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McDougall: Men Should Avoid Prostate Cancer PSA Screening

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Dr. McDougall points out that a popular US television talk show called the Larry King Show was used as an advertising platform to promote very harmful Prostate Cancer PSA Screening with the use of celebrity personalities John McEnroe, Michael Milken, and Dr. Christopher Rose. In that show they recommended that all men over the age of 40 years undergo PSA examinations in order to find prostate cancer. Business, profits, greed… harm.

Dr. McDougall exposed:

Follow the Money

By no coincidence the primary support for early detection of prostate cancer through PSA testing comes from medical trade organizations. The best example is the American Urological Association, representing the special interests of over 16,500 members (mostly people from areas of urology and oncology) and funded by industries such as GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, and many other companies that derive their income from men with prostate cancer.

What these business interests are doing is Disease Mongering

“…is the selling of sickness that widens the boundaries of illness and grows the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. It is exemplified most explicitly by many pharmaceutical industry-funded disease-awareness campaigns—more often designed to sell drugs than to illuminate or to inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health…Disease mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic (induced by a physician) harm.”

Ray Moynihan
Science writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Medical Journal

All this PSA testing and medical treatment is just plain junk, pointless, and useless.

On the surface it would appear that the early detection of cancer in the prostate by any means would result in a longer life for men with less risk of dying from prostate cancer. However, research finds otherwise. The first report from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial on the effect of screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing and digital rectal examination (DRE) on the rate of death from prostate cancer was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, March 26, 2009—PSA and DRE saved no lives.8 The second landmark report, published in the same issue, was from Europe and it showed an absolute reduction of less than 1 death in every 1000 men getting PSA tests.9 There are two reasons why PSA testing fails to save lives: first, extremely few biopsy-proven cancers are life threatening, and second, early detection is a myth.

And the real harms of prostate diagnosis is:

When you agree to take a PSA test you are gambling for the possibility that the test will detect a cancer that can be successfully treated and give you more quality years of life. Think for a moment. You are placing your bet on an extremely small chance of a theoretical benefit that may occur in the far distant future. If your PSA test is positive (there is a 10% chance it will be) and the biopsy results reveal cancer (there is more than a 30% chance it will) then the harms that follow are immediate, real, life changing, and for all men discovered (100%).

Simply being diagnosed with cancer changes a person forever. New policies for health and life insurance are no longer available. Finding desirable employment is less likely. Once the diagnosis is made the label of “cancer victim” sticks for life. Daily reminders come from family, friends, doctor’s visits, and stories in the media about cancer. Worry and anxiety dominate the patient’s and his family’s life. His future becomes a question mark. Every body pain is interpreted as a recurrence. The cancer victim becomes isolated from the rest of the world.15

Then there are the side effects from the treatments. The Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study reported that urinary leakage (incontinence) was more common with radical prostatectomy (35%) than with radiation therapy (12%) or androgen deprivation (11%). Erectile dysfunction occurred frequently after all treatments (radical prostatectomy, 58%; radiation therapy, 43%; androgen deprivation, 86%).16 Incontinence means wet pants, diapers, and sometimes lifelong need for a catheter in the man’s bladder. The results of the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study are conservative. Likely, more than 80% of prostate cancer patients develop erectile dysfunction, regardless of whether they have surgery or external radiation therapy. And these are only two of the many side effects that occur from the best that medicine has to offer the man with a positive PSA test.

Please read up on the full McDougall Newsletter Larry King Live on Prostate Cancer Screening (PSA)

Tuberculosis Fighting Diet of my 8 year old boy this 1st day of September

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This is a run down of my eldest boy’s food intake for the day.  This boy has been through the beam ray treatments so any tuberculosis germs should be obliterated.  He’s not coughing and he has no mucus no cold.  We got rid of all colds and coughs in the house when I clamped down on the diet to an almost paleo diet.

Today they left early for school and the boys were able to play for 20 minutes in the playground and exposed to sunlight.

Breakfast was rambutan fruit plus 1 fertilized raw duck egg yolk.

In school my boy had for lunch lightly seared in ghee (3 seconds per side) – tanguige fish filet from a 5 kilo whole fish I bought yesterday.

Strange he said he ate no merienda.  We ran out of rambutan.  The kids did drink some freshly squeezed maasim (sour?) dalandan juice plus water when I got home around 5:30pm.

Dinner was a feast of oysters in several disinfecting dips: freshly squeezed lemon + some sea salt, sukang tuba (coconut vinegar), sukang iloko (sugar cane vinegar from ilokos)

I supplemented his dinner with freshly killed raw beef bone marrow and freshly killed raw beef sirloin.

He ate mostly oysters.  He loves oysters.  I remember gorging on a lot of oysters a few months ago until I hit my limit.  Seems my boy hasn’t hit his limit yet.  Maybe my boy is zinc deficient.  Zinc deficiency makes children fail to thrive.  Maybe this is why he likes oysters so much.  Now he wants me to buy live oysters in the shell instead of shelled oysters in a bag.

