New research carried out by doctors in Japan and Norway has discovered that the key ingredient in vinegar might eventually be used to help fight deadly malignant mesothelioma.
Acetic acid is what gives vinegar its pungent smell and distinctive sour taste and it makes up between 3% and 5% of vinegar; the rest of the product is water. Acetic acid is also used to make cellulose acetate for photographic film and polyvinyl acetate for wood glue, as well as some synthetic fibers and fabrics.
Researchers with the Kyoto GI Disease Research Center and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology carried out experiments adding acetic acid to various cancer cells including pleural mesothelioma for different lengths of time and using different doses. When they analyzed the results they found that the acid had a damaging effect on all of the cells, but was especially lethal to the mesothelioma cells. In fact, at a strength of 0.5% for 10 minutes the mesothelioma cells were almost completely dead.
The researchers thus concluded that acetic acid, if applied directly to tumors, may be a feasible approach to some cancers.
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