Diet for a healthy prostate
July 3rd, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer preventionFrom a dietary point of view, there haven’t been enough well-controlled studies on any nutrients or supplements to be able to draw definitive conclusions regarding prostate cancer prevention.
But many reports revealed the evidence that nutrients such as lycopene (a component released when tomatoes are cooked), the herbal supplement saw palmetto (at a dose of around 500 mg per day), ground flaxseed (two tablespoons per day), soy foods and a low-fat diet can all keep levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) - a marker of prostatic growth under control. Less convincing is the evidence that taking vitamin E or selenium can prevent prostate cancer; in fact, the large SELECT study, examining the link between both supplements and the development of prostate cancer, was halted last year after it failed to produce any significant results.