Liver Cancer Appears to Be Rarer in Coffee Drinkers Than in People Who Don’t Drink Coffee

Aug. 2, 2007 — Could a cup of coffee cut your risk of developing liver cancer? It just might, but as always we’ll wait for what the next study says.

A new report, published in the August edition of the journal Hepatology, combines the results from 10 studies on coffee and liver cancer.

Together, the studies included 2,260 people with liver cancer and nearly 240,000 people without liver cancer. Participants lived in Greece, Italy, or Japan.

Participants reported their coffee-drinking habits. The data show that overall coffee drinkers were 41% less likely to have been diagnosed with liver cancer than people who don’t drink coffee.

For every daily cup of coffee people drank, their odds of having been diagnosed with liver cancer dropped by 23%, compared with people who never drink coffee.

People who drank a lot of coffee were 55% less likely to have been diagnosed with liver cancer than those who didn’t drink any coffee.

Ranges for high coffee consumption were from as little as one cup to more than three cups daily.

The fact that liver cancer was rarer among coffee drinkers a world apart — in Greece, Italy, and Japan — suggests that the coffee findings weren’t a fluke or a local phenomenon. The theory is that coffee perks up liver enzymes and may cut cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Whether or not coffee prevents liver cancer will remains open to discussion, as the next study may point to an opposite finding.

My Personal Thoughts: It seams that positive and negative studied about coffee have been written for decades. Personally I feel coffee is a wonderful beverage and posses little if any deleterious effects. Caffeine is the only substance in coffee with the potential of producing negative symptoms and it’s usually from abuse or long term consumption. My recommendation is if you are sensitive to caffeine, suffer from insomnia, or experience uncontrolled hypertension, stay away from caffeine.

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

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  SOURCES: Bravi, F. Hepatology, August 2007; vol 46: pp 430-435. News release, Hepatology.

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This “point of view” article expresses feelings and thoughts I have had for almost 20 years. Don’t get me wrong, science is truly valuable and we need clinical trials to validate the effectiveness and safety of a given product; we also need ethics, morals, responsibility, consumer over-site, and the truth!

The tuff part here, is that we have only a few unacknowledged heroes looking out for the unaware masses.

The average consumer is like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand. When there is something bad or confrontational looming, hide the head (ignore the issue) and leave the body exposed (receive the effects but with the brain shut off it doesn’t matter).

The average consumer is also like the lemming which will mindlessly follow the crowd, even if destruction or death is the result.

“Ignorance is bliss” can be a true statement. It is difficult enough to search out and discover what the truth is, and it is even harder to acknowledge, confront and be at cause over the truth once it’s discovered.

It’s far easier being unknowingly at effect than it is being knowingly at cause. Another way of looking at it is: it is far easier to feel a pain, take a medication to numb the pain and never discover the pains origin (ignorance), than it would be to feel the pain, confront the pain, discover the pains origin, confront that, correct the underlying cause of the pain, and confront all that it entails (cause).

The time is now to take responsibility for what is occurring around us. The only person who is looking out for you is you. If we wait for the government or big business to fix things it will be too late.

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Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

During the last 50 years we have seen increased terrorism, global warming, worldwide glacial melting, overpopulation, dwindling natural resources, medication consumed like candy, ADHD, AIDS, Hepatitis C, Prozac, an epidemic called welfare, morbid obesity, world hunger, and the list goes on. Why have all of these things occurred? Lack of responsibility.

RESPONSIBILITY

The dictionary has many definitions for the word responsible. The first one fits what I feel I do as a doctor: “legally or ethically accountable for the welfare of another.” When I graduated from Chiropractic College, I swore an oath to be responsible for anyone who seeks my care, and I feel I have never violated that oath.

There are two other definitions that fit how I act in my personal life and how others, if responsible, should act. 1) Involving personal accountability or ability to act without guidance or superior authority. 2) Capable of making moral or rational decisions on one’s own, therefore answerable for one’s behavior.

The reason I’m bringing this up now is because the word responsible has been, I feel, losing its meaning over the past ten or more years. I have been noticing the effects of this in my practice and in my surroundings for some time now.

Today, I feel, most people who are experiencing health related problems are either doing nothing (no responsibility) or are placing total responsibility on the doctor, whether it’s getting their health back or maintaining it at a certain level.

Examples: If you have high this or low that, take a pill. If it’s clogged, send in Roto Rooter. If it’s too fast or too slow, take another pill. If you think there may be a problem now or in the future but aren’t sure yet, take a pill just to be on the safe side.

This complacent attitude our culture has developed is extremely dangerous and has accounted for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, hospitalizations, and billions of dollars a year spent on medications. Medications only treat symptoms, while masking the underlying condition or disease state.

Geneticists (doctors who study and research our genetic makeup, DNA, etc…) state that we reach our genetic potential around 30-35 years of age. This means that we are as good as we are ever going to be at that age. After that, our bodies start to deteriorate.

Some of us go through this process very slowly; others quite rapidly. The rate of this deterioration depends slightly on genetics, predominately on RESPONSIBILITY! It’s not the responsibility of doctors, family, friends, Richard Simons or Jenny Craig. IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

Responsibility or the taking of responsibility for your health has four components: first, there is EDUCATION. Educate yourself on diet, anatomy, exercise, health or anything that may benefit you in living longer and healthier. Second is NUTRITION. Eat to support every cell in your body, not just for the taste or because it’s a good deal. Third is EXERCISE. If you don’t move it or use it, you will lose it! Nothing can be truer. The surest way to get osteoporosis, arthritis, sore joints, weak muscles and tendons or a slow metabolism is don’t exercise. Fourth is CHANGING YOUR ENVIRONMENT. If you’re some place that you don’t want to be because it’s not aesthetically pleasing, the people are negative toward you or unethical behavior is occurring, etc., get out!

These four components when not actively followed have been proven to weaken our immune system by placing undo negative stress on us.

The four components for taking responsibility of your health may seem obvious to some, and to others may seem as foreign as learning Chinese. For those of you who are acting responsibly toward your health, I validate your effort. For those of you who believe your body will run forever without any needed adjustment to your present condition or believe that all those aches and pains, stiffness, inability to eat the foods you did when you were younger, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and increased weight are just signs of getting older and that it’s inevitable, you are wrong or just misinformed.

Poor health = irresponsibility. You, yourself, have personally created this condition by lack of following the above four components to health.

It’s not to late too change your present condition. Recognizing that a problem exists, and also recognizing that a positive change needs to occur is all that is required.

P.S. RESPONSIBLE and RESPONSIBILITY are two words, I feel, need to have some serious attention paid to them. Our culture has lost personal accountability for everything – IT’S NOT MY FAULT! These four words are destroying our civilization, morally, ethically, spiritually and physically. If each one of us would take responsibility for our own little universe, the impact this would have on the bigger picture would be more significant than can be imagined. Don’t just think about this, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Thank you for reading my commentary.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marcus S. Ettinger DC, BSc.