Breast cancer prevention: which mushroom is best?
Woodear, crimini, oyster, Italian brown, enoki, button, stuffing, shiitake, chanterelle, and Portobello mushrooms were compared to see which was best at inhibiting aromatase enzyme activity.
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Grube BJ, Eng ET, Kao YC, Kwon A, Chen S. White button mushroom phytochemicals inhibit aromatase activity and breast cancer cell proliferation. J Nutr. 2001 Dec;131(12):3288-93. Adams LS, Chen S. Phytochemicals for breast cancer prevention by targeting aromatase. Front Biosci. 2009 Jan 1;14:3846-63. Chen S, Oh SR, Phung S, Hur G, Ye JJ, Kwok SL, Shrode GE, Belury M, Adams LS, Williams D. Anti-aromatase activity of phytochemicals in white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus). Cancer Res. 2006 Dec 15;66(24):12026-34. -
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Very surprising result, thanks for sharing! Please don’t tell me you have a study coming up that shows iceberg lettuce is better than kale in any application (although I suspect it would be a superior source of water!).
I too am surprised that shitake mushrooms didn’t come up higher. I’ve read elsewhere that there is some evidence that they are cancer-fighting (although I appreciate you are looking at aromatase inhibitor activity specifically in this segment)
Sample reference: http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/DietandNutrition/shiitake-mushroom
This is surprising. How many mushrooms do you therefore recommend eating daily? The actual research article mentions mushroom extract.
Are most mushrooms grown in manure?
Should I be concerned about contracting a pathogen from particles of manure that may be on the mushroom?
What is the best way to clean mushrooms?
Thanks very much for your videos.
Are the mushrooms better cooked or raw?
Great question Teresa–please see my video Toxins in Raw Mushrooms (http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/toxins-in-raw-mushrooms/). In other words, cooked :)
Were these mushrooms tested cooked or raw? Since we now know we should cook them first to avoid toxins…
Woohoo! I love mushrooms and eat them all the time :-)