This Common Cooking Spice Dramatically Shrinks Prostate Tumors in Mice

Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 12 2011 |

Regular consumption of vegetables has long been linked with noteworthy anticancer benefits. Ginger, which is consumed as a spice in foods and beverages worldwide, is an excellent source of several bioactive phenolics, including gingerols, paradols, shogaols and gingerones.

A recent study showed that whole ginger extract exerts significant growth-inhibitory and death-inductory effects in a spectrum of prostate cancer cells. Comprehensive research confirmed that ginger extract perturbed cell-cycle progression, impaired reproductive capacity, modulated cell-cycle and apoptosis regulatory molecules and induced apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells.

According to the study, as reprinted on the website Green Med Info:

"Tumor tissue from [ginger extract]-treated mice showed reduced proliferation index and widespread apoptosis compared with controls, as determined by immunoblotting and immunohistochemical methods. Most importantly, [ginger extract] did not exert any detectable toxicity in normal, rapidly dividing tissues such as gut and bone marrow."