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Shark Cartilage

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A double-blind clinical trial involving the use of shark cartilage to treat advanced cancer was published a year ago. To read the study click on this URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/110485941/HTMLSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. This study found no evidence that shark cartilage is a significant treatment for advanced cancer. I think the results of this trial should be printed in large bold letters on the labels of shark cartilage "suppliments".

It disgusts me that something like this is passed off as "natural". It may be "natural" but it isn't "good for nature"!!! Creating an unnecessary demand for shark products will cause sharks to be hunted and killed, and sharks are absolutely vital members of their ecosystems.

It's bad enough that it's a product made from sharks, it's even worse that it's all a bunch of bull$#!+. I mean I would understand if it actually did work.
 
Not to mention rhinocerous horn, bear gallbladders etc which fuel the decimation of species for stupid useless reasons.
 
Thanks for posting the link. From what I've read people seem to believe that sharks don't get cancer, and that's why eating the cartilage will do something (what, I don't know). But sharks do get cancer, anyway.
 
ysabella said:
Thanks for posting the link. From what I've read people seem to believe that sharks don't get cancer, and that's why eating the cartilage will do something (what, I don't know). But sharks do get cancer, anyway.
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There were some studies a long time ago that showed certain tumors in mice shrank when the mice were fed shark cartilage. Subsequent studies failed to find a positive effect in terms of morbidity or mortality. Sharks don't get bone cancer if you feed them mice. Of course they have no bones to get cancer in (they are cartilaginous)
 
Thanks for posting this link. It's tragic that Human Beings seem to think that we're so much more superior that we actually have the right to mess with and destroy other species just to add a few more years to our own lives.

What's so terrible about cancer anyway?? We all must, and will, die. It's pretty much either cancer or a gory car accident.

I just don't understand the goal of having everybody live to the age of 120. :rolleyes:
 
veggie doll said:
I just don't understand the goal of having everybody live to the age of 120. :rolleyes:
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Well, I'm going out on a limb here... but I think because it is considerably less painful than a gruesome car crash or cancer. Just possibly.
 
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