Researchers at the University of Southern Maine are trying to invent a pill to supplement fruits and vegetables to decrease cancer risk and improve health.
Visiting Libra Scholar John Lechner is working on creating a pill packed with cancer-fighting nutrients in USM?s Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology.
Lechner is building on research he began at the Comprehensive Cancer Center
of The Ohio State University. There, he fed rats suffering from esophageal cancer a diet of five percent freeze-dried black raspberries, a berry commercially grown in Ohio, and observed a reduction in those cancers.
He also provided another group of cancer-bearing animals drinking water laced with red beet juice and observed cancer reduction.
At USM, he is feeding laboratory mice the beet juice water in the hope of finding that it will stop the animals from getting lung cancer.
Plans also are underway to investigate the benefits of compounds found in fish, and discussions have begun to start human trials that would attempt to reduce free radicals that negatively affect the health of diabetes patients.
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