Health, wealth, happiness.

I'm Dr. Michael Greger and you're listening to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

And while I can't promise you all of those things, if you take a listen to the evidence-based

nutrition found in this podcast, chances are you'll learn something that you can use to

make a positive change in your diet and in your health.

My job here is to bring you the information you need to make that reality possible.

Today, we focus on men's health.

Specifically, we look at the way to help keep our prostate's cancer free.

In our first story, high doses of lycopene, the red pigment intamados were put to the test

to see if it could prevent pre-cancerous prostate lesions from turning into full-blown cancer.

Back in the 80s, the Adventist Health Study found strong protective relationships against

prostate cancer with increasing consumption of legumes, citrus, dried fruit, nuts, and

tomatoes.

In the 90s, a Harvard study focused attention on tomatoes, which appear to be especially

beneficial.

They suspected it might be the red pigment intamados called lycopene, which is greater

antioxidant power than some of the other pigments like the orange beta-carotene pigment and

carats and cantaloupes.

And lycopene dramatically kills off prostate cancer cells in a P2 dish, even way down at

the levels one would expect in one's bloodstream after just eating some tomatoes.

So of course, the Heinz ketchup company, along with manufacturers of lycopene supplements,

petitioned the FDA to allow them to print health claims on their products.

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