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 subreddit, so today I re-examined my Resveratrol Strategy, and refreshed that as my next Reddit post. Have a look if you want, and have a great day everyone.
August 27, 2025
Well, everyone. The Reddit PCa Active Surveillance sub-Reddit is a thing! There was a lot more to it, which I sort of thought there would be, and I have to redo the banner and the icon into something more meaningful. I brute-forced my way through the process, watched various videos on “how to do it”, learned that every sub-Reddit needs a moderator, and if one starts a new sub-Reddit, then you are the moderator. I therefore had to watch and read about what that takes, as I kept trudging my way through the process. Hey, it’s alive an kickin’. Take a look, comment on something or post something if you want ! Of course we still have the original PCa subreddit as a resource, it’s just that I won’t have to sift through a bunch of posts about advanced PCa to get to the AS action that I am most interested in. Don’t get me wrong, all the advanced information is also extremely useful, as I try to navigate my own journey, delaying or avoiding the more advance conditions.
And another thing I have learned recently. It’s a lot harder to keep up with my daily routines while I am traveling. After 7 weeks in The Philippines, a short 5 day break, and now a week in London, I have lost control of my morning routine. I mean, taking along pomegranate juice and cranberry juice bottles sounds problematic at best, and clothes staining at it’s worst ! At least I am taking all the supplements associated with the daily pill-taking.
Starting in September, I am starting school again, but this time, only the morning school. I said good by to the evening school for this year, and last year I let loose of the week end school. Certainly the 3 part time jobs compensation was enabling in many ways, but here I am with just one part time job starting in September.
August 24, 2025
Hi everyone. Took a small break to start something I have been thinking about for a while: a PCa Active Surveillance subreddit. Can it be a thing? I started, it but only if it attracts others can it become a thing. What do you think? Have a look, and post or comment on something?
I created it because I often felt like a stepchild when posting to the all inclusive PCa subreddit. And here, the way my kids set it up, only I can post, and then other can comment. There is much more freedom for others on the new subreddit. Now we can have both.
August 21, 2025
WoW ! About twenty hours of flying and ten hours of layovers later, I am back in NJ, after two months away from home. And thirty hours with only sporadic internet to check in to see how things are going and almost no sleep, I felt like I was losing touch some. This benefits me now with some reflection time, at first being distracted by sitting in Economy Class seating , always an aisle seat so I can get up without having to ask someone to move. What would a reasonable reflective moment produce?
When I did get into an airport lounge, It didn’t take long to connect to the new slow speed internet, get my messages, and check for comments about my current PCa musings. I have been generating a fair amount of mostly thoughtful discussion of the Oxford Study, which remains in my mind as the single most important influence on me making the decision to begin AS instead of prostate removal.
Where else in the world has data been generated with 500 patients on AS and comparing their mortality outcomes to prostate removal and/or radiation? And where else has it been done over a 15 year period? I cannot get this information from my doctors were patients routinely by-and-large dismiss AS, getting their prostate removed and/or radiated. Moreover, PCa social media sites have little personal AS testimony, instead replete with the lamentations of rising micro PSA readings and the other unpleasantries associated with the follow-on aggressive PCa disease management. Are there millions upon millions of aggressively treated PCa patients silently sitting in the wings, happy as a clam, with no reoccurrences and negligible side effects?
The most thought-provoking comments about the Oxford study centered on the patients who deviated from their assigned group with respect to their chosen treatment paths. From Figure 1 in the 15-year-report-out document, many patients immediately chose a treatment path different than their assigned groups. Most notably to me, many who were assigned prostate removal or radiation chose AS. And while I have yet to find data on how patients in the AS group or those who began with AS treatment switched out and why, I did read that only about 25% of those in the study avoided the invasive treatments of prostate removal or radiation. so ASers were moving out of AS, starting with 500 or so, with only 325 (25% of 1500) remaining there.
One good questioner asked, “What percent of the survivability of ASers can be attributed to their moving to more aggressive treatment?” I do not believe I have the information to answer that, although perhaps a multiple regression performed on data granulated with the proper information might tease out an answer. So instead of attempting something I don’t have enough information for on the micro level, I took a look at all the data on a macro level with information I do have.
