Day 362 - Male Hormone Replacement Therapy Doesn’t Cause Prostate Cancer Part 1

You Can Support me on Patreon here -   / thediabetesdragonslayer   THE LIE Giving testosterone to men causes prostate cancer. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE As a man ages, his testosterone level drops, which leads to a long list of negative symptoms and suffering. The symptoms can be treated easily with testosterone optimization therapy, which greatly improves a man’s quality of life. So if this is a medical lie, we shouldn’t be afraid to optimize a man’s testosterone. However, if testosterone optimization might cause prostate cancer, then a man shouldn’t take the chance of using the therapy. SUPPORT FOR THE LIE You’ll be surprised when you hear the story of where this lie started and how little meaningful research supports it. It basically comes from one man’s opinion, and that opinion wasn’t based on any real research. Many other doctors and experts believed the unproven opinion of this one man and have repeated this medical lie for decades. In the 1940s, Charles B. Huggins, MD, was working with dogs and studying their prostates at the University of Chicago. Dogs and humans are the only animals that have trouble with their prostates becoming enlarged as they age. (Perhaps related to processed food diets? But I digress.) Huggins found that when he castrated the dogs, their prostates shrank. While looking at microscope slides of the dogs’ prostates, Huggins noticed areas that looked the same as prostate cancer in humans. When he observed these areas on the slide, he noticed that they were smaller after the dogs had been castrated. Based on what he had observed in his studies of dogs’ prostates, Dr. Huggins did some limited research on humans who had prostate cancer using a lab test that no doctor would use today (acid phosphatase). He concluded that giving a man who has a prostate any testosterone replacement is like throwing gasoline on a fire; the testosterone will increase the risk of developing prostate cancer. He published an article in the very first issue of the journal Cancer Research to detail his results. However, he had studied only three men who had received testosterone injections. Furthermore, his report addressed only two of the men, and one of those men had already been castrated. So this medical lie about the connection between testosterone and prostate cancer is based on the results of one patient who had already been hormonally manipulated! Dr. Huggins, although an intelligent expert in his field who was affiliated with a prestigious institution, had based his conclusion on almost no evidence at all. Despite the lack of substantial research to support the theory, a doctor couldn’t argue against this medical lie for decades without that doctor being shunned or persecuted by other doctors. Although support for this lie is slowly dying, unthinking or lazy doctors (including urologists) still repeat it. From “Lies My Doctor Told Me” by Dr. Ken Berry - https://amzn.to/3O6Yfio An Example of San Antonio being the most dangerous place in the world to drive. A Great Videos from Dr. Jason Fung on Diabetes Reversal -    • Reversing Type 2 Diabetes | Jason Fung   My Personal P:E Spreadsheet feel free to download or copy and make your own! - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...