LYCOPENE is an excellent antioxidant. It could protect against a staggering array of chronic conditions, including cancer, heart disease, male infertility, and cognitive decline. Any of us can eat lycopene rich foods or you can a supplement. Lycopene is present in the tomato
The tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, or “wolf-peach of the nightshade family,” was regarded by Linneaus as a dangerous group that included poisonous and hallucinogenic species long associated with witchcraft and the occult. As you know this is not true today. I love the description of plants from centuries ago It sheds light on many aspects of the plant/herb/fruit
Lycopene is also known as a non-provitamin A carotenoid (that is, unlike most carotenoids, your body doesn’t convert it to vitamin A). Instead, lycopene benefits your health by protecting fats, proteins, and DNA from oxidative damage. I have lycopene for cancer as prostate, stomach and breast.
I have used Lycopene for male fertility problems. I use it with Coenzyme Q 10, zinc and selenium. Lycopene is excellent for sperm motility problems
As a cardiologist I use lycopene to lower bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase the good cholesterol ( HDL) It works through the same pathway as angiotension converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE) thereby increasing nitric oxide which is a vasodilator. Thus lycopene can lower blood pressure