Here is a paper in the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases that is more evidence for what I have been telling Lapis Light patients for years: insulin and estrogen are both proliferating hormones that in excess promote prostatic hyperplasia (enlargement). No prostate assessment is complete without evaluating insulin regulation, free fraction steroid hormones (including estrogen in men) and Vitamin D levels.
This interesting study from Molecular Cancer Therapeutics documents the inhibition of prostate cancer cell proliferation and the induction of apoptosis (cell death) with pomegranate extract. Of special importance is the described association with chronic inflammation driven by nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activity. This is involved in the transition from androgen dependence of prostate cancer cells to ones that no longer depend on male hormone stimulation. Pomegranate extract is shown to help reduce this inflammatory process.