Patient mortality from PCa and not, and using AS or not.
Here is my reasoned approach to the question of ASers vs non-ASers with respect to mortality. Let’s look a the facts. About 3% of all patients out of the 1500 died owing to their PCa. About 21% of all patients died of something other than PCa. And while the study found the difference between ASers and non-ASers mortalities were not signficant, the number of deaths was higher.
For the sake of argument and to stack the deck against the AS approach, let’s say that the probability of an ASer dying of their PCa was twice the non ASers. So let’s further extend that assumption to distribute the non-deaths from 97% (3% mortality) to 96% for ASers (4% mortality), and 98% for nonASers (2% mortality). This stacks the deck at double the mortality of 4% vs 2% against the ASers.
So in the scenario, the non-ASers have a 2% better chance not to die after not being on AS for 15 years. That’s it? just 2% ? That is what I get back from having my prostate removed or having it radiated, with all the side effects associate with incontinence and sexual and emotional dysfunction? And all the while during that 15 years, seven times (21% vs 3%) more patients are dying of something else non-PCa-related (the well-worn “Dying with PCa, not from PCa”)?
What does one say about focusing on trying to get back 2% from the 21% column rather than trying to get it back from the 4% column? With respect to that for me, my cardiologist has been raving about my lack of edema in my feet and legs, my lower blood pressure, and my improved cholesterol numbers. And my urologist has more than a passing fascination with my cutting my PSA number in half, and the vanishing of my first Lesion from MRI #1 to MRI #2. Is it far to attribute these improved health numbers to my new PCa-driven diet and supplements plan? I would say so. And I would also say that the Silver Lining of my PCa diagnosis lies in my Clean Air, Water, and Food as well-researched selection of anti PCa supplements. I have my 2% and more back from my 21% from that for sure.
Of course there are the newcomers to the social media sites, the recently diagnosed PCa or suspected PCa candidates. I see one, two, or a handful a day out of the over 800 men daily who are diagnosed with PCa. The ones with the localized PCa, these are the ones I want to reach, to inform them of the Oxford Study, to allow them to hear my story. This, even though it was later discovered that 30% of Oxford Study men already had PCa outside their prostate. Because as sure as the summer rains fall from the heavens in The Philippines, the usual suspects and/or others will make them aware of the nuances of sophisticated testing and the processes of preparing for prostate removal, radiation, or both. I feel like I am the lone voice who speaks up for AS, as the blogging community downvotes me and / or attempts to shame me for having those faced with PCa jeopardy consider something outside the invasive treatment route. To be fair, I do get quite a few thoughtful remarks from those who actually read and ask questions about the Oxford Study. Thank you all for that. You have allowed me to dig deeper into the study and rise up out of it with what you have just read on this post.
And I need to redo my supplements research-based article list, and transform it into an all-in-one-place readers can turn to to see what led to my decisions to use certain supplements.
August 19, 2025
For my last post before I wing my way back to NJ at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, I want to follow up from my “How I Am Doing it.” post. When I finished that post, I checked out some other social media PCa blogs. I have learned to stay away from some blogs where I have received comments such as “Who do I think I am, possibly swaying others away from surgery or radiation, dooming them to a painful and early death?” While at first I defended my stance, saying one could follow what I am doing and still take those other courses of action, it wasn’t long before I just shied away from such negativity, even if some posters did counter those beliefs. (See my post on the Existential Life of an AS Guy)
During the process of integrating all the new updates into my site, I ran across a series of broken links in my research area. I fixed a lot of that up, and I came to a research paper I began to study almost 2 years ago from Oxford University.
Who Do I Think I Am ? How Dare I Do Such a Thing?
In 2023, Oxford University reported out after studying 1,500 men for 15 years with apparently contained prostate cancer. The men were divided into three groups of about 500 each: 1) those about to undergo prostate removal, 2) those about to undergo radiation therapy, and 3) those choosing Active Surveillance. The Oxford Researchers concluded after 15 years that there was no significant difference in death rates between the three groups.
