Raspberries:
Great-tasting Ellagic Acid
The ellagic acid content of the NingXia Red trio of raspberries, pomegranates, and
Ningxia wolfberries offers enormous promise as a natural phytoprotectant against many
types of cancer.
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a dozen peer-reviewed research reports from a number of research hospitals and universities
have discussed the remarkable ability of ellagic acid to guard against liver
cancer caused by aflatoxins.
Moreover, oral administration of ellagic acid was found to significantly reduce elevated
levels of enzymes that signal liver distress, suggesting a potent ability to blunt
liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride.
Recent research published in several medical journals including Anti-cancer Research
and Cancer Letters showed that ellagic adic supressed cell proliferation
and induced apoptosis (cell death) in colon cancer
cells.
And at Nagoya City University Medical School in Japan, animals fed ellagic acid developed
92% fewer intestinal tumors (both adenomas
and carcinomas) than the untreated group.
Studies conducted at the China Medical University in Taiwan, showed that ellagic
acid blocked the formation of cancer in human bladder tumor cell lines (T24 and TSGH
8301). Other studies at the Chungtai Institute of Health Sciences and Technoogy in
Taiwan showed a similar bladder cancer
blocking affect.
A 2001 University of Kentucy study published in Mutation Research showed that ellagic
acid blocked the growth of human breast cancer
cells by 45%. Researchers used the MCF-7 line of breast cancer cells, which is the
hardest of all breast cancers to treat and which is resistant to almost all chemotherapy.
Researchers at Loma Linda University found that polyphenols can blunt the cancer-causing
effects of chemicals found in cigarette smoke. Ellagic acid inhibited mutation by
67% in cells exposed to NNK—a cigarette smoke carcinogen—demonstrating
strong potential as a lung cancer preventative.
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