First of all, it’s one of the antioxidants found in pomegranate and is in Superfood.
I was going over some studies on it and wanted anyone’s input:
- “Evaluation of Estrogenic/Antiestrogenic Activity of Ellagic Acid via the Estrogen Receptor Subtypes ERα and ERβ”
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf0510539
- “Dietary berries and ellagic acid diminish estrogen-mediated mammary tumorigenesis in ACI rats.”
- This one is just for the hell of it: “Beware of Pomegranates Bearing 40% Ellagic Acid”
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jmf.2006.9.119
It’s certainly of health benefit and it appears that this includes reduction of risk of breast cancer.
As to whether there’s an effect on LH production as with clomiphene and tamoxifen, that would require specific study. I tend to expect that such effect, if any, is small but who knows, perhaps it is substantial.
It’s hard to compare rat intake with humans, but percent weight of total diet is as close a method as any. Roughly speaking, this would have humans consuming somewhere around 15 g/day of either ellagic acid or black raspberry powder, which wasn’t reported as being a concentrated extract but simply a powder.
So actually ellagic acid would seem not as potent as at least one compound in the powder, as not all of the weight of the powder would be active.
Thanks for the input Bill.