Does Sugar Feed Prostate Cancer? Does Fatty/Adipose Tissue Attract Cancer? | Mark Moyad, MD, MPH
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- Mark Moyad, MD, MPH, explains that prostate cancers, unlike many other cancers, tend to feed on amino acids and fats rather than sugar. However, he goes on to explain that it is impossible to reduce what a tumor needs to grow to any one element of a person's diet and clarifies that improving one's health, in general, through diet and exercise may inhibit the risk of developing prostate cancer and the growth of prostate cancer.
0:10 There had been an understandable urge to discover one element in diet and nutrition, the cessation of which would inhibit the growth of cancer and destroy it. With most cancers, sugars have been used to find cancers in imaging studies, and so the oversimplified conclusion has been that "sugar feeds prostate cancer" and that by stopping sugar intake one can kill the cancer.
1:06 In prostate cancer researchers have found that using sugars for imaging studies is useless. They use amino acids (proteins) and fats instead. However, it is also not as simple as saying "proteins and fats feed prostate cancer" and by stopping their intake one can kill prostate cancer.
2:15 Going back to the example of sugar, when considering the growth of cancer it is more relevant to consider an individual's blood sugar levels than it is to consider the consumption of sugar. Having high blood sugar causes the body to produce hormones that feed cancer in a much more significant way than having the occasional doughnut, for example.
3:50 Researchers are beginning to believe that adipose tissue (fat tissue) plays a role in increasing the aggressiveness of prostate cancer by releasing certain hormones, cytokines, and growth factors.
5:10 This is all especially important to consider since weight gain is a common side effect of androgen deprivation therapy. Special emphasis needs to be placed on maintaining a healthy weight.
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Didn’t answer the question. All that ranting but does sugar feed Prostate Cancer?
he did. Only when your blood sugar is high..circa 2 min 50
@@colfer222 So the answer is yes and no... LOL
The answer he gave is that high insulin feeds Prostate cancer, not sugar directly. 16 hrs of Fasting will reduce the duration that Insulin is present in the blood. Check out other videos on benefits of fasting.
Oh, meat increases absolute risk of bowl cancer by 1 percent. Now prostate cancer by ? This is silly.
I make the distinction between temporary high blood sugar levels, and more or less permanent levels. Nothing is going to happen to prostate cancer by eating one M&M, but the problem is that nobody eats just one. They also don't eat them once a year. The steady stream of sugar (a problem of amount and frequency) over time obviously raises blood sugar levels, but also insulin levels, and if you check back with him later you may find that it's the insulin causing all the problems. Like he said, it's a growth factor, and few people are educated to know what that means. Once we hit insulin resistance, we are really going down a painful path over time. I think drinking milk can introduce lots of growth factor, plus the pesticides, and so vigilance is required to not follow conventional wisdom in diet.
My PSA just came in at 3.8. Jump from 2.6 in 12 months. Family history with a brother who had an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Immediately, on OMAD and no dairy. Also no sugar. Glucose was 92. But, dropping the weight way down is a no brainer. This modern lifestyle is killing us. If I die of cancer, I go out swinging.
This is exactly my story. On OMAD for past one year. Enjoying the freedom of not having to eat three meals and two snack sessions a day. Lost 40lbs and feel and look 20 years younger.
Hey how are you doing nowadays?
Hmmm 80% of the men I went thru Prostrate Cancer Radiation treatment with were not fat at all. My PSA number went from 4 to 7 to 4 to 7 to 10. Stage 4 Prostate Cancer. Now. 0.03. .. two Testosterone pills and 45 radiation treatments over 9 weeks. Have zero Testosterone and no sex drive whatsoever. Hmm I don't care. Not depressed gained 3 pounds , got my drive back to get things done. Spouse of 50 years and I are still in love.
Check the seed oils, and diet for excess flour and carbs.
I know two men in their 50s with prostate cancer who were both skinny.
My PSA a year ago was 6.8. Did Keto for 3 months and low-carb for 9 months, my PSA is now 3. My LDL cholesterol is 40 down from 90.
That's great work, but there are two things you need to know. One, PSA is no longer a marker for prostate problems. It only is with doctors who are VASTLY out of date with the research. The research shows that PSA is tied to overall body inflammation. Of course, the prostate is part of the overall count, but you get why they don't use it as a marker only for prostate any more. Lowering the PSA is good feedback about your overall inflammation level though, and that is crucial to keep low. Second thing is that there are two types of LDL, and one of them is not evil. Lowering LDL may be a good thing depending on how you do it, but not so great if it's not done well. We need LDL. It's not necessarily a poison. They have been misrepresenting this and the PSA thing for years. I think PSA was demoted from a prostate marker around 2006 or maybe even earlier, but many doctors don't give a damn. Whatever makes them money on biopsies and surgery!
