Gynecological cancer confers an enormous burden among women worldwide.
Accumulating evidence points to the role of phytochemicals in preventing cervical …

Currently cancer is the second leading cause of death globally and worldwide incidence
and mortality rates of all cancers of males and females are rising tremendously. In spite of …

Metabolites produced by the gut microbiota play an important role in the cross-talk with the
human host. Many microbial metabolites are biologically active and can pass the gut barrier …

Lignans are known dietary polyphenols found in cereals, plants and seeds. Flaxseed is one
of the major sources of lignans mainly existing in the form of secoisolariciresinol diglucoside …

The gut microbiota helps us digest food and has been associated with both good health and
risk of disease. Although compositions of the gut microbiota are highly divergent, the gut …

Scope Obese and overweight women are at high risk of developing endometrial cancer;
indeed, many of endometrial cancer patients are obese. The increased number and size of …

Phytoestrogens (PE) are compounds found in plants such as soy (isoflavones), flax seeds
and cereals (lignans) and pomegranates (ellagitannins). PE have shown estrogenic …

Lignans are diphenolic plant compounds with potential health modulating properties that are
absorbed to the circulation and metabolized to the enterolignans enterodiol (END) and …

Background Dietary lignans belong to the group of phytoestrogens together with
coumestans, stilbenes and isoflavones, and themselves do not exhibit oestrogen-like …

Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) is of interest as functional food because of the presence
of compounds in its composition with potential health benefits, such as fatty acid omega-3 …