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Turkey Tail mushrooms and FOS. Anyone else here use these?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 27 11:21am | Replies (59)Comment receiving replies
@surftohealth88
ANYHOW - let me try again.
What I was saying is that there were experiments done with transferring human fecal matter from PC patients with aggressive cancers into guts of mice and that caused mouse's PC to grow exponentially faster !!!
The other point that I was trying to make was that since it is known which bacteria do produce testosterone like substances, maybe scientists can use bacteriophage (micro organisms that eat bacteria) and genetically reprogram them to eat those particular types of bacteria in our guts OR find antibiotics that would eliminate only those weird bacterial colonies in PC patients.
A long shot, I know ...
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@surftohealth88 This is why I roll my eyes when I hear someone extolling the virtues of this vitamin, or that supplement, trace element, Chinese medicine, etc, etc…
ALL of these cancers are Soooooo freakin complicated, and are influenced by factors we haven’t even begun to imagine, let alone comprehend!
Just thank goodness there are still researchers out there with a thirst for knowledge and the funding 🤞to make these discoveries happen!
Phil
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Animal studies suggest that FOS promotes good bacteria that crowds out bacteria that can synthesize testosterone. That is why I take it!
Advanced prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy have altered gut microbiota composition, with an accumulation of bacterial species that can synthesize dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and testosterone from pregnenolone [through 17a-hydroxylase/17,20-desmo lase (CYP17A1)– like activity]. The presence of these species enhances tumor growth and progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)(1).
We have carefully examined a total of 24 the up-to-date available dietary intervention studies in search for evidence and strategies to increase A. muciniphila, a beneficial member of gut microbiota in the gut. Available evidence from animal studies showed that viable A.muciniphila or prebiotics (FOS) was able to consistently promote A. muciniphila abundance in the gut, suggesting a great potential for future development of dietary intervention approaches using viable bacterium or FOS for increasing gut A. muciniphila..(2)
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1. Gut bacteria enable prostate cancer growth. John A. McCulloch, Giorgio Trinchieri.. Science, 374 (6564), DOI: 10.1126/science.abl7070
2. Kequan Zhou, Strategies to promote abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila, an emerging probiotics in the gut, evidence from dietary intervention studies, Journal of Functional Foods, Volume 33, 2017, Pages 194-201, ISSN 1756-4646,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2017.03.045