PERSPECTIVE—
Join Nicole Saleske, FNP, APNP, as she talks about the benefits of Mistletoe, and a different perspective for cancer.
(Begins at 00:13:00)
Mistletoe
- Parasitic plant
- Only the white berry variety has been used with cancer
- Been used for epilepsy, inflammation, gynecology complaints, hypertension, and weakness of the heart from the 1400s to 1942
- The first injectable therapy for cancer was made in 1917-1920
- It raises your internal temperature, helping your circadian rhythm return to what it should be, allowing your body to work as it should.
- Chemo vs Mistletoe
- Mistletoe against Breast cancer
- Chemo and Mistletoe together
- Increases white blood cells
- Increases natural killer cell activity and cytotoxicity
- Increase CD4 & CD8 cells
- Liberation of cytokines IL-1, IL-6, TNF-alpha, IL-2, IFN
- Liberation of inflammation mediators
