Category: My Story

January 24, 2026 Well, it’s been a while since posting. I have been traveling extensively, enjoying an awesome Holiday Cruise offered by the Italian Cruise line, MSC. After hearing mixed reviews for MSC, we came away with a very favorable impression. The standard rooms were generously sized, and the upgrade to an unobstructed balcony was…

Best of Science to Everyone ! December 20, 2025 Merry Christmas or other Holiday over the Winter Break. I teach part time and look forward to the week off. I did get a capsule making machine, but I am undecided whether it will be Apigenin or Luteolin as a hand-made supplement. The best to everyone.…

November 26, 2025 Another blogger suggests Luteolin is the better researched and more promising anti PCa micronutrient as compared to Apigenin. And I am already taking large amounts of Punicic Acid through pomegranate seed oil. How do I properly step up either Luteolin or Apigenin to demonstrated levels of PCa cellular kills ? And how…

October 31, 2025 Hi Everyone. Just wanted to report out that my liver enzymes have been normal throughout my 2 years of AS/Veganism/Supplements. In case you haven’t been following the conversation, I got an email from another ASer about his liver enzymes being moderately out of the normal range. I just happened to have my…

September 14, 2025 Hi Everyone. I’m back from my probably once-in-a-lifetime travel summer. It was exhausting as much as it was fun, and I have started my new year at high school math, where I teach part time. May they exhaustion continue? One poster passed along an interesting question that has lead to some new…

August 29, 2025 Closing in on the end of the month and checking out of yet another hotel in London, its a busy and exciting time with my daughter’s wedding on the 30th. I am trying to commit myself to posting something every day for another week or so to the new Reddit PCa AS…

Life is good for me, 20 months into Active Surveillance. I continue to be asymptomatic. My stream has returned to normal and my prostate is 12% smaller, without Finasteride. My PSA was over 6, now it’s 3. My 1.4 cm lesion PIRADS 4 on MRI 1 vanished on MRI 2 a year later, at the…

July 4, 2005 Well, it’s been a while and I have some new news. I have been focusing on PSO, luteolin, and elegiac acid, with a smattering of other supplements. I have taken out the Rosemary / Ursolic Acid. I have two types of PSO, and I chose one to go with. Another AS-oriented individual…

April 29, 2025 Who would think after a long break not posting anything, then the day after the April 28th post, I get a reply to a 5 month old social media post where the poster talks about his Dad who was diagnosed at 63 with PCa who did something similar to what I am…

February 21, 2025 Well, Good news and bad news. While the new lesion was benign, and there is no signs of metastatic activity, although microscopically anything could be happening. Unfortunately, four random cores in the vicinity of the original tumor were 3/4. Three of those were 10% Grade 4 and one was 20% Grade 4.…

January 25, 2025 update Well, for one, it’s my twin daughters birthday. They helped me get this site going and encouraged me along the way. My second biopsy is February 7. It’s not necessary like the first one since my tumor is low suspect for PC, but since I am already on AS, I will…

Final Update made on December 29, 2024 Happy New Year Everyone. This final week has been filled with excitement along with continued guarded optimism. After spending 3 days on holiday with my daughters who came from afar to visit and after me cheating a little on my diet, but having my supplements packed for the…

Further Research on Rosemary Month 11 has some time off for me from teaching, and I have become more curious about Rosemary. In particular, I have wondered about getting a ground version for more thorough ingestion of the ursolic acid it has been meant to replace.  But the closer I have looked at Rosemary, the…

Work keeps me busy, so I am combining months. Month 9 starts with a return to teaching. It will be Calculus, PreCalculus and co-teaching an Integrated Math class, September through Mid December. So I finally have a free moment and am reporting out at the end of October for both months. Month 10 ends with…

Following-Up with My Care Team Part One Month 8 starts with my Urologist Video-conference. We have upgraded to face-to-face grainy video.  He had to admit that a drop from 6.4 to 4.7 to 3.3 was highly unusual, especially since I experienced no other drops in 8 years. Again he speculates, “Could it be that drastic…

Well, I couldn’t wait any longer.  Even though my urologist meeting was 3 or 4 weeks out, I went ahead and readied myself for the next PSA test and had it done.  The highlight of month 7 was getting the 3.3 Score !  I can’t wait to discuss it with my doctors.  Two significant drops…

Month 6 also starts with just steady-as-she-goes reordering, pill counting, and oil concoction creation/ordering and drinking/eating. I read Rapeseed Oil improves the bioavailability of ursolic acid, that great prostate cancer killer. (Effect and mechanism of edible oil co-digestion on the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of ursolic acid) And this Rapeseed Oil comes in a glass bottle…

Month 5 has me tiring of making my own tomato sauce. I turned to Rao’s Homemade.   The ingredients list is simple. It comes in a glass bottle, and BJs has it at a decent price. So I start buying them and eat my broccoli florets raw and dip them in Rao’s. The broccoli is best…

Month 4 begins with the teleconference with my urologist, and he says congratulations on the PSA number drop. He is less worried for me. I am officially on Active Surveillance (AS).  He also suggests it can be somewhat common to see one drop, but in my case, I have never had my PSA drop since…

Month 3 is the third and final month before my next PSA test. How will all this university research-based knowledge work out? I learned about the Pritikin Studies and their Institute. While I only skimmed their overall diet which seems a little on the severe side, I learned about four different types of research:  1)…