Diet - Eggs or no eggs?

There are older studies (2012) that show a risk for eating more than 3 eggs per week and fatal prostate cancer.

The study by the Prostate Cancer Foundation shows the relative for eggs and meat.
https://www.pcf.org/c/prostate-cancer-and-eggs-dairy-supplements-your-questions-answered-part-1/
There's lots of data, please be careful and discuss with your Dr and/or nutritionist.

Exactly what I was given today prior to treatment ( RT ) - includes eggs as 'OK'.

Examples from a quick search for “study eggs prostate cancer”. There are many more sites that discuss this, Check out the search.

The findings of the study – that men who ate 2.5 or more eggs a week compared to men who ate less than half an egg week were 82% more likely to develop fatal prostate cancer – are certainly interesting. But on their own they are not reliable enough to warrant men cutting back on eggs to reduce risk of prostate cancer.Sep 30, 2011

Eggs may increase risk of aggressive prostate cancer due to their choline content. One study found that men with the highest choline intake (~500 mg/day) had a 70 % increased risk of incident lethal prostate cancer compared with men with the lowest intake (~300 mg/day) [19]. A Swedish study also reported that men with the highest plasma levels of choline had a 46 % increased risk of prostate cancer compared with men with the lowest levels

A large study by NIH concerning choline and cases of lethal prostate cancer DID find a correlation of highest blood concentrations of choline and death caused by prostate cancer…
However - and this is critical - researchers could not contribute large amounts of choline in cancer cells to dietary consumption; their conclusion was that metabolism of choline is “clearly” altered in men with prostate cancer. In other words, its not the absolute amount of choline you ingest, its the fact that ANY amount you eat is liable to be handled differently in those men with prostate cancer who will go on to DIE from it. My take is that the lethal form of PCa - as opposed to the garden variety most of us have - is what is causing the high levels of choline - not the other way around.
There was a huge controversy a while back about flaxseed, flaxseed oil and PCa….did it prevent it or cause it?? Because they found larger than normal amounts of ALA ( alpha alanine) in PCa cells, and flaxseed contains huge amounts of the same compound, researchers theorized that the ALA was causing the prostate cancer. However, after running a double blind experiment on men scheduled to undergo prostatectomy, they found that flaxseed LOWERED 6 different cancer markers in the men who had eaten the flaxseed and not in the placebo group.
So proof positive that it was NOT the flaxseed (and its ALA) causing the cancer. But after doing more testing involving biochemical tracers they found that many men with PCa do not metabolize ALA properly and this is why it winds up in such high concentrations in the cells. Once again, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!
I actually emailed the head researcher in Minnesota ( whose name escapes me now) and she told me to keep eating flaxseed since it did not fuel PCa.
I can get her name if you would like to read their study.

A large study by NIH concerning choline and cases of lethal prostate cancer DID find a correlation of highest blood concentrations of choline and death caused by prostate cancer…
However - and this is critical - researchers could not contribute large amounts of choline in cancer cells to dietary consumption; their conclusion was that metabolism of choline is “clearly” altered in men with prostate cancer. In other words, its not the absolute amount of choline you ingest, its the fact that ANY amount you eat is liable to be handled differently in those men with prostate cancer who will go on to DIE from it. My take is that the lethal form of PCa - as opposed to the garden variety most of us have - is what is causing the high levels of choline - not the other way around.
There was a huge controversy a while back about flaxseed, flaxseed oil and PCa….did it prevent it or cause it?? Because they found larger than normal amounts of ALA ( alpha alanine) in PCa cells, and flaxseed contains huge amounts of the same compound, researchers theorized that the ALA was causing the prostate cancer. However, after running a double blind experiment on men scheduled to undergo prostatectomy, they found that flaxseed LOWERED 6 different cancer markers in the men who had eaten the flaxseed and not in the placebo group.
So proof positive that it was NOT the flaxseed (and its ALA) causing the cancer. But after doing more testing involving biochemical tracers they found that many men with PCa do not metabolize ALA properly and this is why it winds up in such high concentrations in the cells. Once again, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!
I actually emailed the head researcher in Minnesota ( whose name escapes me now) and she told me to keep eating flaxseed since it did not fuel PCa.
I can get her name if you would like to read their study.

Choline was definitely what they said was the problem in the eggs. If you just ate the whites you didn’t get it, so you were OK with doing that.

