Comments by "Banana" (@439bananas) on "Chubbyemu" channel.

Horrible to say that they can turn cancerous.
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@gillenzfluff8380 Keep an eye out for a reoccurrence, all the same.
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@gillenzfluff8380 Cannabis is like many other plant-based drugs out there, full of complex chemicals, some of which act synergistically when it is taken as a whole plant. I think it is a shame that more research is not done into it, but as it is not a novel drug as such, big pharma does not stand to profit and they would not fund it and the university departments that you might expect to do this sort of work are often part funded by drug companies, so they dare not tread on their toes either. Take for instance elderberry extract. Get a cold, it will make you feel much better and your cold will resolve 3-4 days earlier taking this stuff. It is what I take myself, it is not cheap to buy and not available on NHS, but by God it is effective. There have been clinical trials to back this up and during the swine flu epidemic a decade ago, it beat the pants off the standard treatment Tamiflu. So if you get a cold try Pukka elderberry syrup.
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No nutmeg will do this and used to be smoked, it also used to be used as a sedative in very small amounts, not the sort of amount this guy took.
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So it is not as if hospitals do not have enough on their plates without people doing crap like this?
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Well pickled liver.
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@gillenzfluff8380 In the UK my father had a similar experience. He does have piles, but all the same, a sigmoidoscopy was arranged post haste. He had to be on a special diet for a week beforehand and then starve for 24 hours in conjunction with a massive dose of vitamin C to act as a laxative. They found one polyp that was treated with diathermy and he has been OK since. His mother died of colon cancer, so he was on top of the situation.
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@gillenzfluff8380 Sorry to hear that. I used to work in immunology. The one thing that doctors shy away from telling patients is: not to ejaculate during the 7 days before a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test (the blood test that they do). This is because it causes a false positive to occur. The only good news is that they can do a lot more for prostate cancer now, then they could a decade or more ago. The hormone treatments and brachytherapy, where they implant small radioactive seeds in the prostate, are reckoned to be very effective. My parents have a friend who has prostate cancer that was only discovered after it had spread to the spine. Frankly, I thought that he was a goner, but he has survived 4 years, although he started to go downhill about 3 months ago and he is now receiving chemotherapy. Hope your dad's and brother's are false alerts or if not then caught early. Good Luck
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@gillenzfluff8380 Yeah it was in the Lancet or BMA journal about 1993 or 1994. Cannabis is just too contentious and they would not be keen to experiment unless the person had exhausted all mainstream options, then you might be able to convince a sympathetic doctor to prescribe it off license. To have it as a clinical trial, would mean that it would have to go through a rigorous process of ethics committees and would probably require some sort of ddx license that would probably be difficult to obtain.
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@gillenzfluff8380 Well I frankly can not understand the pricing structure on medical cannabis. I believe that there is a company that makes medical grade in the UK, it is a licensed facility as you can imagine. It is really only a matter of growing, harvesting when in flower and extracting the drug, in fact, it was available on the NHS as hemp tincture until 1972. As for the mega expensive drugs, they are frequently monoclonal antibodies, there are 2 ways to make them, either through hybridoma lines I know this to be an expensive and time consuming method or phage display, I have no idea about this method. They are posited to work by searching out tumour cells by locking onto surface molecules that are unique to that cancer. However, one of the problems is penetration into the centre of the tumour is often not good. When tumours get big they grow their own network of blood vessels, but the problem is that when they get big, chunks of the cancer split off and set up in other parts of the body (metastasis). I personally think that the best approach might be to develop a multistage treatment. So start out with a suitable monoclonal whilst surgical excision is being arranged. Remove the tumour and as soon as the patient is well enough start administering the monoclonal again and then zap any remaining tumour with radiotherapy. Zapping it right away seems to make tumours impervious to monoclonals.
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