Research is ensuring that pomegranate juice may help fight prostate cancer. The results of this work shows that men who drank the beverage had delayed the doubling of PSA levels (a protein that indicates the presence of prostate cancer) in the blood.
Although consumption quantities should be in 0.24 liters of pomegranate juice a day, the doubling time of PSA after treatment extended to 54 months on average.
Before, the average PSA doubling every 15 months. Each of the 50 participants had undergone radiation, surgery or other treatments to fight cancer before enrolling in the study.
It is premature to recommend the consumption of pomegranate juice on prostate cancer patients to say they could be cured only with this, if the study shows that could delay or prevent the need for other therapies with harsh side effects including hot flashes, phatic , depression and impotenia.
also has antioxidant qualities of being natural product which contains up to three times more than green tea and red wine. (more…)