Diet?

I've been trying to figure out the best diet to follow to limit chances of recurrence.

Seems like poultry, eggs, and dairy are on the "DO NOT EAT" list these days...

Last November I went on a Gluten free diet and in December I found out that I had Prostate cancer. My PSA in October was 7. I was tested at the end of March my PSA went down to 5.1. All summer I stayed on the Gluten free diet and in September I was up to 9.0. I dropped all the meats except fish, dairy,eggs, chicken, and turkey. My PSA in October was 10.5. On Dec 18 2015 will be having another sample taken from my prostate to see if my gleason score has gone up. I will post once I get the results. I think that last December when they gave me ciprofloxacin it help cure and infection I had which lowered my PSA count but the infection came back.

I watched what I ate before cancer.

During these treatments....i keep seeing all those juicy hamburgers I've left sitting on the counter tops of life behind me.

Time to flip that record over. If it looks good...I'm all over it from here on out!

There is contradictory information out there. Dairy itself may be bad - though whey protein may be good. Egg yolks may be bad.

FWIW - I eat a mostly plant based diet also with fish, nuts, beans. No meat, little dairy (except some whey protein). And is that the best diet to follow? Don't really know.

As I said...there are no conclusive studies. The issue is too many variables.

Again, just eat a sensible diet, don't deprive yourself from stuff you love, excercise and eat plenty of fruits and vegetable... you'll be good.

I didn't say diet didn't contribute. I said there are no conclusive studies, either for or against.

It's great diet has helped you. But for every person it's helped, I can show you a person it's had no effect on. Also, there are too many other contributing factors to say diet is the sole factor.

But as my doctor told me, as long as it isn't harmful, do Anything you think can help.

Why not also take the food supplement Pomi-T if you are in to that what you eat affect your PSA velocity? Isn't there even some scientific evidence that Pomi-T has impact on PCa, both before and after treatment?

cashlessclay,

What diet do you follow? What do you eat for breakfast?

I liked Dreamerboys post.

You are what you eat .... eat well my friends.

Gemlin says....Why not try Pomi-T?

My first look at the Pomi-T study has me thinking ... "these guys are
getting the same results with pills, while I'm giving up some of my
favorite foods." Then, after I calmed down a bit, I though ... "it's
even worst, they're not walking 2 miles a day in sub-zero temperatures."

Here are some thoughts:

All ingredients in Pomi-T are already in my diet. But Pomi-T has larger
concentrations. I don't think I can get their levels from food.

My model is.... "don't feed them, kill some off."
Pomi-T model is...."feed them or don't feed them, whatever; but kill a lot off."

(By "killing off" I mean that natural programmed cell death "apoptosis" is
interfered with through COX-2 and 5-LOX pathways. Interference is not good...let em die.
Pomi-T ingredients inhibit this interference, thereby allowing cell death to occur.)

My routine and Pomi-T could be a powerful combination.
And, you can keep the extra benefits of reduced heart disease, and
reduced chances of diabetes and Alzheimer's.

If I can't get the results I'm looking for (a consistent PSADT of 5 years or more)
I may add Pomi-T to the routine. But for now I will try to do it the hard way since
supplements have backfired on me in the past.

I'm on one Pomi-T per day as sort of a compromise. I need to test again in a week or so.

I'm reading the Tripping over the Truth / Cancer as a Metabolic Disease books. These support Cashlessclay's assertion that our breed (as with many others) of cancer can be controlled by limiting sugar in our diet, as much as ADT or anything else we do. Cancer cannot adapt to fat (i.e, ketone) metabolism and apoptosis occurs.

To get to ketosis requires severe limiting of carbohydrates, more than Cashlessclay's limitiations, so that is good news.

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Age 64 in 2015 (12 years with PCa)
12/02 PSA 2.9 age 51
9/03 BX/DX, Gleason 6, 4 of 12 cores
9/03 Low dose brachytherapy
5/08 PSA nadir 1.1
12/08 PSA 1.8
2/09 BX/DX, Gleason 8, 1 of 12 cores
6/09 Hyperthermic Radiation, Hormone (short term), IMRT (10 fractions) spring 2009
10/09 PSA nadir < 0.1 10/09 through 01/12
4/12 PSA 0.2
3/14 PSA 2.9
5/14 C11 Acetate PT/CT, found 2.0 cm lymph node tumor
5/14 Lupron/Casodex (9 months)
8/14 nadir <0.01
2/15 SBRT to node, at UCSD
3/15 PSA 0.02,T=0
6/15 PSA<0.015,T=105
9/15 PSA<0.1,T=278 Quest Lab

vaportrail,

Here's a document that's a great starting point for your interest in nutrition and PC...in fact, it's titled "Nutrition and Prostate Cancer" and is published by UCSF, one of the world's leading institutions for prostate cancer care.

Good for you regarding your interest in seeking to improve your longevity via things definitely within your own control. Frankly, I'm a little surprised how many people tend to put their heads into the sand with respect to leading an anti-cancer lifestyle...especially men already diagnosed with PC.

You should not every expect there to be the so-called gold-standard of medical proof on how nutrition reduces risk for cancer. The reason is quite simple: Our diets are complex, and randomized trials depend on a control of variables. That ain't gonna happen in a year-long study of diet. But the science is well understood behind the foods in this report.

Best wishes

Here's the doc: http://cancer.ucsf.edu/_docs/crc/nutrition_prostate.pdf

One of the big advantages of the UCSF dietary guidelines and recommended meals/recipes is weight loss. Most of the things recommended taste so bad that you won't eat much. :) I have been a baker for my whole lifetime, which included many refined grains , fat, sugar..not always sugar but lots of recipes. In the past few years I have added flaxseed, which imparts a bitter taste, wheat germ- earthy metallic, whole grains which make very dense breads and so on.. Long story short... I eat a lot less of the baked goods and throw away a good amount..but don't replace it with anything...60 lb. weight loss in 2 years...Don't feel better really, but weight loss it good.