One Flax Seed Muffin a Day for 30 days Kills 31% of Breast Cancer Cells in Newly Diagnosed Women

Canadian scientists, following up on previous studies conducted in mice, enrolled women newly diagnosed with breast cancer as volunteers to study the effects of flaxseed on breast cancer progression. In this study, one flaxseed muffin a day, containing a predetermined concentration of pre-lignans, was consumed per day for 30 days. Tissue biopsies were preformed prior to and after the 30 day period. The results showed that the flaxseed pre-lignans, converted in the intestines by bacteria into powerful anti-cancer lignans, were extremely efficient, in low doses, in killing the breast cancer cells in these volunteer women.

The results were nothing short of dramatic. The growth index in the cancer cells was reduced 34.2%, while the level of programmed cell death increased 30.7%. Women who expressed the HER2 (c-erbB2) metastatic oncogene saw its expression decrease by a dramatic 71%.

According to Dr. Stephen Martin, Chief Scientist of Grouppe Kurosawa, data like this has ever been reported before... [more]

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Menopausal Hot Flashes Halved in Preliminary Study of Ground Flaxseed
By Miranda Hitti

WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDAug. 30, 2007 -- New research shows that the tiny flaxseed may bring some relief for menopausal hot flashes.

The flaxseed findings need to be confirmed, so flaxseed isn't guaranteed to soothe hot flashes.

But in a small, preliminary study, women halved their hot flashes by eating 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed, twice daily, mixed into their cereal, juice, fruit, or yogurt.

The flaxseed study comes from Sandhya Pruthi, MD, and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Pruthi's team studied 29 women who had been having 14 hot flashes per week for at least a month and weren't taking estrogen to relieve their menopausal symptoms.

The women didn't start taking flaxseed right away. First, they spent a week just keeping a diary of their hot flashes and quality of life.

After that initial week ended, the researchers gave all of the women crushed flaxseed and told the women to sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the flaxseed on cereal, juice, yogurt, or fruit twice daily for six weeks.

During the six-week study, the women continued their hot flash diaries and reported any side effects.

At the end of the study, the researchers had sufficient data on hot flashes for 21 of the women.

The results show that the women halved their number of daily hot flashes while taking flaxseed. In addition, the intensity of the women's hot flashes dropped by 57% during the study.

Side effects included abdominal bloating (14 women) and mild diarrhea (eight women).

The study has some limits. It had relatively few participants, and there was no comparison group of women taking a flaxseed-free placebo powder.

Pruthi's team concludes that more research is indeed warranted. The full report appears in the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
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SOURCES: Pruthi, S. Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology, Summer 2007; vol 5. News release, Mayo Clinic.

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Flaxseed Halts Prostate Cancer Growth New Study Shows    800.387.5516
04 Jun 2007

A new US study suggests that flaxseed, which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids and lignans, can stop prostate cancer tumours from growing.

The study was presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago on Saturday by researchers from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

The researchers think that flaxseed, which has similar properties to sesame seed, probably interrupts the chain of events that eventually makes cells multiply out of control and become a tumour.

Dr Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, a researcher in Duke's School of Nursing and lead investigator on the study said that:

"Our previous studies in animals and in humans had shown a correlation between flaxseed supplementation and slowed tumor growth, but the participants in those studies had taken flaxseed in conjunction with a low-fat diet."

However, she explained that:

"For this study, we demonstrated that it is flaxseed that primarily offers the protective benefit."

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also took part.

Demark-Wahnefried and colleagues recruited 161 men who were due to have surgery for prostate cancer (prostatectomy: where all or part of the prostate gland is removed).

The patients were randomly assigned to one of four groups. One group took 30 grams of flaxseed a day for an average of 30 days before they had the operation (the flaxseed only group). Another group did the same but also followed a low-fat diet (20 per cent or less of their calories from fat). A third group did not take the flaxseed and only followed a low-fat diet, while the fourth group, a control, had none of the interventions.

After the surgery, the researchers examined the tumour cells under a microscope to assess how quickly they had multiplied.

They then compared the men who had only flaxseed, with or without following a low-fat diet, with the men in the other two groups: no intervention and low-fat diet only. They found that the slowest rate of tumour growth occurred in the two flaxseed supplemented groups.

