When I woke up in the morning, I saw that the topic set by People’s Daily Online #Garlic raw food can play a role in sterilizing and anti-cancer# was searched on Weibo.
Thousands of people eat garlic every day, and it seems that they have not experienced any serious side effects, which means that eating garlic is very safe.
Garlic is inexpensive compared to the antibiotics currently used in hospitals. Compared with the anticancer drugs currently used in hospitals, it is simply cheap and unnecessary.
Can we not rejoice that such cheap and safe antibacterial and anticancer drugs have been discovered?
Seeing this tweet made me laugh happily.
The above is a screenshot of People’s Daily Online’s Weibo.
After reading the text report of People’s Daily Online, let’s take a closer look at the CCTV report video quoted by People’s Daily Online.
Unfortunately, I am a doctor trained in the basics of medicine.
I think about it with my toes, and I think this statement is ridiculous.
The logic of People’s Daily Online is: After raw garlic is broken, it can produce allicin, which can kill bacteria. Allicin can not only inhibit the synthesis of some carcinogenic substances such as nitrosamines in the human body, but also Allicin can directly kill many cancer cells. Therefore, raw garlic can play a more antibacterial and anticancer effect.
Eating raw garlic can produce allicin, which can play a bactericidal and anti-cancer effect in the body after eating it?
This logic itself is wrong.
This logic is as absurd as Trump’s call for Americans to drink disinfectant to prevent new coronavirus infection.
Unfortunately, many Americans drank disinfectant at that time, and the final result was terrible.
For the simplest example.
75% alcohol sanitizer can easily kill the new coronavirus and most bacteria.
Then can we make patients drink 75% alcohol-based hand sanitizer to treat people with new coronavirus? Can a patient drink a 75% alcohol-based hand sanitizer to treat a bacterial infection?
Can drinking liquor prevent new coronavirus infection? Can drinking white wine prevent bacterial infections?
The answer is obvious, definitely not!
Even if raw garlic can kill bacteria in our body, it cannot be used!
Our environment is full of bacteria, both inside and outside our bodies.
Not all bacteria are harmful to our health. Some bacteria are very important to our health, these bacteria are called probiotics. Bacteria that make people sick are called pathogens.
There are many probiotics living in our gastrointestinal tract, such as Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Bacillus subtilis and other flora, these beneficial bacteria can help us synthesize some essential vitamins , such as vitamin K, can also help us defend against the invasion of disease-causing bacteria.
If the probiotics in our gastrointestinal tract were killed, then people would get sick and it would be very difficult to treat.
Long-term use of antibiotics, intestinal flora imbalance, leading to pseudomembranous colitis, is a typical example.
In other words, we can’t abuse antibiotics, because antibiotics not only kill pathogenic bacteria, but also kill good bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
If raw garlic has a bactericidal effect, then millions of people eat garlic every day, and there will be many people who eat raw garlic because of intestinal flora imbalance, resulting in Pseudomembranous colitis, this disease is very difficult to treat and can be fatal.
Actually, that doesn’t seem to be happening either.
If raw garlic really has antibacterial effects, then garlic is like antibiotics, and we should ban people from eating raw garlic indiscriminately, just like banning the abuse of antibiotics.
If you learn some logical thinking, you will know that eating garlic can fight cancer is also a rumor!
Let’s take a look at the mechanism of action of anticancer drugs.
Anticancer drugs kill tumor cells. These drugs can act on different aspects of tumor cell growth and reproduction, inhibiting or killing tumor cells. The main types are: alkylating agents, antimetabolites, antitumor antibiotics, hormones, immune preparations and plant anticancer drugs.
Plant anticancer drugs are plant alkaloids and natural products that inhibit the action of mitosis or enzymes, thereby preventing the synthesis of proteins necessary for cell regeneration.
Plant-based anticancer drugs are often used in combination with other anticancer drugs for the treatment of various cancers. The most famous plant-based anticancer drug is paclitaxel derived from Taxus chinensis, which is widely used in clinical practice.
Although many plants, including yew, contain natural cancer-fighting compounds, they are found in very small amounts. Any drug, if the effective concentration does not reach a certain concentration, cannot achieve the effect of curing diseases at all.
Therefore, people must extract plant-based anticancer drugs from plants in order to achieve medicinal concentrations. The price of paclitaxel is very expensive, because the content of yew is very small, and the extraction cost is very high.
The known plants, including garlic, radish, onion and other foods, contain very little anti-cancer drug ingredients. Judging from the amount of food that we can eat, there is no The effective drug concentration for anticancer effect cannot be achieved.
For this, we can judge from common sense, because many people eat garlic every day.
Tumor cells and human cells are very close, so there is no drug that can kill tumor cells without causing accidental injury to the human body.
Many tumor patients have serious side effects of anticancer drugs. Common side effects are: bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal toxicity, immunosuppression, nephrotoxicity, liver damage, cardiotoxicity, pulmonary toxicity, neurotoxicity, hair loss and many other reactions. Every year, many cancer patients die from the toxic and side effects of anticancer drugs.
Because of the toxic and side effects of anticancer drugs, normal people cannot easily use such drugs.
Special groups such as children and pregnant women should stay away from such drugs.
Nurses must operate in a fume hood when preparing chemotherapy drugs to prevent the drugs from volatilizing and causing harm to the nurse’s body.
Nurses who are about to become pregnant or who are already pregnant should be removed from the chemotherapy position to avoid exposure to chemotherapy drugs.
If garlic can fight cancer, it can kill tumor cells, then it will also kill normal human cells, then garlic cannot be food, it is not suitable for ordinary people to eat , It is not suitable for children, pregnant women and other special groups to eat.
But in fact, garlic is eaten every day by men, women and children, including children and pregnant women. Facts have proved that garlic is a safe food.
The fact that garlic is a safe food proves that garlic cannot be a cancer-fighting food. As long as we have the ability to think logically, we can draw such a conclusion.
In fact, eating garlic for a long time will cause a chronic damage to the gastric mucosa. This chronic damage and repair is related to gastric cancer.
Some patients, such as patients with gastritis, patients with gastric ulcers, and patients with gastroesophageal reflux, are not suitable for long-term consumption of raw garlic.
In fact, we haven’t found any proven cancer-fighting food yet.
We only found quite a few carcinogenic foods. For example, barbecue foods: roast beef, roast duck, roast lamb, roast goose, roast suckling pig, etc., are considered to be carcinogenic foods because they contain strong carcinogens.
Mildew food: rice, wheat, beans, corn, peanuts and other foods are susceptible to moisture and mildew, and when contaminated by mold, it will produce a carcinogenic toxin – aflatoxin, which is also considered to be carcinogenic food. In addition, there are many carcinogenic foods, I will not give examples one by one.
Cancer is the product of a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Eating carcinogenic foods for a long time does not necessarily cause cancer, but the risk of cancer is relatively high.
As the saying goes, if you eat noodles without garlic, the taste will be halved. Many people like to eat raw garlic, and I also like to eat it.
The only benefit of raw garlic is: it tastes good.
I just eat it when I’m fishing alone, and brush my teeth right after eating.
I don’t eat raw garlic on weekdays, and I don’t eat raw garlic when I eat with my daughter, just because, after eating garlic, people smell so bad in my mouth .
Garlic is a seasoning food, as long as you like it, you can eat it, but don’t delusionally have the effect of bactericidal and anti-cancer.
After all, garlic is a relatively safe food, not a medicine.