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Prostate Cancer Warning Signs Most Men Ignore | Biopsies & Early Detection · Intellectual Medicine

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  I'm going to tell you the worst test you could possibly ever get
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  for prostate cancer. But wait, it's also the best
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  test ever invented. Depending on your perspective,
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  I'm also going to share with you some subtle signs that there is
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  cancer brewing inside your body. The same subtle signs that it's
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  brewing can also be a harbinger of a risk factor.
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  I'm talking about the subtle things that kind of can be a red
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  flag, but you may not think of it that way.
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  Everybody. Nice to have you watching me on
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  the podcast today. Now I'm going to tell you the
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  worst test you could possibly ever get for prostate cancer.
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  But wait, it's also the best test ever invented, depending on
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  your perspective. So we'll go over that.
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  I'm also going to share with you some subtle signs that there is
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  cancer brewing inside your body. The same subtle signs that it's
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  brewing can also be a harbinger of a risk factor.
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  Now I'm going to talk about the obvious stuff.
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  If you vomit blood, OK, you got a problem.
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  You cough up blood, you got a problem, you have poop blood.
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  Something's going on. I'm talking about the subtle
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  things that kind of can be a red flag, but you may not think of
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  it that way. But first, let's talk about this
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  test. It's the best test, or
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  absolutely the worst. It's the worst test if you're a
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  man contemplating how to manage your prostate cancer.
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  It's an absolute fantastic test if you're a surgeon who makes
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  your living harvesting prostate glands.
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  So what is it? The confirm MDX?
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  This is a test. I'm not kidding you with AI.
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  Can't imagine who made this up. You know what makes me think
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  about the way you generate money in medicine?
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  You do so by instigating fear in healthy people.
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  You cannot turn a profit just taking care of sick people.
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  Hospitals know it. Institutions know it.
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  Sub specialists know it. They must then create a disease
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  state and people who are otherwise totally healthy.
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  Oh, you thought you were healthy?
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  Well, you have elevated cholesterol.
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  That's not a disease. It's normal to have cholesterol.
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  Oh, Oh my goodness. You know, your your blood
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  pressure is running a little high.
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  Well, that's because you keep lowering the bar on me trying to
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  create an entire nation of hypertensives.
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  We better keep an eye on it. I was at a conference and there
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  was a charitable entity that was making a an impact in men's
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  prostate cancer. They're giving free test.
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  Yeah. Free test.
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  That gets me nervous right away. Who's sponsoring the free test?
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  Well, you know who's sponsoring it?
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  So all the drug companies making money by harvesting men of their
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  cancer by imposing it on them. Their threshold for PSA was
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  anything above 2.0. Good Lord, 2.0.
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  Now we've created a patient out of thin air out of somebody
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  totally healthy. So let's go back to the confirm
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  MDX. Here's the first thing I dislike
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  about this test. One must get a prostate biopsy
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  in order to have the test performed.
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  All right, stop right there. I told you biopsies are not
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  needed, that they are harmful, that they can, in my opinion,
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  and when you look at biological reality and common sense, they
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  can disseminate cancer. Furthermore, they don't make a
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  difference whether you're a whatever your Gleason score may
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  be, whatever your status may be on that biopsy does not make a
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  difference regarding the treatment pathway that a man
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  should choose because you should never get your Glen taken out.
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  We talked about that never have radiation.
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  So what about this MDX test? It's horrible because you need a
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  biopsy to get it. Here's the other thing that's
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  all about about it. It is intended for men who have
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  a prostate biopsy that is negative.
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  That is, I'm sorry or I'm happy to report to you, Doctor
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  Pedruti, that we, we stuck a needle of trocar in you 12 times
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  and they were all negative. But, you know, we're still not
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  totally confident that there couldn't be cancer hiding in
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  your gland. So we're going to do this test
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  called confirm MDX and if it's positive, it can pick up
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  evidence of possible cancer in the gland that we might have
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  missed. Yikes.
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  That means 100% of the men that ever get a prostate biopsy can
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  be candidates for this new test. Well, there's a real money maker
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  on top of that. If the test is positive, what do
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  you do then? You're going to, you're going to
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  need more biopsies. The treadmill just got a little
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  faster. I had a patient and recently and
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  the surgeon wanted to do a prostate biopsy and the patient
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  asked a very rational question. Well, what do you do with the
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  result? What happens next?
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  Very important question to ask with any diagnostic test, how
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  you going to use this going forward?
