Dr Myer/ flax oil

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One of the strongest links with promotion of prostate cancer has been

established for dietary fat. Many tests have confirmed that a died rich in red

meat and animal fat leads to higher death rates from prostate cancer. Why this

is so has been much more difficult to prove. It appears that the culprit is

arachnadonic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in red meat, animal fat and egg

yolk. This fatty acid is converted by prostate cancer cells into a hormone that

actively promotes development of the blood vessels (angiogenesis) that cancer

tumours need in order to grow. Dr Myers advises all prostate cancer patients to

completely eliminate red meat from their diet. He recommends a vegan diet and

follows one himself.

Dr Myers believes there is evidence linking alpha lineolic acid (the omega-3

fatty acid in flax seed oil) with increased metastatic prostate cancer.

Laboratory tests have shown when this substance is placed in contact with live

prostate cancer cells, the rate of growth of the cancer cells increases by up to

three hundred percent. A similar result was obtained in a test of 15,000 doctors

reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 1994. THE GROUP WHO

TOOK OMEGA 3 OILS EXPERIENCED A THREE TIMES GREATER RATE OF PROSTATE CANCER

DIAGNOSIS THAN THE REMAINDER.

One of Dr Myers patients, who had no detectable prostate cancer, was being

treated for high blood cholesterol. The patient's wife persuaded him to take

quantities of flax seed oil in hope of reducing his cholesterol. Whin three

months, the patient had developed a PSA of 100 with extensive metastatic

prostate cancer. These findings were most disturbing as omega-3 from flax oil is

considered a strongly anti-cancer agent for other types of cancer. Dr Myers

suggests that prostate cancer patients adopt a predominantly vegetarian diet and

that, if any oil is consumed, it should be only olive oil and definitely not

flax seed oil. In reply to a question, he said that the omega-3 oil in deep-sea

fish was harmless to prostate cancer patients, as it was not plant-derived.