Written by Chrystal Moulton, Staff Writer. Nine out of 12 reviewed studies found the optimal plasma serum selenium that significantly lowers prostate cancer risk to be 60 – 170 ng/ml while a toenail selenium range of 0.85 – 0.94ng/g decreases prostate cancer risk by...
Low Fat Diet with Fish Oil Supplementation For Prostate Cancer
Written by Marcia J. Egles, MD. Of the 48 overweight or obese patients with prostate cancer, those who went on a 4-6 week low-fat, high Omega-3 fish oil supplement diet had a significant 32.2 % reduction in a marker for cancer growth compared to the Western diet...
Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer Reduced with Vitamin K
Written by Marcia J. Egles, MD. Those with the highest Vitamin K-2 intakes had a 12% reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer compared to those with the lowest intakes. Prostate cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer in men in the United States. The...
Vitamin E in Combination with Selenium Shown to Induce Self-Destruction of Human Prostate Cancer Cells
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem. When vitamin E and selenium were used in combination against prostate cancer cell lines, cell viability was decreased by 40-70% and cancer cell growth was significantly decreased (30%) while normal prostate cells were not...
Omega-3 May Reduce Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Written by Marcia Egles, MD. Studies suggest that increasing omega-3 PUFA’s (polyunsaturated fatty acids) in the diet might help reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer. Both omega-6 and omega-3 PUFA’s are not produced in the body and must be obtained from ones...
Vitamin E is Associated with Reduced Risk of Prostate Cancer
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem. After 19 years of followup, researchers assessed the incidence and type of prostate cancers of 29,133 Finnish male smokers and found that those with higher blood concentrations of alpha- tocopherol had a strongly reduced...
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