re <<PSA>>
... believe saved my life. it is just another bit of info to consider. more info may be bad for a society / popolation, but good for individuals if used correctly. sometimes use involves ignoring.
the fast death of a friend from aggressive prostate cancer after he warned me do annual check skipped for 36 months led to note of PSA over 4.
immediate decision for biopsy led to discovery of 3+3.
fast considered surgery and pathology test post surgery removed the problem.
simple changes in life style given above warning has been good
re <<5 years ago a well done study recommended what I had known for 20 years, skip the PSA Consider fasting every couple of days. Slows down the growth of all cells and cancer cells even more. I think women's breast cell grow 5 times slower on every other day fasting. Aging and cancer tend to be related to number of cell divisions. If I was a woman with young age breast cancer in the family I would fast every other day, but who is out there teaching these poor women.>>
... my only dialogue re prostate cancer was in 1984 and 1989, when my dad and uncle, respectively, got diagnosed with symptomatic late-stage prostate cancer. both cancers had progressed up the spinal cord.
the doctor figured that my uncle got 6-12 months. i was already in hk and visited him often. he was a big-time barrister, had much resources, lots of doctoring, but passed away (1989) w/i 8 months at age 88.
the doctors figured my dad had 3-6 months, could not do anything for him except oestrogen treatment to ameliorate the symptoms. the whole body scan three months later determined that he was cancer free, up and down the spinal cord, and even free in prostate. my dad passed away in 1995 from open heart surgery complications. the cancer never returned. the doctors explanations were "he feels his work is not done, wants to live, and is happy-go-lucky".
my half brother (17 years older than i) got the cancer perhaps 15 years ago, at 60. did radiation and is well today at age 75.
i had been monitoring my psa since 1984, watch and brief, and knew what to do once i went over 4. i wish i knew about fasting and such back then.
my surgery was successful and i recovered from side-effects within 6 months. guessing my age and regular exercise helped the relatively fast recovery.
re <<By 80 about 80% of men have prostate cancer.>>
... probably "By 80 about 80% of men can be diagnosed with prostate cancer."
my niece works for intuitive surgical (the folks who make the key-hole surgery robot that was used on me), had given me a compiled presentation of peer-reviewed studies and a particular study one sticks in mind, that of pathology tests performed on prostate of 38K traffic-death victims, and indicated ~80% had diagnosed or undiagnosed prostate cancer. the traffic-death victims were of course male / random / ages 17-70(?).
re <<The rule is you are much more likely to die with it than from it >>
... was aware of the rule, that which is good for population / society, but not great for individual. i choose to use the information i was given to change prospective outcome ala heisenberg uncertainty principle. i understand what angelina jolie chose to do even as at the time i was puzzled.
my take is that medicine is partly science <=> clinical evidence, but partly art and luck. and in my father's case, magic.
i suspect but have no proof, that whether any particular prostate cancer case is aggressive or not partly depends on the position of the cancer(s) w/i the prostate and whatever encourages growth or not.
re <<Stay away from high fructose fruits>>
... my life style changes since 2015 are actually quite simple, else i cannot keep to it.
- biggest change: cut out daily 2-bottles of starbucks frappuccino ice coffee
- second biggest change: stop drinking all fruit juices except coconut water and watermelon juice occasionally
- third biggest change: instead of tea, water throughout the day, with slices of lemon
regularise earlier trends
- sleep much (so i switch off cell phone / iPad / computer @ 5:30 / 6:00pm)
- small dinner generally, at home, easy on carbohydrate
- early to bed (8:30pm latest)
- early to rise (3:30 / 4:00am)
- walk to work (~10,000 steps)
- oat meal, blue berries for breakfast at office
- small lunch or skipped lunch
- return home 1:30 / 2:30pm
- if have dinner engagement then engage first w/ reflexology and nap before
re <<Remember at 70 the man with the highest cholesterol lives the longest.>>
- am of belief that if it is not high cholesterol it is not worth eating :0)
- am high in good cholesterol and high in good to bad cholesterol
- the brain needs cholesterol
- the body makes cholesterol anyway
re <<Get your kids to be MDs then not practice it other than for health and family. They will need to stay up on their reading to be at the cutting edge. They must avoid group think.>>
... sound advice. boy trending towards computers and such, but probably meaningless at this stage. girl trending towards biology
re <<... refuse the flu vaccine until you are 70 or unhealthy>>
so far had always done without.
generally believe information is a good idea. filtering, sifting, deliberating etc important, and thus dialogue important.
comments such as "You look like old people discussuing ...
... yesterday and today were rest days from the gym.
... Tomorrow chest and legs." is of dubious value underpinned by questionable motive, or otherwise not only meaningless but in the long run self-destructive, and frankly seems cretin-esque to the point of clown-like. |
