Below is an extract about prostate cancer from a comprehensive article, written by Chris Masterjohn, titled: ‘Vitamin A: The Forgotten Bodybuilding Nutrient’ published in the current on-line issue of the Weston A. Price Foundation news letter. A jolly good read.

Extract:
Vitamin A and Prostate Cancer
Although some researchers have expressed concern that androgens such as testosterone may be involved in the etiology of prostate cancer, from vitamin A we can expect only more good news. Scientists in one controlled study administered doses of cyproterone acetate, an anti-androgen, and testosterone proprionate, to rats, followed by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea, a carcinogen, with one group treated with large doses of vitamin A. The incidence of prostate cancer in the group not treated with vitamin A was 65 percent, while only 18 percent and 20 percent of vitamin A-treated rats experienced dorsolateral and anterior prostate cancer, respectively.5

Click below for the full article:
http://www.westonaprice.org/men/vitaminabodybuilding.html

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