I remembered back to two years ago when I read that conclusion. That was the moment I decided that AS was for me. That was the moment I Dared to Do Such a Thing for myself. And I like to think I did one better. I continued my research and learned that I could delay or arrest the growth of my PCa with diet, exercise, and supplements. The Oxford study groups did not have that going for them, so that should put me one up on them, yes? And it’s OK for me to tell others about what I am doing. What do you think? let me know in the comments please.
August 18, 2025
After a good night’s sleep and an opportunity to reflect on all the recent updates that codifying what I have been up to, that inspired me to create a “This is How I Am Doing It ! “ page. I nick-named it my TL;DR page (Too Long; Didn’t Read), and I applied the 80/20 rule, outlining the main aspects of my program that I thought resulted in 80% of what I have accomplished.
The Stoics – August 11th – NO TIME FOR THEORIES, JUST RESULTS – page 140
Musonius Rufus writes in his “Lectures”,
When the problem arose for us whether habit or theory was better for getting virtue — if by theory is meant what teaches us correct conduct, and by habit we mean being accustomed to act according to this theory — Musonious thought habit to be more effective.
I would say “Some time for theories, but then act on the situation in front of you. Do not dally or allow the seriousness of the situation paralyze you into inaction.”
For me and the PCa world, I did duck my head into the Google Scholar research rather intensely, especially at first. But it did not take long to run across my first solution to act on: Ground Flaxseed. And while there are a lot of theoretical papers on Google Scholar, there are plenty of experiments that have been conducted, which to me are the most value assets in Google Scholar.
So I think about what I am about to do from a theoretical construct for a while, but then I try my best not to fail to develop a plan and carry it out. I have always been this way throughout my life, with rare exceptions. I try not to let “analysis paralysis” get me in its grip for very long.
August 17, 2025
Thank you, Steve, for your great suggestion to create a page to make it easier for others to know what dosages I am taking for various supplements and to have that all in one place. More work for me. How long will this take?
Finding opportunity in difficulty sounds like a Stoic trait to me. Off hand, if I am troubled by the work it will take to do this, I can only imagine the difficulty others are having accessing the site. So here is an opportunity to make everyone’s life easier ! See how I did that? 🙂
I do remember I created a “Supplies” page, so I turn to that. I have a fair amount of difficulty finding that page, and I realize it’s kind of an orphan page, not easily accessible. I look it over, and update it with some supplements I had yet to include in the list. I then review each item, and add the dosage I am currently taking. WoW ! That was easier than suspected. But since I learned the page was not easy to get to, and it seems important to access, I added a link to it in my Navigation Bar, located at the top of each page. I also bolded it out, so it stands out as something new. Let me say, that as a novice web page designer, it took me quite a while to figure out how to do that. In a moment of desperation that I would accidently wreck the entire site with a faulty navbar update, I messaged one of my daughters who knows a lot more about web page development than I do. Then I realized that it was 1 o’clock in the morning for her in Washington State! Not going to get an answer from her any time soon. So I went back to my navbar problem and solved it pretty easily on my third try. My daughter congratulated me on getting it right when she woke up later that morning. Oh happy day!
I went on to tightly link the new “Supplies/My Dosages” page to the “Morning Routine” videos that show how I implement my daily and weekly routines. So if someone really wants to adopt some or all of what I am doing, that should make it a lot easier for them. Comments please on this update? Anyone? Bueller?
The Stoics – August 14th – THIS ISN’T FOR FUN – IT’S FOR LIFE – page 143
The Stoic Philosophies divide into three distinct Disciplines: 1) Perception, 2) Action, and 3) Will. The authors of The Daily Stoic assigned May though August for the Discipline of Action. August as been further defined for essays on Pragmatism. I wanted to point that out since I am beginning my examination of the book on this website in August.
Seneca points out in one of his Moral Letters ( a collection of 124 letters Seneca published in his retirement known as Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium ) that he put his Stoic philosophies to work as needed throughout the day.
” Philosophy isn’t a parlor trick or made for show. It’s not concerned with words, but with facts. It’s not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, and gives order to life, guides action, shows what should and shouldn’t be done — it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advice is to be sought out in philosophy.”
