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Dairy and prostate cancer: Conflicting information
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 28 4:54pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
The majority of what I read these days is that dairy and specifically saturated fat, is really bad for PC. I realize there are many opinions, but my PC was outside of the prostate on reoccurrence, so I am doing what I can with a mostly plant based diet with seafood 1-2X a week and lots of exercise.
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My cholesterol was high so to avoid meds I stopped dairy and red meat and my cholesterol went to normal and I hope it will be good for my prostate cancer then I read that eggs were hard on PC ! Anyone hear anything about avoiding eggs?
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Here’s one to show how bizarre all this can be. As stated, I am lifelong meat and dairy consumer. Raised in Italian American household eating full fat everything - including all those ultra fatty luncheon meats - salami, prosciutto, etc. NEVER had high cholesterol in my first 65 yrs of life. Low in fact!
Now 5 yrs ago I was bitten by a tick and developed alphagal syndrome: severe allergy to ALL meat products - all of it- pork, beef, lamb plus gelatin and that’s in most everything. It was rough. Interestingly, after being on an all poultry and fish diet my cholesterol began to climb, so much so that I was put on a statin. My diet always included these foods as well as plenty of beans and other veggies.
So WHY, after adopting a no red meat of any kind diet did my cholesterol go UP? Isn’t my diet the kind the cardio guys recommend?? Isn’t it the Mediterranean diet??
All my turkey comes from a local organic poultry farm and the fish is fresh caught. And no, I have not consumed mounds of cheese to compensate for the absence of meat. My cardiologist just shrugs when I question him. There is SO much we don’t know. One thing I do believe, however, is that prostate cancer comes from mutated DNA. Is it environmental? Family genetics? Simply being older and allowing for the odds of mutation to increase? Who the heck knows?
I’ve read many prostate cancer studies on the National Institutes of Health website and even with my limited organic chemistry background I cannot even begin to follow the complex biochemical changes that occur via enzymes and other reactions between various compounds in the malignant state - It’s mind boggling!
So to think that a supplement or a tea or an herb is really gonna change that is just wishful thinking. Not eating ice cream or yogurt isn’t gonna move the needle either. But if you feel that it gives you some control, I totally get that and I do that in other ways - just not food as I previously did.
CRISPR technology might be the answer but first they have to find out where on the DNA the whole process starts to go wrong. So far they haven’t…but I know they will.