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ED, Low Testosterone and Peyronie's After Prostate Cancer Treatment · Intellectual Medicine

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  Do not let false fear hold you back from contemplating a
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  different path forward. The preservation of vitality is
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  something that you can feel confident pursuing in grasp
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  extension of life. I believe a more vital man with
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  greater health is going to live longer.
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  Even if he ends up dying of prostate cancer, he's going to
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  live better. So maybe you've been listening
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  to my podcast and you're thinking to yourself, man, I
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  wish I knew this stuff a year, 2-3 years ago.
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  I've already had treatment. They took out my prostate.
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  What can I do now? They've already done castration
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  treatment. How's it affecting you?
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  What can you do? I'm going to talk about that and
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  I'm going to address you men who are in the contemplated state.
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  Either you've had a biopsy or you're thinking about it.
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  Well, if you're thinking about it, hopefully you're thinking
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  twice. Do not get biopsies.
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  All right, I'll tell you about that.
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  But the focus here is what about if you're in the midst somewhere
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  prostate's removed, you're on testosterone blocking therapy,
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  you've had a radiation, maybe even have metastatic disease in
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  your bone. Wherever you are, your focus is
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  on regeneration and vitality 100%.
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  Now crude measurements in prostate cancer treatment focus
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  on longevity, as if you can have sacrifice of vitality and
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  somehow gain longevity that doesn't add up.
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  How can you crush a man's health and expect him to live longer?
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  It is illogical. It defies common sense.
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  I don't believe it's accurate at all.
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  But this type of fear gets imposed upon men until they
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  crumble under the withering fire of the neurologist, their
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  oncologist, maybe their family. You've got to do this.
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  You've got to do this, or you're going to die.
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  Right time out. First of all, you're going to
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  die anyhow. No, no prostate cancer
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  necessarily. But you know, the end comes.
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  So let's talk about quality, vitality and longevity.
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  Lifespan is a blunt tool for measuring the quality of our
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  life. You may have heard the term
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  health span. You know how long you're vital.
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  There's another term called sex span.
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  And I don't care where you are in your journey, you can
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  regenerate health span, you can maintain or regenerate sex span.
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  But you can't do it following the bread crumbs of conventional
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  treatment. They will lead you to calamity.
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  So what if you're already in that process?
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  Some of the things men notice, they're not the same after the
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  prostatectomy. Penis can shrink, testosterone
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  levels drop, depression can set in.
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  The treatment for all of that is to get out of the cycles of
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  conventional treatment. The thing that keeps men stuck
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  there is a misapplication of the PSA test prostate specific
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  antigen. You've got to be able to
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  comprehend what it is and what it isn't.
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  For those of you that have been through treatment, conventional
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  treatment, they love to see your, your PSA level go to like
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  0. They love to see that, you know,
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  they think that that correlates with no cancer.
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  It's nice when it's low, I grant that.
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  But what about when it starts going up?
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  If you have your prostate removed and the PSA starts to go
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  up, they call that a biochemical recurrence.
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  The Hell's that? It's a numeric change in the
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  PSA. Well, here's some things you
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  need to know about APSA, because you should never treat a lab
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  value in the absence of compelling evidence of benefit
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  or in the absence of a symptom. So your PSA went from 1:00 to
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  2:00 and your doctor is having kittens.
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  Oh my God, it's a, it's a biochemical recurrence.
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  You know their remedy for that. It's castration.
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  You thought you had a rough time before.
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  Good luck having a good life without your testicles working
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  or no testosterone. But the PSA, we have to, you
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  have to comprehend what it what it can't do.
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  It is not a reliable test. Point to point.
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  There's something called analytic variability, and that
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  means we take the same blood, test the same blood, and we
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  analyze it with the same test twice.
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  That's called analytic variability from one test to the
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  other. If you have a really bad scale
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  at home, you may have noticed if you hop on it, hop off, hop on
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  it, hop off, you get a different number every time.
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  Analytic variability, it happens with the PSA up to 15% or more
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  with the same sample. So if you have a 15% change in
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  One Direction or the other from one lab test to the next, it
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  could be nothing more than lab variability when the test is
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  done in two different points in time.
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  Let's say you do it this month and do it again in three months.
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  Unless the change is greater than 25%, it's probably not
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  relevant clinically. It's just lab variability.
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  You do not allow them to crush you with with soul crunching
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  testosterone blocking libido obliterating therapy because the
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  number goes down. It's false comfort guys, that
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  number is not your fate. The lab test be patient think
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  three times in my protocol, we react to a number with a panic
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  mode. Let's cut your testicles off.
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  Why do we foment so much fear? I believe it is.
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  It's because they want an objective result.
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  I can castrate you and your PSA level will go down right?
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  Why? PSA is a testosterone dependent
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  protein. You need testosterone to make
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  natural PSA. So you take away testosterone
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  then the number goes down. It's just a reaction to
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  eliminate it as necessary substrate.
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  The fact that it then goes up again.
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  It's not a death sentence guys. And there's an alternative
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  approach in my protocol. We don't castrate men ever.
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  There are other ways that you can maintain vitality,
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  underutilized resource testosterone.