To me, this passage speaks for itself, and that is why I copied it in its entirety.
I certainly went through a series of gut wrenching “vacillations of uncertainties”, as I attempt to apply Stoic Philosophy to my situation. Thankfully, the PCa decision was not one requiring an immediate decision, so I waited until the emotions died down and my mind could address the issues rationally. I cast away the “Oh, why me?” thoughts, and blame no one for my situation. And despite the stressfulness of the situation, I have not allowed that to paralyze me, preventing me from taking action, and began by applying the notion that “THERE IS ALWAYS MORE ROOM TO MANEUVER THEN YOU THINK” (the August 6th reading, which I have yet to discuss here). After hours and hours poring through Google Scholar research papers on PCa, I learned that for me, the avenue of AS was viable for me (the Oxford Research Study) and as reasonable as the others options with respect to mortality. Furthermore the notion that at age 68, I avoided radical life-altering surgery and am living whatever full life I have left on the front end certainly is appealing. But I didn’t stop there. I looked for more room to maneuver, and learned about the vegan / antioxidant approach that I extracted from research paper upon research paper. This “delaying or repairing tactic” postpones and may remove the unpleasant end game I may have set myself up for. Furthermore, my approach has without a doubt improved my health. I am in better condition now in so many ways at 70 than I was at 68. So far, so good. It’s a no-brainer for me to carry on in this fashion for the forseeable future.
I am a man of science. Here is my opportunity to serve science at the same time I take what in my mind is my best course of action. As an experiment of one as I like to think of myself, I provide some data about this line of action where few fear to tread, although I have already met a few other intrepid men who have come before me or who I walk with concurrently. Certainly we are in the heavy minority.
Make it a great day everyone !
August 16, 2025
Five days left before I begin my journey back to New Jersey from The Philippines. Things have gone pretty well here, although it would have been nice to have purchased a property in Baguio. Those were pretty high hopes, having been in Baguio only 3 weeks and trying to see as much of it as we could. I know there is so much more to see before I purchase, so I don’t experience buyers’ remorse when I see something else I didn’t look around for before I bought something. In The Philippines, no bank will lend to you if you are over 60, so I have been saving up now for 2 years and expect to get a discount for an all cash purchase. I am returning to my part time teaching job here in NJ and will save up more and be better prepared for when I return.
The Stoics – August 13th – TAKE CHARGE AND END YOUR TROUBLES – page 141
Marcus Aurelius says to “let your reasoning mind do the work it was intended for.” The authors of The Daily Stoic interpret this as the mind, by design, separates what is important from the senseless, keeps things in perspective,” and then concerns itself only with the part of what is happening that the mind makes sense out of. But one must be patient and let your mind do the work. Do not rush to a conclusion until your mind has had the time to contemplate the situation. And while this takes time and more energy on your part, it’s worth it because you do not take actions that you later regret owing to frustration, greed, or jealousy.
I interpret this for me as if I am feeling frustrated, greedy, or in any way emotional, it is not yet time to act because the mind has not have sufficient time to do its work.
This played out for me about three years ago after my first bad skiing accident. Ever since the Winter Olympics of 1980, I had wanted to try my hand at skiing. I had been helping out building a family cottage in the Adirondacks since the 1960s, and when those Olympics came along, I asked my father about going to have a look-see. “Maybe when we finish the house.”, he suggested. Well let me say that the house is much further along now that it’s 2025, but still not finished. And I had made a few one day ski trips to Camelback and other Pocono resorts, but when my kids were born in 1993 and they got to be about 6, the itch to make ski trips a reality became urgent. Whiteface Mountain was the “Lake Placid” Olympic Mountain, and so our Adirondacks home project became a ski lodge for our family for a about a week or so every year for quite a while, until my daughters went off to college. That still kind of made me a ski weekend guy, which I learned later, limited what I could learn and how far I could progress.
