Placenta Treat Cancer Is It True?

The search for remedy for cancers has been fervent through the years and the potential of several plant and animal parts to provide answers has been thoroughly explored. It is very ironic that an emerging cure for cancer is found inside the human body itself.

The placenta from a healthy woman has been found to contain corticoids, peptides, amino acids, lysozome, aminopolysaccharides, and anticancer proteins. Specific cells extracted from humanplacenta can repress cancer tumor which weakens the normal immune defense of the patient. 
 

The idea was first conceived by Scottish embryologist John Beard of the University of Edinburgh way back 1901. He observed that cancer cells behaved like trophoblast cells – the cells that normally surround the healthy, developing human embryo. These trophoblast cells make up the outer layer of the embryo, responsible for attaching the latter to the uterus and providing nutrition to it and to the developing fetus. At the beginning, these cells gather together and dig a hole in the uterus where the embryo is then planted. They become the chorionic villi as the fetus’ half of the placenta. The behaviors of these cells are aggressive, relentless, wild, and invasive. Similarly, cancer cells act this way.

According to Beard, “Cancer is simply trophoblast in the wrong place at the wrong time, triggered into malignant life by what wecould hormones and carcinogens.” However, when World War I broke out, technology on radiation therapy and chemotherapy diverted medical interests away from Beard’s theories.

In recent years, attention on this matter resurfaced as stem cell concept is developed. Researchers have found out that stem cellsare the source of malignancy. It appears that it is the immune system itself that is hindering its own activity of defense. This behavior marks a resemblance to that of the embryo. Hence, the placental extract can inhibit this behavior and thus immunize the patient against the fetus-like behavior of the cancer cells. In several tests, immunization with placental extract has decreased blocking factor and thereby reducing the tumor mass in patients.

Truly, the body has its own way of healing itself, in one way or another.

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