Primary defense against cancer and a backup

Trophoblasts are cells forming the outer membrane covering the fetus at birth. They are the first cells to differenciate from the fertilised egg. They are triggered by contact with estrogen, are invasive, eroding and metastasizing.

White cells which carry a negative charge are repelled from the electrostatically negatively charged trophoblasts because they share the same polarity.

However at week 8 a babies pancreas begins to function. The pancreas secretes trypsin which when it reaches trophoblast cells digests their negatively charged protective protein coat and membrane formation ceases. Once activated, the trypsin can activate more trypsinogen into trypsin.

There is no difference between trophoblast cells and cancer cells which when similarly exposed to trypsin can be attacked by white cells and die, making trypsin the primary defence against cancer.

Trypsin is secreted into the duodenim where it acts to hydrolise peptides into amino acids to uptake protein. Peptides are smaller than proteins but still too large to be absorbed through the lining of the final section of the small intestine (The ileum). It is important to not inhibit typsin because once activated, the trypsinogen can activate more trypsinogen into trypsin.

Trypsin inhibitors are present in soy protein. They block the enzyme trypsin, which is secreted by the pancreas to break down protein in the small intestine. Soy products are heated to high temperatures during processing to deactivate this toxin. This is why soybeans should be cooked before eating and why soybean oil must be refined. Lima beans will also inhibit the production of the enzyme trypsin.

If production of trypsin fails white cells can no longer attack cancer cells.

A backup cancer defense function is provided by nitrilosides – amygdalin, found in certain seeds, beans, tubers and grains which come with the protective enzyme rodenese in the fruit carrying the seed. Too much amygdalin alone can result in death so always eat the fruit.

When amygdalin comes in contact with the enzyme beta-glucosidase, it is broken down to form two molecules of glucose, one molecule of benzaldehyde and one molecule of hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Within the body, the cancer cell-and only the cancer cell-contains that enzyme. The key word here is that the HCN must be formed. It is not floating around freely in the amygdalin and then released. It must be manufactured. The enzyme beta glucosidase, and only that enzyme, is capable of manufacturing the HCN from amygdalin. If there are no cancer cells in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase. If there is no beta-glucosidase, no HCN will be formed.

The result is that the specific cancer cell is killed by the cyanide

Lucinda Ball

10/01/2009