The sea cucumber is a sea animal found on the ocean floor and has been used for centuries in Chinese cuisine. This marine creature has anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties and it’s been known to treat many diseases, including cancer.
According to scientist, sea cucumber can kill cancer cells, making your immune system run at the perfect speed, which is not the case at chemo. Chemotherapy kills cancer cell, but also kills your immune system.
A compound found in sea cucumber called Frondoside A is the key for its cancer-killing activity. The recent study published in PLOS ONE has confirmed how powerful this compound is in treating various types of cancer.
Frondoside A not only kills the cancer cell, it also inhibits the formation of blood vessels (angiogenesis) that supply nutrients to tumors and prevents to metastasize.
Researchers found it to kill 95 % of melanoma cells, 95 % of ER+ breast cancer cells, 90 % of liver cancer cells, and 85-88 % of different types of lung cancer cells.
Sea cucumber has an impressive nutritional profile, it is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, magnesium, calcium, zinc, and iron.
You can consume sea cucumber, cooked, dried into a powder or in a pill form.
Although it can be used in cancer treatment, the sea cucumber has other benefits. Since it’s high in chondroitin sulfate, taking a sea cucumber extract may help to ease the joint pain or the paste made from sea cucumber can be used to heal gum disease.