{"id":194714,"date":"2024-08-17T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-probiotics-cured-cancer-and-saved-lives-after-chernobyl"},"modified":"2024-08-17T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:22:23","slug":"how-probiotics-cured-cancer-and-saved-lives-after-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-probiotics-cured-cancer-and-saved-lives-after-chernobyl","title":{"rendered":"How Probiotics cured cancer, and saved lives after Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-probiotics-cured-cancer-and-saved-lives-after-chernobyl.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Cold War Era of the 1960s, Russian researchers were looking for ways to support the immune system in conditions running the gamut from cancer to bio-warfare agents. Eastern Europeans, with a cultural love of fermented milk products, logically looked to probiotics, or lactobacillus, for immune support because it was safe, cheap and effective.<\/p>\n<p>A Bulgarian researcher and medical doctor, Dr. Ivan Bogdanov, <a href=\"https:\/\/teslatelegraph.com\/2023\/12\/10\/three-individual-scientific-studies-show-probiotics-found-inside-venus-fly-trap-plants-found-to-cure-cancers\/?amp=1\">researched lactobacillus bacteria in the 1960s<\/a>. Bogdanov believed that specific strains of probiotics could have anti-tumor properties.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor\u2019s research team injected mice with a sarcoma cancer, then administered a crude mixture of cell fragments from a strain of Lactobacillus delbrukii. <a href=\"https:\/\/teslatelegraph.com\/2023\/12\/10\/three-individual-scientific-studies-show-probiotics-found-inside-venus-fly-trap-plants-found-to-cure-cancers\/?amp=1\">Bogdanov observed that the cancer disappeared within a few days.<\/a> Subsequently, researchers attempted to re-grow cancer in the same mice, but without success \u2014 the mice seemed immune to the cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War Era of the 1960s, Russian researchers were looking for ways to support the immune system in conditions running the gamut from cancer to bio-warfare agents. Eastern Europeans, with a cultural love of fermented milk products, logically looked to probiotics, or lactobacillus, for immune support because it was safe, cheap and effective. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}