Re: Please help me with prostate cancer

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Appended is some very important data on Prostate cancer from a respected

medical duo ..I have no affiliation with this letter other than to read

it and apply the data.. Be Well and prosper..Allan D

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:24:03 -0000 " baby_grand "

<bobluhrs@...> writes:

> I don't mean to impart any medical advice. The closest thing to

> this is a muscle stimulator, and you should ask your doctor about

> those levels of current being ok for you, would it cause any known

> problems, etc, if you plan to do anything always ask the doctor, not

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Progesterone Cream Can Help Prostate Cancer

Highlights from my time with Dr. Lee

Well I had the great privilege of dining with Dr. Lee on Friday and

lecturing with him on Saturday. I was expecting to learn some exciting

new information and I was not disappointed. There are two major

highlights to review. I am even more convinced now of the value of

natural progesterone for women and even for men as I will discuss later.

The most exciting information though has to do with progesterone's

ability to PREVENT and REVERSE many cancers. The newer studies show that

estrogen, specifically estradiol, does not increase the risk for breast

cancer but it actually CAUSES breast cancer AND prostate cancer. There is

not any debate left about this issue. All major researchers have found

this The information on the prostate is new.

Let me attempt to explain the relationship for prostate cancer in more

detail. Men also make estrogen and estradiol, but in much lower amounts

than women. The male hormone, testosterone, is antagonist to estradiol.

Testosterone prevents estradiol from causing prostate cancer by

destroying the prostate cancer cells it stimulates.

Testosterone does NOT cause prostate cancer. If this were true 19 and 20

year old males would be developing prostate cancer as these are the

individuals with the highest levels. This is obviously not the case.

Males also produce progesterone, although about half as much as females

do. The progesterone prevents the body from converting testosterone to

di-hydro testosterone.

It does this by inhibiting the enzyme 5-alpha reductase. Progesterone

inhibits 5 alpha reductase far more effectively than Proscar and Saw

Palmetto which are the more standard agents employed in traditonal and

natural medicine.

As a male ages, his progesterone level decreases just like it does in

women. In women this decease occurs about the age of 35 and men about ten

years later. When progesterone levels decrease, the male's 5 alpha

reductase converts the testosterone to di-hydro testosterone which is

useless at removing the prostate cancer cells that estradiol stimulates.

Estradiol also stimulates the enlargement of the prostate. This allows

the prostate gland to swell and enlarge and in many cases transform into

prostate cancer.

The prostate is embryologically similar to the female uterus. Prostate

cancer is the NUMBER ONE cancer in men. Prostate enlargement is a major

cause of problems in elderly men. It appears we now have a simple, safe

inexpensive solution to prevent and treat this problem.

Dr. Lee's has a large number of anecdotal stories of complete reversals

of metastatic prostatic cancers. The clinical research has just begun.

Dr. Lee states that there are several studies that will be published in

the peer reviewed literature very shortly confirming this observation in

animal studies.

There is no need to wait for these studies as there is strong biochemical

evidence to support this recommendation. The January 28 JAMA had an

article To die or not to die? most cells in the body die through a more

subtle, noninflammatory, energy-dependent form of cell death called

apoptosis.

Recent research into the molecular mechanisms of apoptosis has revealed

that apoptosis is a genetically programmed process that can become

deranged when the components of the cellular apoptotic machinery are

mutated or present in inappropriate quantities. Dysregulation of

apoptosis is associated with the cause of a wide array of diseases:

cancer, neurodegeneration, autoimmunity, heart disease, and other

disorders.

All cells, with the exception of brain and muscle cells, multiply

continuously. The genes which regulates this cell growth are p53 and bcl2

.. If the gene bcl2 dominates it will push cells to cancer. If gene p53

dominates the opposite will occur and the cell growth is controlled and

the cancer do not occur.

