The interest in the effects of phytosterols apparently started with Roelof Wilke Liebenburg from South Africa, who witnessed how one of his relatives with inoperable prostate cancer was supposedly cured by a neighbor using a traditional folk remedy. As a result, Mr. Liebenburg started researching the plant components that were used to treat his relative's cancer, and eventually a small study was done in Germany with patients that suffered from a variety of prostate problems. Following the successful treatments of some cases with Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, or BPH, by these plant extracts, a patented remedy of a special combination of sterols and sterolins was formulated in 1974... Full Text