Medical journalist report of innovative biologics: DNA destabilization as a major source of metabolic pathology research findings of Mirko Beljanski, PhD, exhibit dramatic anticancer and anti-aging detoxifications

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2003 by Morton Walker, Randall Walker

By the 1980s, scientists had recognized that the electrical polarity of cancerous cells is opposite that of normal cells. The healthy cellular membrane is positively charged, whereas a cancerous membrane is negatively charged. This important difference helps explain why cancerous cells and normal cells react differently to anticancer substances.

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A cancerous cell membrane fails to exhibit the same selective porosity as the membrane of a healthy cell. This difference shows why particular molecules can pass through the membranes of cancer cells and move into the cell nucleus but are repelled by the membrane of healthy cells. These differences allow some substances to be quite specific about which cells they enter and act upon.

Unlike pharmaceutical company research for designer drugs, Dr. Beljanski reasoned that plants have already evolved organic chemicals to protect themselves from carcinogens present in the air, water and soil. The biochemist believed that a molecule from biological origin had already adapted itself to a living environment. Dissimilar to the presently marketed cytotoxic chemotherapies, organically-derived molecules are less likely to produce adverse side effects since they are created by a living organism for its own use. Corporate profit-oriented drug companies find it cheaper and faster to fabricate molecules in factories. Also their manufactured substances are artificial and alien in relation to the organic chemical environment with which they will interact.

Dr. Beljanski's investigations resulted in the discovery of two plant molecules, one extracted from Pao pereira (a tree growing in the Amazon rainforest) and the other from Rauwolfia vomitoria (a tree growing in humid equatorial Africa). He proved that extracts of the plants stop destabilized DNA from replicating. Dr. Beljanski was able to isolate the active molecule in each extract. Despite coming from different plants, the active molecules in both extracts are surprisingly similar in structure. Both are alkaloids which have bipolar electrical charges (one molecular part is negatively charged and another is positively charged).

This similar chemical configuration confirmed to Dr. Beljanski that over millennia plants have already evolved defenses against the damage to DNA caused by environmental toxins. (11,12)

The chemical name for the advantageous compound extracted from Pao pereira is Flavopereirine and for Rauwolfia vomitoria, it's Alstonine. The differences between these molecules causes them to bring about somewhat different therapeutic effects. Flavopereirine is a smaller molecule than Alstonine so that it penetrates the blood-brain barrier. Alstonine has demonstrated itself to be more effective with disorders involving hormones. Both of these organic substances qualify as "new dietary ingredients" under US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) rules for marketing dietary supplements. Dr. Beljanski took the additional legal step of obtaining patents for his discoveries.