Frequently Asked Questions
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Q. How does Your-phyto work?
A. In the scientific trial Your-phyto reduced markers of chronic inflammation, improved overall strength and reduced the progression of PSA. There are many other benefits of enriching the diet with phytochemicals including improving gut health, vitamin D levels and enhancing oxidative pathways...read more
Q. Can I take turmeric containing products with blood thinners
A. In a trial in 2013 and the recent trial in 2024 many men were on a variety of blood blood thinners including warfarin, abixiban and drugs like rivaroxaban and dabigatran. No problems were reported. It would be sensible, if you are on these drugs, to look out for signs of excess bleeding, don’t exceed the RDA of yourphyto and if in doubt ask the doctor to measure your clotting levels
Q. Can Yourphyto be taken by diabetics?
A. Yes it can be taken by diabetics, more information on the benefit of pomegranate and diabetes, In fact, there are some research study which suggest it could lower excess glucoses levels
Q. Does Yourphyto have to be taken with food?
A. It doesn’t really matter but in the small number of users who previously reported some mild indigestion it disappeared if they then took it with food.
Q. Can broccoli extracts effect the thyroid
A. The are rare case reports that broccoli can contribute to lower thyroxine levels. This was only in the presence of marked iodine deficiency. Provided you have a diet which includes seafood, onions, nuts and seed this unlikely to be the case. If you are concerned take a well designed mineral supplement which includes iodine such as phytomineral.
Q. Can I take if I am pregnant or breastfeeding?
A. There is no evidence that turmeric, broccoli, pomegranate or green tea adversely affects pregnancy, although the safety of these supplements in pregnancy and lactation has not been established.
Q. Does Yourphyto interact with other drugs?
A. Like some other fruit juices, pomegranate has a potential interaction with some drugs. There is, therefore, a small potential risk of reducing the metabolism and thereby increasing serum levels of medicines such as warfarin, anti-hypertensives such as captopril and ramipril, or anti-convulsants such as carbamazepine. Individuals on warfarin or these blood pressure tablets are not excluded from taking yourphyto and no adverse changes in blood pressure or INR were reported in men taking ramipril or warfarin in the study, but it may be advisable to repeat a blood pressure and an INR test within two weeks of starting yourphyto.
Q. Could it be possible that yourphyto only affects PSA and not the underlying disease?
A. Despite the short falls of PSA as a screening tool many doctors regard it as an an extremely useful surrogate for disease status in response to treatment especially if the velocity or doubling time is considered not just a single measurement. In the study PSA levels had a 100% correlation with underlying changes on MRI. Also, none of the ingredients have any hormonal-like properties – so it is extremely unlikely that it just affects PSA and not just whole disease.
Q. Can Yourphyto be taken with hormones (ADT), abiraterone, enzalutamide or apelutamide.
A. There is no interactions or any reports clinically. As Yourphyto has prebiotic properties there some significant theoretical advances.
Q. Can Yourphyto betaken with chemotherapy and radiotherapy
A. There are lots of unsubstantiated comments that phytochemical rich foods such as turmeric can interfere with chemotherapy. A few laboratory test using cells in petri dishes have suggest that high doses can have anti-oxidant activity which may potentially reduce the action of chemotherapy. However, most studies actually show the opposite For example, a major study showed the combined treatment of curcumin and docetaxel inhibited the proliferation and induced apoptosis significantly higher than the curcumin and docetaxel-treated group alone. Another study involving women with breast cancer have shown beneficial synergistic benefits of turmeric with chemotherapy even up to 6000 mg a day. Another study show that turmeric could improve the response to cisplatin chemotherapy.
Q. What is the difference between phyto-v and your-phyto?
A. These are very different supplements both researched in separate major national trials taken. In each trial they showed a benefit on their own but effectiveness was enhanced by combination with yourgutplus. Phyto-v showed a benefit for Long Covid and Your-phyto for prostate cancer.
Q. What is the difference between Your-phyto and Pomi-T?
A. This supplement has the same ingredients as Pomi-T used in a trial, from the same research group, in 2013 but has been upgraded with 2 new ingredients which independently have demonstrated benefits for men with prostate cancer and helped improve urinary symptoms. It also has been fortified with extract from the same plant – boosting the levels of the candidate phytochemical. Finally, it uses recent food technology techniques which can measure and standardise the more important phytochemicals
This has not actually been substantiated in humans and there are ongoing studies registered with the National Cancer Institute to try to find out if they can reduce side effects of chemotherapy without reducing the effect.
