I cant believe I am going to write about this, but once again I have to, because the medical establishment has failed us miserably. I came to this knowledge over many decades and more acutely over the past decade following 2 dear friend’s journeys with prostate cancer. The situation has been further punctuated by yet another dear friend (number 3) who was going in for a biopsy. 

I am not a doctor, but from what I heard recently from a friend, it is all about the money. You decide. In my opinion they will kill you and destroy your male working parts even if its not in your best interest. I am sorry if I am making some of you uncomfortable. But seriously its your life and your penis. I thought most men liked their penis. They play with it daily, right? So why wouldnt you want to explore all of your alternatives vs going for radical surgery?

Most of you know more about baseball scores and football scores then you know about saving your own life. I am happy to admit my credentials. I dont even know the names of 5 football or baseball teams, but I have studied health for 5 decades. So dont go getting radical surgery until you listen to an alternative or an integrative DOCTOR.

PS I understand that for most people it is extremely uncomfortable. Most people would rather take the advice of a “doctor” and die, than risk the discomfort of seeking knowledge, and a second and third opinion. Because then they would have to decide the fate of their own life. It is so much easier to say “this is what my doctor recommended,” and die. Its just an extension of our ego protecting us from presumed risk. But that is a segue into happiness and the Sedona method. Not for this conversation.

For starters, prostate cancer is detected in half of men over 90. That led to the old saying, “most men die with prostate cancer than from it.” These cancers were detected in autopsy. They didnt even know they had it. So that should get you past the fear of the big C. Everyone thinks a cancer diagnosis is death. Its not. They died from other causes. ( at least when it comes to prostate cancer)

The next big word you need to know is metastatic vs localized. Metastatic just means it has spread from the original site. If its localized you really can do nothing. The five year survival rate is 100%. Here is a great article. But in summary if its low grade and hasnt spread, its not a big deal. In fact it is the second most common cancer, second only to skin cancer. In this article they say as many as 2/3 might have it and not know it. Most reading this will die of heart disease or something else.

So lets start with the biopsy. For many, when your numbers are consistently high, you will be advised to get a biopsy. I am shocked what my friend ( actually in this tale he is number 3), was told in 2024. In lay terms there are two different types of biopsies. There is the hit and hope. Just keep sticking you with a needle and hope they actually land on a lesion. But, and this is crazy. MRI/ultrasound guided biopsies have existed for around a decade.

So why would someone recommend hit and hope vs MRI/ultrasound guided? With hit and hope you could get stuck 20 times, and still miss a cancer. Worse yet, and this was visually demonstrated long ago, it is well known that you can spread the cancer with the biopsy. Here is a great article on the spreading of cancer via biopsy.

To me it starts becoming common sense. Google search MRI/Ultrasound guided prostate biopsy. I still cant believe my friend was advised hit and hope. But lets use common sense here. I tried to google search the cost of the equipment. But this stuff is so expensive they dont just post the price like on Amazon.

I did see prices of used whole body MRI that were a few hundred thousand dollars. The equipment in my industry, cosmetic, is well over $300,000 per device. So I think we can safely assume the equipment is expensive, and the insurance reimbursement, if any, is low. So no primary care doctor is going to spend tens, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, on equipment that he will merely get a few hundred dollars back from insurance.

Now for the treatment. Here is the tale of two friends. My first friend is a Harvard educated lawyer. Doesnt get any smarter, right? So he was the smart one? Wrong. My other friend, Ken, I will give you more details on him if he lets me. He is brilliant. I can talk to him for hours. He has traveled the world in search of cures unavailable in the United States. In fact that is what he did here.

I was actually getting worried because as the years passed. Harvard guy did radical surgery and his cancer was surgically removed, along with every reason a man even wants to be alive. Interpretation: you can kiss your erections goodbye. And he did tell me that did happen to him. But back to the story. Ken was literally traveling the world. He went to Vienna and did TUMT basically heating the prostate to shrink it. But he hadnt yet found a cure.

Finally, a few years ago, he went to Canada and did HIFU. This is a quickly evolving alternative to radical surgery. I spent an hour reading articles. Like I said in my previous post, we literally have the same research available to us that our doctors do. I liked this article. 

Do your own research. How about this? Are you willing to spend 1/100th of the time you spend watching porn to saving the thing you stroke when you watch porn? This is what I know will be the best motivator for men, and yes married men as well. If you dont get this right watching porn will no longer be pleasurable.

