Sometime, you need something far more specific, than just an over the counter pain relief pill. Liposomal encapsulation technology even has a do it yourself group. This is where they get together and throw out new ideas and report on results. It was found that by doing it this way one does not have to go through the complex route of formulating drug carrying liposomes. These are more commonly carried out in laboratories around the world.
The founder Mr Brooks Bradley showed that by combining water, lecithin and vitamin c together and then adding this little mixture to an ultrasonic bath it can produce a medical product. A simple recipe on how to make liposomes involves lecithin getting dissolved in a solvent. This could be chloroform or acetone and then once it has evaporated it will leave a thin layer on the container.
When ultrasonic waves are produced the sound waves then break up the lipids causing the liposome to trap the watery drug. Working outside a laboratory helps to save money and also improve one's health. There is a book available that will help those budding scientists to create this new technology themselves.
There is speculation that using anticancer drugs in this way will help deliver the drug to the malignant tissue and not the whole body. It is an ongoing experiment in the oncology division. Encapsulating this drug is expected to provide better safety as well as effectiveness. Taking the normal cancer drug is a sure way of feeling ill as it kills good cells in an effect to get to the diseased ones.
All cancer cells tend to divide much quicker than the healthy cells and chemotherapy drugs are effective in targeting them. Even the fast growing healthy cells will be damaged in the process. With all the different cancer drugs out there just about every one of them has some bad side effects.
The factors that play a role when it comes to the side effects can be ones age, lifestyle as well as the treatment they are getting and health issues before getting sick. In some cases once the treatment has ended so the side effects will diminish but in a few cases it will never go away. Some of these drugs are so strong that they affect the cells in the digestive tract, mouth, bone marrow as well as the hair follicles and reproductive system.
Having been diagnosed with cancer a blood count is done which is a very important part of the therapy. This is because they can harm the cells that are situated in the bone marrow, where blood is produced. Everyone knows that the red blood cells are the ones that ensure that oxygen is delivered to the tissues. Without this one can get anaemia which can make one feel exhausted.
If liposomal encapsulation works so well for the transportation of nutrients one can only hope that it might also be successful for transporting life saving drugs to those afflicted with cancer and many other illnesses as well. The drugs will not affect the white blood cells which results in neutropenia. They are a crucial part in keeping the immune system healthy enough to fight off infections.
The founder Mr Brooks Bradley showed that by combining water, lecithin and vitamin c together and then adding this little mixture to an ultrasonic bath it can produce a medical product. A simple recipe on how to make liposomes involves lecithin getting dissolved in a solvent. This could be chloroform or acetone and then once it has evaporated it will leave a thin layer on the container.
When ultrasonic waves are produced the sound waves then break up the lipids causing the liposome to trap the watery drug. Working outside a laboratory helps to save money and also improve one's health. There is a book available that will help those budding scientists to create this new technology themselves.
There is speculation that using anticancer drugs in this way will help deliver the drug to the malignant tissue and not the whole body. It is an ongoing experiment in the oncology division. Encapsulating this drug is expected to provide better safety as well as effectiveness. Taking the normal cancer drug is a sure way of feeling ill as it kills good cells in an effect to get to the diseased ones.
All cancer cells tend to divide much quicker than the healthy cells and chemotherapy drugs are effective in targeting them. Even the fast growing healthy cells will be damaged in the process. With all the different cancer drugs out there just about every one of them has some bad side effects.
The factors that play a role when it comes to the side effects can be ones age, lifestyle as well as the treatment they are getting and health issues before getting sick. In some cases once the treatment has ended so the side effects will diminish but in a few cases it will never go away. Some of these drugs are so strong that they affect the cells in the digestive tract, mouth, bone marrow as well as the hair follicles and reproductive system.
Having been diagnosed with cancer a blood count is done which is a very important part of the therapy. This is because they can harm the cells that are situated in the bone marrow, where blood is produced. Everyone knows that the red blood cells are the ones that ensure that oxygen is delivered to the tissues. Without this one can get anaemia which can make one feel exhausted.
If liposomal encapsulation works so well for the transportation of nutrients one can only hope that it might also be successful for transporting life saving drugs to those afflicted with cancer and many other illnesses as well. The drugs will not affect the white blood cells which results in neutropenia. They are a crucial part in keeping the immune system healthy enough to fight off infections.
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