Men of a certain age and certain PSA might do well to order extra ginger with their sushi, according to research conducted at Georgia State University. In a paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition, the scientists claim that ginger extract has been shown to stop to growth of some prostate cancer cells and to kill others. "We show that whole ginger extract exerts significant growth-inhibitory and death-inductory effects in a spectrum of prostate cancer cells," the researchers write. The scientists note that "comprehensive studies have confirmed that ginger extract perturbed cell-cycle progression, impaired reproductive capacity, modulated cell-cycle and apoptosis regulatory molecules and induced a caspase-driven, mitochondrially mediated apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells." This particular research, however, involved mice, not humans. Still, daily oral feeding of ginger extract to the mice inhibited tumor growth by 56 percent. Impressive.
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I eat a lot of ginger. What will it do for me?