Sorry just trying to motivate the men here in the one way I know will work

So the HIFU is now approved as of a few years ago. Truly smart friend, Ken, had to pay out of pocket almost $30,000 to get treated in Canada. It is now approved in the US and insurance pays for it. I have heard numbers as high as 90% for success rates. Caveat there are a lot of variability in the mere word Prostate cancer. What stage is it, what size is it, has it metastasized?

I am not a doctor. I am merely telling the story of my three friends to insure you are aware of the alternatives. You should seek to learn from different medical establishments and doctors. You want to take advantage of the latest research, the best doctors, and facilities. There are so many university medical centers and places like Cleveland Clinic.

But you have to also use your brain. Sorry, you still have to do that. My friend Ken got kicked out of a study at the NIH (National Institute of Health) because he was doing too many healthy things, like going to Hippocrates in Florida and eating all raw vegetables for a week, and going to Vienna to get his tumors shrunken. I know, sounds counterintuitive. But he would have screwed us their statistics if he cured himself. Put that in your pipe and think about it.

No one will take care of your health but you. Doctors are people too, with families and and ridiculously high expenses. What if they have a family, kids in college. I can tell you I know of at least one cosmetic Doctor who was paying over $100,000 a year in malpractice insurance alone. I have no idea what doctors who are engaged in life threatening operations pay for their malpractice insurance alone. No one can afford to buy the latest technology, especially with reimbursements, non existent for the latest and greatest technology.

Just remembered I had a cold laser, (cost over $10,000) which I took to a good friend, who is a chiropractor’s office for the day. Many cold lasers are FDA approved for pain. Cant believe I didnt already write about this. So, in short, it works by reducing inflammation. During the course of the day he treated every patient with it. Almost half got immediate relief. But since most insurance doesnt pay for it, they chose electrical stimulation, which insurance does pay for.

Got it? Just extrapolate that by a factor of 100 and you will understand how our medical system works and the choices your doctor offers you. PS this is a really great guy that loves his patients. They will not pay out of pocket for something insurance doesnt cover. What choice does he have?

Sorry for the segue but its not. Its relevant to this discussion. You have to use your common sense and a grain of salt or in this case a 5 pound bag to think about all of the players and their incentive, when it comes to your life.

Eat less move more. The End

Seriously Why do we have thousands of books on weight loss?

My four word book should be a best seller. Ok I should give some advice. Start with your doctor. If you have a hormonal problem you are fighting a losing battle. Ideally an endocrinologist if your doctor is not properly equipped. I even know some of the right blood tests and or questions to ask. How is your thyroid, your growth hormone, your testosterone, (women and men both have testosterone) A CBC is in order. Is your liver, kidneys functioning properly?

How is your brain chemistry? You can actually test your dopamine , your serotonin, norepinephrine, adrenaline, cortisol, to name a few off the top of my head. There are some that help you wake up and others that help you sleep. And if the wrong ones are firing at the wrong time, good luck. PS My good friend Oz Garcia shared one of his multimillion dollar clients who was getting up at 5am do start her day with an hour of aerobics, merely needed to sleep more to lose weight. Talk about paradoxical.

I wrote about hormones in my health section.

Running is like magic. One mile 8 minutes 150 calories. Now that I am older, walking has similar effects only it takes longer. Funny I tried to google how many calories for walking and the results kept telling me about running. Maybe its a conspiracy by the runners club. But seriously its around 150 calories whether you run or walk and thats great news. So in one hour you can still burn around 450 calories walking. Most people walk a mile in around 20 minutes, or 3 miles an hour

But today you can listen to podcasts make your phone calls whatever, while you are walking. I actually walk whenever I talk. Its a subconscious urge. I searched it online. The results I found make sense. It said that we are animals and are used to receiving visual cues from another animal or human when we are communicating. So when we are talking on the phone and not seeing the other person and getting that we feel the urgency to move. I walk 3 miles indoors on an one hour phone call and burn 450 calories. Talk about useful multitasking.

If you are lucky enough to feel that. urge dont resist it!!! I remember even back to the days before portable phones, For you millennials, phones used to be attached by wires, period. So I bought a long 50 foot cord so I could walk around my apartment while I talked. I had no idea why I had that urge. Then came portable phones. That was phones that were still attached by wires to telephone poles to the final destination but the handset communicated with the base without a cord. But it was still POTS ( plain old phone system) but the phone was communicating with the base wirelessly. Then came cell phones the only thing the whole world knows today.

Just move. And fall in love with something, anything healthy. I love salads. I always fill up with salad no matter what else I am eating. DRINK water. It will fill you up. What about apples? Find something you love to eat that is not cookies.

