Resveratrol Benefits Against Cancer

Resveratrol has been the focus of intense interest because of its powerful anti-oxidant properties and its potential cardioprotective, anti-aging, and anti-cancer properties.

With regard to anti-cancer properties, resveratrol appears to be important in prostate, uterus, breast and skin health. It appears that resveratrol may selectively target and kill cancer cells and stop them from spreading at all 3 steps of the cancer process. The initiation phase, promotion phase and progression phase. The list of tumors that resveratrol may inhibit is astounding, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, liver cancer, brain cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, ovarian and cervical cancer, lymphoma and it even appears to act as an anti-leukemia agent. A high dose of resveratrol is probably needed to support these benefits.

In one publised study, resveratrol-fed mice undergoing prostate mutagenesis showed an 87 percent reduction in risk of developing prostate tumors. The mice fed resveratrol for seven months experienced the highest risk reduction. Other mice with a less serious form of prostate mutagenesis were 49 percent more likely to have tumor growth halted or slowed compared to mice not consuming the compound.

In the report "Red Wine Antioxidant Fights Cancer" published by cbsnews.com on March 28,2008, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center say the antioxidant found in grape skins, known as resveratrol, appears to work by targeting the cancer cell's energy source from within. The study showed that resveratrol destroys cancer cells from the inside and enhances the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatments. The results showed that resveratrol had a variety of potentially valuable anti-cancer effects, including:
• Making the cancer cells more sensitive to chemotherapy by hampering proteins
that resist treatment
• Triggering cancer cell death (apoptosis)
• Injuring the cancer cell's energy source and decreasing its potential to function

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