How does IP6 work to fight cancer?
In addition to its antioxidant and immune enhancing effects, IP6 exerts a number of interesting anticancer actions. Dr. Shamsuddin believes that the central pathway of IP6 action involves taking control of cell division. Cancer cells are out of control, dividing uncontrollably. What IP6 does in the cancer cell is literally turns off the switch that is telling the cell to divide. Dr. Shamsuddin and others have shown that IP6 reduces the rate of cancer cells in both animal and cancer cell studies, by reducing the manufacture of new DNA. Since it does not exert the same inhibition in normal cells, IP6 is dramatically different from conventional anticancer agents. Chemotherapy drugs, for example, work by literally killing cells rather indiscriminately, and as a result, are quite toxic because they are killing the good as well as the bad. IP6 is dramatically different because it’s helping the cell function normally, without damaging healthy cells.
