There's a worldwide epidemic of chronic diseases, including cancer, and the cancer epidemic also involves dogs. There's a link between the modern diet and cancer. Eating five or more servings of plants (fruits and vegetables) daily reduces risk of developing cancer, but it's hard to do this. Most people aren't aware the modern diet is deficient in unique plant phytoalexins called salvestrols, compounds produced by fruits, vegetables, and herbs that haven't been raised with synthetic chemicals ("organic" in the United States) to defend from predators, particularly fungi. Plant salvestrols have the potential to kill cancer cells in humans and dogs.

Dietary supplementation of salvestrols has the potential to confer multiple health benefits, including: anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, immune regulating, neuroprotective, anti-infective, and antifungal.

This book describes the "ABCs" of The Salvestrols Concept: A) Plant salvestrols are beneficial for human and dog health, but they're deficient in the modern diet. B) Most types of cancer cells produce an enzyme called CYP1B1 that metabolizes ingested salvestrols into several metabolites; normal cells don't produce the enzyme and are unaffected by salvestrols. C) The metabolites of salvestrols kill cancer cells by several mechanisms, including apoptosis.

Proprietary salvestrols-containing dietary supplements derived with nesem® technology (naturally elicited specifically extracted molecules) have been developed by Naturally Pure Products Limited in New Zealand and are available in North America. The signature product is Salvestrol® Platinum for humans. The potency of salvestrols is expressed as Salvestrol® Points. For many reasons, most people can't ingest more than 100 Salvestrol® Points of dietary salvestrols daily, even eating plants cultivated without synthetic chemicals. Salvestrol® Platinum contains 2,000 Salvestrol® Points. LUPOSTROL® is the salvestrols containing dietary supplement developed for dogs.