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Health See other Health Articles Title: A superfood most people have never heard of: Jujube fruit programs cancer cells to kill themselves A superfood most people have never heard of: Jujube fruit programs cancer cells to kill themselves September 20, 2018 by IWB (Natural News) There’s a Chinese saying that three jujubes a day keep you young forever. This might sound odd to Western audiences who tend to associate the term “jujube” with brightly colored gummy candy often found at the movie theater concession stand. However, jujube is also the name of an Asian fruit that shows tremendous promise in fighting cancer. The jujube fruit’s scientific name is Ziziphus jujuba, but it’s often referred to as a red date due to its similar appearance to traditional dates. The plant’s fruit, bark, and seeds have been a traditional Chinese medicine staple for the last 3,000 years, featuring prominently in treatments for calming the body and mind. A new study carried out by researchers from the Royal Society of Chemistry has shown that the fruits can trigger cancer cell death by inducing internal stress in tumors. They found that after exposing prostate, breast, and lung cancer cells to the fruit in the lab, they essentially committed suicide. The results showed that four of the compounds present in the fruit were responsible for reducing the cancer cells’ survival rate, while three of the compounds prompted the cancerous cells to kill themselves. The researchers are calling for further research to determine precisely how this effect is occurring. Jujubes pack a nutritional punch Although jujubes might be similar in appearance to dates, they are a lot more beneficial. In addition to their potential anticancer effect, they have 32 times more vitamin C and more antioxidants than the equivalent amount of dates. They also contain minerals like phosphorus, calcium, iron, manganese and potassium. The antioxidant phytochemicals saponins, polysaccharides, and flavonoids can be found in the fruit as well as its seeds, and they are believed to be behind jujube’s calming effects. Flavonoids and saponins extracted from the seeds of jujubes have been shown to have a sedative effect on mice. In addition to promoting good sleep, smaller amounts of jujube can serve as an anti-anxiety measure that doesn’t knock you out. Poster Comment: Cancer was cured by Dr. Otto Warburg on Germany during the Third Reich. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine but Hitler prevented him from picking it up because of the war. The AMA suppressed all of this to keep people on expensive and ineffective chemotherapy. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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