17/03/2024
COMBINING IMMUNOVET/SHIELD4PETS and ARTEMISININ TO ASSIST IN FIGHTING CANCER
Artemisinin, from the sweet wormwood plant, has long been used as an anti-malaria drug initially extracted from Artemisia annua L. It also exhibits anti-tumor properties in vivo and in vitro. Multiple derivatives have been synthesized to improve its solubility and bioavailability. However, studies have been conducted in recent years to reveal the anti-tumor mechanism and enhance the efficacy of artemisinin-type drugs. Artemisinin is used for many canine cancers, including melanomas, osteosarcoma, breast, and mast cell cancers.
Immunovet does not prevent Artemisinin from working. I used it together for Jazzie; she lived 16 months, 13 months longer than her oncologist had given her. She died from pneumonia, probably caused by lysing in her lungs, but she ate breakfast the morning she died. My guilt is that I should have slowed the destruction of her cancer cells; I did not know. Donna Wood in my group "Cured" her Great Dane Emma of a massive facial/oral melanoma within 4 months by using the combination, and then Emma died 3 years later, cancer-free from old age.
I think the mistake with some people is to reduce everything to either an anti-oxidant or a pro-oxidant.... life is more complex, and so are these supplements. They work differently but assist each other. Artemisinin has a short half-life in the body, so if you give it at night, it does its job and is gone when the S4P comes in, weakening cancer cells even further.
These two supplements work, and they do not work against each other; they are unique. Pro-oxidants and anti-oxidants are not what is involved here. Vitamin C is a powerful anti-oxidant, as is every fruit and vegetable consumed by animals and people. Artemisinin attracts red blood cells with the highest iron; cancer cells and the malaria parasite contain 25% more iron than normal red blood cells. Artemisinin enters those cells and causes oxidation within the cancer cell or in a parasite to destroy it. It is effective at what it does
Immunovet is not attracted to iron; the processing and fermentation focus on strengthening its benzoquinone composition. Its main activity is not as an anti-oxidant; it induces profound metabolic changes in cancer cells unrelated to oxidation. It works at cellular and humoral levels by reversing some of the immune system's breakdown, which allows cancer cells to proliferate and hide. It blocks the glucose flow to cancer cells; cancer cells need 50% more glucose to survive than a normal cell. It is this extreme need for glucose and the way the body feeds cancer cells that causes such fatigue in cancer patients. Immunovet or Fermented Wheat Germ Extract inhibits the cancer cells from even using glucose, which is why it causes an increase in appetite and a sense of well-being. We have seen this in dogs.
The genius of the immune system is that when it functions normally, it has a system that sends out specialized white blood cells to "seek and destroy" abnormal cells like bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. These white cells are called Natural Killer cells or NK cells. Immunovet increases the production of these cells to assist the immune system where it has weakened.
Cancer cells can evade NK cells by masking their outer membrane with a unique substance that the NK cells recognize as “normal.” Shield4Pets suppresses the release of this masking substance—allowing NK cells to better target and kill the cancer cells. This unique ability to uncover hidden cancer cells makes S4P valuable as an adjunct to chemotherapy. That is because it reverses the fatigue caused by the cancer, thereby allowing the patient to withstand the toxicity of the chemotherapy agents themselves. Chemotherapy works by destroying cells...ALL cells. Immunovet protects normal cells, making the drugs more effective because they uncover abnormal cells, allowing them to work more quickly on cancer cells.
As I recall, Artemisinin is not recommended with radiation, but S4P is because it immediately heals the bone marrow and brings the red and white blood cells back to a functioning immune system when the treatments are ended. It has studies to prove everything I have mentioned.
"In all of the studies where FWGE (Immunovet) was used in conjunction with conventional therapies, not only were those therapies significantly more effective, but the patients experienced considerably fewer therapy-related side effects. Both the frequency and severity of common side effects like nausea, fatigue, weight loss, and depression were reduced. Additionally, their immune systems recovered more rapidly." (Pharmindex Handbook of Oncology 2004/2005. CMP Budapest, 2004. p. 611–617) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 04;19:343–349) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 99;12:277–289) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 04;19:746–753)
It also works with T-cells, which are supposed to recognize "self" from "non-self" cells but have somehow failed to do their job. S4P "re-teaches" the T-cells working within the major histocompatibility complex genes, which is why it shows such promise with autoimmune diseases. One little Pomeranian with alopecia was on Immunovet; he grew a fur coat within months!