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  And the surgeon said, well, I don't know, that's up to the
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  oncologist. Yeah, we call that pass in the
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  buck. That is an unacceptable answer.
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  If you don't know what you're going to do with that result,
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  don't do the test. We know what they're going to do
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  with it. They're going to recommend some
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  horrible treatment. They just don't want to tell you
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  that because it may make you pause in your decision to get a
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  biopsy. So the confirm MDX.
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  Yeah, scratch that one off my list of stuff because I hate the
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  idea that you got to get a biopsy to get it.
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  All right. What about those subtle signs of
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  cancer? One of the reasons I've chosen
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  not to get the shingle shot. The the used to be Zosta Vax.
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  Now it's forgot the name of it because I don't like it.
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  I don't want to get it. Shingrix, I believe now, no
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  knock on Shingrix. It actually works to prevent
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  shingles, and if you are so inclined, it is a reasonable
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  consideration. But here's why I chose not to
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  get it. I'm not fond of immunizations
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  for disease that's not going to kill me and a disease that they
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  have a treatment for. Shingles will not kill you.
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  And there's a treatment for it. Yeah, it's painful.
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  Yeah, it's annoying. Nobody wants to get it.
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  But here's another reason I choose not to be immunized
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  against it. It's one of my early warning
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  signs for cancer. That's right.
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  If you get shingles, it's because your immune system just
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  took a dip, which can do one of two things that can make you at
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  risk for cancer because your immune system is not working so
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  great. Or maybe you already have cancer
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  and it's knocking the immune system and shingles is the first
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  symptom of it. Now, I'm not trying to instill
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  paranoia, but this early warning system, I kind of like it.
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  So I do not intend to get my shingles shot.
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  What I intend to do is keep my immune system pumping along at a
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  high level. And if I get whacked with
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  shingles, it's going to tell me I got to do more.
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  Yes, keep your weight down. Yes, be on your hormone therapy.
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  Yes, keep on your antioxidant support.
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  Yes, sometimes a beta glucan can be helpful.
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  Make sure your vitamin D is in the range of between 50 and 100.
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  And then when you're past 65, it's time to consider supporting
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  growth hormone. Now that's a whole nother topic,
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  but we'll touch base on it at some point.
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  So shingles is 1 early warning sign.
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  How about another one? Frequent cold sores, same
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  dynamic as that play folks. Immune system on the drop.
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  Now you can get frequent cold sores in the absence of cancer.
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  That's certainly true. But if you're getting with
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  frequency right, when does that hit you guys?
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  It hits you when you're stressed.
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  You didn't sleep well, you just went on a long flight.
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  All of those are immune suppressing phenomena.
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  Now cancer is sneaky. It starts at a cellular level.
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  It's almost impossible to catch it super early.
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  So you always need to be thinking about immune support.
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  That's why you live an anti cancer lifestyle.
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  You don't do it just on occasion.
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  You live the lifestyle. So cold sores if they're
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  happening with frequency. Look into your immune support.
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  What supplements are you on? What's your nutrition like?
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  How's your sleep? How's your stress management?
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  Another subtle 1. Generalized fatigue.
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  And this is one of the reasons I like folks that do a regular
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  structured exercise. One reason you kind of tell when
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  things aren't right sooner than somebody who's a couch potato.
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  So my dad used to be a golfer. He passed away in 85 of of a
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  heart attack on the golf course. But he loved playing it because
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  he said, you know, it's it's my health screening.
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  If I can walk the course, if I can carry the bag, if I can
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  swing the club, I know neurologically I'm intact.
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  My cardiovascular system's working.
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  That's kind of cool. If you're of that ilk you're
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  doing, I don't know, a bike ride every day or like to ride your
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  bike. You like to go for walks all the
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  time. You're going to catch stuff
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  earlier than the person that never pushes the envelope
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  because you're going to feel it all of a sudden.
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  Used to be able to walk a mile and like 12 minutes and now
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  you're doing like like 14. Something's going on.
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  Listen to your body. Generalized muscle pain.
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  I'm talking not like you just pull the hamstring, but all of a
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  sudden the joints in the body and the muscles are aching.
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  Cancer is inflammatory. Inflammation can cause myalgia,
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  muscle pain, joint pain. Wait two to three weeks if you
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  pull the muscle or have a joint issue issue.
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  If it doesn't get better, investigate.
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  So I'd be on the lookout for that.
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  Another one, your gut. You should poop with formed
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  stool almost all the time, except for when things are
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  inflamed. Sometimes you know what you did?
