Selenium and Reduced Prostate Inflammation

• Nutraceutical treatment and prevention of benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.

  • 2019-10-02
  • Review
  • Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica 91(3)
  • • Arrigo F G Cicero
    • Olta Allkanjari
    • Gian Maria Busetto
    • Tommaso Cai
    • Gaetano Larganà
    • Vittorio Magri
    • Gianpaolo Perletti
    • Francesco Saverio Robustelli Della Cuna
    • Giorgio Ivan Russo
    • Kostantinos Stamatiou
    • Alberto Trinchieri
    • Annabella Vitalone

  • PubMed: 31577095
  • DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2019.3.139

  11 Insights on

  • Reduced Prostate Inflammation

  • Low evidence

  The combination of lycopene and selenium with Serenoa repens was able to reduce inflammation in histological prostate sections and to further improve symptom scores and urinary flow in patients with BPH on tamsulosin treatment.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes