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Welcome my friends!
In this newsletter, we're going to dispel a few myths and outright lies regarding prostate health and treatment that have been and are currently being endorsed by the medical community. I'm also going to offer you alternative treatments that work! Women, you also can benefit greatly from the healthful recommendations listed in the last section.
As always, it is important that you do your own research and trust no one person when it comes to your own precious health.
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Most cases of prostate cancer previously did not occur until after the age of 50, but in recent years there has been a steady rise in the percentage of men in their 30s and 40s with both prostate problems and prostate cancer, primarily as a result of poor diet, increasing environmental pollution, stress, and medication use (every single medication, without exception, is toxic to your body).
According to the latest 2012 statistics from the American Cancer Society, an estimated 240,890 men will be diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer this year. And, if a person over 70 years old is diagnosed with prostate cancer, many doctors won't even bother to treat the cancer. Re: prostate cancer usually grows very slowly and it is likely the individual will die of something else before he dies of cancer!
Although there are several different treatments, the most popular involve either partial or complete surgical removal of the prostate gland, or the use of radiation. Researchers are now questioning whether these treatments are necessary at all for most men!
Diagnosis:
Prostate cancer is generally detected by high PSA levels and/or by surgical biopsies. The prostate-specific antigen test (PSA test), analyzes the blood for the antigen produced by the prostate gland. When higher-than-normal levels of PSA are detected, it is assumed that cancer is present. However, an increasing number of urologists agree that PSA testing is unreliable at best and useless at worst for accurately diagnosing prostate cancer. They also agree that routine PSA blood tests have a high rate of false positives and often lead to "over-diagnosis" of prostate cancer resulting in unnecessary treatments.
Additionally, investigations over the years have discovered serious flaws with the PSA test. In 2004, Stanford University News reported: "The most commonly used screening tool for detecting prostate cancer - the PSA test - is virtually worthless for predicting men's risk of contracting the disease, medical school researchers have determined. Stanford scientists studied prostate tissues collected in the 20 years since a high PSA test result became the standard for prostate removal. They concluded that as a screen, the test indicates nothing more than the size of the prostate gland."
And, according to the American Cancer Society: "There can be different reasons for an elevated PSA level, including prostate cancer, benign prostate enlargement, inflammation, infection, age, and race," all factors that make PSA test results confusing, leading to potential for unnecessary treatment and suffering when tests are elevated.
A positive PSA test will typically lead to a biopsy-which has also come under increasing scrutiny and criticism in recent years. This involves inserting fine needles into the prostate gland. But specialists are concerned about risks involved, particularly hard-to-treat bloodstream infections caused by the biopsy. Over the past decade, the rate of hospital admissions in Ontario, Canada for serious infections caused by prostate biopsy, increased four-fold. In addition, there are many false positives and, if a patient does have cancer, any invasive procedure, such as a biopsy into the gland, may actually stir up and accelerate cancer growth causing it to spread through the bloodstream.
"Perhaps most concerning, the PSA test frequently identifies something that qualifies as cancer under a microscope but acts nothing like cancer in real life. That is to say, the large majority of PSA-discovered "cancers" would never cause any problem whatsoever if they went undetected. Finding something through screening invariably leads to treating it through conventional means which cause cancer themselves." From PreventDisease.com. and YourHealthBase.com: "no randomized clinical trial has ever demonstrated that screening and treatment will increase the life expectancy of men diagnosed with prostate cancer."
Other testing techniques and treatments such as mammography and radiation treatment of either breast or prostate cancer are not without their risks. What is important to understand about them is that any radiation exposure, particularly a high intensity focused beam, causes genetic mutations in cells, and is also known to switch off a tumor-suppressing gene which makes the body more susceptible to cancer re-occurrences.
However, despite all the evidence, many prostate cancer survivors credit the PSA test with saving their lives. This shows the power and persuasiveness the AMA has over the uninformed public. According to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute: "The trouble is most men who get treated didn't have a cancer that needed treating. So while a given man may believe fervently that early treatment saved his life, there's a better than even chance that he would have been fine even if his cancer had been left well enough alone."
What we don't hear about are the men who died from their prostate cancer treatment or biopsy, or the men who are suffering from incontinence, impotence, or both - common side effects of treatment. These are personal details that few men are willing to share.
There may be a far better method for evaluating prostate health using a simple urine test. I'm still investigating and will report on it as soon as I can.
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Conventional Treatment:
If the cancer has already metastasized (spread) outside of the prostate area, orthodox treatments including surgery are of little or no value. Once the cancer has spread it may become fast growing and may have spread to vital organs. By this time, the slow growing cancer in the prostate area is no longer of any concern.
Yet, chemotherapy is almost always recommended at some point and no one seems to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer patient to actually heal from cancer while being subjected to the systemic poisons of chemotherapy and deadly radiation.
According to Alan Levin, M.D. "Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these cancers. Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it."
Cancers may shrink or may go into remission, but the cancer is never completely gone. And, since the body is inherently weakened by any form of chemotherapy or radiation, it now has a reduced capacity to respond if and when cancer strikes again. One long-term side effect of these treatments is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond as well to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancer. All of this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all, have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive treatment.
Why then is chemotherapy recommended on such a regular basis? The answer is astonishingly simple: Money! Cancer treatment brings in more than a trillion dollars annually to the pharmaceutical industry. There are 40 National Cancer Institute Centers scattered across the USA. Each of these employs thousands of workers. Curing cancer would be devastating for the economy. Research programs and fund-raisers whose alleged purpose is to cure cancer see their funds steered into harmless areas where no cancer cures will ever result. Less than 1% of research funds are spent finding methods to prevent the spread of cancer. This is a primary motivation to prevent unfavorable chemotherapy results from being seen by or reported to the public. Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, M.D., "To understand the utter hypocrisy of chemotherapy, consider the following: The McGill Cancer Center in Canada, one of the largest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers in the world, did a study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a diagnosis of cancer. On the confidential questionnaire, 58 out of 64 doctors said that all chemotherapy programs were unacceptable to them and their family."
