Friday Favorites: Lycopene Supplements and Tomato Sauce vs. Prostate Cancer

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Friday Favorites: Lycopene Supplements and Tomato Sauce vs. Prostate Cancer

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High doses of lycopene-the red pigment in tomatoes-were put to the test to see if it could prevent precancerous prostate lesions from turning into full-blown cancer. What happened when cancer patients were given three quarters of a cup of canned tomato sauce every day for three weeks?
So what are the Best Supplements for Prostate Cancer? (nutritionfacts.... Watch the video to find out!
More on natural treatments for prostate cancer in:
• Pomegranate vs. Placebo for Prostate Cancer (nutritionfacts...)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1 (www.nutritionfa...)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2 (www.nutritionfa...)
• The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Treatment (nutritionfacts...)
• Treating Prostate Cancer with Green Tea (nutritionfacts...)
Are there any foods we should avoid? Check out, for example, Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio (nutritionfacts...) and How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer (nutritionfacts....
We may be able to prevent cancer and even reverse the progression of cancer with diet. See:
• Cancer Reversal Through Diet? (nutritionfacts...)
• From Table to Able: Combating Disabling Diseases with Food (nutritionfacts...)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1 (nutritionfacts...)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2 (nutritionfacts...)
• How Not to Die from Cancer (nutritionfacts...)
It isn’t always easy to get guys to change, though. See Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (nutritionfacts....
Check out the How Not to Die Cookbook for a bunch of green-light recipes! As always, all of my proceeds go to charity. Get a dose of tomato sauce with my Roasted Vegetable Lasagna (nutritionfacts....
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@greensmoothieparty Жыл бұрын

This was the video back in the fall of 2017 that encouraged my father to try a plant based diet. He had just recently learned that his prostate cancer had become stage 4 and no further treatment options were available to him. He had nothing to lose at that point. After a few months, he went back in for a scan and the cancer in his hip had gone away and his doctors were amazed. After a few years, he decided to try to stop eating plant based because he missed what he used to eat and the cancer took over again and he passed away. A similar thing happened to Dr. Anthony Sattilaro (Recalled by Life) back in the 1980s. I was able to personally thank Dr. Greger for this video at the Food As Medicine conference in the spring of 2019.

@dianeladico1769 Жыл бұрын

So very sorry you lost your dad. You did have more time together than you would have otherwise. Thank you for posting this-it may inspire others.

@TheHouseofFruits Жыл бұрын

powefull story. keep sharing it.

@thefitnessgeezer. Жыл бұрын

This channel is a national treasure, and if I had the power, I'd mandate its viewing to every citizen.

@TheHouseofFruits Жыл бұрын

yep, and that would be enough to save the world from many many problems...

@tonynes3577 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. When I started taking green tea capsules, a very high amount or green tea extract, I started getting right sided chest pain, where the liver is. Then I read that someone actually had liver failure by taking green tea supplements. Now I just drink tea or green tea and of course, eat my tomatoes (due to my moderately high PSA). I feel fine. No more right sided chest pain. And I want to keep my prostate, thank you.

@rn5697 Жыл бұрын

1) Curcumin 2) Tomato sauce for lycopene 3) Vitamin E from nuts I would also add Black pepper for better curcumin absorption.

@ainsleyameerali7622 Жыл бұрын

And also good water too

@Dedicated_.1 Жыл бұрын

Watermelon for lycopene and l citruline. Totally a super food.

@estrelasolar 8 ай бұрын

it's also good to add to your list: green tea, pumpkin seeds, raw beet to your list.

@glindamarine8248 Жыл бұрын

My aunt was given a month to live after finding a cantaloupe size tumor in her abdomen during a minor surgery. They left the hole open and her caregivers had to pack it daily with iodide gauze so it could heal, or close from the bottom--up.. During this time my aunt craved tomatoes in a huge way, my mom would buy her a bushel of tomatoes 🍅a week, my aunt was happy, ate them with everything! Or just ate tomatoes! She lived 2 years, a happy life..she craved tomatoes 🍅 and lived a happy content life, a very blessed special lady.❤️

@gaston. Жыл бұрын

This is good to know.. I am a sucker for supplement marketing. Your videos remind me to stick with food.

