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Flax Seed Oil Actually Increases Prostate Cancer While Fish Oil Decreases It

  • July 05, 2004

Surprise surprise. Most anyone interested in nutrition has heard that omega-3 fats reduce the rate of cancer. Many early adopters of this information applied this to the plant-based sources of omega-3 (ALA). One of the highest sources of ALA is in flax seeds so flax seed oil in the '90s had gained widespread attention in the health community as an important source of nutrition. Ten years ago I was certainly caught up in that hype and had many of my patients take it. I rapidly found though...