{"id":62762,"date":"2025-12-13T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62762"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:24:38","slug":"mebendazole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62762","title":{"rendered":"Mebendazole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mebendazole.jpg\" alt=\"Mebendazole\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mebendazole.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mebendazole-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 laboratory study, scientists treated human colon cancer cells with the anti-worm drug Mebendazole and then measured how many cells died after 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Using a special test that separates living cells from dying cells, they found that 78% (\u00b112%) of the cancer cells were pushed into apoptosis, which is the cell\u2019s natural self-destruction process.<\/p>\n<p>This result was extremely statistically strong (P = 0.0001), meaning it was very unlikely to be due to chance. In simple terms, this shows that mebendazole didn\u2019t just slow the cancer \u2014 it actively forced most of the cancer cells to shut down and die in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>PMID: 37837472<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37837472\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37837472\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2024 laboratory study, scientists treated human colon cancer cells with the anti-worm drug Mebendazole and then measured how many cells died after 48 hours. Using a special test that separates living cells from dying cells, they found that 78% (\u00b112%) of the cancer cells were pushed into apoptosis, which is the cell\u2019s natural &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mebendazole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62765,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762\/revisions\/62765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}