Flash forward to 5 years ago, when at age 65, I retired in June of 2020. I bought myself a season pass, which years ago I thought I would be getting for free at age 65. I drove over to Lang’s Ski shop in Ewing, NJ, where I set myself up for the first time in my life with my own equipment. The staff there was amazing. I must have tried on 20 different boots, and I think it was the owner who ran all over the store, here and there, to find yet another pair of boots for me to try and compare. I never knew boots could be so comfortable.
With that kind of set up and in an environment where I could get to Whiteface in 40 or so minutes instead of 6 hours, I began to progress. What began as an every-four-day event (three days rest to let my legs come back) moved to every 3 days. My legs began to get stronger. I was still somewhat awkward and it almost always seemed a struggle, but I was having a good time at it. Then one morning, out popped about a dozen teenagers from a hut at the top of “The Bear” lift. They all deftly slid over to another lift that I never seem to see open (I remember it was marked with Diamond and Blue runs), along with a couple of adults carrying flags and who had pretty strong German accents. I took another trip down one of my favorite beginner runs, “The Wolf”(green=easy). A green at Whiteface is like a blue in the Poconos, and a Blue would be a Diamond. I usually have to stop halfway down the Wolf, because the ‘thigh burn’ gets to me and I need a pause before completing it.
One the way back up the ski lift, I see the adults skiing slowly down a pretty steep spot well above where I have been skiing in an area I never go in. One periodically stopped and placed a flag in the snow while the other had some sort of blue spray he was applying to the snow here and there in some sort of pattern. It became apparent to me they were the instructors, and the way those kids came down the hill, that these kids were pretty advanced. I was transfixed watching them methodically ski between the gates, and the instructors actively commented on what they saw. It was remarkable how similar each student was to each other, they way they crouched down as each approached a gate, with the inner hand low and close to their body and the outer hand high and fully stretched out. And they way they shifted their weight as they came out of the gate, rising back up, seemingly effortlessly gliding toward the next gate as their hands switched position as they began crouching down again as they entered the next gate. “Well, if they could do it like that, why couldn’t I?”, I though to myself, as I began to imitate their movements.
That day I learned that I didn’t have to pay for a ski lesson to learn something new. And while I could momentarily successfully imitate what I was seeing, I would only hold a portion of the positioning briefly before I would awkwardly fall out of it, only to return to my previously-learned skiing method. However, with day after day attempts, and reinforcing lessons from what I later learned were prospects for the U.S. Ski Team, I got really good !! From a standing start, I could swish back and forth as they did! It was effortless. No thigh burn! WoW ! This is what I am talking about. The only problem was that after about 10 seconds of that I was going much faster than I ever have before and I had to employ my “hockey stop” to the left to bring it to and end before something else bad might have happened.
There is soo much more to this story that I want to tell, but the short of it is that I got so good that when my kids joined me during my second year with a season pass, I skied circles around them. Instead of them looking back for me to see if I had fallen too far behind, I was beating them down the hill in half their time. I was hot-dogging it you might say.
Then what I guess was inevitable happened. I fell forward and planted my left shoulder into the snow in a dead stop, and my left arm just stopped working, falling limp and painfully to my side. That ended my season. I tore my rotator cuff, and the surgeons recommended surgery. One of my skeptical close friends said wait and try therapy. The surgeons suggested surgery right away before the scar tissue set it. It was an emotional time for me as I delayed making a decision. Good idea from the Stoics point of view. My brain needed more time to make a decision. I studied about the surgery and about therapy. I waited a month or two and chose physical therapy. It was rough and painful, but I worked my way through it. Today I am happy to say it was the right choice. It took six months or more, but my shoulder returned to normal. Now, I never give it a second thought. A great decision. I avoided a “Hungry Surgeon”, in the words of another doctor from another practice in California.
And so, what about the monumental decision I had to make when I learned I had PCa? The standard course of treatment for Gleason 3/4 is surgery or radiation, not Active Surveillance. I was mortified at the prospect of having my prostate removed. At 68 and recently remarried, the prospect of no sex and incontinency, without really knowing whether to expect a re-occurrence was daunting. As can be read from Month 0 onward on this site, I did my research and I chose AS as my course of treatment. I calmed down, and gave my mind the time to make a rational choice. Live my fullest life for today even it meant a shorter life. And completely change my diet and take supplements to slow, stop, or reverse the rate of progression, to become one of those who “Have PCa, but die from something else.” as my cardiologist says, along with other doctors.