Are you correlating flaxseed to the egg problem? I don’t think so, since flaxseed has real benefits it seems. Or are you posturing that the problem with eggs is really not what they think? I am not so sure we have all the garden variety, Without the newer drugs, some of us would be dead. My father didn’t last more than a couple years after Lupron stopped working, I’m way beyond that point

Yes, Jeff, I am saying that it is not the ingestion of choline that is the problem - it is the lethal form of PCa which does not allow the men to process it properly, so it winds up having high concentrations in the blood and cells.
Choline is found in many, many foods - the highest concentrations being in meat, dairy and eggs…ergo don’t eat those things and you won’t die from PCa. But choline is essential to life - it is the precursor of acetylcholine, without which you simply could not exist, as it is responsible for all neuronal synaptic transmission: all movement, breathing, talking, blinking, etc. The study didn’t separate men who ate yolks from men who ate egg whites, follow them for 30 yrs and look to see which group died from PCa; it said that egg whites don’t raise choline levels….so what? We agree that it’s in the yolks.
As for flaxseed, we all know of its health benefits (like eggs?😉), but they were finding very high levels of alpha lipoic acid (ALA) in their blood and in PCa cells….sound familiar?
So they did the dietary questionnaire thing and zeroed in on flaxseed because it has the highest levels of ALA of all foods…ergo, flaxseeds cause prostate cancer.
But Dr Waanefried (sp?) and her team in Minnesota, came up with a plan: biopsy men scheduled to undergo prostatectomy in one month; feed half of them a lot of flaxseed, the other half a placebo for 30 days. They measured 5 or 6 biomarkers for PCa activity in the pre- surgical biopsies and compared them to the post- surgical biopsy levels of the same biomarkers.
The men who ate the flaxseed had something like 50% less activity for PCa, using these biomarkers as a gauge. So the flaxseed DEcreased the potency of the cancer; the ALA therefore did not CAUSE PCa but was CORRELATED to finding it.
Further study showed that many of the men who expressed the highest levels of ALA in both blood and cells did not, or could not metabolize ALA properly - either because of their own genetic predisposition OR their prostate cancer did not allow them to.
You have stated that you are BRCA positive, which is a huge factor in the aggressiveness of your particular cancer. Could it not be possible that this inherited genetic condition alters many chemical pathways in your body and allows certain compounds to build up because they are not metabolized properly? Who knows what they are unless you set out to test for them? But we don’t know what we don’t know so where do you begin? You say you are way past castrate resistance, yet here you are because of drug therapies that are keeping you alive. Are these drugs targeting choline? ALA? Are you not dead because you stopped eating eggs a year or two ago? Do you think that if you had avoided eggs, dairy and meat all your life, your BRCA gene would have been turned off and you would not have gotten PCa at all?
A disease like Hemochromatosis causes high levels of iron to accumulate in the liver, often leading to cirrhosis…..IRON CAUSES CIRRHOSIS!! See what I mean? Unfortunately this disease only strikes those of Hibernian (Irish/Celtic) ancestry - similar to Tay-Sachs disease only striking Ashkenazi Jews.
The upshot is that many Irish patients in the past presenting with cirrhosis were simply dismissed as alcoholics, since that is the most common reason for the disease. Sad but true…
Anyway, biochemistry is sooo complicated that it often takes decades to find a smoking gun. Don’t think that gun- or the silver bullet- is right around the corner, but we’re finding out more about this disease every day. These nutritional studies are invaluable and where they might leave us still looking for answers, they can, at least, perhaps point us in another direction. Best
Phil

Examples from a quick search for “study eggs prostate cancer”. There are many more sites that discuss this, Check out the search.

The findings of the study – that men who ate 2.5 or more eggs a week compared to men who ate less than half an egg week were 82% more likely to develop fatal prostate cancer – are certainly interesting. But on their own they are not reliable enough to warrant men cutting back on eggs to reduce risk of prostate cancer.Sep 30, 2011

Eggs may increase risk of aggressive prostate cancer due to their choline content. One study found that men with the highest choline intake (~500 mg/day) had a 70 % increased risk of incident lethal prostate cancer compared with men with the lowest intake (~300 mg/day) [19]. A Swedish study also reported that men with the highest plasma levels of choline had a 46 % increased risk of prostate cancer compared with men with the lowest levels