Pomegranate peel extract - still anticancer. 2023 study.

Still practically free too, if you make your own with a fresh pomegranate.

Pomegranate peel extract (PPE) consistently has been shown to decrease metastasis of cancer cells and increased apoptosis of the HepG2 cancer cell line was observed in a 2023 study assessing the pharmacologic use of PPE.

Pomegranate treated cancer cells “showed necrosis, mixed euchromatin and heterochromatin, intra-nuclear eosinophilic structures, burst cell membranes, and the shrunken apoptotic cells with nuclear membranes and irregular cells.” I. E. it killed the cancer cells - apoptosis, burst the cell membranes. (Naar, et al., 2023)

https://www.dovepress.com/pomegranate-seeds-and-peel-ethanolic-extracts-anticancer-potentials-an-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JEP

Pomegranate peel extract up-regulates a protein needed for cell adhesion and down-regulates things that promote cell migration / metastasis of the cancer. (Ahmadiankia, Bagheri, Fazli, 2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6175583/

Smart birdies like pomegranate crowns.

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