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Pomegranate and Your Prostate
Pomegranate and your prostate? You’ve recently undergone a prostate specific antigen test and your number is too high or reading higher than you’d like. Maybe you have to get up a couple of times each night to go to the bathroom.
You don’t know if you have prostate cancer. If you do have prostate cancer, you need to find out what stage you are, your Gleason Score, etc. You tell yourself that you will begin an anti-prostate cancer program. Immediately.
But first, and easy prostate therapy is… pomegranate juice? According to the study linked below, yes, an “initial phase II clinical trial of pomegranate juice in patients with prostate cancer reported significant prolongation of prostate-specific antigen doubling time.”
As I researched this and other studies about pomegranate and prostate cancer, I found conflicting information about the study below. But based on what I’ve learned, pomegranate juice is a good first step for your prostate health.
Is Pomegranate Good For Your Prostate?
I am a long-term survivor of an incurable blood cancer called multiple myeloma. Conventional therapies like surgery, chemo and radiation have risks and benefits. I have learned that evidence-based, non-conventional therapies like exercise, nutrition, supplementation and yes, even pomegranate provide real benefits while having few downsides.
If you are interested in learning more about evidence-based, non-conventional prostate cancer therapies, scroll down the page, post a question or comment, and I will reply to you ASAp.
Thank you,
David Emerson
- Cancer Survivor
- Cancer Coach
- Director PeopleBeatingCancer
Cancer Chemoprevention by Pomegranate: Laboratory and Clinical Evidence
Abstract
Pomegranate fruit from the tree Punica granatum has been dubbed as the “nature’s power fruit.” Dating back to Biblical times, the tree itself is attributed to possess extraordinary medicinal properties. The geographical distribution of the tree, being native to the Middle East and some Asian countries, is generally attributed to a lack of interest in its medicinal properties by many western scientists. However, the unique biochemical composition of the pomegranate fruit being rich in antioxidant tannins and flavonoids has recently drawn attention of many investigators to study its exceptional healing qualities.
Recent research has shown that pomegranate extracts selectively inhibit the growth of breast, prostate, colon and lung cancer cells in culture. In preclinical animal studies, oral consumption of pomegranate extract inhibited growth of lung, skin, colon and prostate tumors.
An initial phase II clinical trial of pomegranate juice in patients with prostate cancer reported significant prolongation of prostate-specific antigen doubling time. This review focuses on recent investigations into the effects of pomegranate fruit on cancer…
CONCLUSIONS
Interest in the biological activity of pomegranate-derived products, especially their anticancer properties, is being investigated in earnest. This interest is largely attributed to initial experiments that have reported activity of PJ that was found to be greater than that of red wine or even green tea.
Various dietary agents are being investigated for their potential beneficial effects against PCa. PJ has shown an initial promise in a phase II clinical trial against PCa. There is a need to undertake similar clinical studies in other cancers such as colon and breast.
Although identifying individual active ingredients in the PJ would be ideal, it is interesting to note that many studies have observed the extract or the juice to be more beneficial compared to the individual or purified ingredient. This suggests the existence of a chemical synergy when using an extract. The use of an extract rather than a purified compound could explain the inhibition of multiple targets observed in many studies and thus greater likelihood for producing cancer chemopreventive effects in humans.
This may account for the synergistic preventive and/or anti-cancer effects, and the approach can be explored in laboratory, animal, clinical, and epidemiological studies in the future. It is anticipated that in-depth research into the anticancer activities of naturally occurring compounds would enable one day to develop a cocktail of such molecules for effective prevention cancers.
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