I have to agree with 100%, at last someone who thinks like I do. PSA is only a guide to the level of inflammation in the body and mine has been coming down since I started using Vitamin D3 at 10000IUs twice day. My doctor cannot work it out and I don't tell him because he only believes in drugs. My PSA started going up since I had three covid jabs and an influenza shot all of which cause massive inflammation. I also use Lugol's solution as it is believed to prevent prostate cancer and breast cancer. Some countries have made it illegal on a false pretext influenced by big pharma who do not want cheap competition because you cannot make money out of healthy people.@@zeppelinmexicano
@@zeppelinmexicano Do you have anything better? It has saved a lot of lives and yes led to a lot of unnecessary biopsies and surgeries too.
Great information 👍
This was excellent information. Thank you so much!
Excellent video, and great speakers! I'd love to hear more.
Been on a Keto diet for a month. Its great to not be a slave to sugar. Feeling great lost 7 lbs in a few weeks and I'm a slim guy.
be careful with the fats in Keto
Good for you!
Fats are fine. Sugar and carbs kill
As always great info. Thanks
I keep learning facts that are new to me thanks to this channel. Bless you for making this information available.
thank you !
Thank you thank you. You were so clear.
You don't mention specifics; where does Finasteride fit into negative affects, dealing with BPH treatment
This short video is important and does convey key information that my urologist did not convey when he put me on Lupron. The hot flashes were interesting and unexpected. The effect on my weight was observed by me but still quizzical as I had not been informed of this outcome. The results against my PSA tests were extremely positive. I took myself off the hormonal therapy because I did not like the general concerns about how it was affecting my overall health. Perhaps it is all in my head, but I continued to have flashes for about a year after stopping. And I did change urologists because of communication difficulties with his nurse. But focusing on insulin seems spot on and is a significant step to health. So combining heart health and prostate cancer by eliminating the enlarged belly fat is a no- brainer for me. Dr. Eric Berg has had some interesting videos on cancer recently that touch on insulin.
I hate it when cancer doctors tell patients to EAT WHAT THEY WANT
Check out Dr Pradis Jamnadas on utube…great communicator regarding insulin
Dr. Berg is a god-send and has helped me.
Wow.. This way better than the old, outdated low-fat advice.
This shows, imho, that insulin resistance is the problem, caused by abundant sugar and refined carb intake, worsened by oxidative stress caused by oxidized vegetable oils..
The often advised low fat products are highly processed stuff, "enriched" with sugars. Insulin is not only putting glucose in your cells, but is also a growth factor.
Do your own research and dive deep! My advice would be:
Reduce intake of refined carbs, study keto (may be vegetarian, carnivore, low carb). Bread, cake, cookies, pasta, fruit juices and soda's, that's all refined carbs. Nuts, seeds, vegetables, legumes, meat are all okay, you have to find your own way.
Whole foods, not packaged processed products,
Omega-3 (fish is healthier can fish oils, because not oxidized). Avoid all seed oils, except avocado, coconut, olive, all preferably cold pressed virgin oils. Fresh seeds are fine, they should not be rancid.
Ghee, butter, coconut are best for higher temperatures. (do your own research)
Vitamin D3, at least 4000 IU daily (do your own research, I take 10.000 IE and my levels checked regularly, now 70 ng/ml)
Vitamin K2 (do your own research)
Magnesium (do your own research)
Iodine (do your own research)
Selenium (1 or 2 Brazil nuts per day, do your own research :)
Zinc (you know the mantra by now ;)
Have to be careful with zinc and prostate health
@@RH-xd3nx you mean in case prostate cancer had been diagnosed, or in general?
@@RH-xd3nx Ah, I wouldn't take more than a few tens of milligrams of zinc per day.. Currently I use 30mg of zinc (as methionine) with 2 mg of copper together with Quercitin.
@@rredding well I've read a few articles stating that high levels of zinc can promote prostate cancer. Remember zinc is a testosterone inhibiting vitamin..I'm no doctor, just something I've read about a while back.
@@RH-xd3nx Ok, thank you. Maybe it's interesting to also do a search on boron and sex hormones.. It seems to activate a regulating mechanism. Boron in a way also interacts with the calcium/magnesium ratio and has more interesting properties.
OK so then what's the solution to not gaining weight? Firmagon (1 mth) & Erleada for breakfast. I'm so tired all the time and my feet feel like they are dragging along. My belly gets bigger all the time. Perhaps some amphetamine would help - then I would be more active and loose weight and therefore live longer.
Its glucose and glutamine that cancer loves. What you have mentioned is a type of glutamate called glutamate carboxypeptidase II
Thanks 👍🏾
Very annoying to learn at Minute 5 that I should have been warned about hormone therapy destroying metabolism and encouraging rapid weight gain. Had I known I would have fought to keep off the 10 pounds I have gained and which I have now found difficult to reduce since starting RT as well.
