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Has your doctor suggested dosing for Calcium and Vitamin D during ADT?
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1. Some of the studies are about whole milk increasing the risk of prostate cancer are over a lifetime of consumption. Other studies don't show this association. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8255404/
2. I'm in my eighties, & I already have the cancer or what is left of it.
3. I increased milk consumption after the prostate was removed.
4. I'm not drinking whole milk.
5. These are not controlled studies, meaning that there is no way to know what other foods are being taken or avoided with milk lovers. Maybe it's the potential of increased risk of obesity with the fat in milk. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1550782/
6. Now that I'm off ADT, my PSA is decreasing. No one knows why. I suspect it is because I have (intentionally) lost 18 lbs in the last four months, but who knows. My BMI is now in the normal range. https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/weight-loss-key-in-fighting-prostate-cancer.html
7. Some of the same studies show that increased consumption of milk decreases the risk of colon cancer, which I don't have. You can't win, but at least I am at decreased risk of bone fractures.
8. My two oncologists have said nothing about my increased consumption of milk, but I will see one of them in a week, & I will ask.
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Congratulations on the great PSA news! A former brother-in-law recommended a book, "How Not to Die" (Greger), which mentions IGF-1 in milk as well as Choline in eggs and issues with chicken and beef. The author is pressing for vegan diets, and my sister-in-law has been using it to continue surviving stage 4 cancer after 17 years. It's not for everyone, though, and I've been trying it for awhile but have gained weight, so I'm going back on a low-fat, low-calorie Weight Watchers plan to get back under the pre-diabetic category. Each of us has to chart his own course. A friend pokes me by saying that humans are the only animals that give their offspring milk beyond childhood. Best wishes!
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It’s a fat in low fat milk that’s bad for you. Sure, if you don’t mind that they find that the fat in milk can make prostate cancer more aggressive, it’s your overall survival. You’re drinking a lot of that milk. and it is not recommended by the experts.
If you keep it up your PSA may not stay down. I am 77 and I sure wouldn’t do it. Here are some evidence and there’s a lot more. The AMOUNT you are drinking is really unsafe.
https://news.llu.edu/research/new-study-associates-intake-of-dairy-milk-with-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer
Our findings add important weight to other evidence associating dairy products, rather than non-dairy calcium, as a modifiable risk factor for prostate cancer,” said Gary Fraser, MBChB, PhD, the study's principal investigator and professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and School of Public Health.
https://www.healthline.com/health/prostate-cancer/milk-prostate-cancer#research
Research has shown that men who consume a lot of milk are more likely to develop prostate cancer than men who don't eat calcium-heavy diets. An older study ® published in 1998 found evidence that men who drank more than two glasses of milk a day were at higher risk of advanced prostate cancer than men who did not consume that much milk. Whole milk seems o to cause the highest increase in risk, although studies have also found a GREATER RISK ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-FAT MILK.