Is avocado useful? In my last video about avocados, I described the anti-inflammatory properties, cholesterol and its triglyceride lowering effect, but what about this video I made years ago, on the harmful effects of chromosomes in a Petri dish? All this takes us back to 1975, when a naturally occurring pesticide was discovered from the avocado tree, which explains why dairy cattle suffers damage to the mammary gland while eating the leaves. The toxin is called persin, and has been found to damage the heart, that's why you should never give avocados to your pet birds. But hey, if he attacks mammary gland cells in animals, Can it also attack breast cancer cells in humans? It appears to have the same clotting effect on the cellular cytoskeleton in vitro, as in chemotherapy, demonstrating powerful the effect of stopping the growth and killing of cells in this new plant toxin between different lines of human breast cancer cells. So, it is believed that this will be possible one day to be used as chemotherapy per se.

But I think here, "Oh, divine guacamole, Batman, please tell me that there are no toxic effects on normal cells. " In 2010, we received a response, a genotoxicity assessment, toxicity to our chromosomes of avocado extracts on human white blood cells in a petri dish. Usually less than 10% of our dividing cells have any chromosomal abnormalities, but if you drip a little avocado extract on them, more than half will turn out to be defective in some way. They come to the conclusion that there is something in the avocado, which can potentially cause significant genomic instability and some genetic damage in human white blood cells in a Petri dish. If the same effect occurs in humans, it can for example, lead to the transformation of cells into cancer cells. However, this is a big "if" after all. These are blood cells. There is no way to inject guacamole into your veins. For something to enter our blood, it must first survive our stomach acid, to be absorbed through the intestines and then sneak through liver detoxification enzymes.

Indeed, parsley could be affected, altered by acidic conditions. So, given all the differences between what is happening in a petri dish and in one person, it is important to hold further studies before a final conclusion on its toxicity can be drawn. Okay, but what do we do before these studies come out? I was so worried that I temporarily moved the avocado from the list of foods with green light that are vital, to the list of foods with yellow light, to be taken in moderation, until we understand more, so as not to err on the part of caution.

Even if the parsley is completely destroyed by stomach acid, what about mouth cancer? At high enough concentrations, avocado extract can be harmful the growth of the type of cells that covers our mouth. Yes, but it's in a petri dish where the avocado is comes into direct contact with the cells, but it is also something that happens in the mouth when you eat. But it damages the cells in the mouth even more. Here's a bunch of cancer cells in your mouth. These red dots are the mitochondria, the power plants of the cells that feed the growth of cancer, quenched by avocado extract.

But because it affects cancer cells more than normal ones, it is concluded that avocados can prevent cancer. What about the esophagus, which is located between the mouth and the stomach? Similarly found that avocado extract seems to inhibit the growth of cancer cells more than the growth of normal cells, when it comes to colon cancer cells or esophageal cancer cells. But instead of comparing the effect with normal cells from the colon and esophagus, compare them to a type of blood cell, which is again of limited importance in a Petri dish trial for something you eat.

However, this study seems quite exciting. It looks at p-cresol, which is a uraemic toxin, may also be toxic to the liver, it has been found to be associated with autism and derives from a high-protein diet, while if you eat more plant foods, the only source of prebiotics such as fiber and starch, your levels will drop. See, the fermentation of carbohydrates in the colon, as with fiber, is considered useful, while protein fermentation, which is called putrefaction, is considered harmful. So if people switch to a high protein diet, within days the excess protein that will rot in their intestines, leads to an increase in ammonia as well as p-cresol, in fact, the levels double in just one week.

But can plant foods rich in phytonutrients such as apples, blueberries, grapes or avocados, to protect the cells that surround our colon, from the harmful effects of p-cresol in terms of cell viability, mitochondrial function and epithelial integrity, which means protection against intestinal permeability? Here is the data on the integrity of the barrier, damaged by p-cresol, but saved of all these extracts of blueberries, avocados, grapes and apples, although mitochondrial function has improved only from blueberries and avocados, and they are the only ones who seem to prevent it the harmful effect of p-cresol on the viability of the colon.

But in the end, avocados seem to have beneficial properties on the cells of the lining of the colon; so that's a good sign. Okay, enough with these studies in a test tube. Yes, avocado extract can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in a Petri dish, but unless you do some unthinkable things with this avocado – such as guacamole with benefits, there is no way the avocado will come in direct contact with the cells of your prostate; So what does this study mean? That's why I was so excited to see this study: the first to actually look for a connection between the consumption of avocados, real human beings eating avocados, and prostate cancer.

So, people who consume avocados have a higher risk of cancer or lower risk of cancer? We'll find out… right now! Men who eat the most avocados, more than a third of the avocados a day, reduce your risk of prostate cancer: in fact, the chance was reduced to less than half. So with information about improved arterial function, lower cholesterol and more or less the link with a reduced risk of cancer, I suggest returning the avocado to the green zone.

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