THIS ARTICLE DOESNT MENTION THE SOURCES LINK TO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, JUST DISINFORMATION. THE ARTICLE DOES NOT STATE EXACTLY WHAT THESE MEN TOOK, BRAND NAME, ETC. MANY SUPPLEMENTS ARE JUST JUNK ANYWAY.
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Marnie
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Unbelievable!
Not really...gotta fuel the industry.
The B vitamins and C are WATER SOLUABLE. They leave our system within a 2 hour time frame.
Taking a daily vitamin/or vitamin+mineral supplement is NOT going to increase the risk of prostate cancer.
Catching lyme will.
"DNA is also typically methylated in order to serve in regulating the expression of a variety of genes, including oncogenes.
(An oncogene is a modified gene, or a set of nucleotides that codes for a protein, that increases the malignancy of a tumor cell .)
However, DNA methylation requires the same methyl donor that is consumed in arsenic methylation. When the methyl donor is not available, the DNA is undermethylated, or hypomethylated, and is therefore unable to properly regulate gene expression.
Therefore, arsenic appears to indirectly induce aberrant gene expression through the induction of DNA hypomethylation. DNA hypomethylation is thought to constitute an early event in some cancers and has been associated with many types of tumors, including those of the liver and colon."
Not good to be undermethylated!
Folic acid deficiency in humans has been linked with megaloblastic anaemia, neural tube defects in the neonate, and heart disease.
Folate has also been implicated in the development of cancer, especially cancer of the colorectum.
There appear to be two principal mechanisms through which low folate status may increase the risk of malignancy.
Folate deficiency, by reducing intracellular S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), can alter cytosine methylation in DNA, leading to inappropriate activation of proto-oncogenes and induction of malignant transformation.
Alternatively, folic acid is crucial for normal DNA synthesis and repair.
Folate deficiency may cause an imbalance in DNA precursors, uracil misincorporation into DNA, and chromosome breakage.
This chapter briefly describes the epidemiological data supporting the involvement of folic acid in the aetiology of cancer.
It also assesses the evidence from cellular, animal and human studies that folic acid can modulate DNA by such mechanisms."
Folate works best when combined with vitamin B12 and vitamin C.
Are they also suggesting that women not take prenatal vitamins with high levels of folic acid because they might contribute to BREAST cancer?
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out...gotta get my stress levels down.
This kind of false information makes my blood boil.
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treepatrol
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Multivitamin Use and Risk of Prostate Cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study Karla A. Lawson, Margaret E. Wright, Amy Subar, Traci Mouw, Albert Hollenbeck, Arthur Schatzkin, Michael F. Leitzmann Affiliations of authors: Divisions of Cancer Prevention (KAL), Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (KAL, MEW, TM, A. Schatzkin, MFL), and Cancer Control and Population Sciences (A. Subar), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; AACR, Washington, DC (AH)
Correspondence to: Karla A. Lawson, PhD, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS Ste 320, Rockville, MD 20852-7232 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Background: Multivitamin supplements are used by millions of Americans because of their potential health benefits, but the relationship between multivitamin use and prostate cancer is unclear.
Methods: We prospectively investigated the association between multivitamin use and risk of prostate cancer (localized, advanced, and fatal) in 295344 men enrolled in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP Diet and Health Study who were cancer free at enrollment in 1995 and 1996. During 5 years of follow-up, 10241 participants were diagnosed with incident prostate cancer, including 8765 localized and 1476 advanced cancers. In a separate mortality analysis with 6 years of follow-up, 179 cases of fatal prostate cancer were ascertained. Multivitamin use was assessed at baseline as part of a self-administered, mailed food-frequency questionnaire. Relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated by use of Cox proportional hazards regression, adjusted for established or suspected prostate cancer risk factors.
Results: No association was observed between multivitamin use and risk of localized prostate cancer. However, we found an increased risk of advanced and fatal prostate cancers (RR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.04 to 1.67 and RR = 1.98, 95% CI = 1.07 to 3.66, respectively) among men reporting excessive use of multivitamins (more than seven times per week) when compared with never users. The incidence rates per 100000 person-years for advanced and fatal prostate cancers for those who took a multivitamin more than seven times per week were 143.8 and 18.9, respectively, compared with 113.4 and 11.4 in never users. The positive associations with excessive multivitamin use were strongest in men with a family history of prostate cancer or who took individual micronutrient supplements, including selenium, -carotene, or zinc.
Conclusion: These results suggest that regular multivitamin use is not associated with the risk of early or localized prostate cancer. The possibility that men taking high levels of multivitamins along with other supplements have increased risk of advanced and fatal prostate cancers is of concern and merits further evaluation.
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treepatrol
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Results: No association was observed between multivitamin use and risk of localized prostate cancer.
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GiGi
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Yes, I wholeheartedly agree in that many vitamins are not clean and some contain substances/fillers/equipment cleaning agents, etc. people are allergic to (are not aware of it) and/ or substances like titanium dioxide which is a carcinogen.
Not all supplements are good. And taking any, all the time without taking a break, is not a good idea either.
My body, for instance, went into a major stress mode when taking magnesium s/r as it was and is recommended by some physicians. I stopped it quickly and tossed out the most of the thousand pills left in the container.
Research and read the fine print. Energetic testing may help decide.
Take care.
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JimBoB
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I agree GiGi. I still have some of my Vitamin B complex tablets; BUT I quit taking them months ago, because all the time I took them my urine was flourescent yellow/green, and I had pain urinating, AND I got prostatitis while taking them.
AND I had not had prostatitis for many, many years. Back in the 80's I had chronic prostatitis and prostatosis for many, many years.
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