Q: Is it true that pomegranate juice protects against prostate cancer?
A: Pomegranate juice may turn out to be very useful in the treatment of prostate cancer and, perhaps, its prevention, as well. Here's the story: in 2005, researchers at the University of Wisconsin tested various doses of pomegranate extract on human prostate cancer cells in the lab. The higher the dose of the extract, the more cancer cells died. Then, in tests with mice that were injected with human prostate cancer cells, the animals that received the highest concentration of pomegranate extract had the least progression of prostate cancer and declining levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), a marker for prostate cancer in humans. In a comparison group of mice that received only water instead of pomegranate extract, tumors grew much faster. Read more...