And DONT AVOID fats. You will never feel full on carbs. You will always be hungry and probably bitchy too. Ok lets start today with a more inclusive word. You will feel bitchy or bastardly hungry. I guess bastardly is not a word. I officially designate “bastardly” as a word. You read it here first. It is a man acting nasty. You all can give me acronyms for the other 10 pronouns as well as coming up with a word that designates men as capable of getting “hangry” Now I know thats a word . I experience it every day. Its a combination of hungry and angry.

Try two glasses of water before every meal. You will not even be able to eat. You will feel full. I also used to purposely ruin my appetite by starting with my dessert. Ok thats not really great advice. But you can eat something prior to a meal. If your satiety mechanism, or the one where your brain tells you that you are full takes 20 minutes, eat slowly or eat something with fat and protein before your meal. Try a protein bar. You might not even feel hungry. And dont eat mindlessly

We take mindlessly to another level. Watching TV while you eat, you can easily shovel food into your pie hole. Ideally you would just eat and savor every bite and not do anything else. OK I know most of you arent going to do that but seriously think about what you are doing. If you are watching something that make you anxious, duh, news. Of course you will eat mindlessly and eat more. Ideally eat mindfully. Ok if you cant do that eat and converse. If you must watch something at least watch something pleasant and mindless, and try to focus on your food and not the TV

What if we had the mindfulness of WHAT we are eating? If you could imagine the glop or Starbucks (ok I will never get endorsed by Starbucks) But imagine that goop or glop or caramel machiatto whatever the F going into your stomach spiking your blood sugar releasing insulin, stressing your pancreas. The insulin getting released and your body storing fat, YUCK!!

I remember reading Robert Schuller saying he imagined the fats coursing through his veins and clogging his heart. That was it he was done. My dad worked in a butcher shop and saw the garbage that went into a hot dog or sausage. That was it for him he never ate one in his life. He didnt have to imagine he saw it first hand

The point is IMAGINATION is stronger than will power. If you have a strong picture in your mind of what you want to look like, you are done my friend.

NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS LOOKING AND FEELING GOOD FEELS!!!!!

Its just a matter of which picture is stronger in your mind. If the picture of you in a bathing suit looking buff or you looking in the mirror and smiling and feeling proud of yourself is stronger than the imagination of how something tastes, you are done. You will easily accomplish your goal without ANY will power. You merely have to have the presence of mind to imagine how great you are going to look and feel. PS stop yourself when you start imagining some unhealthy food.

I think I will experiment with imagining that my favorite ice creams etc taste like poop. If I am on to something I will write the diet book to end all diet books. Has anyone created that or wrote that? So far I am merely proposing our imagination of how we want to look and feel is far greater than we imagine the food or non food to taste Again its worth repeating

NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS LOOKING AND FEELING GOOD FEELS!!!!!

I wanted to just write eat less and move more but I had to share what I know. But I am not going to bore you with a whole book. All books are mostly fluff. I will never forget when I read the 80/20 rule. It truly does apply to everything in the world companies, customers your relationships. And some of us need to see 1000 examples before we “get it” But if you dont need 1000 examples and you are a fast learner, there really isnt much else to learn. Eat healthy fats and healthy protein, But seriously there are no books telling you to eat starch and sugar.

So you know what to eat and what to avoid. Thats not the problem. Its motivation. Use your imagination. You do it anyway. How the hell do you think you got fat? You imagined how good some glop is going to taste. And I am not going to deny you have a sweet tooth and that you also crave fats. I wrote about it. You are hard wired to crave sweets and avoid bitter poisons or your ancestors would have died and you wouldnt be reading this. You are hard wired to crave and store fat or your ancestors would have died. In fact you are hard wired to rest in between the hunting. Even any agriculture or farming is only 10,000 years old. So you are wired for fats sweets and being lazy.

So you need to rewire your brain to negotiate in todays world where every evil company is preying on your make up your hard wiring. They get rich while you get fat and sick.

I am assuming you dont want that for your life, or you would be sipping a caramel machiatto while watching real housewives or the cooking channel. Boy the list of who is never going to sponsor me is going to grow by leaps and bounds. Oh well have a happy and healthy day.

Nothing beats going to sleep at night knowing that you did everything you said you would, ate healthy and exercised and kept your word to yourself.

Not what I would call an aspirational photo. But I probably got your attention. To be clear I am advocating to avoid this kind of misery and a life not worth living. But you have to take control of everything about your health.

