Superpowered gut flora can fight cancer for you

If you don’t think the microflora in your gut give your immune system a huge boost, then you should keep reading. Because it just might help you prevent cancer.

Seems that researchers at a lab called Taconic Biosciences bought some mice from Jackson Laboratory for cancer research. But during the start of a clinical trial looking into curing skin cancer, the researchers got a big surprise. The mice already had a very strong and spontaneous immune system response. The tumors wouldn’t grow, and were attacked and killed off by the mice’s immune systems.

Mice from Taconic had a very weak immune response… but when the researchers put all the mice together in the same cages for three weeks, they found that ALL the mice now had tremendously cancer-resistant immune systems.

The scientists suspected that the resident mice had acquired Bifidobacterium microbes from the Jackson Labs mice that had somehow given their T-cells (cancer and disease killing immune cells) enhanced power to wipe out tumors.

This was confirmed when they transferred microflora from the Jackson mice to more of their mice, and their immune systems were also were transformed into tumor killing machines.

In fact, the mice’s microflora was just as effective as cancer drugs called checkpoint inhibitors – which can help keep the immune response switched “on.”

We already know that healthy and plentiful gut bacteria are crucial to digestion and elimination and, therefore, good health. And we also know that colon cancer patients are found to have significant changes — or an imbalance — in their intestinal bacteria.

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But this was one of the first times research has identified a link between simple digestive balance and the body’s power to fight cancer. “Our results clearly demonstrate a significant, although unexpected, role for specific gut bacteria in enhancing the immune system’s response to melanoma and possibly many other tumor types,” said Thomas Gajewski, Univeristy of Chicago professor of medicine and pathology.

You can increase your gut bacteria with a good probiotic supplement. You can also eat foods like raw kefir, kimchee, miso, pickles and sauerkraut, etc., and drink whole buttermilk — all of which are rich in probiotics.

These promote the Bifidobacterium strains that are among the very first colonizers of an infant’s GI tract after birth. And various strains of Bifidobacterium benefit humans best when their naturally symbiotic relationship is maintained.