It may revolutionize breast cancer treatments, too

Breast cancer studies also suggest that ginger could be a better breast cancer fighter than any drug currently on the market.

At least that's what researchers at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology.

Typically, breast cancer treatment involves hormonal therapy with selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulators (such as tamoxifen). But almost everyone with late-stage, metastatic breast cancer and 40 percent of other cancer patients using ERs suffer relapse and death. What's more, many breast cancer cells already resist the drugs by the end of one single treatment.

In contrast, a crude ginger extract stopped the cancer cells from reproducing.4

Ginger showed the highly prized anti-cancer quality of selective cytotoxicity — that is to say, it kills cancer cells but leaves healthy cells unharmed. Its ability to be selective is unmatched by any conventional cancer treatment.

Ginger appears to modulate many anti-cancer mechanisms (apoptosis and more). Researchers can't yet explain all ginger's molecular effects, but admit they look promising.

And get this: Previous studies also show that the ginger compound [6]—Gingerol hinders breast cancer from spreading.

Could this revolutionize the treatment of breast cancer?

Also benefits men. . .

A man's prostate gland naturally enlarges with age, which boosts his chances of cancer. By age 80, a whopping 80% of all men will have prostate cancer. So this discovery is worth paying attention to…

Recently the British Journal of Nutrition published results of an American study in which ginger extract killed human prostate cancer cells while letting healthy prostate cells live.

This was with a daily dose of 100 mg of ginger extract per kg of body weight (about 6800 mg per day for a 150 pound man). During the course of eight weeks, the ginger slashed prostate tumor growth in half.5

If using fresh ginger, the researchers estimate 100 grams would offer similar results. Now, that's a lot of ginger. But if taken as an extract it's only about 7 grams, which might be tolerable.