Demark-Wahnefried said:

"The results showed that the men who took just flaxseed as well as those who took flaxseed combined with a low-fat diet did the best, indicating that it is the flaxseed which is making the difference."

The flaxseed supplement was given in ground form because in the whole form the seed coat is hard and undigestible. The patients took the flaxseed either in drinks, sprinkled on food, or with yogurt.

Flaxseed is thought to stop the growth and spread of cancer cells. This could be because the omega-3 fatty acids it contains interferes with the ability of cancer cells to cling onto other body cells, said Demark-Wahnefried.

The lignans it contains may also have antiangiogenic properties, the ability to stop the blood supply to the tumour.

Demark-Wahnefried said that they were "excited that this study showed that flaxseed is safe and associated with a protective effect on prostate cancer".

In next phase of their research the team hopes to study the preventative properties of flaxseed, and its effect on patients with recurrent prostate tumours.

As well as being antiangiogenic, the lignans in flaxseed, one of the richest sources of these fibre-related compounds, are thought to interfere with or prevent cell division and affect hormones. They are antimitotic, affect androgen metabolism and have estrogenic effects, said Demark-Wahnefried.

Flaxseed is also the richest known source of plant-based omega-3 fatty acids which affect the production of cell membranes, the levels of natural killer cells and circulating levels of protein kinase C and tyrosine kinases, which profoundly affect cell activity.

According to the American Cancer Society, one in six American men gets prostate cancer. This year it is estimated that over 200,000 will be diagnosed with the disease and 27,000 will die from it.


Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

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"flaxseed is the latest craze to take over Hollywood and is credited with improving hair, skin and nail quality, aiding weight loss, and preventing diseases such as arthritis, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Unlike other Hollywood health fads, it won’t break the bank...

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Dr Herb Joiner is a Naturopath and the world's leading expert on flaxseed. The fifty year-old from Seattle has been studying the seed for the past thirty-three years and has recently written a book on the subject called "The Healing Power of Flax." Dr Herb teaches at the University of Boston and his specialist areas are nutrition and western herbal medicine, but he is lecturing in the UK on the benefits of Omega 3s. Omega 3s are the essential fatty acids found in fish oils, however, the richest source of Omega 3s is flaxseed oil (flaxseed oil is derived from flaxseed). We should be eating oily fish three times a week, but most people don’t meet this quota and therefore need to get to get Omega 3 from other sources.

What is flaxseed?
flaxseed improves every molecule in the body: it improves the quality of hair, nails, and skin, as well as helping you to lose weight or bulk up it lowers cholesterol, blood pressure and prevents arthritis and cancers.

The flax plant, an ancient crop, yields the fibre from which linen is woven, as well as seeds and oil. The oil, also called linseed oil, has many industrial uses - it is an important ingredient in paints, varnishes, and linoleum, for example. Like olive, canola, and most other plant oils, flaxseed oil (see> flaxseed oil vs. flaxseed) is highly unsaturated and heart-healthy. And flaxseed has yet another very interesting component – lignans which may have anti-cancer properties.

Lignans and other flaxseed components may also have antioxidant properties, which means they may reduce the activity of cell-damaging free radicals. flaxseed oil lacks lignans, but some processors add them to their oil.

Recently small studies of cancer patients in America who consumed flaxseeds have produced some encouraging results. In one study men with prostate cancer who ate an ounce of ground flaxseed a day as part of a very-low-fat diet were able to slow the progress of their cancers between the time they were diagnosed and the time of surgery. A similar study of women awaiting surgery for breast cancer found that those who ate a flaxseed muffin daily (with about four tablespoons of ground flaxseeds per muffin) had a slower tumour growth rate. Studies of animals, too, suggest some anti-cancer benefit from flaxseed.

How do you take flaxseed?
Flaxseed has a pleasant, nutty flavour and can be sprinkled on cereals, yoghurts and smoothies, Alternatively, flaxseed can be taken as a supplement in pill or liquid form or as flaxseed oil and used in cooking, although the oil can be expensive. Flaxseed oil has a much richer flavour than other cooking oils.

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