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Read an article yesterday that discussed how chicken extended the life of people on prostate cancer. Just a quick search shows this.
Specifically, Wang's team found that men in the study who ate about 3.5 servings of poultry a week either before or after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, or both before and after, have a 10% to 20% lower risk of prematurely dying from all causes.
I don’t listen to that, but I eat a lot more than 3 1/2 servings because I have it almost every day with a salad because I need the protein. All of us prostate cancer patients on drugs need extra protein, so that our bones can heal quicker and you can build muscles more easily with more protein.
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Hey Jeff, 5 years ago I was bitten by a Lone star tick and became allergic to ALL red meat of any kind including products made with gelatin.
About a month later I had my robotic prostatectomy.
Since that time I have eaten more chicken -perhaps 5 night per week - than the entire Frank Perdue family! Only Bell and Evans Organic chicken and ground dark meat turkey from a farm near my house.
Also during that time my cholesterol zoomed to where I now need statins and my PSA went from undetectable to requiring salvage radiation and ADT.
So MY conclusion, based on 5 years of “research” has found that 100% of ALL men who ate NO red meat and only poultry 5 times per week had an increased chance of recurrent prostate cancer and elevated cholesterol levels.
Yet as preposterous and tongue in cheek as that sounds, it is, nevertheless, true, right?
It flies in the face of everything ever published on red meat, poultry, cancer and cholesterol.
I wonder if Dr Wang’s patients ate the kind of poultry I did or that Pathmark Manager’s Special chicken where a single breast weighs two and a half pounds or the drumstick is the size of a leg of lamb….all with NO hormones or antibiotics🤣🤣.
Anyway, I do happen to love chicken - always have - but it doesn’t seem to love me back. Best,
Phil
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"Read an article yesterday that discussed how chicken extended the life of people on prostate cancer. "
More precisely, the people who happen to eat more chicken are people who survive prostate cancer a bit longer in the aggregate.
That doesn't necessarily mean that *I'd* survive longer if I started eating chicken; more likely, it's related to some unknown third factor, like what you eat less of when you eat chicken, a gene that makes chicken more attractive to you and also improves your ability to fight cancer, or any number of other X factors.