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@maga You're an inspiration!! Good for you!
I workout pretty regularly and walk my dog every day, which has helped with the fatigue.

@kevtrav That’s unfortunate that you were only told about “some” of the side-effects.

There has been much reported on the physical benefits of resistance-training exercise while on ADT. Here are just a few that I’ve bookmarked:

> Drs. Sholz and Moyad talking about exercise and hormone therapy: https://m.youtube.com/watch

> A paper on The Benefits of Exercise During Hormone Therapy: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c68ac6e4b06d2e36a4b8c9/t/55cb7275e4b0d97ae7ff60af/1439396469154/The+Benefits+of+Exercise+During+Hormone+Therapy_Insights+August+2015_PCRI.pdf

> A study about the benefits of exercise to counteract the adverse effects of ADT: (They describe a good resistance-training program): https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fulltext/2023/04000/resistance_exercise_training_increases_muscle_mass.2.aspx

@kevtrav
One of the first things ADT does is weaken, the stomach muscle muscles, resulting in a belly. Your problem may not be mainly in the stomach, It may just be ADT’s effect.

I weigh myself every day in order to make sure I don’t gain weight. I base what I eat on what I weigh. If you don’t keep a real close track of it, you gain a few pounds and then it is very hard to lose it. I did gain 6 pounds over the holidays last year and it took me four months to lose them.

Low T causes a sluggish metabolism, reduced muscle mass, increased abdominal fat storage, and low energy for exercise. Low-T creates a cycle where weight gain further lowers testosterone, requiring lifestyle changes or medical intervention to break.

Cutting out meals for weight loss often backfires by causing your metabolism to slow down and promoting fat storage as the body enters a survival-oriented "conservation mode". It leads to nutrient deficiencies, intense hunger causing overeating later, energy crashes, mental fatigue, and potential muscle loss.

Between low T and the inability to cut out meals. It’s really annoying how hard it is for prostate cancer patientsto lose weight. When it comes down to is we really need to change our diets.

@kevtrav
Oh boy - I am soooo sorry to hear that : (((. Sending you my best wishes and blessings 💗, it must be tremendously hard *sigh, and kudos to you for managing both your and your wife"s care. Try to get Orgovyx if you can, perhaps it will help.

@jeffmarc Exercise won't get the attention it needs among the ADT "community" until MOs actively encourage it as a basic part of treatment, even to the extent of tracking their patients' physical activity. Prednisone, despite its known dangers, is prescribed along with abiraterone in order to promote some level of energy among ADT patients. And yes, it's necessary, no argument there. So why not give the same level of treatment emphasis to activity that is entirely beneficial, costs nothing, gets no argument from insurance companies, and supports the same results? Maybe MOs just have an easier time getting pills to be swallowed than weights to be lifted, and they don't want to cause resistance to the former by insisting on the latter.

This website has been helpful and depressing at the same time . So many men are suffering mentally and physically, the. To have you wife dealing with early signs of dementia has to be overwhelming. Actually I think my wife is also showing signs but if I say anything like I just told you 10 minutes ago I’m in the dog house .i have to be careful what and when I say anything. I caught her ordering pills for memory loss but then she cancelled it , knowing it would not help even though that billionaire invested millions to develop the pill, wish you luck with all the stress.

@graybeard46 I'm sorry to see this about your wife. I developed great patience with my wife. Good luck. I'll be praying for both if you