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He Refused Surgery. One Year Later, Doctors Couldn't Explain the MRI · Intellectual Medicine

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  Imagine this. You're 51 years old, you've been
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  diagnosed with prostate cancer. They've told you what they can
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  do. Take out your gland and radiate
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  you or active surveillance. You should never be led to
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  believe you got to sacrifice your vitality.
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  This cancer is going to kill you if you don't.
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  We can monitor this without getting into your gland.
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  This is a true story, which we're about to hear is from one
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  of my patients who gave me permission to discuss it with
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  you. To make this known.
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  Imagine this, you're 51 years old, you've been diagnosed with
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  prostate cancer. They've told you what they can
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  do, take out your gland and radiate you or active
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  surveillance. So my patient at this point
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  hadn't met me, had not been able to watch the podcast.
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  It hadn't been launched yet. He opts for the biopsy.
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  They find cancer. He opts for what's called active
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  surveillance. He didn't want to do the
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  treatments because they're all harmful.
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  And his doctors said, well, we'll just watch this.
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  We'll biopsy it periodically. Now, this is the winter of 2023.
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  An MRI of his prostate showed cancer within the gland, A
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  pyrid's of #4 four out of a scale of one to five.
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  Now he has biopsy proven prostate cancer.
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  Gleason score of 6. They felt it was early.
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  Maybe we could just watch it. 2023, a year later, another MRI
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  is performed. Nodules are still there, hadn't
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  extended, but it was still there.
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  His pyrat score was the number four, unchanged.
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  They did another biopsy validating cancer still present.
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  Now folks, these biopsy procedures are not simple little
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  noodle jobs. You know this by now.
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  It's an assault on your prostate with a trocar, pain, bleeding, a
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  bit of a mess. So now many of you have had
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  biopsies as you're listening to me and you may be thinking, Oh
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  my goodness, it's it's too late for data biopsy.
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  No, not at all. So you can stop the madness now.
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  Fortunately, my patient happened upon my podcast, got him
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  thinking, ended up coming to see me.
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  You want to know is there another way I can do this?
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  Is there another path forward? I said yes, we could do the non
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  biopsy protocol I've developed. We can monitor this without
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  digging into your gland. Let's get started.
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  So we started him and we repeated an MRI at that point.
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  This is now 2025. The MRI shows #4 cancer's
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  present, pyride's A4. He's feeling good.
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  It's a point of emphasis. Many men with prostate cancer
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  don't know they have it. They just know their PSA was
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  elevated. And look, most men are going to
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  have changes in urinary flow as they get older.
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  Maybe it goes a little slower. Wake up at night.
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  That doesn't go hand in hand with cancer.
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  It's part of chronologic change in most cases.
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  So my guy's feeling good. Past medical history, none.
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  No diabetes, no heart disease, feels great.
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  Past surgical history, none. Enjoying life, happily married,
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  sexually active, athletic and in endeavors a full speed life.
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  But he has cancer. Prostate cancer, but it's
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  indolent in the gland. So far, he's just doing nothing
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  now, you know, psychologically and practically not the best
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  play. You know, you have cancer.
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  Let's take an action that doesn't hurt you.
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  So we became my patient. We implemented selected use of
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  repurposed drugs. These are drugs that I've
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  identified and others have identified as having potential
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  value against prostate and other cancers.
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  They're generic. They're not approved for cancer
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  treatment and they never will be because nobody's going to do
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  that research, folks. We have to apply our knowledge
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  in a manner that supports our best health and our objectives.
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  Life is short, science is long. We can't wait around for the
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  studies to give us the answers when we need help.
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  Right now, the studies are great.
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  We do them. We track our patients, we do
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  studies here. We don't let it inhibit us from
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  helping patients. So my guy comes in, we start to
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  repurpose drugs, tolerating them safe, wonderful, all is well.
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  In addition, we're doing lifestyle modifications,
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  nutritional counseling, percent body fat awareness modification,
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  and nutraceuticals is a nutraceutical that I've
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  developed that is a compilation of some of those that have the
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  most evidence of benefit. Things going pretty well.
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  Now it's time to monitor. So this was in June of 2025.
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  By November 2025, we're ready to repeat the MRI.
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  So think June, July, August, September, October, November,
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  five months later and remember 2023 biopsy posited for cancer,
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  abnormal MRI pyrids of four repeated in November pyrids was
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  one. The radiologist said there is no
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  MRI evidence of cancer. That's remarkable from A4 to A1,
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  pretty stunning. And it wasn't an aberration
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  because remember, we had three Mris before this one.
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  I was skeptical. Is it possible that the tumors
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  really went away, that they're no longer visible?
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  Let me pause here, folks. My point is not to claim that
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  this is a curative pathway. The protocol that I've developed
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  is intended to contain the cancer, suppress it, prevented
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  from ever progressing in a way that would harm you or take your
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  life. That's the goal.
