Healthy Living
YYOOUR HEARUR HEART’’SS
Cancer Fighteersrs
Cutting-edge research suggests
that the hormones in every human
heart may hold secrets in the battle
against a variety of cancers.
Sylvia Booth Hubbard more heart hor-
mones, including
T
HE HUMAN HEART GETS MOST OF ITS one similar to ANF,
attention as the power plant for the another that opens
circulatory system, but doctors say blood vessels and
the muscular pump may do more lowers blood pres-
than just keep our blood moving. sure, and a third that
Researchers recently discovered stimulates potas-
VESSEL VASSAL Dr. Vesely aims for
that the heart also produces hor- sium excretion.
nothing short of curing cancer.
mones that could hold the key to “All four are made
conquering one of humanity’s dead- by the same gene and work together search for a
liest enemies: cancer. The hormones to control blood pressure and get cancer treat-
could be used soon to battle the most rid of salt and water,” says Vesely, ment: His wife,
virulent, fast-moving malignancies, who also is a professor of medicine, Clo, died from
such as pancreatic and ovarian can- molecular pharmacology and physi- breast cancer
cers, experts say. ology at the University of in 2002. “We
The fi rst heart hor- South Florida. wondered that
mone was discovered
“In every case
Researchers began to if heart hor-
in 1981 by Canadian explore the functions of mones stopped
Dr. Adolfo de Bold.
[the cancers]
heart hormones and won- heart muscles from growing, would
Named “atrial natri-
shrunk to
dered whether they kept they do the same thing to cancer
uetic factor” (ANF), it cells of heart muscles cells?”
is a protein created in
less than 10
from growing larger (a The fi rst step was to test the heart
the heart that regulates
percent.”
process known as hyper- hormones on many different types
the excretion of sodi- trophy), and also kept of human cancer cells in test tubes.
— David Vesely, M.D.
um and the creation heart cells from prolifer- The results stunned Vesely and his
of urine. Since then, ating (hyperplasia). Early colleagues, he tells Newsmax.
Dr. David Vesely, chief of endocri- research indicated they did. “Within 24 hours, up to 97 percent
nology, diabetes, and metabolism at “Hyperplasia is essentially cancer of all cancer cells were gone,” Vesely
the James Haley Veterans Hospital if it gets out of control,” says Vesely, says. “We tested neuroblastomas, dif-
in Tampa, Fla., has discovered three who had a very personal reason to ferent types of lung, pancreatic, ovar-
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