Have I made the correct decision? For me it’s been: so far, so good. I am almost 2 years into my AS protocol (without testosterone suppressing drugs), and I feel better than I did at 68, now at 70. Admittedly my dietary changes and supplements have drastically reduced my inflammation, and I have dropped a lot of weight which I really also needed to do. My PSA number is way down, and the first lesion has disappeared from the MRI, something consistent with the destruction of the blood supply to the PCa cells mentioned over and over in the research with respect to my PSO Strategy. My natural testosterone has returned back to normal – 330, higher than the 170 and 180 I had before I began testosterone therapy ( that I had to stop owing to the PCa diagnosis), and I now I am more active, not needing T-therapy. There were no signs of metastasis on the last MRI. So I stay the AS course and keep doing what I am doing. I like to think the Stoics would say “I have taken charge and ended my trouble.”
August 15, 2025
It’s rainy season here in The Philippines (at least July and August), and I hope this is the last summer I spend here. I have been coming during the summer for the last 3 years, taking my summers off from teaching high school in various capacities. Going forward, I hope to return here during better weather, and hopefully in Baguio, where the climate is malamig (Tagalog for ‘cold’). Cold refers to the comfortable temperatures of 73 F daytime, and 65 at night, all year long. Like Mountain View CA, only not as dry. I spent some time in Mountain View when my kids started their first jobs out of college. It was amazing, but only few can afford to live in Mountain View for extended periods.
And so when it rains hard here, and the water hasn’t flooded me out, I divide my time with at least a portion of time poring over social media sites for interesting PCa chatter, and a second portion reading whatever books I brought with me.
Interesting Social Media
I ran across a post about a generous donation made to the University of Portland’s Knight School of Cancer Research. I commented on the post as follows:
Looks good. I will reach out to them to learn about their program. Can I encourage them to review research into punicic acid as a PCa metastatic inhibitor and killer of many PCa research lines? Can we get a punicic acid blood test? Etc. What about other avenues of PCa inhibition such as via ferropoptosis?
Can AS been seen as a more viable and expandable treatment avenue under these circumstances? What about CRISPR mRNA PCa cures? Is that worth looking at?
Is that too pretentious of me? Will they say WTFAY? I will show them [my review](http://www.iloweredmypsa.com) of the scholarly research and my personal experience.
Worth a shot?
That post has largely been met with crickets in an otherwise pretty active PCa community. Is that because so few people actually are active AS people? I do get the feeling I am kind of out here largely on my own because most who reach my Gleason 3+4 stage have already left AS for either radiation or prostate removal. Over the last almost 2 years, I have gotten to know no more than 5 others active AS guys who I regularly or sporadically correspond with.
Books I am reading
I brought 2 books with me: 1) The Daily Stoic, and 2) INTRA Terrestrials.
The Daily Stoic was a gift to teachers at a high school where I started teaching part time in January. I try to give each book a chance by committing to read at least 10% of it first and then continuing if it is holding my interest. This one is.
I like this book, maybe because it’s an easy read, with a short, single page presentation of a Stoic idea as a translated quote of a well-known Stoic philosopher. Then this is followed by an elaboration by the authors. The book has transformed my understanding of Stoicism as well the purpose of their writings, in that their philosophies are not some kind of thought experiment that is just discussed, but rather ideas that are put to use each and every day, even several times a day, to get past “road blocks” of inaction or questions of judgement.
And so I shall apply the ideas of The Stoics – Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and others – to my daily activities and in particular with respect to PCa when it seems to apply.
The Stoics – August 12th – MAKE THE WORDS YOUR OWN
Seneca mentions that it’s necessary to put into practice what has been preached, and in doing so, make them your own.
