Flaxseed - HER2 (c-erbB2) metastatic oncogene expression decrease by a dramatic 71%

To CL TANN

Re you correpondence with Dr Martin.

I emailed him to get clarification and here is what he said, and that it was ok to quote him. It looks like there may have been some confusion if chemo was part of the discussion.

"The flaxseed lignans do NOT, to any degree, activate the estrogen receptor. They block the estrogen receptor. But the lignans can also interfere with the activity of chemo drugs. Why take the risk. I am not against flaxseed lignans. I just wish we could find flax seed that was standardized to contain a defined amount of prelignans. It doesn't do any good to eat flax, except for fiber, if the lignan content is low.

Steve"

RB