@BagelBagelBagel Жыл бұрын

Don't waste your money!!! Absorb nutrients and nourish yourself with yummy food, not chalky pills. As a chronic disabling migraineur I have occasionally supplemented B6 and magnesium, and of course B12 as a vegan. But otherwise I think it's just so damn cool that veggies can be so completely healthy

@yt-qg8ui Жыл бұрын

cooking tomato paste, sauce, juice or whole tomatoes, will increase the the lycopene content. also, eating it with some oil, will increase it's bioavailability.

@TheHouseofFruits Жыл бұрын

The other day I was about to get some supplement. I don t remember why exactly but I had some "good" reason. Then I remembered all the lessons I learned on this tube and (the exorbitant price of the supplement helping) googled and bought the real food that had what I was after instead. Result: impeccable health so far since I went plant based.

@liyakhan9968 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating!!! Thank you so much for the work you do, you save lives of humans and animals ❤

@Susanonwow Жыл бұрын

Tomatoes are also relatively easy to grow, even in containers. I’ve got my seedlings started. Ready for Spring!

@edv9142 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Maybe someone should popularize a phrase like “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” or something. May prove useful lol.

@F8Tributo 5 ай бұрын

Good one! Hippocrates would be proud!

@YD-uq5fi Жыл бұрын

Gee, Indian cuisine routinely combines all the elements seen at 7:40 every day. Turmeric, lycopene, cruciferous vegetables, and more. How they figured all that out centuries ago is a mystery.

@AndrewPawley11 Жыл бұрын

I love this channel!

@Lucian14 10 ай бұрын

Phenomenal content. Thank you.

@stephss Жыл бұрын

This would help with the Skene's glands also.

@stephendelacruzone 28 күн бұрын

Sir 👑 you are a Legend! ✨👍 I'll use this to heal my Father of prostate cancer.

@GovtWatchdog 18 күн бұрын

3:57 I’m not sure how micromolars (µM) ultimately convert to milligrams, but according to webmd, just 1 cup of canned tomato sauce equals 37 milligrams of lycopene and 1 wedge of raw watermelon contains 13 milligrams of lycopene. A typical dose of supplemental lycopene contains about 30 milligrams which is 7 milligrams less than that of a single cup of tomato sauce. I can’t see a couple of cups of tomato sauce or a few wedges of watermelon containing an unhealthy amount of lycopene.

@nazokashii Жыл бұрын

Always fascinating :)

@colindeer9657 9 ай бұрын

Interesting and very helpful

@lastnewsnetwork6299 8 ай бұрын

Tomato Paste Ice Cream or Sherbet.

@misterx3188 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@skyliner7333 Ай бұрын

I have been eating one cup of tomato sauce daily for over three months. I am anxious to see if is will have any affect on my Prostate Cancer and PSA Test.

@paulgill7222 15 күн бұрын

I wish you the best and hopefully its good news.

@DTGrosz Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TrutherOne-xv8nr7yj3e 8 ай бұрын

The best solution seems to be the easiest. Drink tomato juice.

@johndoles3713 5 ай бұрын

Sinefield on point😂🎉

@markrice3019 Жыл бұрын

😀 passing on too 1 in need 😃

@AetherIdol Жыл бұрын

Me too. 💚🤞

@cjustemoy Жыл бұрын

🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

@reality_design Жыл бұрын

💕

@truesight91 Жыл бұрын

Just eat watermelon, the amount of watermelon you can eat a day can give you enormous amounts of Lycopene :) and it is the most cleansing food you could possibly eat.

@trendtrader4010 10 ай бұрын

It sure is 😂😂

@captainadams7569 9 ай бұрын

It can also give you a ton of sugar. No thanks.

@truesight91 9 ай бұрын

@@captainadams7569 I eat whole watermelons often I am in great health. Natural sugar (from fruits) does not have the same effect on the human body as "artificial" sugar made in a laboratory. You should know this already... common universal sense.

