Pomegranates The Top Natural Cure of Prostate Cancer

The Pomegranates have been used in traditional folk remedies for many centuries to treat sore throats, inflammation, rheumatism, heart diseases, Arthritis, blood pressure, and many other diseases. Recent scientific research has suggested that pomegranates are also potentially effective in both preventing and treating prostate cancer. One study, conducted on human prostate cancer cells in lab dishes, at the University of Wisconsin, found that there were dose-dependent, improvements. Another study by the same experiment injected mice with human prostate cancer cells. These mice developed malignancies. (The term Malignancies means, "a disease in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues"). Some mice were fed plain water, whilst two other groups of mice were given water mixed with different concentrations of pomegranate extract. Those mice that had water only had tumors that grew more rapidly than the pomegranate and water groups. The quantities which were given to the mice were comparable to that which people might get if they drank pomegranate juice daily. And whilst pomegranate juice has been tested on humans with prostate cancer yet, the results are very good and successful. The study did not observe what aspects of pomegranate juice were responsible for the slow-down of this prostate tumor growth. But the scientists involved did mention the antioxidant polyphenolic compounds, which are more effective than green tea and red wine. Pomegranate extract not only stopped the growth of cancer cells but also worked by another means of apoptosis. Apoptosis refers to a way that cells can die. Cancer growths are characterized by the uncontrolled growth of the cells that do not follow the normal processes of cellular differentiation of regular, healthy cells. Cellular differentiation means that the characteristics of a cell can change and get the functions that a mature, healthy cell would perform. For example, liver cells have specialized liver functions, as do prostate, breast, kidney, and all other types of cells. This is normal and healthy for cells. In tumor growths, although some cells fully differentiate, many only differentiate moderately, and some do not at all, And the tumors which have more undifferentiated cells grow rapidly. So, producing cellular differentiation is one approach to cancer treatment. The other two ways that doctors and researchers try to treat cancer are by causing the death of cancerous cells. They do this through apoptosis, mentioned above, and necrosis. In apoptosis, cell death is programmed into the cell when it is born. So the cell dies in a more natural way which is less disastrous to its environment. By this, I mean it does not cause redness and swelling (inflammation) and the damage which is associated with it to neighboring cells that may be healthy. Cells get died either when they reach their cellular old age or when their death benefits the body as a whole. Necrosis, on the other hand, does cause inflammation. Necrosis is the death of body tissue which occurs when too little blood flows to the tissue. Generally, prostate cancer grows very slowly, although it is unforeseeable and can grow rapidly and spread.