Strategies Overview

To understand HOW and WHY I order and take certain things together, and what actually made me decide to undertake this entire processes see these two links:

This is HOW I am doing it .

This is WHY I am doing it .

What follows now is an explanation of how certain supplements work according to the research, and how some supplements work well together.

After one year of month-to-month activities and sporadic educational posts, it’s time for an overview. Making my two videos of “What I Do” has triggered this desire to review everything that is going on and create some sort of overall summary.

Pursuant to that, I want to 1) break what I am doing into manageable pieces, 2) figure the costs of each piece separately, and 3) make a call on the effectiveness of each piece in fighting prostate cancer.

I want to subdivide my overall strategy of ‘everything, all at once’ into subgroups of strategic actions that either stand alone, or work together as a group of actions. The time may come in the not too distance future that if my PSA is driven low enough, and my MRI shows I have some leeway in actions, that I might switch subgroups on and off to potentially see the relative effectiveness of any particular strategy. In addition, the ‘everything, all at once’ strategy is expensive. At first with a PSA of 6.4, I had a ‘no expense is too much’ approach to this process, but the time has come once again for some serious reevaluation, a so-called taking stock of where I am at this time.

So what I am doing seems to naturally fall into the following categories such that most of the research I have been analyzing adopt only one of the strategies at a time. Research science often follows the notion of “Ceteris Paribus”, which from Latin translates to “all other things remaining constant”. This means that scientists often set up an experiment where two groups are created and examined. One groups adopts one of the Strategies, while the other group adopts no strategy. So only the one difference is enforced in the “Test Group” while the “Control Group” does not experience that difference. Then both groups are measured for a particular outcome (such as PSA number, or cancer cell deaths, etc.) If the two outcomes differ, then this scientific method makes the claim that the one experience difference is cause of the different outcomes. I feel I cannot follow the notion of “Ceteris Paribus” because I believe I don’t have the time to test them individually. So I introduced them one at at time as seen in my monthly posts, but I keep them up with modifications. Currently I am following all ten Strategies at once.

1. Clean Water, Air, and Food Strategy
2. Ursolic Acid Strategy
3. Pomegranate / Pomegranate Seed Oil Strategy
4. Flaxseed Strategy
5. Resveratrol Strategy
6. Curcumin Strategy – I know this is good. I need to make the page for this one.
7. Capsaicin Strategy
8. Sulphorphane Strategy. – to be added. as easy as eating Raw or Properly Prepared Broccoli + a Supplement.
9. Xanthohumol Strategy – should be good – I need to do more research
10. Carsonic Acid Strategy – really strong candidate I learned about when switching to Rosemary Flower instead of a ursolic acid supplement – I need to do more research
11. Apigenin Strategy – late to the game as a suggestion of a blog post here, I started with Apigenin a while back, but didn’t realize how important it is until recently.

Aftermath Analysis:

Well? What did I learn? Where is my head at, at this point? Was the analysis worth it?

1. This was a massive undertaking of daunting proportions, but I’m glad I did it and I’m glad it’s largely over.
2. I reaffirmed the while all strategies have merit, the UA Strategy and the PSO Strategy lead in my mind as the most important ones to me. Not so much to say I’m going to stop drinking PJ or eating Flaxseed any time soon, but still they are my two major strategies.
3. I helped define in my mind each distinct, yet overlapping, strategies I am using to fight my PC.
4. No university scientist would do so many things at the same time since there is no way of knowing which items were most or least helpful. Yes you could run a multiple regression to find correlations coefficients, but the sample size is me, just 1, so you have nothing.
5. I found an alternative PSO that costs less. I do believe PSO is the lead PC fighter for me.
6. I learned I need to look into Xanthohumol and Carnosic Acid more, possibly finding better sources and learning about how they fit into the web of PC fighters and what might support them.

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How I developed Most of the Strategies

The first thing I needed a year ago was a reliable source of information to begin my research. I already knew about Google Scholar, which has been an invaluable tool in my research as a protein enzyme scientist.

Here I am, as second anchor author, with the assistance of Dr. Andrew Steen, one of the top enzyme researchers in the world. By half luck, half hard work, I developed my skill to read and distill key information from research papers written about breaking science. I don’t think I could have done what I did here on this website without that seven years of training. I have provided a link to the manuscript. Many papers you have to pay for, or be affiliated with a University to selectively get free access.

Anyhow, rather than regular Google searches, Google Scholar searches University Research Papers only, the ones the Professors write as a result of the research they conduct as well as PhD student’s Thesis publications. It’s cutting-edge knowledge from credible sources, too close to the edge of man’s knowledge to be used in everyday medicine. As someone posted in response to what I am doing, “This is where all the new information is coming from, not from the doctors. Doctors take the known-and-vetted medicine, and they apply it.

While many doctors just do not address such forward thinking medicine since it’s beyond their scope of practice, my Primary Care Physician (PCP) has been willing to listen and discuss it. According to my PCP, emerging cutting edge medical knowledge has two dangers: 1) toxicity, and 2) drug interaction issues. Vetted drugs have been tested for toxicity as well as drug interaction issues, while supplements have not. Despite these risks, when standard practice medicine told me it was time to remove my prostate, I learned many things which made the surgery choice undesirable to me, so I turned to Google Scholar for answers to postpone or totally avoid surgery or radiation. And I deal with toxicity and drug interactions by slowly starting anything new that I was doing and listening to my body for problems before slowly and systematically increasing dosages.

Closing Thoughts

In summary:

• I dealt with toxicity and drug interactions by slowly starting anything new that I was doing and listening to my body for problems before slowly and systematically increasing dosages
• Strategies were developed using Google Scholar research.
  • I did sub-strategies one at a time, hopefully developing synergy
  • Breaking Strategies into sub-strategies helps analyze costs
• Everything I am doing, I do with the approval of my doctors
• Just because it works for me, doesn’t make it OK for you.
  • Check with your doctor.