Ill give you another one. My dad had a minor surgery. He was allergic to the anesthesia, so he had seizures and they had to induce a coma. Then they punctured his lung by mistake. That same week my young friend in Italy told me he was going to get tested for anesthesia to make sure he is not allergic. That is something we dont do in this country. Why wouldnt we do that for a 90 year old man?

One more my grandmother caught pneumonia in the hospital and died. So medical mistakes abound. You need to be on top of your own care. Dont even google medical mistakes. Items left inside during surgery, failure to order lab tests. So you can actually insist on lab tests Good luck on preventing them from leaving instruments inside you. in correct medications you can read about that and wrong dosages. So even when it comes to “medical care” performed by your Doctor, you can check that, knowing he or she is busy. Which ironically my sister just did.

I just saw my sister. It is unbelievable what she told me. She was having issues breathing so her primary doctor sent her to a pulmonologist who put her on asthma medication that really hurt her and almost made her pass out climbing the stairs. She went home read the label on her eye drops and it said that it might cause breathing problems. And as it turned out she was allergic to the preservative in it. SHE FIGURED IT OUT. Not her eye doctor, not her primary care doctor, not her pulmonologist. They would have killed her.

So who is nuts here?

So just FYI many of my closest friends are doctors and I know how hard they work. But seriously if they are seeing 100 people a week, which is a mere 20 a day with different ailments and worse yet if they have to do paperwork for insurance, there is no time for a deep dive into your particular issue or needs.

Add to that I recently saw a kidney specialist and as I asked him specific questions about a particular issue, he honesty replied, you probably know more about that than I do.

He went on to say, the fact is that we all have access to the same information today. There is no secret cache of information for Doctors only. If its something of particular interest to you, you can spend 100 hours this week studying it. Obviously a doctor who is entrusted with the care of maybe 100 people this week cant do that. Even if he wanted to spend 100 hours thoroughly researching the issue of each of his 100 patients this week that would require 10,000. hours. At 40 hours a week it would take 5 years for him to allocate that much time.

Are you beginning to understand the math here? Its just not possible for you doctor to do a deep dive into your particular issues. Only you know what you eat each day, what supplments you take, what over the counter medications you take. What else might be causing you problems.

I am sure every single one of you have a story where a family member was almost killed or was actually killed by a medical mistake. Heck I can think of quite a few off the top of my head. Even a few years ago a doctor tried to prescribe a medication for me that would have seriously injured me.

I read the prescribor information and I was 100% contraindicated to take that medication and told him, he said “oh” and decided not to prescribe that,

So if you are not taking care of your own health YOU ARE NUTS. I am not the health nut. You are nuts and are pretty much destined to get sick and die prematurely, PS I would sign up for that program if it was just a matter of dying sooner. But you dont get that lucky. You land up being in constant perhaps excruciating daily pain without energy, maybe in a wheel chair living a miserable life.

Its simply not an option. And its really easy. Read the prescribing information if you have a condition or need a medication. Go to Pubmed.gov type in what your condition is. If there is an alternative that works it will be there. Dont read what people are advertising that will drive you crazy.

If you do see something advertised, go to Pubmed and see what the research says. I just went there to justify my previous sentence and typed in vitamin c for shits and giggles. There were 75,000 studies. In fact in the brief moment I noticed there were studies on Vitamin C an alzheimers and intravaneus vitamin c and cancer. I literally learned something I did not know in 15 seconds. I will have to go back and read them.

But that is where the serious research is. Funny that there are so many studies on Vitamin C and cancer. They are saying it is being used as an adjunct treatment even with chemotherapy to mitigate the side effects of chemo. Decades ago they made fun of people who wanted to do Vitamin C therapy. Today you can easily find an integrative doctor. This is a doctor who will integrate the best of conventional medicine with alternative medicine.

I am in no way advocating bypassing conventional care.

I am advocating DONT BE NUTS. Get involved in your own care. Is the quality of your life not worth a 5 minute read? I can promise you one thing for sure. You have more time to read about your particular issue than your doctor does. In fact if he is a specialist he is probably that much more busy and doesnt have the time to read even the most recent research.

So who is the NUT here? Not the health nut. We need a new name for us. I asked Chat GPT to give me a better name for health nut she said weird long ass names enthusiast etc. How about a human “being” How can you “be” in your life with no knowledge of what to eat, how to stay healthy?

If you want your Iphone or computer or air fryer to work properly you read the instructions. But you seriously would not spend 5 minutes reading how to take care of an illness or issue that you have? You must be nuts if you can say that.

