Angiogenesis and Cancer: How to eat right and starve your cancer?

Angiogenesis is a critical process that happens during normal development, growth, and wound healing. But on the other hand, it is also involved in the growth of cancer, because the tumours have the ability to release chemical signals that stimulate angiogenesis.

 

How Angiogenesis ‘feed’ cancer cells?

Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels. This method includes the growth, migration, and differentiation of the endothelial cells, which is present in the inside wall of the blood vessels.

 

The new blood vessels “feed” developing tumours with oxygen and nutrients, allowing the tumour to grow. Then these cancer cells attack nearby tissue, move throughout the body, form new colonies of cancer cells in different parts of the body, called metastases.

 

What scientists have done about it?

Because tumours cannot develop beyond a certain size or spread without a blood supply, scientists have produced a drug called Angiogenesis Inhibitors, which block tumour angiogenesis. The goal of these drugs, also termed antiangiogenic agents, is to limit or slow the growth of cancer by starving it of its needed blood supply.

 

What you can do?

However, there are foods that act as natural angiogenesis inhibitors and do not let cancel sells by blocking blood and nutrient supply required by them to grow in the first place.

Here is a list of foods that are natural Angiogenesis Inhibitors:

• Strawberries
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Oranges
• Grapefruit
• Lemons
• Apples
• Pineapples
• Cherries
• Red wine
• Bok choy
• Kale
• Soybeans
• Ginseng
• Nutmeg
• Maitake mushrooms
• Turmeric
• Tuna
• Parsley
• Garlic
• Tomato
• Olive oil
• Grape seed oil
• Dark chocolate

Moreover, the best part is that you can find these ingredients in your kitchen easily. Eating right is the key to fight many diseases. Including cancer. But some foods increase angiogenesis, which only contributes to feeding these cancerous cells. So, you decide to eat the right kind of food to keep yourself healthy and going and help yourself combat dangerous diseases.