Fenbendazole
Fenbendazole is a versatile medication frequently prescribed to treat parasitic infections in both animals and humans. It’s categorized under the benzimidazole group of drugs. Its primary function is to disrupt the energy-producing processes of the parasites, causing them to perish.
Globally, parasitic infections pose a considerable health challenge, impacting countless people and animals. Common culprits behind these infections include roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, and tapeworms.
3 Main Mechanisms In Which Fenbendazole Kills Cancer and Parasites
1) Apoptosis induction. Cancer cells are stopped from dividing by inhibiting cell division (mitosis) and…by inducing programmed cell death (apoptosis), all of which result in tumor eradication.
2) Inhibition of glucose uptake in cancer cells. Malignant cells are known to have an enormous glucose uptake. Cancer cells normally consume glucose 200 times faster than ordinary cells. This can be seen in PET scans – the metabolically active sites, which use more radioactive glucose can be clearly seen. Fenbendazole limits cancer cell fueling with sugar by limiting the glucose uptake, while decreasing the amount of canals that take glucose into the cancer cells from the blood.
3) Reactivation of the p53 gene. There is an increasing number of studies that confirm the fact that fenbendazole might truly increase the strongest tumor suppressor in our bodies – p53.