SkinAnswer Information Page (Glycoalkaloids)

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With a blend of plant-derived glycoalkaloids and natural

moisturizers, dermatologists recommend SkinAnswer exfoliates skin

damaged by over exposure to the sun

 

Glycoalkaloids are produced in many fruits and vegetables as part of

their defense against insects and other animals. Medical literature

on the use of glycoalkaloid rich plants in the treatment of cancer

go back to Galen in the Second Century A..D., and recent in vitro

and in vivo studies have shown anticancer effects in glycoalkaloids

extracted from a variety of plants in the Solanum family.

 

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Against skin cancer, glycoalkaloids are thought to work by

exploiting differences in cell wall permeability between healthy and

abnormal skin cells. As skin cells undergo the transformation from

healthy to pre-cancerous to cancerous, they develop receptor sites

specific to the sugar moiety or " glyco " portion of the glycoalkaloid

molecule. Once attached to these receptors the glycoalkaloid

molecules are transported through the cell wall of abnormal skin

cells, where they trigger the release of enzymes in the lysosomal

portion of the skin cancer cell that literally digest the cells from

the inside out rapidly causing cell death. Under a microscope, the

cells actually appear to explode.

 

SkinAnswer

As the abnormal cells die, they are replaced by normal healthy skin

cells, which because they lack the specific receptors that develop

on skin cancer cells, do not absorb the glycoalkaloid molecule and

are spared its destructive effects. In cancer treatment, the Holy

Grail is the targeted therapy, one which attacks cancer cells and

spares healthy cells - exactly what is taking place here. The

glycoalkaloid cream only produces the redness, inflammation and

ulceration that are the signs of cell death where abnormal cell

types are present. Healthy cells at the margins of lesions, or the

ones that re-grow as cancer cells die, are unaffected. In fact, in

clinical use patients are told their therapy is completed when

applying the glycoalkaloid cream daily no longer produces a

reaction, indicating that all the skin cancer cells have been

replaced by normal healthy cells.