Don’t eat ANY food with guilt. Guilt is much more indigestible. Don’t eat until you have the “full feeling.” Stop before you get there. If bugs would not eat it, it’s probably not good for you. Good food spoils. If it doesn’t spoil within 2 weeks in room temperature – it’s crap. If the ingredients list is more than 4 unpronounceable words, it’s probably JUNK. The best foods have just one word as an ingredient – and it’s not listed. Limit eating white foods. Cauliflower you can have as much as you want. Sugar, fruit juice and soda’s are also crappy. If eating anything that once had a face , make sure it they ate their natural diet e.g. Cattle eat grass and hay...
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Three Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Your Health
While you may not be ready to follow my advice 100% of the time (even I don’t follow my advice 100% of the time) here are three simple things you can do which will have profound effects on improving your health and how you feel on a daily basis. Make Water Your Beverage of Choice Making water your beverage of choice has two significant impacts. First, most people simply do not drink enough water. Water is essential to life. Our body is made of lots of water and our body utilizes it in many complex chemical reactions that are the basis of life. Of course this leads to the next logical questions – how much and what kind? How much water should you drink? That will vary with how...
Over-treatment of Prostate Cancer Boosting Impotence Rates
According to a study that was published the in the New England Journal of Medicine, the over-treatment of prostate cancer is leading to a disturbing increase in post-treatment impotence. This study found that 15 years after invasive cancer treatment, only 10% of men still possess the ability to achieve and maintain an erection. Although the age of the men in the study explains a portion of this finding, the issue of sexual side-effects remains a significant area of concern.A concise overview of this study is offered by Bloomberg News: Sex Impossible for Most Men After Prostate Therapy.As we discussed in our post on how to go about making thoughtful, best fit choices for treating...
You Really Need to Get Some Sleep
High quality sleep is a core element of the Mr. Happy Lifestyle. Let's explore why sleep matters so much to men like us, and what actions we can take right now to improve the quality of our sleep. Why does the quality of our sleep matter so much?Although an occasional sleepless night usually does not pose much of a problem, running a sleep deficit over time will cause a lot of problems. Restorative sleep is an essential ingredient for a healthy mind and body, and every bodily system will suffer for lack of it. Many people think of sleep as a waste of time or a luxury. We buy into this odd notion that successful people get by with just a few hours of sleep a night or that sleep is...
Cutting Through the Fish Oil Confusion
Has the latest news flash on fish oil and prostate cancer caused you to be confused and concerned? For me it has led to frustration and fatigue from having to do a significant amount of damage control. Making matters worse is that this need for damage control is due primarily to the irresponsibility of the media in their successful attempt to grab headlines without critically reading the scientific study by Brasky et al. before drawing conclusions. Here's an example of some of the headlines: "Fish oil may raise prostate cancer risk, study confirms" - NBC News "Taking Omega 3 supplements may increase the risk of prostate cancer" - Daily Mail "Men might want to shun fish...
PSA: Appropriate Use vs. Abuse & Misuse
There is a great scene in the movie Back to School in which Rodney Dangerfield’s character hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a critical essay for him on the collected works of, yes ... Kurt Vonnegut. The resulting paper receives an F grade from the English professor with a comment that “you clearly do not know the first thing about Vonnegut!” On certain days, Richard Ablin, a professor of pathology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, must feel like a cross between Vonnegut and Dangerfield. All kidding intended, considering how PSA is being used by the medical community, Dr. Ablin clearly does not know the first thing about PSA! Dr. Ablin discovered PSA in 1970 and...
How Can I Strengthen My Immune System?
What is exactly is my immune system? The immune system is your body's “defense force.” It protects your body against foreign invaders (e.g., viruses, parasites and bacteria) or aberrant cells already present in your body (e.g., cancer cells). The immune system is fascinatingly complicated. For our purposes today, we will examine behaviors that you can control plus a particular aspect of your immune system that is involved in combating cancer: Natural Killer (NK) cells.What causes my immune system to be weakened?There are plenty of causes, but our "top five" behavioral-based culprits are: Poor dietary habits Lack of exercise Allergies, both airborne and food-based Lack of...
Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer
I am constantly reviewing newly published scientific papers in order to stay abreast of the latest developments nutritional science and prostate health. When coupled with what I learn from my clinical practice at NYU Langone, XY Wellness customers can be confident that all of our formulations are safe, effective, and based on the best science has to offer. As we all know, there exists both sound and not so sound scientific research. There are times when well-intended researchers or medical journalists can misinterpret data or fail to properly frame their analysis. This results in causing more confusion than providing insights. An example of this scenario is the recent news stories...