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Supplements for Prostate Cancer: What Works, What’s The Hype, and What’s Dangerous (Part 1) · Intellectual Medicine

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  Today is a day of your vitality. You have prostate cancer.
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  You still want vitality. Fighting cancer like a man means
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  applying all the things that keep us vital while we're
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  fighting cancer. Do not accept the compromise of
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  your vitality in the vain hope of affecting the quality and
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  length of your life. I'm going to be talking about
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  things you can put into your body, supplements and
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  nutraceuticals that you can use to strengthen immune function,
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  to support your fight and most importantly, maintain your
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  vitality. It is in fact a great time to be
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  alive. Today is a day of your vitality.
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  You have prostate cancer. You still want vitality.
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  Fighting cancer like a man, folks, it means applying all the
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  things that keep us vital while we're fighting cancer.
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  Do not accept the compromise of your vitality in the vain hope
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  of affecting the quality and length of your life.
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  You'll end up O for two. I'm going to be talking about
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  things you can put into your body, supplements and
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  nutraceuticals that you can use to strengthen immune function,
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  to support your fight and most importantly maintain your
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  vitality. My interest in helping men with
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  prostate cancer and elevated PSA, An abnormal prostate MRI.
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  My interest in that is an extension of my study and
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  experience with anti aging and life extension medicine.
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  Yes, that's a real thing. Yes, we can affect how we age.
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  You do not need the wither before you leave the planet.
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  There's nothing about the aging dynamics that is biologically
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  essential. It is simply a matter of
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  figuring out how to alter the trajectory.
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  One way to do that is to neutralize the overabundance of
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  free radical. Now, free radicals are molecules
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  lacking an electron. They attack our cells.
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  They can damage our organs. They're also essential to life.
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  You need them when you're infected.
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  You need them when you eat food to break down and digest the
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  food. The issue here is one of
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  balance, right As we get older, we make more free radicals.
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  We make fewer antioxidants. One of the most important
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  antioxidants, alpha lipoic acid, can be given as a supplement.
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  It's a safe substance that our bodies make and it has kind of
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  cool anti cancer attributes. One way it seems to work, in
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  addition to neutralizing free radicals, is to interfere with
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  the ability of cancer cells to make energy.
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  That's a pretty neat trick. Cancer cells make energy through
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  a process called aerobic glycolysis.
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  They are making lactic acid in a setting of abundant oxygen,
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  which is not normal. That's a process that Doctor
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  Warburg identified called the Warburg philosophy or theory of
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  cancer propagation. I believe it has a lot of
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  validity. This is part of a metabolic
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  process that is felt to underpin cancer, starting at a
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  mitochondrial level. So we're taking off lipoic acid
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  because it's good as an anti oxidant, as anti ageing
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  supportive attributes and mucks up cancer cells, attempts to
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  make energy important folks, because cancer starts cellular,
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  you can't feel it in its state of origin.
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  It can take 7 or more years for it to become a centimeter in
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  diameter. So we need to be vigilant,
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  proactive, if you've ever had cancer or you have a high PSA or
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  just want to do things to make it less likely to happen.
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  Alpha lipoic acid also has been shown to interfere with the
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  epithelial to mesenchymal transition.
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  This is the process that cancer cells use to metastasize, to
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  move outside of their original space back other parts of the
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  body. But I love this supplement.
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  It's been shown to help induce cancer cell death as well as
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  interfere with the their nutritional source.
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  So add that to your regimen. How about another supplement,
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  melatonin? Now melatonin has a reputation
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  as being an asset with sleep induction.
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  Melatonin is a natural hormone made in the pineal gland in your
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  brain. We release more of it at night
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  when sleeping, therefore it has that association.
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  Not really great as a sleep inducing agent, although it can
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  help regulate sleep. It's interest, my interest in it
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  for you when it comes to fighting cancer is its ability
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  to strengthen the immune system. It's been shown to amplify the
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  effect of immune function, which is really the cornerstone way
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  that you fight cancer. I like this as well because of
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  its safety profile. Should be taken in the evening.
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  Melatonin, I like this in a range of up to 20 milligrams at
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  night for the purpose of fighting cancer.
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  That's way too high if you're otherwise feeling good.
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  If you don't have cancer, I don't recommend that high a
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  dose. By the way, the dose for alpha
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  lipoic acid I like is I take 600 milligrams every day by routine
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  baseline, it can go as high as three times a day, but really
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  folks, three times a day, who does that?
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  That's hard. That's hard.
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  Remember simplicity and sustainability.
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  What's the evidence with melatonin?
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  This is a cool study. They looked at men with prostate
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  cancer in this study, they had advanced malignancy, metastatic
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  and they had one group on melatonin, another group on a
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  placebo. The group on melatonin survived.
