Paul,
Sorry, I was busy but I want to get back to your post below. Thank you for identifying theses the message numbers.
As I mentioned on a number of occasions taking antioxidant supplements can interfere with the Budwig Diet (naturally occurring antioxidants in food are ok).
In that regard I find Greg Watson's post (msg # 938) is very interesting. I had not seen it because it was posted just before I joined this list and I missed it. Later, when he brought this subject up again, I took him up on it as I recall. The study he cites says that flaxseed oil (FO) has an anti-cancer effect (slowing tumor growth) but less so when antioxidants are added. This supports Dr.Budwig's position that antioxidants counter the effect of her diet.
Their finding seems to be right but their reasoning as to why it works like that and why it is suppressed with antioxidants is not right - at least not according to Dr.Budwig. The researchers and Greg Watson conclude that the cancer cells are killed by a massive onslaught of free radicals from rancid FO, and since antioxidants keep the oil from getting rancid, they interferes with this process. Neither of these two conclusions are right. If that were so, we may as well consume rancid FO in the first place - and we know that to be wrong.
According to Dr.Budwig the reason for the anti-cancer activity is that FO (combined with quark or CC) promotes bio-oxygenation and that antioxidants interfere with that process.
Wilhelm
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Cates
To: FlaxSeedOil2@...
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: [FlaxSeedOil2] Re: Anti-oxidants
Wilhelm,
Here are the references to the use of anti-oxidants and Budwig
Protocol. ( 17583, 938, 1907 and more )
I haven't found the references to the cox inhibitors. The post
concluded that the action of the cox inhibitors was the action
required to use omega 3 properly. I think I remember it being posted
by Greg Watson. But I have yet to find it.
Paul
