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Estrogen for Prostate Cancer? New Study Misses the Real Problem · Intellectual Medicine

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  We always have to precede any conversation about treatment and
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  diagnostic assessment with our philosophy.
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  What's our context? What is it that you value?
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  I advocate for fighting cancer like a man.
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  You could tell by that title. My priority is your vitality.
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  I mean, we all at some point are going to die.
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  I want you to die healthy quickly.
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  I'm not rooting for your death. I'm rooting for your life, your
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  vital life, until the last breath.
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  Does estrogen actually treat prostate cancer?
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  Or if you take estrogen as a man, will it make you less
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  likely to get prostate cancer if you have it?
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  Is it a therapeutic option to consider?
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  Well, we're going to look at the evidence, the research, and I'll
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  give you my thoughts on this matter.
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  We always have to precede any conversation about treatment and
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  diagnostic assessment with our philosophy.
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  What's our context? What is it that you value?
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  I advocate for fighting cancer like a man.
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  You could tell by that title. My priority is your vitality.
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  I mean, we all, at some point in the distant future we hope are
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  going to die. I want you to die healthy
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  quickly, without lingering misery.
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  I'm not rooting for your death. I'm rooting for your life, your
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  vital life, until the last breath.
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  Modern medicine, the medical industrial complex lives on your
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  anxiety. They cannot make dime one unless
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  they make you nervous, concerned, and they convert
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  healthy people into patients. This is true across the
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  spectrum. Oh, you thought you were
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  healthy? You have hypercholesterolemia.
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  You need drugs and have to follow you on a regular basis.
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  Look at your labs teaching. Oh, you thought your blood
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  pressure was OK? Bad news.
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  We just lowered the bar like that.
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  The entire country's hypertensive.
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  This is raining pennies dollars from heaven drugs treatment.
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  You know, now you look at the electronic medical record and
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  you see your blood pressure, it's lit up in red.
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  Oh my God, I have high blood pressure.
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  The doctor feels pressure puts you on drugs many patients
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  without the sophistication that you have now, how do I know
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  you're sophisticated? Because you're watching my
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  podcast. We don't know a lot of
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  knuckleheads to watch this podcast.
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  We actually have developed a highly sophisticated AI driven
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  laser that is currently scanning your retina as we speak and if
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  you're a knucklehead, your feed will be turned off immediately.
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  Don't fear it, it will cause you no harm.
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  Just keep watching and take pride in the fact that you're
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  above average. So this is really important for
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  you all to understand because of the fact that medicine, the
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  medical industrial complex, would collapse as we know it if
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  people actually pursued health, if they actually were
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  discriminating regarding all the stuff being forced on our throat
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  out of sheer anxiety. So with that as a backdrop, we
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  have to overlay it with the entire prostate cancer story.
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  We don't have an epidemic of prostate cancer in our country.
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  We have an epidemic of misdiagnosed atypical normal
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  cells, a variant. The question isn't whether or
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  not these abnormal cells are cancerous.
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  The question is what's the trigger?
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  What turns them on? Every man, if they live long
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  enough, will develop prostate cancer cells in the gland.
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  It's my hope to someday die with, not from prostate cancer
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  now, because we know they're normal, evolutionary, I should
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  say, chronologic consequences. In my opinion.
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  It doesn't mean that we need to be completely nihilistic and
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  just ignore it and do nothing. I don't like the idea of doing
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  nothing. I like being proactive.
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  I like putting my energy into the things that have the highest
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  return on investment for vitality.
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  So what about estrogen? OK, I'm not going to bury the
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  headline. This is just a dumb idea.
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  This is just another in a long litany of testosterone is the
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  problem all the way back to Doctor Huggins, God rest his
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  soul, Nobel laureate. I mean, who am I to speak I'll
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  of a Nobel laureate? I'm just chatting with you on a
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  podcast. But in fact, there was some
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  value to what he contributed. But much like the Women's Health
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  Initiative, it's been profoundly misdirected.
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  It's launched an entire several generations, decades of
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  testosterone crutching therapy in the false hope that we're
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  going to somehow make men better.
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  This is just dumb. So there was a study recently
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  published 2026 New England Journal of Medicine, and they
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  looked at the question, do estrogen patches help men with
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  prostate cancer? Now what do they compare it to?
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  This is classic dogma driven paradigm.
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  Paralyzed prostate cancer diagnostic assessment.
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  They compared estrogen therapy to androgen deprivation
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  treatment. 2 horrible things to do to a man.
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  What they demonstrated was that they both had the same incidence
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  of death. So no difference.
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  All right, maybe estrogen's better in the sense that it may
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  cause less harm. Not so fast.
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  Define your terms. Estrogen blocks, lowers,
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  actually lowers testosterone. The way it does it is by
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  stimulating the pituitary gland. So the pituitary gland which
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  produces luteinizing hormone, that's the hormone that goes to
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  the testicle and tells it to make testosterone, estrogen at
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  high levels. All of a sudden the pituitary
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  gland says, hey, wait, we don't need to produce luteinizing
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  hormone, there's plenty of estrogen around.