I'm on HT myself (see my post above), but have experienced no weight gain. Interesting that reactions can be different for different men.
Screening feeds prostate cancer not sugar.
Screening as in targeted and random biopsies?
*Recording volume levels are waaaay off!*
Viewed that Fasting works by starving cancerous cell. I have nothing to lose, but weight.
My brother and father died from PC so I'm doing my best to lower my risk. My PCP (NP(woman) doesn't believe in doing PSA test so the urologist does.
Fire your PCP and get another one.
@@RichRich1955 you can do psa screening yourself. Go online and do lab test search. I use ulta
excellent.
Interesting video. Some thoughts.
I was diagnosed in March with metastatic prostate cancer. Gleeson 5-4. PSA 525. Have never had high insulin.
I'm 60. Very active. Was 195 lbs. 6'2".
Am now on UBEQA and Orgovyx (horonal therapy) and began Lutetium trial (4 infusions so far).
I continue to work out, walk and run, etc. PSA now 3.4.
I'm very curious about the weight gain often mentioned as I haven't experienced it at all. My weight is down to 169 lbs. I've cut out carbs, sugars, and eat plant-based diet (which I mostly did before the diagnosis, anyway), but is research suggesting there is weight gain in spite of dietary adjustments?
If I'm not eating anything that typically adds to weight (is stored as fat), how can weight increase? Is the weight gain a (mostly) psychological component --eating because we're depressed? Or is it that the menopausal-like impact is lowering the body's capacity to burn?
I do experience hot flashes, some fatigue, some depressive episodes, and these, for me, are the most difficult challenges.
T is down to almost nothing, but still sexually active (though not as strong as before).
thanks for the story
Discusses luperon
less then 1,000 likes? The dude is telling you how to fight prostate cancer and 57,693 views has 983 likes?
They started me on hormone treatment with very little review with me. They did not tell me they could treat me first to keep from getting large breasts. Terrible fat around my middle. Terrible day long sweats that soak my clothes. Not just "night sweat" but day and night all the time. At 75 I was not told my life would be terrible with treatment. Could not say it would really do anything to help. Bothers my heart and even causes pacemaker problems.
How big are your tits? What size bra?
Sorry to hear of the terrible side effects you have experienced with hormone therapy. I have recently been diagnosed with low grade prostate cancer ( Gleason 6) am currently on active surveillance rather than any active treatment. I hopefully can avoid any invasive treatment in the future if I am able to keep it low grade. In any event, I have no intention of undergoing hormone therapy or even surgery for that matter.
I got my own blood tests done and found that instead of a fasting level of insulin between the normal range of 2.6-24.9 it was 66 and my my fasting glucose was 107 and A1C was 5.2....my psa was 11 (2 rounds of copra brought it down to 8.2). so, most of the psa was associated with bah (prostate size 180cc) which I believe was caused by high insulin levels....I went on Avodart and Rapiflo for 18 months and the psa dropped to 4.8......not sure what my next move is (I have lost trust in the urologist and hospital....one minute the want to do a RASP then they decide on Aquablation...but after covid delay they say they don't like bleeding from Aquablation...so they are now wanting to do RASP....I am not on board with this at this point.
How did you proceed?
@@rredding went on Keto ...but my insulin stays in the 40s
@@universaldonor3100 I answered, with a link to literature. I notice that CZcams removes texts containing a link.
I suppose that you omit carbs, sweet fruit and only use limited proteins.
Did you have a scan of the pancreas and if so, did it look normal? (I am not a physician, but interested I the subject, like yourself)
@@universaldonor3100check healthline: keto diet may increase type 2 diabetes risk
This looks unfamiliar to me, I believe that keto should always improve an insulin resistance condition..
@@rredding the recommended amount of protein is certainly a moving target if you use the 'experts' on youtube as a measure
I had prostate cancer, and if it helps, I grew up on sugar. I a,ways look for the sweet before the main meal on the menu. I have cut it as much as possible since my operation.
That's a tough task! Stay strong!
Can You give me the details of your diagnosis and medication? My father have PC .So am researching for better treatment for my father.
Great great video, just started cutting out sugar completely now i could maybe have the odd biscuit with a cup of tea?
Should be fine! Per 2:27-3:17
Thank you!👍
Probably, but what about a regular biscuit with an odd cup of tea?
@@burgerman9880 Or an even biscuit.
They have me going for a Prostate CAT san tomorrow with Iodine injection for contrast. I wonder if either the radiation involved ( 5 rads I heard ) or the Iodine ... will aggravate and activate my Prostate cancer. It makes me wonder if the scan is worth doing. As well, next week they have me going for a Bone scan which involves Nuclear Medicine that you have to wait four hours for it to permeate your blood system and I assume your Prostate in particular. Any feedback would be great ly appreciated.
