By Sayer Ji
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
While pomegranate enjoys high standing as far as its culinary status, too few folks realize how wide a wide range of health benefits this ‘super food’ actually possesses, with a staggering 100+ of them identified so far through Greenmedinfo.com’s research indexing project. View the open access archive of study abstracts here: pomegranate research database.
Consider what a physician would think if he could find a drug that instead of possessing 100 side effects (which is sadly typical for pharmaceutical agents) had 100 side benefits?
This mythical ‘poly-pill,’ capable of hitting many of the root causes of disease and sometimes ameliorating them, exists, but its not an expensive, highly toxic and hard to obtain ‘drug.’ It’s a delicious plant berry — technically the plant’s fruiting ovaries — that springs naturally from the pomegranate bush.Especially noteworthy are pomegranate’s ability to support the mammalian ovary as a natural form of ‘hormone replacement therapy,’ especially as it ages, and its ability to reverse plaque build-up in the arteries (atherosclerosis) – a condition which underlies the #1 cause of death in the developed world: heart disease.
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Pomegranate: an Alternative To Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Fruiting plants and humans both have reproductive organs called ovaries, and in the case of the pomegranate fruit, the anatomical resemblance is absolutely striking.
Experiments have been performed revealing that pomegranate contains an estrogen structurally and functionally similar to one found in mammals, namely, estrone,[1] and is capable of replacing the function of the ovary when removed from female animals (the ovariectomy-induced postmenopausal experimental model). It is believe that at 17 mg per kilogram pomegranate is the highest known source for estrone in plants.
Despite the powerful estrogenic properties of pomegranate, this amazing fruit does not exhibit well-known carcinogenic potential associated with synthetic, horse-derived (e.g. Premarin), and even so-called bio-identical or “plant-derived” estrogens. To the contrary, pomegranate has been shown to act selectively to modulate estrogen receptors (SERM) that are beneficial to the organism, while down-regulating activity at the receptors known to be associated with estrogen-sensitive cancers. This type of dynamic intelligence is unique to natural substances, and is not yet reproducible through pharmaceutical preparations.
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