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Lycopene Is Garbage -Roger MasonNearly all the health food stores, drug stores, vitamin mega-corporations, and vitamin Internet sites sell lycopene. Everyone is selling lycopene- except Young Again®. We don’t sell garbage. Why are we the only site in the whole wide world screaming "FRAUD"? Why isn’t anyone else telling you this is useless, and will not help your prostate? -or anything else. Even our nemesis QuackWatch is too stupid to get it. Studies proving what a fraud it is are in the major medical journals. Can’t anyone else out of seven billion people see this? The international clinical research proves it overwhelmingly. Fraud! The worldwide published medical literature proves it is useless. You must measure lycopene levels with serum (fatty), and not plasma (watery) blood diagnosis. Most of the recent “studies” used blood plasma measurement, instead of blood serum. These are worthless. Lycopene is oil soluble, and will not dissolve in water. Any scientist who measures plasma lycopene is prima facie incompetent. At UCLA (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Preview(CEBP) v 10, 2001), for example, they claimed low plasma lycopene was correlated with prostate cancer. The same scam was done at Harvard Medical School (Cancer Research 1999), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004), Yale University (Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2004), Umea University in Sweden (Cancer Causes and Controls 2001), and again at Harvard (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004), Plasma lycopene levels have no validity at all, since lycopene simply cannot dissolve in the plasma. This is worse than junk science; it is pu-poseful paid disinformation funded by the tomato industry. Other “studies” were actually based on questionnaires asking men how much pizza they remember eating!!! In Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Preview (v 16, 2007) the famous Fred Hutchison Cancer Center studied serum lycopene in 692 real men with prostate cancer over 8 years. They compared them with 844 controls. The found no relation at all. Their conclusion was, “Lycopene and other carotenoids were unrelated to prostate cancer.” And, “No association was observed between serum lycopene and total prostate cancer.” In 2011 in the same journal (v 20), at the Hutchison Center, another study was done with 3,434 real men. They concluded, "This study does not support a role for lycopene in prostate cancer prevention." Studying the actual serum levels of lycopene showed no relation at all. In fact, they found, "a 10 mcg/dl increase in lycopene was also associated with an 8% increased risk of cancer." Higher lycopene meant more cancer, not less. Hats off to these fine doctors for exposing this junk. Lycopene has no value for women either. Another study at Umea University (Cancer Causes and Controls v12, 2001) showed that women with breast cancer had higher levels of serum lycopene than healthy controls. Let's say that again...the women with the highest serum levels of lycopene had more breast cancer, not less. At the National Cancer Institute (Cancer Causes and Controls v9, 1998) the researchers found women who ate the least amount of tomato products had the lowest rates of breast cancer. Many of the “studies” are simply paid advertisements by tomato processors. These, by law, are marked “paid advertisement”. You’ll only see this if you get the full text study from the original journal, and not just an Internet summary, or the media puppet on the 6:00 PM news. Yes, many medical journals sell ad space, and pretend these are studies. You didn’t know that, did you? When you get the full text study you will see the term “Paid Advertisement”, since it is required by law U.S.C. Section 1734. For over two decades now science proves repeatedly that lycopene is useless. There are no valid human studies. Hundreds of millions of dollars of this crap is sold every year all over the world. More and more extravagant claims are being made for it every year. The natural health business is no better than a bunch of used car dealers.
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