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Supplements for Prostate Cancer: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Harmful (Part 2) · Intellectual Medicine

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  Let's just stop doing an unnecessary intervention because
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  it's the way it's always been done.
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  It starts with vitality. It starts with feeling great.
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  That is your birthright. That is the goal every day.
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  How do you want to live? Taking charge of your health.
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  Don't wait to be rescued. It's your job.
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  It starts with vitality, it starts with feeling great.
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  That is your birthright. That is the goal every day.
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  Anything that detracts from your energy, from your immune
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  function, from your sense of vitality is bad, and that
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  negative effect has to be contemplated.
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  Conventional approach to evaluating an elevated PSA
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  causes harm. Period.
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  It does damage to the prostate. It potentially spreads cancer
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  cells. It does nothing to improve any
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  symptom. The biopsy itself can lead to
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  infection and hospitalization. The biopsy itself can damage
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  erectile function and urinary flow.
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  Let's just stop doing an unnecessary intervention because
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  it's the way it's always been done.
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  I'm going to talk about things you can do to maintain your
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  vitality, to support your immune function, to fight prostate
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  cancer like a man. Every conventional treatment
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  increases risk. Radiation increases risk of
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  cancer, damages the rectum, the bladder, prostatectomy damages
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  everything. So one of the ways that
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  conventional treatments toward prostate cancer work is to delay
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  the progression, waiting for you to die from something else while
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  you slowly fade. Is there a better way?
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  I believe there is. Can you do both?
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  Maintain youthful vitality, strength, energy, virility, and
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  fight cancer? I believe you can.
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  So it starts out with the objective, the philosophy.
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  How do you want to live using supplements?
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  Using nutraceuticals is a rational application of science,
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  philosophy, and health support. Nobody would doubt that you have
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  to eat well to live well. Well, what about nutraceuticals?
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  The fact is, folks, some of these nutraceuticals have
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  evidence of benefit, but you can't get all you need, all you
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  would ideally benefit from through nutrition alone.
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  That's why they exist. You can only eat so much
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  broccoli, and then it becomes a problem.
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  Let's plow forward. Here are the supplements and the
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  nutraceuticals that my research and clinical experience have
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  guided me toward advising for you.
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  This is to help sort out the noise.
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  Your doctor may say, well, there's no proven benefit.
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  OK, fair enough. They don't do research on
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  broccoli very little. It's hard to come by, but it's
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  out there and there's evidence of benefit, most importantly,
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  lack of harm. Both together.
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  Let's talk about broccoli powder broccoli.
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  Broccoli is a cruciferous vegetable that does correlate
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  with lower incidence of cancer. People that eat lots of
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  broccoli, I don't know if I can tolerate that much broccoli.
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  In fact, I like the broccoli powder supplement.
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  The supplement has a high amount of sulfuraphane, an agent that
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  has been shown turn on tumor suppressor genes.
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  I kind of like that. I kind of like that it doesn't
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  give me gastrointestinal side effects like broccoli can.
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  And the studies have shown evidence of its benefit
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  decreasing the rate of PSA elevation and cancer cell
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  growth. That's kind of cool.
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  I'll take that. Now that the dose for that, by
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  the way, 500 milligrams a day of broccoli powder.
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  If you like broccoli, then three half cups per week is correlated
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  with some benefit. You can certainly do both, which
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  is what I usually recommend if you tolerate it.
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  Di indomethane is a component within cruciferous vegetables
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  and that has been correlated with lower incidence of cancer
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  risk. Hard to get to the levels that
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  appear to be most helpful in blocking cancer cell synthesis.
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  Those levels are up to 300 milligrams a day, and by virtue
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  of adding that in, it can have a synergistic effect.
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  Synergism is when you combine things together to get a bigger
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  benefit than you can by doing individual components.
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  It is a foundational aspect of Asian and aerobatic medical
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  practice where you get lots of stuff, put it together and look
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  at an outcome. Western medicine doesn't like
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  that so much. We like to isolate the variable,
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  right, the scientific method, control all the other variables
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  and look at the one thing. Suppose it isn't one thing.
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  Suppose fighting prostate cancer is more analogous to a internal
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  combustion engine, whereas all the components work together,
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  but you take one piece out and it ceases to function.
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  I believe synergism is an asset when fighting cancer and
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  supporting our health, but you've got to be thoughtful
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  about total volume. You can only swallow so much.
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  Thus we isolate, not isolate, but we identify those elements
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  that have greatest merit. One of those other elements is
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  lycopene. Lycopene is found in red fruits
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  and vegetables, specifically in tomato.
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  A high amount of lycopene and there are some studies
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  correlating people who eat lots of tomatoes with lower incidence
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  of prostate cancer. A lycopene has anti-inflammatory
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  attributes been correlated with decreased death from cancer.
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  That is, in a study published in Frontiers and Nutrition 2025,
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  they looked at blood levels of lycopene and they found a
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  correlation. Higher amounts of lycopene in
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  the blood correlated with a lower incidence of prostate
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  cancer death. More lycopene in the blood, less
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  prostate cancer death. All right, that's pretty
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  straightforward. No harm in lycopene.
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  There is no toxic dose. You can't take too much.
