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Curcumin Shows a Balanced Anticancer Profile, According to Sarcoma Cell Study

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  • A laboratory study from Wroclaw Medical University tested and compared five plant compounds — curcumin, berberine, biochanin A, cucurbitacin E, and CAPE — for their ability to affect fibrosarcoma cancer cells versus healthy muscle cells
  • The compounds disrupted energy production far more in the cancer cells, where adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels dropped by roughly 83% to 92%, compared with 23% to 73% in healthy cells
  • All five pushed cancer cells into permanent growth arrest. However, curcumin stood out, producing the strongest effect, raising senescent cancer cells from about 16.5% to more than 75%
  • In a wax moth larvae safety screen, curcumin and berberine were best tolerated, while biochanin A proved most toxic, showing strong anticancer activity does not guarantee safety
  • The work used animal cell lines and a simple invertebrate model, so the researchers are clear these compounds are not a treatment for cancer and need testing in more advanced models

Keep reading: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/10/22/curcumin-anticancer-effects-study.aspx

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PCOS Reversed

PCOS Reversed

From mid-2024 through 2025, dietitians at a women’s and children’s hospital in Yangzhou, China, randomized 60 women with PCOS to two diets for 12 weeks.

PCOS affects 8 to 13% of women of reproductive age, and 50 to 70% have insulin resistance. The WHO says it cannot be cured. In May 2026, a Lancet consensus renamed it polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.

Thirty went keto: under 50 grams of carbs a day, with fats like avocado, nuts, olive oil and fatty fish. Thirty ate a China-adapted Mediterranean-style diet with whole grains, legumes and fruit, the diet the authors call most widely recommended. Both had matched calorie targets, counseling and exercise advice.

Of 13 keto women with no periods at the start, 12 got them back, versus 5 of 15 on the Mediterranean-style diet. Excluding women already regular (3 versus 12), 26 of 27 reached regular cycles on keto, versus 8 of 18. Insulin resistance fell 72% versus 35%. Frontiers in Nutrition published it in September.

Be straight about it. One hospital, 60 Chinese women, 12 weeks, open label, self-reported cycles, not yet repeated. The keto group lost about 22 pounds more on the same calorie targets, so real intake may have differed, and the authors can’t separate ketosis from weight loss and adherence.

Testosterone didn’t change. Nobody measured ovulation or pregnancy. Diabetes and thyroid patients were excluded. Zero dropouts and unbroken ketosis: unusually tidy data. The authors advise keto first, then Mediterranean long term. Never start, stop or change medication without your doctor.

The point is not that keto cures PCOS, or that the Mediterranean diet failed. Both helped. The point is that for a condition now named for its metabolism, the low-carb plate moved periods and insulin further.

The new name says metabolic. Start at the plate.

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Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan had spent most of his life as a baker and battery maker. No structured training. No athletic past. At 73 he sat on an erg to kill time and a coach noticed his natural stroke. He never stopped.

By his early 90s he was a four-time indoor rowing world champion. He had rowed the equivalent of nearly ten times around the planet, mostly in a backyard shed. Researchers put him in a lab at 92 and measured what late-starting training had done.

His 165 pounds were roughly 80% muscle and 15% fat. Peak heart rate hit 153 during a 2,000 m trial—among the highest recorded for anyone in their 90s. Oxygen uptake kinetics looked like those of a healthy 30- or 40-year-old. Forced vital capacity and peak power sat well above what the textbooks predict for his age.

He trained about 30 km a week on the erg, mostly easy, with a couple of harder sessions and basic strength work. The body adapted. Muscle stayed. The cardiovascular system stayed responsive. Performance kept rising long after most people assume the window has closed.

The usual story is that you have to start young or you miss the boat. Morgan started in his seventies and collected world titles in his nineties. The systems that matter for rowing—power, oxygen delivery, muscle mass—proved more plastic than the decline curves suggest.