I would call myself “A living human being involved in my own life and wanting to enjoy it.” You can call me a heatlh nut if you want. And I will call you a dumbass. or an ignorant dumbass. I am being kind here because if you are going to leave it up to busy strangers to maybe destroy your life by medical mistakes, mis prescribing and or simply not having time to advise you properly you will live a terrible painful unhealthy life with no one to blame but yourself and simply calling you a dumb ass i overestimating your intelligence.

Signed

Your friendly Health Nut

John 🙂

PS start today go to Pubmed.gov read about anything I just went back and typed in adult acne and found 9000 articles. There is so much research there on everything. Its fun and interesting and more so if it pertains to you or your loved ones. And you can verify the claims about supplements too. I went back again and type in acai. So there were 58 articles you can read to tell you friend trying to sell you on his multilevel marketing jungle juice. And I just tried apples and saw hundreds of articles including the effect of drying apples, as there is such a proliferation of dried fruit snacks today. Have fun with it.

I read an interesting article this morning by the latest guru doctor. He is advocating wearing a glucose monitor, LOL. Seriously? Does anyone think sugar is good for you? Is there any diet ever written in the history of the world that says sugar is good? We can debate low carbs, high protein etc. Actually even thats not a debate. Healthy fats and proteins. In fact there are essential fats essential proteins. Interestingly enough did you know there is not a single essential carbohydrate?

OK lets do it this the way. I always promised just a few minutes to set you straight for free. Once again, I am not a doctor, so check with your doctor on your individual situation and condition and state of health.

Here is the full article. Its in the Wall Street Journal linked to Apple News not sure if it shares to android. Its Dr Peter Attia. Sorry Doc most of what you say everyone reading this already knows. Throw out the orange juice? Are you kidding me? You didnt learn 50 years ago? (I guess not it was before you were even born), that sugary drinks even if they are fruit based are simple sugars? The Science and Art of Longevity? You are charging $2500 a year for educational content? Bogus dude. “Eat more protein, wear a continuous glucose monitor? Sorry dude Dr Atkins said that 40 years ago and is calling you from the grave.

Why monitor? cut your sugar and or take Berberine or even get on Metformin. Granted Metformin is a type 2 diabetes drug to lower your blood sugar WHICH EVERYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM. 92 million prescriptions in 2020.

OK searching high and low for anyone who died from Metformin. I got one he took 60 grams ( 60 pills to commit suicide)

Seriously the fact is that people who are diabetic who take Metformin are having better health outcomes less heart disease, cancer, alzheimers, and an endless list of diseases then “healthy” people. I think it is time to consider a proactive approach to your blood sugar. Assuming you have parents and believe in evolution then you are like every human beings that survived by avoiding bitter poisons and craving the safe sweet things to eat. So you might be struggling against your hard survival programming.

But of course feel free to wear a monitor and spend thousands of dollars on that and see how that works out for you vs maybe taking some chromium for cravings and other supplements and again maybe even Metformin.

To be clear in case you missed the news 40 years ago, more protein, little to no carbs, no sugars, more healthy fats, and yes exercise. And then you get to decide which anti aging drugs you are interested in. Dr Attia mentions rapamycin. Which has this warning. The FDA stamped rapamycin with a “black box” warning, its most extreme, for drugs that come with “serious or life-threatening risks”—risks like infections, pneumonia, and cancer. But what do I know? I am not a doctor charging you thousands of dollars.

Do your own research as a doctor I saw a few weeks said to me. ” Do you know today you have the same research available to you that I do?”

That is so profound and powerful. Think about it. Whether its David Attia or anyone else you want to give autonomy to over your body. They literally dont know any more than the information you can avail yourself of. The only difference is you live with you and know what effects you positively or negatively and what drugs or foods you have noticed you have allergies to over you total lifetime. You can spend untold thousands of dollars and thousands of hours with any doctor you choose. But only you know how your body responds to MSG, ice cream, soda, late night meals, sushi, shakes, summer allergies, dust in the winter when the hot air heat comes on, pollen in the spring, fresh mowed grass, lifting weights, how your knees or ankles respond to running, or if yoga or pilates resonates or benefits you. The list is absolutely endless.

And you know your weaknesses so you can spend 100 hours a week studying a singular issue that affects you. You are not responsible for hundreds or thousands of patients. You know what you need. You dont have to write a book to make everyone moderately happy.

Only you can take care of you period because only you know you intimately. PS I will study rapamycin. But unlike metformin it hasnt been mainstream recommended for over a decade.