07/02/2025
Explanation of Artemisinin and IMMUNOVET as pro-oxidants and anti-oxidant
There have been some questions about using these two together because of pro-oxidant and anti-oxidant activities. I just responded to this question...rather long, I am sorry, on my page and realized it is important enough to add it here since I don't think any of you are on my page.
Immunovet does not prevent Arte 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.
Some people make the mistake of reducing 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 IMMUNOVET comes in and weakens cancer cells even further.
These two supplements work, and they do not work against each other; they are unique. Pro-oxidants and antioxidants are not what is involved here. Vitamin C is a powerful anti-oxidant, as is every fruit and vegetable consumed by animals and people. Arte is attracted to red blood cells containing the highest iron; cancer cells and the malaria parasite both contain 25% more iron than a normal red blood cell. Arte enters those cells and causes oxidation within that cell or 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; they 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 Avemar, 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 ânormal.â Immunovet suppresses the release of this masking substanceâallowing NK cells to better target and kill the cancer cells. This unique ability to uncover hidden cancer cells makes IMMUNOVET so 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 quickly on cancer cells.
As I recall, Arte is not recommended for radiation. Still, IMMUNOVET 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 Avemar (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. 611â617) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 04;19:343â349) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 99;12:277â289) (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 04;19:746â753)
It also works with T-cells, which are supposed to recognize "self" from "non-self" cells and have somehow failed to do their job. IMMUNOVET "re-teaches" the T-cells working within the major histocompatibility complex genes. That is why it is showing such promise with autoimmune diseases. I have Akitas with sebaceous adenitis, a condition where the immune system attacks the hair follicles, and they are now growing a coat on IMMUNOVET.
Another question has come up: What is the difference between Avemar and Immunovet? This quote was from the veterinarian at Biropharma in Hungary when I asked:
"The original product was Avemar, the common trade name for the dried extract of the wheat germ. Immunovet is a secondary product with Avemar. Immunovet and Avemar are manufactured using the same technology during the production of the active substances, and the two production lines separate during the solidification and drying steps. Avemar contains mainly the water-soluble particles of the biologically active substances, and Immunovet contains the water-soluble part AND the solid parts, too. If we see only the raw production method, then Immunovet may contain more useful molecules than Avemar.â
We have detailed scientific results about Avemar (approximately 40 PubMed publications available). These results show that Avemar's effects belong to the intercellular mechanisms, and some effects are connected to the complex immune system.
Barbara
Formerly with Shield4Pets
