Milk and Female Cancer

A September, 2004 publication in the Journal
of Biological Chemistry contributes significant
scientific support for the milk/cancer connection.

It can take up to twelve years for a cancer to
progress and mature from a one-cell beginning into
a tiny million-cell nightmare that can be detected
by a woman upon self examination.

The healthiest untreated milk from organically raised
cows naturally contains powerful growth hormones. One
of those cow hormones, insulin-like growth factor-I
(IGF-I), is identical to that same hormone produced by
the human body. Both contain 70 amino acids in the same
sequence. Hundreds of landmark studies relating to
every type of human cancer have referred to IGF-I as a
key factor in cancer's growth and proliferation. One
such example was published in the Lancet (vol. 351) in
May of 1998. Doctor Kurt Hankenson wrote:

"IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in
breast cancer."

Thirteen years ago, the Journal of the National
Institutes of Health (Dr. Scott Lippman, et. al.,
1991, 3) reported:

"IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant
growth of human breast cancer cells."

The September, 2004 issue of the Journal of Biological
Chemistry (17;279,38:40017-40025) contains a study
in which the authors conclude:

"Our results indicate that...IGF-I plays an
important role...to promote growth and spread of
gynecological cancers."

This combined effort of scientists at Harvard Medical
School, Oxford University, and the College of Medicine
in Taiwan explored the biological and chemical
mechanisms by which cellular metabolism is stimulated
by a series of events initiated by IGF-I. They found
that IGF-I accelerates and intensifies the exchange of
potassium-chloride ions through cell walls, which they
determined led to cellular proliferation of human ovarian
cancer and cervical cancer cell cultures.

Does drinking milk increase levels of IGF-I in the human
bloodstream? Two studies have confirmed that worst fear
for milk drinkers.

The first, performed by Robert Heaney and published in the
Journal of the American Dietetic Association in October
of 1999 (vol. 99, no. 10), determined:

"Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milk
drinkers, an increase of about 10% above baseline
but was unchanged in the control group."

A more recent European study published in the September,
2004 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
(Volume 58,9:1211-6) found that blood levels of IGF-I
increased by a factor of 19% in a group of milk-drinking
children and was unchanged in the control group.

Summary: IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in
the growth of cancer. IGF-I is identical in human and
cow. Drinking milk increases IGF-I levels.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com