Multivitamins highlighted as possible cancer agents

"These tiny organic compounds are so numerous that our organs struggle to use them, and they're left, in effect, to float about the body. The problem is that these excess multivitamins are readily available to feed the hundreds of cancer cells made in our bodies every day. Normally, our body has the capability to destroy these cancer cells effectively, but this becomes a challenge when they are well-fed and able to increase in number quickly," he says.

"Imagine hundreds of ravenous little Pac-Men running around and gobbling everything up and then multiplying in number exponentially over time until they are able to completely overrun our body's anti-cancer defences, such as the immune system. The solution, as controversial as it may at first appear, is to reclassify multivitamins as a drug and make people aware of their side effects. A health warning and prescription would work best alongside the general advice that most people, children and adults alike, do not need additional vitamins in their diet, period."

This is because cancer cells have up to 10 times the capacity of normal healthy cells to absorb nutrients floating around the body - including vitamins.

While other types of nutrients, such as protein, fats, and minerals, also help them to grow, vitamins are, as with normal cells, essential for their survival and reproduction.

Natural vitamins, obtained from "healthy" foods such as fruits and vegetables, do not pose the same dangers because of the relatively small quantities released into the body during the digestion process, the author explains. Unlike their synthetic counterparts, they are "locked away" in the food, with only a fraction being broken down and absorbed before undigested food is excreted - typically within 24 hours.

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