By Michael Mooney
March 28, 2012
This is a quick list of dietary supplements that have published studies showing that they reduce the risk of cancers.
I put this page up to provide an idea of what one might take if one chooses to do things that can promote the risk of cancer, such as was recently shown in a study from Harvard that said that ANY consumption of red meat increased the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease while shortening lifespan.
While I normally provide references to every key point, in the interest of limited time, I will come back to this page and flesh out the references later.
So here's a list of dietary supplements and dosages that can reduce the risk of cancer, not in any specific order.
1.Vitamin D3 - 5,000 IU/day or more. Several factors increase the chances that we need to take more than 2,000 IU. 1.) If you are physically bigger, especially if you have a lot of bodyfat, it takes more vitamin D to saturate the tissues in your body. 2.) Being older. A 70-year old converts vitamin D into its active form in the body about 25% as well as a 20 year old. 3.) Darker skinned people also need higher doses. One study showed that African-Americans were 3.5 times more likely to be vitamin D deficient than Caucasians. Dark skin makes about one sixth as much vitamin D from sunlight exposure as white skin. A good goal is to find the dose that brings your "OH-vitamin D" blood test to between 40 and 60 ng/mL. I take 11,000 IU/day, which brings my OH-vitamin D blood test up to an ideal 59 ng/mL;
2. CoQ10 - if it's ubiquinone, 100 to 200 mg/day. If it's ubiquinol, 50 to 100 mg/day. Either form works, but ubiquinol is better utilized in the body.
3. Curcumin 95 - 1,500 mg/day, Curcumin is difficult to absorb. Curcumin 95 is a licensed product with greatly increased absorption that several companies sell;
4. MSM - Approximately - based on a mouse study - 2,000 to 10,000/day mg for breast cancer. 1,000 to 3,000/day mg to reduce breast cancer risk. However, we need human studies to determine optimal dosing.
4. Selenium - 200 to 400 mcg/day;
5. A strong multivitamin. This generally means a formula that requires six tablets a day, because it contains higher potencies of anti-cancer B-vitamins, 200 mcg of (anti-cancer) selenium; 1000 mg of vitamin C, 5,000 IU of vitamin A as retinol, and higher potencies of other important nutrients.
6. A strong multivitamin. SuperNutrition full-potency and advanced multivitamin formulas that require six tablets a day, because they contain higher potencies of anti-cancer B-vitamins, 1000 mg of vitamin C, 400 to 800 IU of vitamin E, 1,000 mcg of folic acid and higher potencies of other heart-healthy nutrients.
7. Resveratrol - 300 mg/day. Resveratrol, the extract of red wine is being intensely studied for several health benefits;
8. Omega-3 fish oil fats - 1,000 mg to 3,000 mg net EPA and DHA/day. While the capsule might be a 1,000 mg capsule, look at the ingredients panel to see how much EPA and DHA each capsule contains. Add that up to see the net amount it gives you per capsule.
9. Folic acid - 1,000 mcg/day;
10. Vitamin E as gamma tocopherol - 300 mg/day;
11. Vitamin E as d-alpha tocopherol - 400 to 800 IU/day;
12. Vitamin E tocotrienols as Tocomin SupraBio, sold by Healthy Origins, or by Jarrow Formulas as Toco-Sorb.
12. Coffee - caffeine is a more potent antioxidant than vitamin C. Maybe that's why coffee drinkers experience a 36% reduction in oral cancers, as well as several other cancers;
13. Milk thistle (silimarin) extract - reduces the risk of lung cancer. So all you smokers and former smokers would do well to take 300 mg a day.
14. Liposomal vitamin C. Liposomal vitamin C is absorbed into cells so well that much lower doses work better than tabletted vitamin C. I take one gram twice a day, knowing that it works better than the 7 grams of tabletted vitamin C a day that I was taking. Liposomal vitamin C has been documented to have cured leukemia. Read my report on this by clicking here.
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