For more information on chemotherapy risks, please click on this link to access my newsletter: The Dangers of Chemotherapy
But what about the situation where the cancer is still totally contained within the prostate gland? If the cancer is totally contained within the prostate gland, because the prostate cancer cells are so slow to multiply, it would be easy for alternative cancer treatments to kill the cancer cells! Thus, whether the cancer has metastasized or not, alternative treatments are not only the best solution, they are far superior to any medical solution!
Another common treatment is implanting radioactive seeds into the prostate gland. However, this treatment is not without its dangers. The first is short-term or even permanent urinary incontinence or obstruction. According to Donald B. Fuller, MD, writing for the Radiation Medical Group, Inc., the risk of experiencing these dangers increases depending upon the age of the patient. For example, a 70-year-old patient is more likely to experience permanent incontinence than a 50-year-old patient.
There is also the danger that, although radioactive substances help to kill or alter cancerous cells, this radiation similarly harms the patient's healthy cells. Because the seeds are implanted inside the prostate, it is also possible to pass one of the radioactive seeds via urination, which affects not only the patient but also those around him who are exposed to the seed.
Hormone therapy is another treatment that is being utilized to treat prostate cancer. A current school of thought is that testosterone causes cancers to grow. So androgen-deprivation therapy is designed to reduce the amount of testosterone in a man's body. Typically, Lupron, along with other chemical injections, are being used. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics has found that the treatment may be putting patients at grave risk.
According to researchers at the Dana Farber/Brigham and Cancer Center in Boston, if one has a pre-existing heart problem, there is a much higher chance of heart-related deaths than without the treatment. In other words, the treatment that was supposed to be increasing their chances of survival did exactly the opposite.
Common side effects of hormone treatments include the initial symptoms of redness, swelling, burning and itching at the injection site, bone pain, difficulty urinating, decreased testes size and libido, lack of sexual desire, and impotence.
Other potential sides effects include: constipation, nausea or vomiting, headaches, insomnia, urinary frequency, infections, swelling of the hands and feet, mood changes and even depression. Also reported have been changes in blood pressure, heart arrhythmia, congestive heart failure and blood clots, as well as allergic reactions.
While hormone treatment has been proven to be somewhat effective in the short-term, decreasing testosterone is not the answer. The so-called success rate is based more on a medical treatment's ability to shrink cancer tumors to an acceptable size (even though the cancer almost always returns or spreads to other areas) and does not equate to a cure.
Contrary to popular belief, restoring testosterone levels in aging men does not appear to promote prostate cancer. On the contrary! According to meticulous research by Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, MD, author of Testosterone for Life, men with low testosterone are the ones at greater risk. It explains how unfortunate assumptions have led to a dogmatic belief that testosterone replacement increases your risk of prostate cancer-a belief that might now be preventing many men from being optimally healthy.
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Best Treatment:
So, what is the best form of treatment and prevention? Lifestyle and Diet!! However, it is important to keep in mind that what you don't eat is just as important as what you do eat! Re: there are foods that contain nutrients to kill cancer cells and stop the spread of cancer. On the other hand, thanks to the miracle of modern agriculture and food preparation, there are foods that feed cancer cells.
I have personally spoken to or corresponded with men who have completely reversed prostate cancer by alternative means (diet, supplementation) alone - no drugs, surgeries, or radiation. The right diet is a vital factor that can greatly impact your prostate health and help prevent enlarged prostate and/or prostate cancer.
For the best results, one must be totally committed and proactive. The primary goal is to get your body and immune system so healthy that cancer simply won't thrive. However, if you continue to eat and drink in a manner that lowers your body's immune capabilities, you have to understand that you're giving cancer permission to go ahead and set up camp - in your body!
To begin, it is very important to eliminate most, if not all toxins from your foods. Unless you are eating organic you ARE ingesting poisons in the way of pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, heavy metals and hormones. Therefore, it is important to avoid any and all altered (GMO), radiated, processed or refined sugar, grains, alcohol, junk food, etc.; essentially anything that comes in a box or container, and replace them with ORGANIC foods: nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables (at least 50% raw), grains, herbs, spices, and to a limited extent meats (organic only). Avoid as much as possible dairy, including milk or cheeses, unless it is from raw, unpasteurized sources. Even wheat is not the same as it was centuries ago and contains unhealthy ingredients and should therefore be avoided or limited.
Along with a very healthy diet, make sure you are not neglecting vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutrients that the body must have for immune strength by taking a synergistically blended, organic, multi-nutrient supplement.
Finally men, you can actually strengthen the prostate gland by working out your pubococcygeus (PC) muscles. These are the hands-free, internal muscles used to stop the flow of urine when going to the bathroom. PC exercises can be performed anywhere, anytime - while watching tv, reading, even driving your car. It simply involves clenching and releasing the muscle quickly for 10 seconds for about 3 sets. You can also tighten and hold the PC muscle for 3 sets of 10 seconds each. Try to do them every day or at least every other day. Obviously there are many variations of this exercise you can do to strengthen the PC and thus promote prostate health.
Thank you once again for reading and I look forward to my continued service toward you!
Until next month, I remain yours in good health!
Sincerely,
Dr. Mike 214-707-3878 www.SomaHealth.Net |
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