Prevent Breast Cancer with Resveratrol

Cancer is quickly becoming a pandemic. Cancer may affect people of all ages - even fetuses can have cancer and causes 13% of all human deaths.

One particular cancer frequently occurs with women: Breast cancer. Women in the United States have the highest occurrences of breast cancer in the world. Among women in the US, it is the most common cancer and the second most cause of cancer death second to lung cancer.

The first symptom of breast cancer is a lump that somehow feels different from the surrounding breast tissue. Sometimes cancer becomes metastatic. Primary factors of breast cancer are sex, age, childbearing, hormones, a high fat diet, strong alcohol intake and obesity.

Most cancers are also hereditary. Cancer is highly unpredictable and mutations change at an exponential rate. The growth of cancer is actually a series of erratic mutations. Too much estrogen in the system, whether male or female, equates to an increased risk in getting breast cancer. Estrogen metabolites form and when they react with DNA in breast cells, the risk of breast cancer increases dramatically.

Resveratrol is a phytoestrogen. There is evidence that suggests that phytoestrogens prevent the formation of breast and prostate cancers which are caused by hormonal imbalances. Epidemiological studies have shown protective and preventive effects against breast cancer. Although there have been no reports of breast cancer patients benefiting from the intake of phyto estrogen.

Ok.....but does resveratrol have any carcinogen killing benefits....or is it all just a bunch of hype?

The truth is that there have been very positive studies done on resveratrol and breast cancer, and a very prominent one was published in the summer of 2008 which shocked many in the health community.

The same research also showed that low levels of resveratrol also suppressed key risk factors for the development of breast cancer, both in quantites low enough to be found in potentially, a single glass of wine.

summary about resveratrol and breast cancer by Elmis Strom & Danny Fredricks