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Lycopene is Still Useless
- Roger Mason
Folks, who else in the world is telling you about the useless,worthless food supplements that have no value? Why isn't anyone else telling you lycopene has no value and you shouldn't buy it? Why isn't anyone else blowing this whistle on this kind of crap? Lycopene is a complete scam from a major ketchup company and an Israeli corporation that manufactures it.
We have repeatedly quoted the studies on over 32, 000 men who actually had their blood drawn and analyzed for lycopene content. This was compared to their medical records and absolutely no relation could be found between how much lycopene was in their blood and their prostate health. These studies were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (vol. 82, 1990) and Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention (vol. 6, 1997). What more proof do you need? If this had any value we would be quoting the good studies and praising it endlessly. Meanwhile God-knows-how-many millions of dollars of this garbage are being sold every year to poor, naive uninformed people who are sincerely trying to use natural medicine to get well. When this doesn't work they'll end up back at the doctor's office to get butchered, poisoned and irradiated while their wallets get thinner.
Well, the same journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention published a new study (2001 vol. 10) saying that lycopene may have value for outright prostate cancer. This was a collaboration between five different cancer clinics.
The good doctors gave 15 mg of lycopene to cancer patients before they butchered them with a radical prostatectomy (total removal of the prostate gland where 1 in 50 men die on the operating table). They claimed that in only three weeks there were great improvements in the tumors and prostate tissue they removed. They said the PSA level of the tissue was lowered 18%. The PSA blood level is not an accurate indicator of prostate disease and can be raised or lowered artificially very easily as to render this marker meaningless. This point is therefore worthless.
Folks, you can cure prostate or breast cancer in less than year naturally, but you have to make major changes in your diet, take about 20 supplements and balance your basic hormones. You sure aren't going to do anything worth talking about by giving someone one single supplement for 3 weeks and not changing their diet and lifestyle.
This article stunk and it was obvious something wasn't right here. Reading the small print in the full text study showed what was going on. Legally they have to reveal certain things- like when "studies" are really just paid advertisements in medical journals such as you'd see in any magazine. Does that surprise and disappoint you? It should disappoint you to learn that medical journals sell ad space and pretend it's a valid, objective clinical study. Well, on page 861 there it was- "The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must be hereby marked ADVERTISEMENT in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact." It's a paid advertisement! It's not a generic, objective, fact finding, and honest search for truth. If this worked why wouldn't this be a REAL study instead of a paid ad?
Because it doesn't work. Lycopene is a useless fraud.