lornagrl

Cancer cure with pie pans and hotdogs....

Um, no I did not make this up.  It was actually on 60 Minutes.  I got to admit that my eyes were rolling when I first saw the headline but after I saw this video I was actually going "hmmmmm" 

Melatonin/breast cancer connection

I am fascinated by the melatonin/breast cancer connection.  It has been suggested that those who live by night and sleep by day may be apt to develop certain cancers--specifically-- of the breast.

Well that explains everything!!

Before I moved to NYC and adopted the 9-5 lifestyle (of which I find impossible to adjust to at times.) I was quite the night owl.  I worked and played by night and slept by day.  I cut my teeth in this world in the theater. I was nearly thirty  before I watched an episode of David Letterman or Saturday Night Live. I also worked grave yard shifts as a telephone operator and a floral order taker in Orlando, Florida.  I wore my sunglasses at night...so to speak.  Could it be possible that this lifestyle led me to where I am today? Could it be that the midnight hours spent in  fluorescent drenched cubicle farms sent me on the road to a premature dirt nap??

..or what about the years of relentless insomnia? When sleep was as valuable as gold. 

It haunts me.

So it's probably safe to say  that I'm probably a  little low on Melatonin and so, I've been taking the little buggers. According to Beating Cancer with Nutrition, I should be taking about 25mg per night and here lies the rub...they usually come in 3mg tablets and these 3mg tablets usually come in a bottle of 6o capsules.  Do the math...60 capsules at 3mg each...thats 8 capsules a night.  I burn thru a bottle a week.  That's four bottles a month. 

That's a lot of empty Melatonin bottles strewn around my apartment.

Self destruct you mother f******!!

I've learned a new word this year -- apoptosis : n.  Disintegration of cells into membrane-bound particles that are then eliminated by phagocytosis or by shedding.

In my research I have found that ellagic acid brings about the self destruction of cancer cells specifically in cancers of the breast and prostate.   Good sources of ellagic acid are:

• Raspberries
• Walnuts
• Blueberries
• Strawberries
• Pomegranates

So, I've been consuming raspberries and pomegranates in vast quantities, so much so that my tongue turns red. I think I live in the best hood in Brooklyn for this.  The Russian community loves fresh fruit and veggies.  Fancy Farm has the freshest fruit and is my source for fresh pomegranates and raspberries...