Most of the big cancer organizations will say that 16 percent of American men, or 1 in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, with the numbers increasing as men age. Some 38,000 will die of it this year alone.
That’s an eye-opener in itself. But prostate cancer is actually much more prevalent than that, according to forensic scientists studying autopsies on men of all ages.
Here’s what they see …
* By age 50, one-third of American men have microscopic signs of prostate cancer
* By age 65, half to two-thirds of American men have cancerous changes in their prostate gland.
* By age 80, as high as four out of five men have prostate cancer.
* By age 100 and over, postmortem studies estimate that virtually 100% of men have developed prostate cancer.
See a pattern? Prostate cancer grows as a man ages. It’s why one leading research hospital, Johns Hopkins Research at the Brady Urological Institute in Baltimore, calls the prostate “a primordial breeding ground for cancer.”
Here’s another pattern: Whenever they find prostate cancer in a biopsy or autopsy, the gland is usually filled to the brim with BPH and prostatitis (like mine). Could these two diseases of prostate enlargement and inflammation be your warning shots across the bow? The canaries in the coal mine....?
Absolutely.
Interestingly … proliferating prostate cancer and prostate disease are NOT a global phenomenon. American men have 40 times greater incidence of prostate cancer than Asian men. Prostate cancer is very low in African, yet high among African American men. Why?
More than likely, that’s because of the foods we eat. Our pro-inflammatory diet of high fats and high carbohydrates generate chronic inflammation in our joints and organs, including the prostate. According to Johns Hopkins Research, this kind of chronic inflammation at the cellular level can lead to DNA damage and gene mutations … a precursor to prostate cancer.
Could An Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Be A Key To A Healthier Prostate?
Consider this:
* Studies show sugar-producing insulin causes inflammation throughout the body and contributes to the growth and proliferation of prostate cancer.
* Experts believe one-third of all cancers could be avoided with dietary changes.
* A top urologist/researcher from a major U.S. university reports that 100% of the surgical and biopsied prostate cancer specimens they have examined indicate the existence of prostatitis – which is also an indication that inflammation underlies the prevalence of prostate cancer.
* Pro-inflammatory trans fats found in processed foods double the risk of non-aggressive prostate cancer tumors, which represents a large portion of prostate cancer found in PSA tests.
Aging, genetics and race are major risk factors for prostate cancer … but so is inflammation. Even the American Cancer Association now includes inflammation in its list of key risk factors for prostate cancer.
That is some very good news … why? Because inflammation in the body is something all guys can do something about.
We can control our diet – what we put in our mouths. An anti-inflammatory diet may hold the keys to nurturing a healthier prostate and – perhaps – even preventing prostate cancer.
I Truly Wish I Had Known
All This Earlier
I wish I would’ve known way before the cancer diagnosis. Before all that suffering with my out-of-control prostate.
If you’ve read this far, you probably have some concerns about your prostate health.
You want answers. You may be sick and tired of treating just the symptoms of your problems, instead of attacking the cause.
Maybe too … you are reading because you’ve recently been diagnosed with prostate and you’re stressed to the max about treatment choices and what to do next. I remember very well.
That’s why I wrote The Prostate Storm: One Guy Battles Prostate Cancer, BPH and Prostatitis, And Bets On A Cure-All. It’s packed with information you need to know so you can make the best-informed decisions possible about your future treatment and a healthier prostate.
This information is crucial to your decision-making process. You can have it right now too. The Prostate Storm is available instantly as a digital PDF download. Just click the order button below and in just a few moments your ebook will be delivered to your email address. It's that simple.
Are You Experiencing Any of
These Symptoms?
Urinary hesitancy (delayed or slowed start of urinary stream)
A need to urinate frequently, especially at night
Difficulty starting or stopping urination
Inability to feel that you have fully emptied your bladder
Painful or burning urination or ejaculation
Pain felt in the genital area
Weak or interrupted flow of urine
Difficulty having an erection
Blood in urine or semen
Trouble achieving or maintaining an erection
If you are, The Prostate Storm is a must read. I take you step-by-step through the many issues that confront a man with prostate disease and prostate cancer.
Packed With Stuff
Every Guy Needs To Know
For example, you'll learn:
- Why guys with BPH and prostatitis and urinary tract infections are at risk for prostate cancer
- Why experts now estimate that up to one-third of prostate cancers could be avoided with dietary changes
- Stunning findings that 80% of men by age 80 will have prostate cancer
- New evidence showing the link between inflammation, prostate disease, prostate cancer and diet. What leading researchers are finding and clinicians aren’t telling their patients.
- Inflammation’s deadly role in other cancers, not just prostate cancer
- Basics to an anti-inflammatory diet, including 9 key super foods to nurturing a healthier prostater
- Using 6 “natural remedy” supplements to treat an inflamed prostate
- 2 types of food that should be included plentifully in the diet of anyone at risk for prostate problems
- 3 simple words that describe the anti-cancer (anti-inflammatory) diet
- New evidence that dietary changes will slow progression of prostate cancer
- 6 critical risk factors for prostate cancer -- what you can’t control, what you can control
- Surgery vs. radiation – is either one the “best” treatment? The risks of each?
- Which doctors recommend surgery, which ones tend to recommend radiation -- and why
- What is the single most important factor to outcomes in popular robotic surgery
- How your risk doubles or even quadruples with family prostate cancer history
- Why prostate cancer alone may put Medicare at risk
- Are men unnecessarily suffering the side effects of treatment (surgery and radiation) because they’re being over-diagnosed and over-treated for prostate cancer?
- Watchful waiting – when is it the right choice for you? When is it not?
- The alternative medicine tease -- is an holistic approach to cancer and prostate disease worth the risk? The pros and cons
- Why urinary tract infections are often misdiagnosed prostate problems
- Are erectile dysfunction and incontinence necessary “evils” of prostate cancer treatment?
- Should you try saw palmetto for BPH? What studies show
- Should you screen or not screen for prostate cancer? The pros and cons of the PSA test
- The good news about the PSA test: According to a Harvard study, it is saving lives despite its flaws
- How prostate cancer risk changes as men age
- The most important 2 questions you need to ask before undergoing any treatment for prostate cancer
- Why the researcher/physician who discovered PSA now denounces the test
- Research that the PSA test increases the time of detection by 5 to 15 years compared to the digital rectal exam -- and what that means for you
- Beware: 9 activities and medications that artificially lower or elevate PSA levels, and that your physician may not tell you about
- How men can avoid multiple, painful and unnecessary biopsies
- The difference between nerve-sparring and robotic surgery
- What does a biopsy feel like?
- Does high-dose radiation hurt?
- Why prostate cancer patients risk life-threatening DVTs (blood clots)
- Why you can only have high-dose radiation once in your lifetime
- The promise of targeted, high-dose radiation and proton therapy -- are these your “best” options today?
- At what ages should you start and stop having PSA tests—recommended guidelines
- The danger of taking saw palmetto before a PSA test
- Should you be concerned that less than one-third of cancers are detected in a first biopsy?
- The PSA test that acts as a “safeguard” against a biopsy missing cancer
- How excessive sugar in the diet can elevate the risk for cancer
- New research on how coffee and chocolate reduce cancer risk
And so much, much more.
Armed with information in this book, you will be able to talk intelligently with your own physician and then make the right decisions in your quest for the best possible outcome.
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