Cholesterol feeds Prostate Cancer (BBC)

[Up2Late]

Friday, 18 March, 2005, 00:02 GMT

High cholesterol levels accelerate the growth of prostate tumours, research has found.

A team from Boston's Children Hospital also found that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may inhibit prostate cancer growth.

The findings may help explain why prostate cancer is more common in the West, where diets tend to be high in cholesterol.

Details are published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

(more at link)

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4359117.stm>

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. May inhibit and absolutely does inhibit are the differences

between supplements that do... and drugs that may.

And this is just one (1) dietary supplement that acts thusly. There are many more... including lycopene from tomatoes that can be purchased in pill form... just about ANYWHERE.

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[BuddhaGirl]

2. also saw palmetto extract, pumpkin seed extract and nettle

many good complexes comprising the above help promote a healthy prostate.