found was somewhat surprising and somewhat contradictory to our original predictions,” said study co-author Dr. Robert Wood, chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. “It turned out to be completely opposite — the more of those three allergens…