@miked77 @brianjarvis
Lycopene (which I have taken for a decade) is an active ingredient in tomato. Eating a lot of tomatoes is good but I take the supplement as research showed a very good anti oxidant.

When I went through radiation treatments at UFHPTI they showed me research on supplements protecting cells. Some showed supplements protected prostrate cells from oxidation and damage.

Then showed me research if supplements were protecting prostate cells would it also protect the cancer cells. The research was like 50/50. What UFHPTI decided was err on side that could help protect cancer cells as well. They took me off my supplements because the objective of radiation was to damage the prostate cancer cells.

One of the supplements they took me off of was Lycopene two weeks prior to treatments and for 2 months afterward. Don't have an answer, nor does UFHPTI. But you can see their research was showing benefit of lycopene to protect cells but if it became fact then they did not want to be helping protect those cancer cells.