Tag: exercise

If you’re at midlife or older, chances are you may be facing the “battle of the bulge.” It is common after age 40 to discover creeping weight gain, and the need to be more committed to healthy diet and exercise. Gaining pounds, however, is not as much of an issue as WHERE you’re gaining them... keep reading

If there were a single drug that would offer you a longer, healthy life, would you take the pill? I recently posted an update on metformin, a common diabetes drug that seems to have anti-aging properties; it may also offer some protection against prostate cancer, especially when combined with statins. Another substance called rapamycin has keep reading

What's good for the heart is good for the prostate—and promotes a long life with high health quality. The proof bears this out in abundance... keep reading

Fat is fat, right? Well, not exactly. All fat is not alike. It may surprise you to learn that there are two different kinds of fat, and one of them may actually increase the risk of prostate cancer... keep reading

Are you newly diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) and deciding on a treatment? Are you on Active Surveillance and monitoring your PCa using biomarkers and MRI? Have you had a local treatment, either radical or focal, and are doing annual follow-up as instructed? Do you have advanced PCa controlled by androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)? Do keep reading

How often do you think about your prostate gland? Hopefully, at least once a year, when you schedule an annual exam. That exam should include a PSA blood test and a digital rectal exam (DRE). Other than that, chances are that you go through every day without once thinking about that small gland tucked away keep reading

We hear so much about the most common prostate cancer (PCa) risk factors that it’s hard to believe anything was left off the list. The top risk factors are aging (roughly 60% of PCa cases are diagnosed over age 65), family history of PCa (having a close family relative who had PCa doubles the risk), keep reading

Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is a scary diagnosis. Castration-resistant means that hormone therapy) depriving the body of male hormones) can no longer halt the cancer’s inevitable spread. Thankfully, advances in immunotherapies and other drugs do extend life, and survival for hormone-resistant patients now averages 32 months. However... keep reading

UPDATE: 10/26/2021 Originally published 7/7/2018 Dr. Snuffy Myers may be the world’s champion at durable remission of the prostate cancer (PCa). As a now-retired oncologist and survivor of the disease, he continues to lead, inspire and inform PCa patients. This update emphasizes Key Lifestyle Factor #4 in the original blog, Healthy Diet, based on a keep reading

Question: Does the body naturally kill cancer cells? Answer: Yes, especially if the immune system gets by with a little help from exercise. A multinational team may have decoded a mysterious link between exercise and one of the body’s own resources for destroying cancer cells. In October, 2020, Rundqvist, et al. published “Cytotoxic T-cells mediate keep reading