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  For those of you that have been through conventional treatment,
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  stop, Reconsider the path you're on.
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  Do not do chemotherapy. Do not do radiation therapy.
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  These are more torturous of treatments that are going to
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  make you feel bad without any tangible longevity addition.
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  Feel bad, Don't live longer. Who's paying for that?
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  No, you want to maintain your vitality.
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  You want to restore and maintain energy, mental clarity.
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  You don't want to be falling asleep in the afternoon.
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  You don't want to be walking around with a brain fog,
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  depression, lost confidence. What about that sex span?
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  There's no reason then that we ever need to consider our sexual
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  span of life to be over. You take it to your grave.
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  So I share the story of a patient of mine I had got.
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  It had to be 15 years ago. It was early in my career,
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  starting to do some of the regenerative therapies that
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  Ioffer my patients now. He had stage 4 lung cancer.
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  It was metastatic. He didn't have very long to
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  live, but we're doing some of the cool stuff that I do now in
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  my practice, you know, doing testosterone therapy, some
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  functional Cancer Support. He's feeling pretty good.
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  So he came to my office and said, how you feeling?
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  How's your breathing? He said.
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  Well, doc, you know, I sometimes I get a little short of breath,
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  You know, when I'm having sex with my wife, I get a little
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  breathless, right? 85 Stage 4 lung cancer
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  Preservation of sex span. Preservation of vitality
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  Preservation of health span Yes. He died of lung cancer about
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  three months later, but after a short, short interval of ill
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  health. That's what I want for all my
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  patients. That's what I want you men to be
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  thinking about. Only you can decide how you want
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  to live, you know, And having penile atrophy, alteration of
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  the fibrous connective tissue, the two tunica albagenia, that's
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  the casing around the sausage, if you will, right?
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  The corpus cavernosum is a stuff inside the tunica.
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  What holds it together without testosterone?
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  Or if you've had radiation that can be damaged, there are ways
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  to rejuvenate that maintain that, and one of the ways is to
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  avoid harm. What if you've already got
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  prostate cancer? What if it's in your bone?
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  Conventional treatment, the stud, androgen deprivation
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  therapy. It's a waste station on the way
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  to your death. It is not curative.
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  In fact, nothing really is. I can't tell you that my
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  protocol is going to cure you if you have bone Mets.
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  I can tell you we're going to keep you vital.
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  How you give men testosterone. What testosterone For a man with
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  metastatic prostate cancer? Done properly and carefully, it
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  can be administered in a manner that has the potential to not
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  only restore masculine vitality, but to help prevent and delay
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  cancer progression. This is experimental.
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  This is cutting edge. This is how men would prefer to
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  live. Do not let false fear hold you
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  back from contemplating a different path forward.
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  The preservation of vitality is something that you can feel
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  confident pursuing and grasping extension of life.
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  I believe a more vital man with greater health is going to live
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  longer. Even if he ends up dying of
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  prostate cancer, he's going to live better.
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  So the way that you treat post therapeutic deficits is to avoid
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  the therapy that damages them. Radiation, prostatectomy, even
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  focal therapies have adverse effects with uncertain benefit.
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  See, I hate to be so skeptical. I guess I'm not even skeptical,
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  and I don't mean to be fully dismissive of all conventional
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  therapy, but I challenge them all.
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  I challenge the current state of prostate cancer treatment.
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  Let's see if we can stop hurting men.
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  And one of the ways we could do that is by honestly carefully
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  interpreting APSA without panicking men.
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  That PSA test can change. I told you about the intra
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  testing variability, the analytic variability.
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  It can change because of what you did last night.
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  So be careful. Don't let them force you into a
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  toxic treatment because of a change in the PSA number.
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  So low testosterone can be addressed at any point.
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  If you have a high PSA of an abnormal prostate MRI, there's
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  no reason to deprive yourself of the benefits of testosterone
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  therapy. You can do both.
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  We can create an inhospitable environment for prostate cancer,
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  and we can rejuvenate you with testosterone therapy.
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  Now, there are a lot of pieces to this puzzle, but the first
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  step toward vitality is avoiding things that harm it without
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  tangible benefit. And again, no matter where you
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  are on this path of treatment, you have the freedom to make a
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  choice. But there's got to be other
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  outlets. That's why this podcast exists.
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  In April, we'll be training other providers.
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  In my protocol, there's a provider from Texas, from
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  Illinois, I think Michigan. My goal is to have the pederated
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  protocol available to any man who chooses it throughout the
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  country. Now you can have it done right
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  now you got to come see me in Fort Lauderdale.
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  I understand that's not that. That is not the solution to the
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  problem. It's the beginning of it.
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  In the near future, the protocol will be widely available and any
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  man will have the opportunity to partake of it.
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  You could start right now, Keep tuning in the podcast, avoid
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  harm, be patient, do your homework.
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  Only you can choose how you want to live.
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  You don't get to choose not dying guys, but you get to
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  choose how you're going to exit. At least to a high degree, you
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  can get that choice. Vitality, vitality, vitality,
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  short illness and death. That's what we're after, my
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  team. Until next time, thanks for
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  being part of the journey. I'll talk to you then.
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  Bye.