Today we’ll look at a recent article published by Medscape Medical News concerning smokeless tobacco and areca nut products and the link to oral cancer. This should be a no-brainer, as smokeless tobacco, also known as chewing tobacco, oral tobacco, or spit tobacco, (called “snus” in Sweden,) is a type of tobacco product that is not burned or smoked, instead, it is placed in the mouth, where the user chews or sucks on it, releasing extreme amounts of plant toxins, nicotine and other chemicals into the saliva. And areca nut, also known as betel nut, is the seed (the most toxic part of any plant) of the Areca catechu palm tree. It is commonly chewed in combination with other substances, such as betel leaves, calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), and spices, to create a traditional stimulant from the extreme toxic load that triggers a fight-or-flight response.
So, chewing these extreme toxic compounds, having them in your mouth for hours — what could possibly go wrong? How about oral cancer for starters?
Let’s get it on.
“Globally, nearly one in three cases of oral cancer can be attributed to use of smokeless tobacco and areca nut products, according to a new study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a part of the World Health Organization (WHO).”
For once, the evil globalist WHO might be correct, although it’s used as a cover for the real culprits in our society (our diet.) Any plant found in nature is extremely toxic for humans, and chewing on them is thus simply a very retarded act considering the extreme toxic load you will release into both your saliva, which you swallow (willingly or to a small degree involuntary if you’re a spitter,) and to all the tissues in the mouth.
“Smokeless tobacco and areca nut products are available to consumers in many different forms across the world, but consuming smokeless tobacco and areca nut is linked to multiple diseases, including oral cancer, Harriet Rumgay, PhD, a scientist in the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC and first author of the study in Lancet Oncology, said in a news release.”
If you are healthy, as in consuming a lot, or mostly animal-based foods, you will be able to break down and detoxify most of these toxins, and you might be able to get away with only minor damage to your oral cavity and organs during a lifetime of chewing. However, as people get unhealthier and unhealthier every decade from consuming plant-based garbage and processed food, which overloads their detoxification abilities and contributes to nutrient deficiencies that slows down or even shut down the detoxification processes, such concentrated toxic loads as from smokeless tobacco or chewing areca nuts will cause a tremendous amount of damage — and when the body can’t keep up with detoxification, it alters the cells to better withstand the toxic milieu, hence the development of “cancer,” as in tumors.
So, yes, unfortunately we will continue to see “cancer” rates increasing from all kinds of toxic crap they try to focus on in the media while hiding the biggest elephant in the room, that of the multi-billion food industry pushing the dirt cheap plant-based and processed foods.
If you’re unfamiliar with the truth about cancer, please read my articles “My Take on Cancer, Prevention, and Healing,” “Cancer is a Natural Survival Mechanism (Early-Stage Cancer Detection),” “Cancer Explained (Again) And Breast Implants And Cancer,” “More On Cancer: Lying Statistics, Breast Cancer, Early-Onset Cancer, And Alcohol,” and “Everything Wrong With Breast Cancer Treatment.”
“According to the new report, in 2022, an estimated 120,200 of the 389,800 (30.8%) global cases of oral cancer were attributable to these products.
More than three quarters (77%) of attributable cases were among men and about one quarter (23%) among women.
The vast majority (96%) of all oral cancer cases caused by smokeless tobacco and areca nut use occurred in low- and middle-income countries.”
Yes, and these numbers will continue to increase as people are deceived into consuming plant-based and processed foods and expose themselves to toxins all day, year round. Of course, simply using these products are retarded, as in doing extreme self-harm, but people are heavily conditioned and never think of asking the most obvious question of all, “what is in this product and what will it do to my body?”
“Regions with the highest burden of oral cancers from these products were South Central Asia — with 105,500 of 120,200 cases (nearly 88%), including 83,400 in India, 9700 in Bangladesh, 8900 in Pakistan, and 1300 in Sri Lanka — followed by Southeastern Asia with a total of 3900 cases (1600 in Myanmar, 990 in Indonesia, and 785 in Thailand) and East Asia with 3300 cases (3200 in China).”
Indeed, these regions have a tradition of chewing toxic things, and their diet through poverty and suppression has become more plant-based over the last couple of hundred years, making them extremely unhealthy and poor at detoxing and healing their bodies.
Limitations and Action Points
“The authors noted a limitation of the analysis is not accounting for the potential synergistic effects of combined use of smokeless tobacco or areca nut products with other risk factors for oral cancer, such as smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol.”
