Friday, January 07, 2005

Shark Water

Shark Cartilage

Shark Cartilage is a type of tissue found in the skeleton. The skeletons of sharks are almost entirely cartilaginous and, as far as we know, the cancer rate in sharks for certain types of tumors appears to be low.

Shark and bovine cartilage, and possibly other species, contain angiogenic inhibitors - compounds that slow and stop the creation of blood vessels. This combination
of influences indicate that shark and other types of cartilage are of considerable importance to medical researchers. According to I. William Lane, author of "Sharks Don't Get Cancer" and a leading lobbyist of shark cartilage as an effective cancer treatment.

Ingestion of shark cartilage or "Shark Waters" inhibits angiogenesis: In lay terms, the injested cartilage apparently reduces the creation of a network of blood vessels around a tumor, and therefore prevents it from growing or spreading. However there is, at this time, no clinical evidence that swallowing powdered shark cartilage is an effective cancer treatment or that it inhibits angiogenesis. The cartilage is digested by the body's gastric system, rather than absorbed (with its antiangiogenic inhibitors) into the bloodstream.

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