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| compound. There is strong evidence in the research community that such a whole-food supplement presents antioxidants and nutrients in their safest and most biologically active form. The activated soy in Breast Basics is produced using an active nutritional yeast culture that is an abundant source of B vitamins, glutathione, beta-glucans, and enzymes such as superoxide dismutase. When this yeast culture interacts with soybeans, the isoflavones become convened into genistein, a very biologically active form, thereby aiding in the digestive and assimilation process. |
| Genistein |
| Genistein, an isoflavone that is presently being investigated for its anticancer activity, has an antiangiogenesis effect on tumors. Angiogenesis, as previously explained, is the process of generating new capillary blood vessels, a critical step in the growth and proliferation of solid tumors. Cancer needs food and oxygen as it grows. The cancer forms new blood vessels to satisfy these needs. When cancer cannot form new blood vessels, its growth will stop. Genistein inhibits angiogenesis by neutralizing vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), the substance put out by tumors to encourage blood vessel nourishment. Genistein has additional anticancer actions: |
| It inhibits cancer-promoting forms of sex hormones from binding to receptor sites. |
| It inhibits some inflammatory processes that promote cancer, such as leukotriene production. |
| It inhibits certain cancer-signaling enzymes, one of which is tyrosine. kinase, which can cause cancer cells to differentiate. |
| It inhibits mitosis of cancer cells. |
| Soy isoflavones, which include genistein and daidzin, as well as the soy saponins (also referred to as glycophospholipids), all have a beneficial effect on hormonal receptor-type cancers, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. In breast cancer, isoflavones block the entry of estrogen into the cell, thereby causing cancer cells to lose their ability to function. Isoflavones cause cancer cells to dedifferentiate and turn more primitive, less specialized, and less deadly. |
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