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  On average, the hair was 153.5 months versus 64 months.
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  And those who are not using it. Now, you have to bear in mind
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  the folks in this study had advanced malignancy, advanced
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  metastatic prostate cancer. How would it work if you had an
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  elevated PSA but no metastatic process if it's isolated to the
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  gland? Although that's an unknown
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  variable, I like the effect it had in this particular study.
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  I think it's reasonable and then extrapolate it.
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  It works in part by affecting MMP matrix metalloproteinase.
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  MMP is a stuff that helps cells stick together.
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  It's the intracellular matrix. Cancer cells have a sneaky
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  trick. They break that down, the cells
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  become loose, enabling cancer cells to find their way forward
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  by keeping them tight. By blocking that matrix
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  metalloproteinase, you can inhibit cancer cells ability to
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  move out. This is kind of cool.
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  It's cellular. It's basic biological principles
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  put to work. No, there's not a blood test you
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  can use to measure this, but we know from research how the
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  process works. And now you know, there's at
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  least a clinical study demonstrating extension of
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  lifespan without compromising your vitality.
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  Big distinction. All right, men with prostate
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  cancer, we all have. As you get older, inevitably the
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  prostate gland gets bigger and in many men it starts to create
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  symptoms, urgency, frequency, waking up at night.
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  Cancer and prostatic hypertrophy live together in all the Mris
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  I've done over the years. It is exceedingly rare to see
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  pure prostate cancer. In the absence of prostatic
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  hypertrophy. Those two things kind of coexist
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  in many cases. So the supplements that can help
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  prostate cancer have double benefit if they can help the
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  lower urinary tract symptoms. LUTS lots frequency, urgency,
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  waking up at night. So pygium bark, which contains a
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  large amount of beta cytosterol is another nutraceutical comes
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  from well, the bark of a plant that has been shown to actually
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  reduce neurological symptoms in men.
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  There was a study done in human beings and it demonstrated a
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  significant improvement in urinary flow measurements.
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  What about cancer? Studies in cancer are tissue
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  based and in mice they are both favorable in tissue cultures
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  that was shown to induce cancer cell death.
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  All right, I like that safe nutraceutical that kills cancer.
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  Well, how about in organisms? There was one in mice go to
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  reduction in prostate cancer between the mice who are on the
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  pigeon bark versus those on a on a placebo.
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  They gave mice a placebo. Well, you know, it's science
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  folks. 62% of the mice on the pigeon bark were free of cancer
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  reduction of the rate versus 35% on the placebo.
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  So in summary, the pigeon bark correlated with benefit
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  preventing prostate cancer in the mice and men improves the
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  urinary symptoms safe, possibly effective regarding cancer,
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  helping with urinary flow. What's not to like?
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  Put them all together. Another nutraceutical a plant
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  based supplement called Nettle root or stinging nettle has that
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  name because the plant itself has little prickly things on it
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  that sting when you touch it. Nobody said naming plants was
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  particularly clever. And who use stinging nettle as
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  anti-inflammatory value? It's interesting to note that
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  most men with urinary symptoms waking up at night notice a
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  waxing and a waning of that symptom.
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  It gets worse under stress in inflammatory states.
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  It decreases when they're otherwise feeling well.
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  If you're suffering with this symptom complex, you may notice
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  you go on a flight. I've seen men go on a flight and
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  end up in urinary retention. Inflammatory cascades do that.
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  Stinging nettle. Nettle root helps reduce
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  inflammation. It's been utilized for
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  allergies, autoimmune diseases and yes it may help with
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  prostatic symptoms as well. Study done in men, this was a
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  human study 81% of the men were using stinging nettle noticed a
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  reduction in the urinary symptoms versus 16% on a placebo
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  safe shown efficacy and research studies.
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  The dose for stinging nettle between 500 and 1000 milligrams
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  per day. The dose of the Pigeon Bark, by
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  the way, was 50 to 100 milligrams a day.
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  These are 4 supplements that have value.
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  Now I'm going to go forward in my next podcast talking about
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  others. I'd like you to process this
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  information. Be slow to add things to your
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  regimen. Be careful about products that
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  have not undocumented amounts of different supplements.
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  They may have Pigeon Bark beta cytosterol on the label.
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  I want to know the milligram amount.
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  Sometimes they do that for recognition marketing purposes.
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  So be thoughtful about what you apply.
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  Use this information you're gathering to your benefit.
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  Keep fighting cancer like a man and do not get any more biopsies
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  if you've had them done already. OK, you can't go in the Wayback
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  Machine, but stay tuned into my podcast.
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  Let's find a way to change how this is approached.
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  Change that'll keep you vital, keep you strong, or control
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  these symptoms. Let your body do its work.
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  Alright folks, until next time. Thanks for tuning in.