Last night he had halaan (clams) plus white rice with raw duck egg yolks on the rice.  Trying the high everything diet on him once a week.

I have been supervising his major meals every single day to the point of spoonfeeding him and me doing the marketing and food preparation / food preparation supervision.

Maybe every single day of nutritious meals will make him bounce up in weight.  Right now he is still slim, but I noticed he is very active and very strong and very playful.

Raw oysters, raw beef bone marrow, raw beef sirloin

Raw oysters, raw beef bone marrow, raw beef sirloin

2 Day Seminar on Intensive & Microbial Organic Farming by Gil Carandang: Sept 12-13, 2009

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Master organic farmer Gil Caranding of Herbana Farms will be holding a 2-day Seminar on Intensive & Microbial Organic Farming. Learn to grow your own microorganisms like Lacto bacilli. New technology trends like 10 day composting, 2 kilograms compost turn to tea fertilizes 1 hectare land. Make your own fertilizers & pesticides, including organic certification.

When: September 12-13, 2009
Where: Km 59 Barangay Burol, Calamba City.
Price: 4,000 pesos per person
Included: Board and Lodging

Contact: Gil Carandang +63-929-269-8602
Website: http://www.herbanafarm.com
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Santol Season in the mountains of Sierra Madre

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Yesterday we went up to the Sierra Madre mountain hotel and on the way back a few meters from the hotel was a fruit stand. The very first fruit stand. Fruits ought to be cheap here, and it was cheap!

Yummy santol… free taste… 10 pesos per kilo! 150 pesos for a whole sack of 40 kilos!

Of course we bought a whole sack!

These wild mountain santol are superior to the santol we have that grows in our own yard. These are delightfully tasty. It just so happened that while in the hotel grounds we picked our own 2 wild santols from a tree and it was good.

The vendors said they just asked their teens to pick fruit from the next mountain just nearby at even higher elevation… cool… I’d like to go there too.

What was even cooler was I asked the couple of they had accommodations for tourists like me in their little village and they said I could freely sleep over just for friendship. Whoa… nice invite. I think I’ll bite soon enough.

Lady bagging some santol. From wikipedia.

Lady bagging some santol. From wikipedia.

Rambutans in season July August and this September

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Freshly picked rambutan

Freshly picked rambutan

The whole family and just about every Filipino must be on a rambutan craze the past few weeks. Prices have gone down to 50 pesos per kilo or even less in the Metro Manila area. Rambutans have been in season since July, then this August and maybe until September. Yummy. If you haven’t had your fill of rambutan, get some today!Continue Reading

Helping someone in need to cure his Lupus

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Last night I was talking to my wife’s cousin and he was very concerned about the health of his old friend. At only 24, his old friend had been suffering from lupus and showing no improvement, all detriment with drugs and steroids. He was now open to any alternatives. And asked me what I can suggest for lupus.

First off, these diagnostics by doctors in pigeon holing diseases isn’t completely right. Yes a brand such as lupus is a shortcut to describe symptoms, but we must get the total picture by asking the patient himself to describe all his symptoms.

The cure for lupus should be easy. First off all, if his system is enraged and totally engaged because of the drugs and steroids then it must be calmed down homeopathically. I’d suggest seeing Dr. Divina Hey-Gonzales so she can use her homeopathic skills to calm down the man’s immune system.

Then do the best diet strictly, the diet that absolutely stops all auto-immune and auto-inflammatory diseases: The Paleo Diet… whether raw or cooked. If this man is a newbie, rare meats first then gradually transition to raw.

Check out Loren Howe as he reads the results of the study done by a French doctor on his various patients using the Paleo Diet. With LUPUS he got 13 cases out of 13… 100% improvement.

The cure for Lupus is in the execution then. Follow the Cure Manual at www.curemanual.com and be well in a few weeks.

Plan to give my boys more daily sunlight, go to school earlier

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My 8 year old boy who was diagnosed with tuberculosis is progressing well. He has finished a full course of beam ray treatments which should get rid of the TB germs… kill them all; and his diet is now a paleolithic diet with daily raw or seared grass fed batangas beef and on a high fat and low carb diet. My boy’s carbs only come from fruits.

The other thing with have to fix is his daily dose of sunlight. Prospects are not good right now due to the rainy season. But we have thought of a way to give him the opportunity to get better sunlight… adjust his going to school schedule.

Currently he and his brother with the nannie and the driver leave around 7:15am which gets them to school just exactly on time before 8am. We need to make them leave before 7am everyday so he and his brother have some 30 minutes to play in the playground. Make them wear sandos to get maximum sun exposure. Their real outfit is given to them to change into just 5 minutes before bell time. The nannie can do that.

Sounds like a good plan. Get some 20 minutes of sun exposure everyday.

In the meantime we got good sun exposure today when we went up the Sierra Madre mountains and I had the kids running around topless while my wife played the harp in the open field. The kids had lots and lots of running fun. I shouted to the top of my lungs at the mountains and succeeded in having the boys shout their loudest as well. Shouting at the top of your voice is one of the techniques taught by Vander Gaditano to fix lung problems.