How Ivermectin Improves Cancer Prevention and Treatment Through Improving Apoptosis or Programmed Cell Death

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • One of the mechanisms by which Ivermectin works to prevent and treat cancer is apoptosis.
  • We cover quotes from studies on this topic in this article.

Introduction

One crucial benefit of Ivermectin is its impact on programmed cell death.

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Understanding How Apoptosis Works

The cells in a body need to respond to chemical messengers, and it is time for cells to die. When cells become cancerous, they ignore these messages, usually because of damage caused to the cell.

Video on How Cancer Works

Programmed Cell Death

This video does not use the term apoptosis. However, it does cover programmed cell death, which is the definition of apoptosis. As a rough synopsis, your body has a perfect system for telling cells their time is up and for those dead cells to be cleaned up, disposed of, or recycled.

The immune system is core to both apoptosis and cleaning up afterward.

As one example, immunological cells called macrophages are typically described in how they kill bacteria or other foreign invaders. They are a significant part of the clean-up crew for mopping up the body’s dead cells. This is explained in the following quotation from the video.

Macrophages probably are an extremely old invention of the immune system, maybe even the first sort of dedicated defense cell, since almost all multicellular animals have some form of macrophage-like cell. In a sense they are a bit like single-celled organisms.

Cell Death by Natural Causes or By the Immune System?

This quote neatly explains this feature of the immune system.

The first way inflammation gets started is through dying cells.

Amazingly, your body evolved a way to recognize if a cell died a natural way or if it died a violent death.

The immune system has to assume that cells dying an unnatural death means grave danger, and so death is a signal that causes inflammation.

“Unnatural,” in this case, means death from a cause outside of the immune system, that is, death not directly caused by the immune system, which is apoptosis. This is explained in the following quotation from the video.

Normally, when a cell has reached the end of its life, it kills itself through apoptosis that we encountered already. Apoptosis is basically a calm suicide that keeps the contents of the cells nice and tidy. But when cells die in unnatural ways, for example by being ripped into pieces by a sharp nail, burned to death by a hot pan, or poisoned by the waste products of a bacterial infection, the insides of your civilian cells spill all over the place.

Certain parts of the guts of your cells, like DNA or RNA, are high-alert triggers for your immune system and cause rapid inflammation.