Terrence Lawson, Ph.D.

Wednesday, September 03, 2025 06:30PM

Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer

University of Nebraska, Omaha

From page 376:

"Dr. Lawson believes that nicotinamide, like folate, does something to stimulate the repair of DNA damage. Other vitamins such as A, C, and E - known as antioxidants - seem to prevent DNA damage by interfering with the carcinogens that cause the damage, explains Dr. Lawson. But incotinamide seems to repair the damage AFTER it has happened. 'We showed in our sstudy that it didn't have any effect on the metabolism of the carcinogen we were using, so up to the point when the carcinogen interacts with the DNA, there was no change at all. But from then on, it seemed to cause profound changes.' This would seem to prove that we need foods rich in antioxidant vitamins AND in the B vitamins."

"It takes a long, long time for cancers to develop, says Dr. Lawson. That is why, in many cases, old people are more susceptible than you people. Dr. Lawson finds an interesting parallel between the growth of cancers and current theories of aging, which hold that cells, and consequently organs, and consequently whole people, age because of an accumulation of DNA damage. 'An accumulation of DNA damage has been shown to reduce our immunological functions--we become less resistant to disease. Antioxidant vitamins inhibit this damage. If you feed an old animal (an old person?) a diet high in antioxidants, you can reduce the number of toxins that can damage the DNA. Then, if you give him something like nicotinamide, you could stimulate the repair of any damage that is done, and you might then actually be able to delay the aging process as well as the onset of cancer."

If Dr. Lawson were sitting in front of me, I would ask him why, in reference to nicotinamide, he would condone injecting into human beings a mixture of two or three poisons and believe that he was helping them. Isn't it more likely that the elderly are aging more quickly due to the length of time that our food, water, air, and plant life have been poisoned? According to (dictionary) nicotine + am + ide = poison + ammonia + ? = poison; And...What are ACE inhibitors? And....What is interferon? Don't those chemicals play a role in DNA damage and immune function? rk