Drareg
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My PSA has been around 40 for the last 4 months. I would like to stop the Firmagon but somehow feel that the PSA should be lower before I do. The medical community feels that prostate cancer is fueled by testosterone. So by blocking FSH and LH ( androgen deprivation) I basically did not die. I went from 204 pounds to 158 pounds in 6 months and last November was bedridden and on OxyContin. Now I weigh 210 pounds (no Oxy) and go to the gym and have actually increased muscle size and strength, and have very good energy. I would call the last couple of years the perfect storm. I was taking cod liver oil, doing flax seed oil with cottage cheese, trying arginine, DIM, to much DHEA, drinking alcohol, following Dr. Mercola's advice on diet, fasting then doing strenuous workouts in the Gym. Not taking Vit E or B vitamins, etc. After the Lord gave me a second chance I found Ray Peat and this Forum. stopped everything that I was doing before and follow this thought: Cancer Metabolism = Stress Metabolism= a respiratory defect in the mitochondria=a defect in the electron transport chain by using supplements like Kuinone, Lapodin, Energin, Retinil, EstroBan, Progestene, Panquinone and Mittolipin. Also Aspirin, Niacinamide, B1. Also following a Peaty diet with OJ, Milk, etc. When I had a bone scan done last Nov. my whole upper torso was lite up with advanced prostate cancer, ribs, shoulders, pelvis. I could hardly move. Now I feel a lot better. Doc wants to do another bone scan. I said no way due to the ion radiation and the estrogen storm that would follow. Believe me I would like to stop the shots and get on with my life!
Do you think the tissues are saturated with stress promoting substance? most of the cellular environment is saturated this way? firmagon gives relief here because it's tops substances signalling said cellular environment.
It will take time to adjust the tissues with corrects substance and it will be difficult and contradictory at times when you keep,this quote in mind from Peat -
"My position on the cell ,there are proteins that are called receptor proteins,my position is since the conditional of the cell determines what a particular substance binding to that receptor is going to do to the cell,it isn't as meaningful as some people think to activate a receptor,it can have opposite effects depending on the history of cell and present condition of other cells."