There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that goji juice can help both fight and prevent cancer. But can these be trusted? Or is it more probable to believe that the positive results – even if genuine – are little more than placebo working its wonders?
Who Can We Trust?
Unravelling the truth is a difficult task, all the more so since there seem to be few unbiased opinions available.
Goji juice distributors must, as a rule, be treated with some suspicion; just as the established medical community must due both to its innate distrust of all alternative cures and the huge amount of revenue it would lose if more people resorted to them.
In any case, most medical reviews make two obvious errors:
1. They try to disprove the effect goji juice has on cancer (and other maladies) by disproving many of the outlandish claims made by either confused or unscrupulous goji distributors.
Their comments are generally accurate – as far as they go – but all they actually prove is that ludicrous claims are, indeed, ludicrous.
(For instance: Just because someone makes the absurd claim that the goji berry has 5000 times the vitamin C of oranges doesn’t mean all goji claims are bollocks. Some are, some may not be.)
2. They cite a lack of conclusive medical proof that goji juice can heal as proof that it can’t!
This, too, is unsound reasoning. Just because something hasn’t been fully proven doesn’t disprove it.
What we must always remember is that as useful as modern Western medicine is, it is still fallible and, as a rule, reactionary. It tends to be wary of anything new – especially anything that falls in the realm of complementary and alternative medicine.
The Medical Truth About Goji Juice
Originally I stated my opinion that although there have not been many scientific studies done on humans, there is still enough evidence to suggest that goji juice (not just the goji berry) might be able to help in the battle against cancer.
The FDA took offense at this rather humble statement, however, so we are sorry to say that in a land of so-called free speech we cannot give our opinion.
We therefore ask the reader to study the summaries of the tests cited below and make up his or her own mind. We, ourselves, cannot say whether they amount to anything significant or not!
All of the papers cited can be found at PubMed.gov and, as a result, represent serious medical reseach.
Since they either deal directly with goji juice or goji polysaccharides (LBPs), they may be relevant to Himalayan Goji Juice (since it preserves the LBPs).
Types of Testing
Before we look at the specifics of the actual scientific tests conducted, it should be noted that it is entirely normal for most of them to have been done either in a test tube (in vitro) or on rats and mice.
As a rule you will always conduct experiments of this kind before embarking on the more delicate and expensive ones on humans. With rats and mice you can naturally try many things that would be deemed unacceptable on a human subject.
Tumors
Quite a bit of research has been done on the effect the goji polysaccharides (LBPs) can have on tumors.
He YL, Ying Y, Xu YL et al. (Department of Pathology at the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) found that the LBP’s have an anti-tumor effect, probably by increasing the numbers of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in TIL to relieve the immunosuppression and enhance the anti-tumor function of the immune system.
Gan L, Hua Zhang S, Liang Yang X, Bi Xu H. (Institute of Materia Medica, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan) did research that suggests that LBP3p at 10 mg/kg has a highly significant effect on tumor weight as well as improving the immune system.
The papers detailing these results are in Chinese, so not readily available to the public; but even just reading the abstracts (in English) found at PubMed can prove illuminating.
More Goji Cancer Research
Gong H, Shen P, Jin L et al. (Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing) found that LBP promoted the peripheral blood recovery of irradiation or chemotherapy-induced myelosuppressive mice.
Gan L, Zhang SH, Liu Q, Xu HB (Institute of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan) concluded that LBP(3p) may induce immune responses and possess potential therapeutic efficacy in cancer.
Goji Cancer Research on Human Subjects
The most exciting goji-cancer related test done was conducted by Cao GW, Yang WG and Du P. at the Second Military Medical University (Department of Microbiology) Shanghai.
The abstract from PubMed explains that seventy nine advanced cancer patients in a clinical trial were treated with LAK/IL-2 combining with Lycium Barbarum polysaccharides (LBP).
Initial results of the treatment from 75 evaluable patients indicated that objective regression of cancer was achieved in patients with malignant melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, colorectal carcinoma, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, malignant hydrothorax.
The response rate of patients treated with LAK/IL-2 plus LBP was 40.9% while that of patients treated with LAK/IL-2 was 16.1% (P < 0.05). The mean remission in patients treated with LAK/IL-2 plus LBP also lasted significantly longer.
Goji Juice, Cancer and Dr Marcial-Vega’s Research
Some of the most important recent goji juice cancer research has been undertaken by Dr Marcial-Vega.
Trained at John Hopkins Hospital, Dr Marcial-Vega is the creator of a high resolution blood imaging digital microscope system (see video link below).
He has studied the effect goji juice has on body PH balance and measured how it can rebalance acidity levels in the blood.
Since one of the most common major effects cancer has on people is to raise acidity levels, these are important findings.
Click on the link to view amazing video footage of goji juice transforming human blood cells.
Conclusion:
Sadly, the FDA won’t allow us to legally draw any conclusions.
We therefore invite the reader to draw his or her own.
One final word of caution, however:
It would naturally be unwise for someone undergoing standard medical treatment to abandon it for goji juice. That said, the possibility of experimenting with a combination of traditional (allopathic) medicine and goji juice does remain.
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