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  I mean, I suppose if you ate too many tomatoes that have made you
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  get fat growing adiposity, as you know by now, it's bad for
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  cancer in general and really bad for prostate cancer in
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  particular. The lycopene also down regulated
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  the prostate cancer growth and it correlated with apoptosis of
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  cancer cells, killing them. Very cool.
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  So where does that lead us? The amount of lycopene in a plum
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  tomato, those are the ones that they make tomato sauce with the
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  Contadina tomato like that you can eat it like a fruit.
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  After all, it is a fruit and it has about 5 milligrams of
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  lycopene. Very good.
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  And it also has other elements I told you about synergism.
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  All supplements are drawn from food sources.
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  The food sources have other things in them that may add to
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  their potential benefit. But while I advocate supplements
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  to get super high dosing that you can't get through the food
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  alone, I like to compliment it. Add in the food if you can.
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  So a plum tomato. I like to try to eat one every
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  day, part of my prostate cancer, prostate health regimen.
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  In the supplement form, doses between 15 and 45 milligram per
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  day have been studied and correlated with benefit.
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  No harm in it, folks. So you can add lycopene with
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  confidence. Another aspect of getting older
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  and fighting any chronic illness, including cancer.
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  It's controlling free radical overload.
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  Think of free radicals as little splinters jabbing into the
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  cells, right? They're irritants, buzzing harm,
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  and as we get older, we make more of them.
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  Our body develops its own antioxidants to try to help
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  neutralize the overabundance, but it has trouble keeping up as
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  we age and in the face of chronic illness.
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  Every cancer and every chronic disease has a free radical
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  overload. In fact, that, folks, is how a
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  lot of chemotherapy and radiation works.
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  It works by creating a cytokine storm, a free radical burst.
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  That's why they're so damaging to cells.
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  That's why people lose their hair and get sick, because the
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  effect is global. It's carpet bombing.
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  It's burning the village to save the town.
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  Now, the setting of prostate cancer.
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  None of that has merit. All of it causes harm.
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  What we want is balance, Neutralize the excessive free
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  radicals. Glutathione is one of the most
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  important antioxidants. The body makes you make tons of
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  it. It detoxifies, removes heavy
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  metals, neutralizes free radicals.
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  It's a wonderful element to have within your body.
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  However, we start to lose our ability to make enough of it.
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  One of the rate limiting steps of making glutathione is NAC N
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  acetylcysteine. That is one of the components
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  the body needs to make glutathione.
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  You can't really take glutathione as an oral
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  supplement. It does not absorb very well.
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  You're better off taking the precursor.
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  NAC, 600 milligrams up to 3000 per day has been advocated in
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  order to give your body the material it needs to make all
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  the glutathione it wants to make.
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  And because the demand on glutathione will vary depending
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  on your circumstance, it's rational to increase your NAC
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  dose at times of high stress. You're out too late.
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  Last night you had a few drinks. You are battling an illness.
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  You know you want to have an elevation of the antioxidant
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  neutralization. 1 caveat is there are times where you want
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  free radicals to be doing their work, and one of those times is
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  when you are in any kind of active chemotherapeutic regimen
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  for other cancers. Now, I never would advocate
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  chemotherapy for prostate cancer.
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  I think it's a terrible idea. Evidence of benefit is scant.
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  Evidence of harm is abundant. So stay away.
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  All right, that's NEC. How about pomegranate?
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  That's a big reputation for benefit with a prostate and
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  there is some support for that. But be careful of pomegranate
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  juice, folks. Juice is concentrated sugar.
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  Concentrated sugar grows fat that grows cancer cells.
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  And you see the connection here. So no matter how good it looks
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  on paper, if it's a juice, got to be careful.
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  I don't like my patients to be drinking juice, period.
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  All juices are concentrated sugar, even if it is organic
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  greens. Concentrated sugar better off
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  eating the product itself. In the case of pomegranate,
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  better off taking it as an extract rather than drinking it
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  as a juice. 400 milligrams a day.
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  One study has shown that it can help to decrease the rate of
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  progression of PSA. Not a ton of research and
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  evidence regarding preventing progression of cancer itself,
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  but that which supports a reduction in the rate of PSA
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  increase is a welcome consideration.
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  You got pomegranate, dienyl methane, lycopene, NAC, broccoli
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  powder. Putting them together in a
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  sustainable fashion. Continue your reflective
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  research. Be mindful of dose amounts if
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  you're adding a supplement off the Internet.
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  A lot of times there are other elements thrown in there, partly
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  to make it look good, partly because of their own sort of
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  research pathway. These are the things that have
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  the greatest amount of support, the greatest amount of evidence.
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  Back to this topic once more. In order to complete our list of
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  the most validated, highly researched in micronutrient
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  supplements and nutraceuticals that I recommend taking charge
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  of your health. It's your job.
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  Don't wait to be rescued, right? The government, the FDA, the big
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  pharma, the hospitals, the sub specialist, they're not coming
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  through that door anytime soon to make you feel great and
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  support your vitality. They're waiting for disease to
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  happen so they can react after the fact.
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  I want you to be thinking proactively.
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  Disregard the conventional barriers.
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  Yeah, they're out there. But we're aspiring to live
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  differently. I'm aspiring to live
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  differently, age differently, fight cancer differently, not
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  surrendering vitality at any point.
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  You go out marching vertical, straight up.
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  Men, look forward to our next conversation.
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  Thanks for spending time with me.