Well, in the real world that is kind of irrelevant anyway, as they’re all toxic and contribute to the toxic load. The more toxic products you expose yourself to, the more damage you will do to your body. That is simple logic. The only difference is the types of toxins within these products and what tissues they might bind to.
For example, alcohol is a very potent poison and puts the body into emergency mode, shutting down everything that is going on and puts everything into breaking down and expel the toxic alcohol to limit the damage to your digestive tract and your organs. This means that if you also smoke or chew tobacco while drinking, the damage from the tobacco products will be greater, as all resources to detoxify and break down toxins are focused on the alcohol.
So, while alcohol can cause damage to the digestive system and organs, contributing to “cancer,” it does not really damage the oral cavity, instead it increases the overall total damage done to the body from anything else you expose yourself to while being intoxicated.
As for smokeless tobacco, there are many toxic compounds that has been identified, including tobacco-specific nitrosamines, polonium-210, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, several metals, hydrogen cyanide, benzene, ethylbenzene, phenols, and styrene. Also, there are still many harmful compounds that have not been identified or studied, just as with defense chemicals in any plant-based food. More and more are being discovered every year. (I’ll add snippets from acknowledged literature within biology and biochemistry below with further information.)
As for areca nut products, they contain toxins such as arecoline, nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, tannins, mycotoxins, phytotoxins, calcium hydroxide, and a lot of unidentified alkaloids, nitrosamines, and other bioactive compounds. Of course, as you chew them and if you swallow the saliva, you will also get exposed to a lot of antinutrients and other defense chemicals.
“The researchers explained that combined consumption of smokeless tobacco or areca nut, smoked tobacco, and alcohol has a “multiplicative effect” on oral cancer risk, with reported odds ratios increasing from 2.7 for smokeless tobacco only, 7.0 for smoked tobacco only, and 1.6 for alcohol only to 16.2 for all three exposures (vs no use).”
Yes, this is common sense. If multiple things do damage and you stack them on top of each other, the damage output will increase accordingly.
“Despite encouraging trends in control of tobacco smoking in many regions of the world over the past two decades, progress in reducing the prevalence of smokeless tobacco consumption has stalled in many countries that are major consumers, the authors said.”
Yes, people feel like shit from their bad diet lacking in nutritious animal foods while being trapped in the hamster wheel of society, so turning to something that gives them a buzz, a false sense of energy and relief is simply human nature. Also, it has become a cultural thing in many countries and is therefore accepted — and when that happens, people do not even question what it is, how it works, or what potential damage it can do. And even if they do know the potential damage, they ignore it, following the herd mentality and “it won’t happen to me” fallacy.
Now, the “cool thing” with returning to our natural carnivore diet is that you will feel amazing, as a completely new human with limitless energy, and once you have experienced how phenomenal our bodies truly are, you do not want to damage it. And as you now feel better than ever before, even when you took stimulants and drugs in the past, you have no need for them and you also understand the damage they do. So, once you become a carnivore, you’ll start to kick every bad habit. I see it over and over again among clients and other carnivores. You simply get a whole new and sober outlook on life, and how precious it is.
“Compounding the problem, areca nut does not fall within the WHO framework of tobacco control and there are very few areca nut control policies worldwide.”
Areca nut chewing is not as common in the west as smoking or chewing tobacco, thus the “industrialized” part of the world rarely sees it (which includes the medical field, research and studies.) As for smokeless tobacco, it’s estimated that over 300 million people worldwide consume it, as in chewing on the toxic plant leaves. However, areca nut chewing is actually practiced by a lot more people than smokeless tobacco is, and the practice is most prevalent in South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Western Pacific — amounting to about 600 million people using it.
“Smokeless tobacco control must be “prioritized” and a framework on areca nut control should be developed with guidelines to incorporate areca nut prevention into cancer control programs, the authors concluded.”
Sure, even if it won’t really help as people are both addicted and culturally influenced/programmed to use these toxic compounds. What really should be exposed are today’s modern food industry, that of extremely toxic and nutritionally deprived plant-based and processed foods. That is where health starts; by removing these offenders and adding as much animal foods as possible. Because without proper species-specific nutrition, your body is extremely vulnerable and almost incapable of detoxing, hence the alarming increases in all kinds of “diseases” all over the world.
While reducing toxic exposure such as smokeless tobacco and/or areca nut chewing will help in limiting the damage done to your body, changing your diet to what you are constructed and meant to consume, as in animal-based foods, is totally life changing and the only way to optimal health.
And with that, their article came to an end. I don’t really have much more to add as it should be obvious that you should limit your exposure to damaging toxins, which include these products.
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