Acai Berries and Cancer

Acai Berries and Cancer

It’s a well known, medically documented fact that antioxidants are the most effective thing at fighting and preventing cancer. In case that sounds overblown or vague, let me put it to you this way. There are two ways in which the cells in your body die. One is the way where tings all work the way they are supposed to. This is where the dying cell sends out a message signal to your white blood cells to come and take care of it – to destroy it and break down the waste. This method is called apoptosis, and ideally all cells in your body would die this way.

Then there is the other, somewhat less ideal way. When those white blood cells are busy doing other things and can’t get to the dying cell in time, or that message fails to get through, those dying cells will self destruct, sending bits of themselves bouncing around the inside of your body, releasing free radicals. Those free radicals are what cause your DNA to copy itself incorrectly, resulting in abnormal cell growth and development. This results in two things: cancer and aging. The fact is, if all the cells in your body died correctly with apoptosis, you would not age. This is a medically accepted fact.

Sounds great, but what does all this have to do with acai berries? Well, guess what fruit has the absolute highest level of antioxidants of any known substance found so far? That’s right. The humble acai berry has a whopping ten times more antioxidants than its nearest competitor, the blueberry.

Antioxidants are what fight free radicals. The more antioxidants you have coursing through your system, the less damage those free radicals have a chance to do.

Why on earth would anyone NOT want to bulk up on antioxidants? If you don’t have cancer, taking acai berries and acai berry products can help you avoid it. If you do have cancer, acai berries can help you fight it.

The fact is, in 2006 the University of Florida did an experiment and found that acai berries had killed 86% of leukemia cells in a cell culture, triggering their self destruct message for white blood cells to come deal with them. Can you imagine- undoing the damage of cancer and sending those abnormal cells into apoptosis? Now, I don’t know why this news wasn’t all over the papers, but surely these results say something.

To put it simply, acai berries have such a high concentration of antioxidants that they can fight the free radicals released by improper cell destruction, as well as the free radicals you absorb through pollution or daily hazards on a regular basis. These free radicals cause cancer and aging, so by fighting those free radicals, acai berries and their antioxidants can fight and maybe even prevent cancer. What have you got to lose?