Grape Seed Extract Reference Guide

Grape Seed Extract Clinical Trials

As with many drugs whether medical or herbal there are constant on going clinical trials to see what types of diseases and conditions certain medicines can help. Grape seed extract is one of those herbal medicines that are constantly being tested due to the fact that the extract already helps with some may things.

One trial being conducted is for Chemoprevention is the use of a certain drugs or medicines that can prevent cancer from spreading or even forming. The clinical trials are used to test other drugs to see if they have any healing power.  They name the drug with a number and test it with other drugs. Right now the use of grape seed is being tested and may prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

In this trial they test the proanthocyanidin extract from the grape seed and they suppress the estrogen biosysthesis in healthy postmenopausal women who are at a high risk for breast cancer. Then the study is done to see if the extract is safe in terms of bone metabolism and markers in an adrenal suppression in the women who have volunteered to take part in the trial.

They then determine a biologic dose of the extract supplement and they determine that by the suppression of the serum estradiol in the women.  Lastly, they determine the shortest duration of the extract that can be used to achieve the aromatase in these women.

Another trial being conducted is to see if the extract can combat colon cancer. The researchers began injecting grape seed extract into the human colon cancer cells in test tubes. So far it has been determined that the grape seed extract that was injected into the cells stopped the growth of the cancer.

These tests are encouraging and they are so important to medical research, it could mean the cure or a controllable medicine for these types of cancers.