Treating Prostate Cancer With Nutrition

Nutrition has always been one of the pillars of wellness. It seems now that certain foods are being used in treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and arthritis.

Those foods thought to help prevent and treat prostate cancer include:

• Prostate-Friendly Herbs
• Tomatoes - especially tomato sauce
• Soy
• Omega-3
• Vitamin E [400IU] + Selenium [20mcg] + Lycopene [15mg]

Prostate Friendly Herbs

For prostate benefits, many men combine:

1. Saw Palmetto
2. Pygeum Africanum - herb containing beta-sitosterol
3. Other plant estrogens.

Isoflavones

Plant substances from the botanical red clover, called isoflavones, may also aid in maintaining a happy prostate and proper urinary function.

Research has found that isolavones [plant hormones] boost prostate health by inhibiting the enzymes that lead a prostate to grow bigger. This is believed to account for the low incidence of prostate cancer in Asia - Asian men consume many more isoflavone-rich legumes than US men.

Soy

Soy also benefits the prostate hope. Genistein, found in soy, has shown to decrease the growth of both BPH and prostate cancer cells in the laboratory.

Tomato / Tomato Sauce

Lycopene, an antioxidant in tomatoes, may also help lower risk of prostate cancer. In an analysis of 72 studies, most evidence showed that men who consumed more lycopene suffered less prostate cancer [Natl Cancer Inst ].

Research findings indicated that "lycopene may not only help prevent prostate cancer but also may be useful in treating prostate cancer," commented Omer Kucuk, MD, a faculty member at the Barabara Ann Kamanos Cancer Institution in Detroit, Michigan.

Omega-3

Video - Ginger Punch, More Than A Fruit Drink [3:46]

Ginger punch is being used in the East to support prostate cancer patients.

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