ProstAvan® by Melaleuca - Benefits of Lycopene

According to the article The Best Cancer "Phyters", reviewed by the faculty at Harvard Medical School, one study found that lycopene had an even more potent ability to stop cancer cells from proliferating than beta-carotene.

Lower prostate cancer risk in men with elevated plasma lycopene levels: results of a prospective analysis, is the results of a study conducted by Harvard Medical School, the Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School and others.  The study concluded that "These results concur with a recent prospective dietary analysis, which identified lycopene as the carotenoid with the clearest inverse relation to the development of prostate cancer. The inverse association was particularly apparent for aggressive cancer and for men not consuming ß-carotene supplements. For men with low lycopene, ß-carotene supplements were associated with risk reductions comparable to those observed with high lycopene. These data provide further evidence that increased consumption of tomato products and other lycopene-containing foods might reduce the occurrence or progression of prostate cancer."

In this HealthSCOUT article Pass the Tomato Juice, the author reports that Dr. Venket Rao, a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto, believes "lycopene could be the 'master switch' to cancer and coronary heart disease and by giving excessive lycopene, doctors might be able to control the switch."

Another HealthSCOUT article: "A Slice of Pizza Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk" Antioxidant in tomatoes reduces DNA damage, says study.