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  You went out last night and you had spicy food and you washed it
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  down with four beers. You're not going to have a good
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  day the next day. That's one of those moments,
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  however, of immunologic weakness.
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  You're given the cancer a little chance.
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  Suppose you're that way all the time.
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  There's chronic inflammation. Something's going on.
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  Either you are increasing your risk of malignancy because
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  you're living a chronically inflamed life, or there's an
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  occult malignancy creating the inflammation within you.
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  Either way, it's something to be addressed.
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  Another mirror for the internal health your skin.
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  Do not overlook chronic eczema. Eczema is an inflammatory effect
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  and cancer can be pro inflammatory.
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  I had a patient of mine who came to see me totally feeling pretty
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  good, had this chronic eczema. He'd had it for a couple of
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  years. In the course of evaluating him,
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  I got a calcium score to look at his coronary arteries and they
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  found lymphoma. We treated his lymphoma.
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  His rash went away, right? Cancer, pro inflammatory skin
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  rash, acne, inflammatory skin reaction.
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  So chronic inflammation signs you can look for.
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  I wish folks, maybe not, but I wish there were a real high
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  quality screening test that could tell us something early on
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  that we could use to help make rational decisions about how to
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  intercede in the setting of cancer.
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  There aren't too many things out there that are worth the price
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  of admission. The idea of fighting cancer
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  early is a little bit of a misnomer.
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  It takes about 30 doubling times, 30 for cancer to get the
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  size, the size of 1 centimeter. That's hard to see on imaging.
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  30 doubling times, you get to 40 doubling times, you're nearly
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  dead. So think about that. 30 doubling
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  times. You're 3/4 of the way to a
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  terminal event in some cases. So what do you do about that?
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  You live the anti cancer lifestyle and you don't put much
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  stock in a lot of imaging, a lot of imaging that's out there.
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  I don't care what imaging it is, it is usually exaggerated in its
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  value. 2 questions to ask. Can you catch something sooner?
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  And the next question will that matter?
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  So we could talk about that some because it's relevant to how you
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  expose yourself. No radiation unless it's Uber
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  critical or you're going to find something out that was essential
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  to make decisions about treatment.
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  Far too often it's done kind of in a cavalier manner.
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  I suppose we could put that as a subtle risk factor for cancer.
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  How many X-rays have you had? Who knows, right?
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  We forget. So caution about risk, about
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  things that expose us to risk. And listen to your body.
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  If it's not right, endeavor to make it so.
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  Get yourself to a higher state of good health.
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  The goal goal is simple. Live past 100 and don't age.
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  Now. That may sound like hyperbole,
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  but they can both be achieved. There's no biological reason why
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  human beings have to age before they die.
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  Everything we presume to be an aging effect is modifiable,
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  reversible, possibly fully fixable.
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  So you don't get away with saying, well, you know, my back
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  hurts and I'm a little tired and my brain's not what it used to
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  be, and, you know, my joints ache.
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  But after all, I am fill in the blank age.
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  No, there's no age at which you should accept the decay of your
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  body. And now you know a few things to
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  look out for. So if you want to get a
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  Shingrix, it's your prerogative. Will you lose a barometer of
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  possible cancer? Maybe, maybe, maybe it would
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  have been cool to have that barometer, but everybody's got
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  to make that call. You know your risk better than
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  the docs do, but don't let them make you think it's a
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  requirement. The immunization I get is the
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  one for disease that will kill me, for which there is no cure
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  nor treatment, and one that I can be reasonably exposed to.
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  All right, folks. Well, that kind of wraps up
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  today's podcast. Thanks a lot for tuning in.
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  Keep up with your own good health.
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  And if you haven't done so already, then buy my book.
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  It's called Fight Cancer Like a Man.
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  It's an Amazon bestseller this week.
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  So thank you very much for that. Now suppose you don't have
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  prostate cancer. Well, you got a prostate or know
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  somebody who does. Be prepared.
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  The book goes into more than just that.
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  It's also a broadview. It's a look at medicine writ
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  large and what's kind of wrong with it and what things we can
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  do to strengthen our resolve so we're not bobbing in like a cork
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  in a stream flowing down the river.
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  Yes, Doctor, I'll do that because you said so we can do
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  better. All right, folks, that's all for
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  now. Thanks a lot.
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  And let's push forward. Stay vital, stay strong.
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  Let's go for 100 plus, but let's go for 120.