Muscadine grapes and their effects on cancer

Muscadine is a grape. Muscadines are well adapted to the warm, humid conditions of south-eastern U.S. This makes them perfect for growing in all humid areas of Australia. European grapes are unsuitable in these areas. These grapes grow on vigorous vines and should not be planted where they can escape into native bushland. This is because they would quickly smother trees and shrubs around them. 

 

Benefits of muscadine

This grape is not like any other grape, it has more chromosome pairs. Another way that this grape is different is that the level of tannins that it contains works through a different pathway other than just resveratrol. It also not helps to inhibit cancer cells but it uses a process called apoptosis. This is a process of programmed cell death. It is used to remove unwanted cells in the body. This process helps with the prevention of cancer. However, not all muscadines are the same.

Muscadine grapes are fat free, high in fibre and they are high in antioxidants, especially ellagic acid and resveratrol. Ellagic acid has demonstrated anticarcinogenic properties in the colon, lungs and liver of mice. Resveratrol lowers cholesterol levels and the risk of coronary heart disease.

 

Science studies, cancer and muscadine

Muscadine grapes are a powerful source of antioxidant compounds including ellagic acid, resveratrol, analogs, quercetin, other flavonoids, anthocyanins, and proanthyocyanidins, with the incredible phenolic rate of 87.1%. Ellagic acid is a polyphenol which intervenes in the different phases of cancer. It also intervenes in the way DNA interacts when DNA damage occurs. However, if you take ellagic acid separately it doesn’t really do much. It needs to be with other co-factors. It can also induce the detoxification Phase II enzymes which metabolize chemical substances we absorb but which pollute humans. This then transforms compounds which can make bad changes in your DNA into less toxic substances. It dissolves metalloproteinase which is an enzyme that pushes healthy cells aside and lets cancer cells grow. It also inhibits the blood supply to growing tumours. Research in a paper on muscadine in 2011 shows a 92.6% inhibition of 7 types of cancers and a 34.6% increase in tumour shrinkage within 60 days. This information is no longer available it seems on the internet. However the paper did encourage more studies to be done on muscadine.

 

Other grape benefits and Resveretrol

Many years ago the ‘Grape cure’ was used by natural therapists as one method of aiming to assist in cancer control. Resveretrol is only one of the substances important in this study. Unfortunately much of the older information has disappeared and no longer available. For whatever reasons many of the studies from the 1980’s to 2015 were not followed through as people became distracted with other world issues. However if you are diligent you will find information on these topics. Search for therapists that are older and recall some of this information. Remember that searching Google for information and treating yourself is not good for any illness. It takes years of training to put together the knowledge and education needed to treat people’s health. You can’t be your own doctor. Find practitioners you can trust and work with them and the medical profession to make a program that not only gets you healthy but keeps you healthy