Vitamin D fights prostate cancer. Be sure to read this very important article by John J. Cannell, M.D.:http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/cancerProstate.shtml To learn more, I recommend a free and quick Medline search (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez ) for papers by “Holick MF.” My interview with Dr. Holick is posted athttp://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v6n6.rtf This may also be useful to you: http://www.doctoryourself.com/dvitamin.htm
Eating a lot of lycopene-rich, fresh tomatoes has been shown to radically reduce your prostate cancer risk. (A Medline search athttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez will bring up dozens of supporting studies.)
Soy products appear to have a special benefit against prostate cancer. Japanese men have especially low death rates from prostate cancer, even thought they get the disease as often as American men do. The Japanese eat a lot of tofu, tempeh, miso, soy milk and other soy foods. Even animals fed a lot of soybeans have far less prostate cancer than others. There are at least two specific substances in soybeans that seem to help fight cancer: genistein and isoflavinoids. These natural chemicals are especially effective against the hormone-dependent cancers, which includes prostate cancer. (Soybean products may lower prostate cancer, Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal, January 12, 1994)
Prostate cancer is very slow growing. Because of this, radical measures such as radiation or surgery are often reasonably postponed. This "watchful waiting," to see if surgery is truly needed, is advocated by more and more doctors. Obviously, regular medical examination and follow-up is important. Although there is question as to whether it actually saves lives, the Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test is one way to monitor the prostate's condition. The actual benefits of surgery and radiation therapy are statistically quite small. After ten years, only slightly more of the treated patients are still alive than those that did nothing at all (Prostate cancer cure questioned, Associated Press, January 27, 1994).
In the mean time, an especially good diet and appropriately generous use of supplements may positively influence the situation. It certainly cannot hurt to have lots of raw salad foods, sprouts, and fresh vegetable juices every day. Natural health research has continually emphasized these measures to help fight cancer. A particularly good example is the work of Max Gerson, M.D. Dr. Gerson used a mostly raw food and fresh vegetable juice diet for cancer patients with remarkably good results. He also used substantial quantities of vitamin supplements. His entire program is set forth in a tremendously valuable book entitled The Gerson Therapy, by Charlotte Gerson and Morton Walker (2001) NY: Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN 1-57566-628-6 (paperback, 371 pages, plus appendixes and index http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html .)
To learn more about how to do the Gerson Therapy, you can start with these pages: http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htmhttp://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonmovie.html
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