Researchers are examining a compound found in nightshade plants such as potatoes, as a potential treatment for cancer....CONTINUE READING
Scientists believe that potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines may hold the secret to curing cancer. A team of Polish researchers are exploring the possibility of naturally occurring compounds found in nightshade plants having some useful cancer-fighting properties…..CONTINUE READING
They also suggest that certain components of these plants could also help patients deal better with the side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy has a high success rate in killing cancer cells. But it comes with some devastating side effects such as hair loss, fatigue and nausea. This prompted researchers at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland to explore the evidence on glycoalkaloids
– naturally occurring chemicals in foods like tomatoes, peppers, huckleberries and goji berries – as a possible source of chemotherapeutic properties. Lead study author Magdalena Joanna Winkiel said in a statement:
The team also established that these chemicals can be’powerful clinical tools’ in the right doses.
Ms Winkiel and her team focused on five glycoalkaloids — solanine, chaconine, solasonine, solamargine and tomatine — which they believe could be used to develop drugs in the future. However, more research needs to be done to understand how they would fight chemicals in human cells. For instance, there needs to be series of tests done on human cells to determine the safety and efficacy of these glycoalkaloids…..CONTINUE READING
