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Red wine may help prevent breast cancer new research shows. A team of researchers from the University of Nebraska has found that in the test tube studies in relation to breast cancer and estrogen, resveratrol which is an antioxidant found in red wine, blueberries, cranberries, red and purple grape juice, peanuts, and which is also available as a supplement, keeps estrogen from causing breast cancer in their test-tube research.

One of the major risks to breast cancer is continued and prolonged exposure to estrogen because interactions take place between estrogen and estrogen receptors in breast cancer cells.

In a woman’s body when the body’s system for keeping estrogen in balance becomes erratic, toxic compounds called estrogen metabolites begin to appear. DNA in breast cells in the act with these estrogen metabolites causing the growth of tumours.

Now the team of researchers at the University of Nebraska headed by Eleanor G. Rogan, PhD, have found that the antioxidant Resveratrol frustrates the formation of the toxic compounds and tends to block interactions between the cellular DNA and between the toxic compounds themselves.

Perhaps equally as important it has also been found that the resveratrol helps to increase the production of an enzyme which destroys the estrogen metabolites. In other words a resveratrol helps stop the first steps in the process leading to breast cancer.

Additionally the results were achieved with low levels of resveratrol.

While this research shows promising results from test-tube experiments and breast cells actually grown in a laboratory, further research is still needed. However these are promising results indeed towards the progress to eradicate breast cancer.

Tags: resveratrol, red wine, antioxidants, breast cancer



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