@captainadams7569 9 ай бұрын

@@truesight91 you obviously don’t have common sense if you think that natural sugars won’t effect your blood sugar just like added/processed sugar. That’s why fruits are divided into low, medium, and high glycemic foods. Watermelon is high glycemic.(80) with low fiber/complex carbs. You should know this already. “It’s common universal sense”

@truesight91 9 ай бұрын

@@captainadams7569 Its fruit you noob, we are biologically designed for fruit... you clearly don't have any direct experience or real knowledge of biology and human anatomy and just speaking out of your own ass what you read about and not true knowledge from self-experience.

@lauraw.7008 4 ай бұрын

Synergy; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

@Allmighty_Tapio Жыл бұрын

What about Tomatoe Powder ? Does it have the same benefits ?

@danthelambboy Жыл бұрын

One of the quickest meals in the UK from shelf stable ingredients is putting all the following together in a pan and heating it: Tin of chopped Tomatoes Tin of baked beans 3tbsp of pure peanut butter 4 tbsp of dry basil (buy bulk and it works out as a cheap calcium source) Chili to taste Black pepper to taste 1tsp of Marmite 1tspbsoy sauce Serve with 2 slices of wholemeal bread. If shopping mostly in LIDL and get basil online that's a £1.20 meal for 2

@janalu4067 Жыл бұрын

Why does ketchup and canned tomatoes give reflux but fresh/homecooked tomatoes do not?

@chiyerano Жыл бұрын

Additives?

@jenwylie4093 Жыл бұрын

I was just watching a video on 60 minutes the other day. A scientist uses grape skin as the fountain of youth. He has turned the skin into pill form. They next showed him with a bbq full of meat and a big glass of wine. I wondered why they went to so much work to turn the grapes into pills rather than eat grapes every day, and if he was so concerned about living to be old, why was he filling his body with food that wasn't healthy as well.

@Gary65437 10 ай бұрын

I wish the average can of tomato paste, sauce, or diced tomatoes didn't have so much sugar as 4 g is the lowest without buying super expensive organic non GMO stuff. My teeth pain tell me I'm eating too much sugar.

@Gary65437 9 ай бұрын

Update, I ate the (Hunt's pasta sauce with garlic and herbs) for 3 wks and my PSA went from 4.18 down to 3.20 a 23% reduction. Going in for a CT or bone scan next wk. I have no plans for radiation, hormones or chemo.

@RUcookoo 4 ай бұрын

Tomato juice is great but its overloaded with sodium.

@NoToPCBS Жыл бұрын

Need to write a book killing cancer with food

@anim8torfiddler871 9 ай бұрын

So maintaining a diet with a "natural" balance of natural substances (i.e., Not Manufactured and Concentrated into doses with abnormal companion ingredient traces such as solvents and precipitating agents) promotes wellness better than the ARTIFICIAL versions. *_What a Stinkin' Surprise!_*

@lauraw.7008 4 ай бұрын

Good food is good; supplemental higher doses don’t work.

@dustsky Жыл бұрын

And I thought that tomatoes are 'nightshades' that are slowly killing you.

@samiryan214 Жыл бұрын

Just if you have knees issues

@joerodriguez5880 2 ай бұрын

The skin and seeds have lectins, also the meat, but less. Cooking gets rid of most of them

@cybrarian9 Жыл бұрын

Who doesn't like tomatoes? Dr. Greger, have you ever had repetitive cases of acid reflux (GERD) after consuming something with tomato sauce? People with GERD issues try to be wary of too much tomatoes and tomato sauces in their diet. We might like tomatoes and tomato sauces, but they don't always like us. :-)

@TheHouseofFruits Жыл бұрын

and coffee...

@cybrarian9 Жыл бұрын

@@TheHouseofFruits Yeah, that too.

@evilqueen09 Ай бұрын

This! I feel like lycopene would be extremely beneficial to my mom but she has GERD, so she cannot consume tomatoes or any by products. I thought I would get her the pills but after this video seems like a bad idea.