2024-01-31 07:53:31
[메디컬투데이=최민석 기자] Research results are coming out one following another that fermented wheat germ extract (FWGE) is effective in suppressing cancer cells such as oral cancer and breast cancer.
Dr. Albert Szent Gyorgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1937 for the discovery of vitamin C and the life-sustaining process of cellular metabolism, theorized that a substance known as benzoquinone (DMBQ) plays an important role in glucose metabolism.
Dr. Mate Hidvegi then followed up this research with a team of scientists. He developed a patented process for fermenting wheat germ with baker’s yeast, resulting in a natural substance that has been described in more than 100 studies in medical journals. It is fermented wheat germ extract.
In order to understand the mechanism of action of fermented wheat germ extract, it is necessary to examine how cancer cells metastasize. Cancer cells use glucose as fuel and thrive on glucose. Fermented wheat germ inhibits an enzyme known as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), which is required for glucose metabolism. This prevents cancer cells from consuming glucose.
Fermented wheat germ doesn’t stop there: it reduces the amount of certain proteins found in tumor cells. When this protein is inhibited, it allows the body’s cancer-killing immune cells to attack cancer cells more effectively. It also enhances the activity of specific immune cells that target tumors.
FWGE has several components that provide unique anti-cancer properties, the best studied being a group of chemicals called benzoquinones. Wheat germ naturally contains some benzoquinone, and levels surge during fermentation. It is known that the higher the benzoquinone level, the higher the anticancer potential of FWGE.
Plain wheat germ extract does not contain the same levels of benzoquinone as the fermented version, so plain extract does not have similar therapeutic activity. Only fermented wheat germ extract contains high levels of benzoquinone and has cancer cell suppressing effects.
Most importantly, unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, FWGE can achieve anticancer effects without damaging healthy cells in the process.
This FWGE has even been proven to be effective in suppressing various cancer cells. Hungarian researchers tested the effectiveness of FWGE on 66 colon cancer patients. Volunteers received FWGE supplementation for more than 6 months, while 104 control patients received conventional anticancer therapy only. By the end of the study, 23% of patients who received existing cancer treatment had metastasized cancer. In contrast, only 8% of FWGE patients had cancer that metastasized.
In one randomized clinical trial, patients with melanoma received standard chemotherapy or chemotherapy plus FWGE for 1 year. After a seven-year follow-up period, researchers found that patients who took FWGE were half as likely to die from melanoma during this period.
In addition, the researchers tracked 22 oral cancer patients who took FWGE and compared them with 21 patients who did not take FWGE. People who took FWGE reduced the risk of cancer progression by a whopping 85%. In experiments on breast cancer cells, the cancer cell death rate increased when fermented wheat germ was combined with Tamoxifen, an estrogen-blocking breast cancer treatment.
Medical Today Reporter Choi Min-seok (august@mdtoday.co.kr)
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