{"id":692111,"date":"2010-03-15T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/can-seaweed-help-fight-lymphoma\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:11","slug":"can-seaweed-help-fight-lymphoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692111","title":{"rendered":"Can Seaweed Help Fight Lymphoma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Seaweed_1961_19664944_0_0_4454_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Can seaweed help fight lymphoma?\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Seaweed extract may one day have the potential to treat the immune system cancer known as non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma, a new report has suggested. <\/p>\n<p>In the study, lead researcher Mohammad Irhimeh, an assistant professor of oncology and stem cells at the Hashemite University in Jordan, and his colleagues experimented with a seaweed compound called fucoidan, which has been reported to fight tumors in mice and in some cell lines, according to the researchers. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some forms of B-cell lymphoma are especially resistant to standard treatment and thus new therapies are needed,&quot; said Irhimeh, quoted by <em>Health Day News<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>After testing human lymphoma cells with fucoidan, which is sold commercially, the researchers found that it inhibited growth of cancerous cells while not affecting healthy tissue. Furthermore, they discovered a positive level of activity in the genes associated with cell death in lymphoma. <\/p>\n<p>The next step for the research team is to analyze the physiological mechanism responsible for the biological effects seen in the study. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there are a variety of nutritional supplements on the market that may slow cancer progression, including vitamin D. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19664944-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaweed extract may one day have the potential to treat the immune system cancer known as non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma, a new report has suggested. In the study, lead researcher Mohammad Irhimeh, an assistant professor of oncology and stem cells at the Hashemite University in Jordan, and his colleagues experimented with a seaweed compound called fucoidan, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}