I would highly recommend against owning it as “my” it’s not yours and doesn’t define you, you’ll beat this thing.
My PSA is high since I was 40 years old. Now I am 50 and PSA is 4. My doctor is worried. I do ultrasonography every year. It is ok. What should I do ?
Hello, our helpline should be able to help you with that question. You can find our contact info here: pcri.org/helpline
Fasting would help starve it
Is honey safe?
Hello, our prostate cancer helpline can help with your question. Please feel free to contact us here: pcri.org/helpline
Makes me not want to treat it.
Go Keto or Carnivore.
If you get slapped with testosterone deprivation for more than 3 months get your self a penus pump or be ready to suffer permanent atrophy.
Just a couple
Things I wish my doctor would have told me early on.
Sounds like he's saying long term fasting and OMAD is most effective. Fair statement?
He says at 2:00 that they inject fatty acids and protein before the scan because the prostate cancer gobbles them up and lights up the scan.
Another opinion...Will the controversy, of diet, ever go away!!I am sick of it 😒!!!!
3 yrs after prostate surgery removal my PSA is .17. Can that be reduced by wt loss and lowered blood sugar?
Yes it can and also supplementation, I’m in a similar situation myself. How have your numbers progressed?
@@eldonscott9 my numbers jumped quickly to .38 in 6 months so I had a PMSA scan which showed it spread to a lymph node....stage 4.
I have had 5 weeks of radiation and have two weeks left. Ask me again in a month.
@@tnvol5331 I’m sorry to hear that. If you’re interested, there’s a book How to Starve Cancer that would provide you with some insight into some things that you can do to support and supplement your treatment. I’m wishing you the very best.
@@eldonscott9 where can I find it?
@@Thepunisher1010 I think he's referring to "Eat to Beat Disease" by Dr. William Li (that title or similar). I just got the book (starting chemo for Stage 4 PCa) so I don't know exactly what the recommendations are, but I think Dr. Li has a TED talk and some videos here on CZcams. Good luck.
I wonder if you have started reviewing alternate less invasive protocols like, Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, Sodium Bicarbonate and many chlorine dioxide .... Not as much money for the cancer industry, but worth looking into a little more seriously. Diet and exercise does play a huge role.
refined starches, carbs (sugar is a highly refined carb) is the best* way to gain weight ... as all these contributors request high insulin, and insulin is the key hormone (there are others) to storing fat.
*best is a weird word. there is no best way to gain weight.
all grains are being metabolized into opiates, and should be avoided by all mammals (that is why industry feeds them to animals. weight gain before slaughter). think about it.
anyone with cancer .. of any type should be radically reducing their grain consumption, and increasing their healthy fat content, as LF is associated with worse cancer chances.
unfortunately for any industrialized country, there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate .. and the phytates block essential nutrient absorption (zinc in particular).
many mental health patients get better when restricting flour products .. similar with diabetics .. seizures, etc. this has been known for over 2,500 years.
look into ketones.
so "yes" sugar and simple carbs do indirectly feed cancer if the patient is pre-diabetic or diabetic where insulin is high and the body can't bring the blood sugar down to "normal" level of 80.
Giving thanks to dr osoria is something I will always take personal because he brought me back to my full Health
You talk about sugar ? ???? Sugar destroy all humanity ! All people know but it’s the first drug we can never leave until our died !
So true! It is highly addictive and greedy food manufacturers know this. It's found in practically everything!!
U say. The glucose in the pet scan is no good for checking cancer but they give it to people to scan the prostrate cancer so what u talkin about
No glucose, one that’s from those high sugar cravings
I dissagree.
They detected prostate cancer in my body through a pet scan.
Ummm…maybe it’s the insulin. Hyper insulinemia.
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In other words...sugar does feed cancer, just prostate cancer is different. 😊
Prostate cancer feeds on testosterone, not sugar. I’ve been doing Keto for 4 years and I’m being diagnosed for prostate cancer. The testosterone blockers may slow the spread of cancer but it can adapt and circumvent the blockers because the adrenal gland will make testosterone regardless of treatment and feed the tumor. Yes watch your weight and seek advice from an oncologist.
Sounds like a dog barking- Dr. Mark Sholz never does get a chance to say something, because he's being upstaged.
Comes off as a showboating narcissist.
Informative. However, I resent the notion that a prostate cancer patients are heterosexual males. Many of us are not and we should never be left out of the discussion.
Agreed, lesbian women should also be considered.
Not "many".... perhaps just 2 - 3 % of men.
Face palm. 😒
Giving thanks to dr osoria is something I will always take personal because he brought me back to my full Health