The article clearly shows that traditional chemotherapy using poisons to

stop cell hyperplasia do not work as they kill normal cells easier than

cancer cells. The new idea promoted by the review is to find agents that

activate p53 and deactivate bc12 is the hope for curing cancer.

Well folks, guess what the research shows??? Estradiol turns on the

cancer gene bc12 and progesterone turns on the anti-cancer gene p53!!!

Breast cancer cells do not multiply when women are on progesterone. These

hormones also worked for cancer of the ovary and uterus and small cell

lung cancer which is normally a very difficult cancer to treat with a

horribly dismal diagnosis.

This is MAJOR news and will provide a radical shift in my recommendations

for hormonal replacement. I know believe that nearly all men should

seriously consider natural progesterone replacement sometime in their

40s, or even earlier if they have a family history of prostate cancer.

There is also a reasonable likelihood that this will decrease male

balding. So, all the men who wish to retain what is left of their hair, I

would start this immediately.

Dr. Lee has always recommended a low dose cream. Originally, I did not

believe that the low dose cream was necessary and decided to reduce the

patient cost by using a high dose 10% prescription cream. This made the

cream very affordable but also significantly increased the risk of

overdosing and causing complications.

Dr. Lee explained to me that when much higher doses are given the excess

progesterone is metabolized in the liver and some of the metabolites may

have an anesthetic dose on the brain. I believe that many of the patients

I have prescribed the higher dose 10% cream for have experienced some of

these symptoms.

The other consideration has to do with the distribution of the dose. The

progesterone cream enters from the skin into the fat. The progesterone is

released from the fat into the blood stream in direct proportion to the

concentration of the cream. The danger of using a higher dose cream is

that there will not be a smooth release of the hormone into the blood

stream over the 12 hour period.

Since progesterone has a relatively short half life of five minutes once

it is in the blood, this will significantly limit its effectiveness and

one will only receive partial benefits from the progesterone.

His arguments are very compelling and I am changing my recommendation to

the lower dose cream. The higher dose cream was $3 per month and shifting

to the lower dose cream will actually increase triple the price to about

$9 per month. However, I believe the benefits are significant enough to

warrant the increase in cost.

There are many low dose non prescription natural progesterone creams on

the market. A typical one would have about 900 mg per two ounces which is

about 1.7%. Many are available in the health food store. However, one

needs to be very careful that the cream indeed has natural progesterone

and in the 1.7% concentration. We will be offering one of the best low

dose creams on the market, Natragest, which we obtain from Biotics Labs.

The dose of natural progesterone for men is 10 to 12 mg per day. Men do

NOT need time off like women and can take the progesterone without taking

any days off. The normal dose for women of natural progesterone should be

about 20 mg per day from day 12 to 26.

These doses are split and taken twice a day If one is using the Natragest

cream the 6 mg male dose would be about 1/16 of a teaspoon twice a day.

The dose for women would be about twice that 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon twice a

day from day 12-26. It is VERY important to be a precise as possible when

administering this dose.

If you are a woman and have the older higher dose cream they can still be

used but I would decrease the dose to 1/32 of a teaspoon immediately.

JAMA. January 28, 1998;279:300-307

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[Guest guest]

> > > Could someone please help me with infomation focusing on

> prostate

> > > cancer. Just diagnoised with low grade & want to avoid surgery

> in

> > 2

> > > months. Please forgive me if this is a repeat question. I am a

> > new

> > > member and it is initially overwhelming. Many thanks.

> > >

> > > Ed Waterman

[Guest guest]

> Could someone please help me with infomation focusing on prostate

> cancer. Just diagnoised with low grade & want to avoid surgery in 2

> months. Please forgive me if this is a repeat question. I am a new

> member and it is initially overwhelming. Many thanks.

>

> Ed Waterman

I've had two different people swear by standardized saw palmetto, and they were

regular folks from real life, not chat room alt.health enthusiasts. Their tests

were borderline but cleared up dramatically.

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I'd say, then forget it locally, then if they warn against it. I

will delete the posts.

bG