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  We're going to shut down. And as it shuts down,
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  testosterone levels plummet. There's nothing good about that
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  in regard to your global health. Low testosterone makes your
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  brain weak, your muscles weak, your bones weak, may contribute
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  to heart disease problems, may contribute to obesity.
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  Metabolic syndrome will ruin, damage and blunt your sex drive
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  your erections. Stop me if you heard anything
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  good here. This is all bad, and it does not
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  target the cancer directly. We're treating the wrong thing.
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  We're treating a number. We're treating the PSA.
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  Look, if you care about your PSA number and you want it to go
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  down, I suppose you could do stuff like this.
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  But there's a big gap between treating APSA and maintaining
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  your best help in fighting cancer.
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  Those two things are not directly connected.
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  All right, so the death rates were relatively equal. 44% of
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  the men had hot flashes on estrogen, No shock.
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  Over 80 percent. 85% of them had gynecomastia.
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  Man boobs. Think about that.
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  We're going to put you on a drug.
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  It's going to take away your sex drive.
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  You're going to grow breasts, but you won't care about it
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  because 11 libido. Oh, by the way, you're going to
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  gain fat, become Moody, maybe depressed, maybe weaken your
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  bone, maybe weaken your heart, and all for what?
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  So that you can live longer. The evidence is weak to
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  nonexistent. So how do I know that?
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  You have to look at the men in the study.
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  Now there is no direct comparison, so we must go to
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  other studies and in other studies looking at men with
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  localized prostate cancer, not metastatic to the bone, much
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  like the men in the study, The five year mortality, the death
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  rate after five years, if you did nothing, is actually less
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  than the men in the study. Now you can't compare them
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  directly. The men in the study were
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  different, I get that. But my point is this.
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  The study proved nothing regarding benefit to health and
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  longevity, Nothing. They failed to compare it to a
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  control group of men who are doing protocols to doing the
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  Pederuti protocol. That's what I think we should
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  compare it to. Let's compare it to something
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  that's not going to destroy masculine vitality, or at the
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  very least compare it to men who did nothing, because sometimes
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  it's a better choice than the therapies they recommend.
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  Nobody gets paid when you do nothing, so there's a
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  disincentive to consider that this is just another one of
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  those misdirected attempts at cast casting negative
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  presumptions on testosterone. Oh, the study did demonstrate
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  that the estrogen therapy could get your testosterone down to
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  castration levels. How many men in the audience
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  want to be castrated? I I don't think so, Right?
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  That is cruel and unusual punishment.
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  They do not castrate prisoners who are sex offenders because
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  it's considered cruel and unusual, but you'll voluntarily
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  get castrated because you think you might live a little longer.
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  Listen, fight cancer like a man Grab vitality.
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  Do not compromise vitality in the false hope of somehow
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  magically gaining meaningful longevity.
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  I want you to have a horizontal lifespan boom and a vertical
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  death. Not that we're going to impose
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  death upon you, but we're not going to do this traditional
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  standard of care. Slow slide into infirmity,
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  lingering for years. You know, chronically sick
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  people who linger are a bonanza for healthcare.
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  A huge proportion of healthcare dollars are spent in people in
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  their last six months of life. It is time to reconsider how you
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  want to manage your life. We don't get to predict, or I
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  should say, we don't get to choose how we're going to die.
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  We can Orient it, maintain muscle, maintain strength, keep
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  moving. Don't let bad things happen to
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  you. Don't let the medical system
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  impose diagnostic labels or treatments without you having an
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  opportunity to give a full reflection.
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  My approach? Not for everybody think it
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  should be, but the point being, finally, there's an alternative
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  to consider. You don't have to go down this
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  blind alley. So estrogen, no, Estrogen
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  boosting therapy is a prevention.
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  No, We know that low testosterone actually correlates
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  with a higher incidence of new onset prostate cancer.
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  So keep plugged in, keep asking questions.
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  Thank you for the questions you send me, the provocations, the
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  challenges. I really like the fact that I've
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  got thousands of research assistants.
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  So I honor your independent research, but don't be foolish.
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  Do not be your own doctor. Do not be out there trying to
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  cobble together treatments on the Internet based upon what I
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  or anybody else says. You can use this to gain
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  knowledge. You can use this to gain a
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  focus, to contemplate your philosophy.
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  But ultimately, you got a link with a really thoughtful, dare I
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  say it, primary care provider, somebody that is really
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  independent minded, a man, woman, nurse practitioner, in
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  some cases a fully licensed naturopath.
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  Some states allow naturopaths to prescribe medicine.
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  And although we're not advocates of Big Pharma, hey, every now
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  and then you got to give the devil a Stew.
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  Prescription drugs can have value.
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  All right? So estrogen, no artificial
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  labeled diagnostic entities to drive profit.
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  Think twice. And how to protect your manhood.
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  Yeah, put that high on the list. A life without testosterone is a
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  life lived in a subordinate level.
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  All right, until next time, guys.
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  Thanks for spending time with me.
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  I look forward to our next conversation.
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  And don't forget, if I cancel like a man.
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  Right on the front. Great read.
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  I recommend it to everybody. Thanks a lot.
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  We'll see you down the road.