Note that this post will be changing frequently. As I make new “discoveries” I incorporate and modify accordingly. And as new evidence emerges and a substance goes up in evidence ranking or down I either add it or decrease or adjust the dose. And when a substance moves into the “lineup” another one might be …
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Vitamin D status
Vitamin D is a group of steroids involved in many biological effects including body absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate.25-hydroxy vitamin D in the serum is measured to determine a person’s vitamin D status.All-mortality risk (cardiac risk, cancer risk, etc) increases considerably as serum vitamin D levels are lower.Prostate cancer specific mortality risk is similar …
Blood metrics
This is certainly not meant to be an all inclusive list of metrics. It is only a list of ones that I have found that I think might be of value. I only include units on a few of them. If you want specific details on one let me know and I’ll do my best …
Exercise
Exercise has been shown to have a preventative effect against PCa. And studies indicate that it has an even more dramatic effect on PCa death. From an NIH study of over 2,000 men: Men who exercised vigorously more than 3 hours per week of vigorous activity had a 61% lower risk of PCa death compared …
Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone that helps control the sleep cycle. It is used to fight cancer and has substantial NIH research showing it’s efficacy. If your melatonin cycle is disturbed insomnia can result. It either becomes difficult to fall asleep or to stay asleep or both. Note that there are many other causes of insomnia …
Hormonal manipulation
Hormonal manipulation is likely one of the primary ways to hold PCa in check. Short descriptions and list of abbreviations: ADT: Androgen Deprivation Therapy (reduction of androgens to very low levels: typically serum DHT and testosterone will be close to undetectable). AI: Aromatase Inhibitor. Some portion of testosterone is converted to estrogen via the aromatase …
Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)
Recently I purchased a freestyle libre CGM. I’ve had it for a few days now. What I have noticed is: Super convenient and nice to get your blood glucose charts all night/day. Can be linked to a PC so that data can be extracted. However, this is a somewhat cumbersome process. Still worthwhile if you …
Glucose
Prostate cancer feeds off of testosterone, glutamine, IGF-1, and also fat (however, advanced PCa switches it’s metabolism to more of a classic glucose driven one). Take away the fuel and it starves. But one of the issues in conventional medicine is that we tend to look at one thing at a time. Cancer is not …
Hyperthermia
Cancer cells do not counter heat stress as well as “normal” cells do. So one strategy is to raise one’s body temperature to fever temps. This is known as hyperthermia. In conventional medicine this is done to weaken the cancer cells to chemotherapy. In alternative medicine this is done to weaken the cancer cells to …
Estrogen Patch Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Most theories indicate that prostate cancer thrives off of testosterone. These theories are debatable yet I believe that in many cases they have merit. So, as a first line of defense against the cancer, testosterone is reduced to low levels (<20 ng/dl). Associated with testosterone reduction is loss of muscle mass and libido, fat gain, …
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