Pomegranate Juice can Fend off Prostate Cancer
A glass of pomegranate juice every day may help men with recurrent prostate cancer live longer, as the sweet red juice protects healthy cells from damage, inhibits proliferation of cancer cells and even kills.
These were some of the findings of a study of the Jonsson Cancer Center at UCLA and published in Clinical Cancer Research.
It took 54 months to PSA (prostate specific antigen) tests to duplicate content levels in patients with recurrent prostate cancer who drank pomegranate juice after surgery or radiation treatment, researchers reported.
PSA is a protein marker for prostate cancer and the fastest increase levels of PSA in the blood of men after treatment are more likely to relapse with prostate cancer.
The antioxidant potential would be responsible, the research team, led by Allan Pantuck, an associate professor in the Department of Urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, conducted additional experiments to examine the antioxidant properties of the juice pomegranate.
“The Pomegranate is high in antioxidants and there is evidence that inflammation plays an important role in prostate cancer, Pantuck said.
Like vitamin C and other antioxidants, ellagic acid is a major antioxidant in pomegranate juice, defends attacks by oxygen molecules that are added to cell groups, proteins and fats, thus altering their biological function.
Although results are encouraging, Dr. Pantuck stressed that more research is needed to confirm the biological role of the pomegranate in delaying or preventing recurrence of prostate cancer in men.
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