80: The Effect of Diet and Lifestyle on Prostate Cancer - Stephen Freedland, M.D.
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Men and their loved ones often ask what can be done to decrease their risk of getting aggressive prostate cancer and improve their overall outcomes if they do end up getting prostate cancer.
In honor of September’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, I’m happy to present you with one of our most popular episodes from the archives, which features Dr. Stephen Freedland, a prostate cancer expert, and focuses on the role that diet and lifestyle play in the development and progression of prostate cancer. He will bring you up to speed today with all you need to know. Stay tuned for more!
Dr. Stephen Freedland is a true visionary on the role of lifestyle and diet in prostate cancer. He wears many different hats. He is the Director of the Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle, Associate Director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer for Education and Training, Professor in the Division of Urology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and a staff physician at the Durham VA Medical Center.
His approach to cancer prevention and awareness focuses on treating the whole patient, not just the disease, by combining traditional western medicine with complementary holistic interventions. His research interests include the role of diet, lifestyle, and obesity in prostate cancer development and progression, prostate cancer amongst racial groups, and restratification for men with prostate cancer.
He has published over 600 studies. He sits on the editorial board for Cancer Prevention Research, European Urology, International Journal of Urology, and Nature Reviews Urology, among others. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief for Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. He completed his urology residency training at UCLA and a fellowship in urologic oncology at Johns Hopkins. Before joining Cedars-Sinai, he was at Duke University as an associate professor in the Division of Urology.
Disclaimer: The Prostate Health Podcast is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be construed as medical advice. By listening to the podcast, no physician-patient relationship has been formed. For more information and counseling, you must contact your personal physician or urologist with questions about your unique situation.
Show highlights:
The link between obesity and aggressive prostate cancer. Men could potentially reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer by losing weight. Dr. Freedland talks about whether there is a particular diet that works best for everyone with prostate cancer. The truth regarding the association between a high-fat diet and the risk of getting prostate cancer. Avoiding sugar is the only area where all diets concur. Dr. Freedland recommends following whole food diets. What we know at this point about links to sugar and prostate cancer. The biggest challenge that prostate cancer patients face with their diet. Dr.Freedland shares some tips and advice for sticking to a healthy diet. What Dr. Freedland recommends for his patients in terms of exercise and habits for a healthy prostate. Links:
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I'm in my 5th year of surviving Prostate Cancer. Surgery, Recurrence, PSMA-PET Positive two local lymph nodes; radiation, 18 months Lupron. Now 5 months on the Carnivore diet and I have never felt better in my life! No joint pain anymore. Way stronger than when eating plants. Eager to workout now. Thriving as a human. Testosterone back to normal. PSA remains non detectable.
Just got tested again, Testosterone continues to increase to 550 and PSA remains undetectable.
You Will Be Suprised At What You Will Give Up When Your Life Depends On It.
As I am a diabetic person My physician asked me to do a PSA checkup test with Hemoglobin A1C .The result was a little bit high 5.54 ng/ml , and he referred me to a specialist. An MRI and a biopsy later, I discovered I was a 65 year old living with a Gleason 6 prostate cancer. I'm so grateful that my Doctor took action, knew that there was a history of prostate cancer in my family and encouraged me to do the test. I now can do active surveillance and get on with my life. Now I changed all my life style and start ketogenic diet In addition to I stop eating dairy foods and sugar and rice and and all products that feeds cancer since 3 months also I practice prolonged DRY fasting about 17 hrs for one month and i do two Psa tests one after 2 months and it was 3.54ng/ml and the other one after dry fasting and it was 2.7ng/ml . I lost about 12 KGS since 3 months That encourage me to complete fasting hoping that tumor marker will give me more good results.
Thanks for sharing your story. Congrats on being proactive to improve your dietary and prostate health!
Please can you help me to understand what happened with my case… when I choose active surveillance l hope after awhile that my prostate gland will stay in this recent stage and the PSA results will not increased…but what happened after practicing dry fasting for more than one month was amazing thePsa values total and free decreased from 5.54 to 2.7 for total and from 0.58 to 0.26 for free..... My second question if I go ahead with anther dry fasting period about 10 days per month the PSA may decrease to approach from the normal records
Because most people will not give up cookies, cakes, and candies, it would be helpful if the physicians would name which brand names are better than others. Certainly, oatmeal and peanut butter cookies have less sugar content than Oreos.
Not necessarily true
I was diagnosed with stage 3 prostate cancer. Stopped eating any product with refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup 8 months ago. Just need to do it. No excuses.
Examples of fats that should be consumed with tomatoes?
Virgin olive oil
Fresh Mozzarella cheese or Burrati
Use Ground black pepper with virgin olive oil when cooking tomatoes, this helps produce more lycopean which is good for prostate cancer. I'm no dietician but I've read this from numerous dieticians.