The author discusses how some critics find the writings of the stoics repetitive. What has been said here merely restates what other previous Stoics have written. And while true, these critics have missed the point that the restatement represents the taking personal ownership of the idea. So I shall fear not restating the ideas of the Stoics as I take their philosophies and adopt them. In the parallel universe of PCa and this website, the website represents me restating the research of others, and selecting the parts of it that I “make my own”. So apparently I have been acting stoically with regard to creating this website, and I see this passage as confirming that.
August 12, 2025
So during the quiet times here in The Philippines, I have been diving back into the research to see what is new. I haven’t uncovered anything in the Google Scholar papers for 2025 yet that was revolutionary, I did find an interesting read confirming what I am doing, so for those inclined, here it is.
Also I am running low on Quercetin, which is part of my Resveratrol Strategy, so I will order that now, and that will be waiting for me when I return to the USA. Quercetin can be seen written about in section 2.8 of today’s research document. I enjoy reading and rereading these types of documents to reinforce and to reaffirm what I am doing. These types of documents to me are quite intellectually dense and so to I go back and reread them, I feel like I am picking up more and more from each one of them. And this reminds me of the Pakistani teenager who read and reread various cancer research documents and found a little something to help her uncle that slipped between the crack of the documents that once revealed to the researchers, they said “of course, we see it now that we read these other documents.
So today I reached out to the First Author, thanked him for his efforts, told a little of my story, and asked about how to get a test to measure the punicic acid concentrations in my blood. We will see what response I get.
August 5, 2025
Thank you James, for your recent comment, spurring me on to move forward with an update. In short, I am feeling better than ever, probably owing to some weight loss, and sticking to my high anti-oxidant diet. I still have no PCa symptoms, and my stream continues to improve, now more like I am 40, not 70! My natural testosterone sits in the mid 300s, and the concomitant functioning and sensitivity has been awesome really, and remains one of the main reasons I stay on AS. I am coming up on my 2 year AS anniversary, so that is exciting.
I am spending my summer in Baguio, The Philippines, property shopping. We saw a few places and got close to buying a lot, but the deal fell through.
Anyhow, there are a staggering amount of fresh fruits and vegetable stands here, and while tofu is on sale in many places, the demand outstrips the supply. We were able to get it after hunting it down.
I plan to resume skiing this winter at Whiteface Mountain in December. I have my work cut out for me, as I have been a bit sedentary, and need to build up my legs. I was unable to use the stationary bike because of a wonky knee, but that has been restored to almost good as new with Black Seed Oil and some yoga workouts I restarted when I began experiencing some sciatic pain down the leg opposing the bad knee. Two weeks into the yoga, that pain is gone, and my knee started returning to normal. Now about 6 weeks into it, the knee is amazing, not even a thought in my mind as a stroll down the avenue. The worst of that knee was getting gel shots three years ago? Who knew? Yoga is restorative for sure. I did work in a Yoga studio as their computer guy where I could take classes for free, and I took advantage of that. From there, I created my own practice at home. Oh happy day !!! How did I forget about continuing to do that? At this point, I don’t expect to ever stop it, no matter how good it gets for me. I cannot over emphasize yoga enough.
Baguio offers a unique environment for me, being 1 mile high. Numerous gentle staircases and the hilly terrain serve as a daily workout. At first I experienced ‘thigh burn’ pretty early on, within just 5 minutes, and I worried about Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), which I read is incurable. But the burn has been pushed well past an hour as I walk up and down hills and staircases at high altitude, attempting to push it even further down the road. In September I expect to return to daily stationary bike workouts, and other cross-training for my legs now that my knee is fixed. Whiteface will be the challenge in December !!! Stay tuned.
Other worthy news – I don’t think I mentioned I moved to a Reverse Osmosis machine upon learning that various plastic emulsifiers, such as PCBs, have a boiling point above water, so they remain liquid and pass through a distiller, remaining in the water. The RO machine removes them, and the RO machine will process a quart of water in 5 minutes, hence a gallon in 20 minutes, as opposed to the distillery taking 5 hours for a gallon. The RO machine uses much less electricity. I am saving at least $30 a month on my NJ electric bills.
Well that is all for now. I return to The States to start teaching part time again in September, after a week stay in London to marry off my last daughter.
Cheers everyone. May your journey be as successful as mine has been or better!
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