Antioxidant nutritional supplements may actually promote cancer
progression in late-stage cancers patients, according to a new
research paper published by Nobel laureate James Watson. Watson,
who received a Nobel prize for his role in the discovery of the
double helix structure of DNA in 1953, suggests nutritional
supplements containing antioxidants such as vitamins A, C and E
may in fact block late-stage cancer treatment and promote cancer
progression, thus lowering life expectancy and cancer survival.
“In light of the recent data strongly hinting that much of late-
stage cancer's untreatability may arise from its possession of
too many antioxidants, the time has come to seriously ask
whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents
cancer,” writes the renowned geneticist. “All in all, the by now
vast number of nutritional intervention trials using the
antioxidants beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and
selenium have shown no obvious effectiveness in preventing
gastrointestinal cancer