Grapes and products made from grapes may promote body terrainthe internal conditions of your body, including nutritional status, fitness, blood sugar balance, hormone balance, inflammation and more factors known to be important in cancer, including better blood sugar and insulin levels and less oxidative stressan imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants in your body in which antioxidant levels are lower than normal; this imbalance can cause harmful oxidation reactions in your body chemistry.
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Resveratrol and grape seed extract suppressed colon tumor incidence in mice, similar to sulindac and without any gastrointestinal toxicity.1Reddivari L, Charepalli V et al. Grape compounds suppress colon cancer stem cells in vitro and in a rodent model of colon carcinogenesis. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2016 Aug 9;16:278.
Grape seed extract and Leucoselect Phytosome (a standardized grape seed extract formulated with soy phospholipids) showed anticancer effects against human lung premalignant and malignant cells.2Mao JT, Smoake J, Park HK, Lu QY, Xue B. Grape seed procyanidin extract mediates antineoplastic effects against lung cancer via modulations of prostacyclin and 15-HETE eicosanoid pathways. Cancer Prevention Research (Philadelphia). 2016 Dec;9(12):925-932.
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