Despite the articles you may read in Reader's Digest and other magazines, there is no scientific evidence to support the efficacy of pomegranate juice in protecting against prostate cancer. Other vitamins and supplements such as Vitamin E and C, and selenium have also been studied and found to show no effect.
So what else can we do? Men, as soon as they turn forty, should go to their doctor and have a prostate-specific antigen test drawn every year. The prostate-specific antigen test is called PSA for short. Yearly monitoring of the PSA is critical to early diagnosis and cure. Since the availability of the PSA in 1990, deaths from prostate cancer have decreased by 50%.
