Friday Favorites: Lycopene Supplements and Tomato Sauce vs. Prostate Cancer
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- 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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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.
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.
powefull story. keep sharing it.
This channel is a national treasure, and if I had the power, I'd mandate its viewing to every citizen.
yep, and that would be enough to save the world from many many problems...
1) Curcumin
2) Tomato sauce for lycopene
3) Vitamin E from nuts
I would also add
Black pepper for better curcumin absorption.
And also good water too
Watermelon for lycopene and l citruline. Totally a super food.
it's also good to add to your list: green tea, pumpkin seeds, raw beet to your list.
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.
Fascinating!!! Thank you so much for the work you do, you save lives of humans and animals ❤
Tomatoes are also relatively easy to grow, even in containers. I’ve got my seedlings started. Ready for Spring!
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.
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.
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.❤️
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.
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.
Good one!
Hippocrates would be proud!
I love this channel!
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.
I wish you the best and hopefully its good news.
Hello how did your psa turn out for ya?
@@skyliner7333 Hi ,that your PSA drops ?
Phenomenal content. Thank you.
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.
Always fascinating :)
This would help with the Skene's glands also.
Interesting and very helpful
Sir 👑 you are a Legend! ✨👍
I'll use this to heal my Father of prostate cancer.
Sinefield on point😂🎉
Amazing
Thank you!
🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
Tomato Paste Ice Cream or Sherbet.
The best solution seems to be the easiest. Drink tomato juice.
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.
It sure is 😂😂
It can also give you a ton of sugar. No thanks.
@@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.
@@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”
@@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.
😀 passing on too 1 in need 😃
Me too. 💚🤞
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What about Tomatoe Powder ? Does it have the same benefits ?
Tomato curries with red lentils and loads of curcumin and a bit of black pepper gotta be crazy healthy 😅
Synergy; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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.
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
Why does ketchup and canned tomatoes give reflux but fresh/homecooked tomatoes do not?
Additives?
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!_*
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.
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.
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Tomato juice is great but its overloaded with sodium.
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. :-)
and coffee...
@@TheHouseofFruits Yeah, that too.
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.
Good food is good; supplemental higher doses don’t work.
And I thought that tomatoes are 'nightshades' that are slowly killing you.
Just if you have knees issues
The skin and seeds have lectins, also the meat, but less. Cooking gets rid of most of them
"Just as Mother nature intended"?? 🤔🤔
Need to write a book
killing cancer with food
Am I the only one confused.
Untrue
eww cheeseless pizza...
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