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  People that claim they can cure prostate cancer are making a
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  false claim. There's never been a treatment
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  that has been proven to cure it in a way that alters the risk of
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  dying from prostate cancer. So I don't make that claim, but
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  this is supportive information showing benefit because he's got
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  a one that's pretty damn good. Could there be cellular cancer
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  cells in there? Suppose a cancer is in other
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  parts of his body. Maybe it went away in the gland,
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  but it popped up in the bone. So I ordered a PSMA PET scan,
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  prostate specific membrane antigen positive emission
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  tomogram PET scan. This is a study where they
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  inject contrast into the body. It's not Gadolin, not a heavy
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  metal, and it links up to prostate cancer cells.
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  Fantastic imaging study. It's very helpful in identifying
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  prostate cancer throughout the body.
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  If there's cancer in the prostate gland, it'll light up.
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  If it's in the bones, it'll light up.
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  There are such things as false positives, so it's not a perfect
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  study, but it's very helpful. Particularly in this case.
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  I wanted to know there's a cancer somewhere out there.
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  PSMA PET scan, no uptake in the body at all, not even in the
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  prostate gland, not in the bones, not in the lymph nodes.
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  You have a normal MRI, you have a PSMA scan, which is no uptake.
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  There's no evidence of cancer. What about his PSA?
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  What's interesting is the PSA went from three 4.1 E to 4.6.
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  So the PSA never went down despite the improvement in the
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  MRI, but it didn't go up either. So the PSA, it's normal to have
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  APSA. We all have it man.
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  Prostate specific antigen, PSA. It's a natural part of what the
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  prostate gland makes. If you had APSA of 0, that'd be
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  a little bit weird. So you'll look at the prostate
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  specific antigen, and we should have some.
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  It's normal to the body. And so he has it.
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  That's normal for him. Is it high because it's above 4?
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  Well, we know that's an artificial threshold, right?
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  It's a number they just made-up. And this is supportive evidence
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  of that in a sense, right? PSA is above 4, but there's no
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  cancer present. So back it up.
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  Back then, they would have gladly taken out his gland if he
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  had been the nervous type, how horrible that would have been.
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  And now here is five months later, thriving, using
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  repurposed drugs, none of which cause them harm, all of which
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  have collateral benefit, meaning these drugs can do other things
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  to help you. Remember men, the goal, not only
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  is it to keep cancer in the in the box, prevent it from taking
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  your life, but the goal is to live vitally strong.
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  Good brain, good muscles, joints that are functional, sexual
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  vitality, all of it you should never be is led to believe you
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  got to sacrifice your vitality. This cancer's going to kill you
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  if you don't. No, no proof of that.
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  So how about my guy? He's not alone.
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  We have now had enough experience with this protocol to
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  start to document publishable outcomes that we'll eventually
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  get out to. We'll be sharing that
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  information with you. But this is remarkable.
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  This is a type of thing that helps to motivate other men to
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  pursue consideration of this type of treatment motivates me
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  as well, but it starts with a patient, a patient willing to be
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  able to step away from the the mainstream of prostate cancer
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  treatment, open up their mind to other thoughts and other
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  pathways. So these are the details.
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  Every man makes his own choice, but you can make a choice, guys.
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  If you're not given options, right?
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  It's like it's like going to a a communist ice cream store.
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  What do you want for ice cream? Chocolate.
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  What else you got? Nothing.
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  We just have chocolate. You can pick chocolate or
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  chocolate. It's like urology.
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  What do you got? I can take your land out.
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  You got that radiation. God, that's awful.
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  And no, that's it. That's all we got.
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  So no biopsies. If you've had them, don't panic.
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  Think about my guy 50. Imagine if he had stayed with
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  this active surveillance. So you can do a biopsy every
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  year. Guy's in his 50s.
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  Imagine at 70, he's had what, 20 biopsies?
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  And it's not a single poke. It's it's a dozen.
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  What I believe they end up doing in the setting of this active
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  surveillance is they keep torturing you, scaring you until
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  you beg to take the gland out. For God's sakes, just take the
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  gland out. Not another biopsy.
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  Oh, look at that. You went from a Gleason 6 to a
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  70. Now we got to take the land out.
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  Just psychological pressure. Now we have another path.
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  Now you know about it. Now you can contemplate it.
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  Now you can research it. This is real.
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  This happened. This guy is thriving.
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  And I'm grateful that he let me share his story with you.
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  Listen, I hope this is informative to you.
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  If you can, if you'd like Share your story, give us a comment.
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  We read them, we follow them, and others can be illuminated by
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  your experience. Well, thanks for watching this
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  podcast, folks. Stay with me.
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  We're going to have a fun journey together.
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  I'll talk to you next time. Bye.