Hey, Men! Good news for you from a three-year research on pomegranate juice by scientists from University of California at Los Angeles.
Men who drank the beverage had a longer time until doubling of their blood levels of PSA or prostate-specific antigen -- a protein that indicates the presence of prostate cancer.
The average doubling time for the disease is about 15 months. In the study, however, drinking pomegranate juice extends this period to 54 months - an almost four-fold increase. Patients with short doubling times are more likely to die from the cancer.
All the men (50 prostate cancer patients who had undergone surgery or radiotherapy) had experienced a post-treatment increase in blood levels of PSA, indicating that cancer was still present in their bodies. Over a period of three years, scientists measured the men's PSA levels to calculate how fast they were taking to double.
The effect was so pronounced it may allow older men to avoid dying from the cancer, experts believe.
Tags:
