Why is the focus on sharks and shark cartilage?
The shark has been the most disease resistant creature on this planet for millions of years. A startling fact is that sharks rarely, if ever, develop any form of cancer. Fishermen have known this for more than a hundred years and scientists over the past twenty years have been trying to unlock the secrets of the shark’s incredible immune system.The fact is that the shark’s entire skeletal structure is made up of cartilage and in laboratory tests cartilage has been shown to be an angiogenesis inhibitor (angio: blood or lymph vessel genesis: to create or originate). This has led many scientists to conclude that cartilage is the secret to the shark’s ability to prevent and fight cancer and some other diseases.Simply put, some cancers depend upon new blood vessels for growth and cartilage appears to stop that growth, therefore, with no blood vessels to feed the cancer, the tumors recede and die. In recent years researchers have shown in numerous laboratory tests that the active ingredient
