Rakendra Report

Rakendra

I am glad for reading another post of yours. The report and the poem. It seems that you finally decided in giving a try with TRT. You know that T will decrease as soon as you give up with the patches, so that you can return to present status in case you wish for that.
Cancer will also enjoy the new environment and still grow but even without T it would be there and die with you. Nothing would change this “format”.

Quality of Living is now your “moto”. You are the master of the obvious and your fate.
Knowing what you want and how to reach it with deep knowledge of the consequences will be important in the decisions ahead. There have been many posters describing their fate with Supplements or Holistic medicine. None have reported cure.
Aspiring to reach to the same high levels of past experiences may be futile and depressive if one does not see it happening. My lay recommendation is that you follow a balanced life style. Listen to your body and accept its responses.

Here is an interesting graphical of the Power of Hydrogen (pH) in food and water solutions. The concept seems to be good information but there is much scepticism about treatments based solo on the acidity or alkalinity (pH) concentrations;
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-6243/How-to-Balance-Your-pH-to-Heal-Your-Body.html

The American Institute for Cancer Research says this;

"... The unsubstantiated theory is based on lab studies that suggest cancer cells thrive in an acidic (low pH) environment, but cannot survive in alkaline (high pH) surroundings. While these findings are accurate, they apply only to cells in an isolated lab setting. Altering the cell environment of the human body to create a less-acidic, less-cancer-friendly environment is virtually impossible.

While proponents of this myth argue that avoiding certain foods and eating others can change the body’s pH level, these claims stand in stark contrast to everything we know about the chemistry of the human body. Acid-base balance is tightly regulated by several mechanisms, among them kidney and respiratory functions. Even slight changes to your body’s pH are life-threatening events. Patients with kidney disease and pulmonary dysfunction, for example, often rely on dialysis machines and mechanical ventilators (respectively) to avoid even small disruption of acid-base balance."

http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/News2?id=13441

I hope the impairment caused by lack of T has not affected your love throughout Mindanao, its people and way of living.

Best wishes,

VGama   

moonlitnight said:

Hey Swami R....I just came

Hey Swami R....I just came over here after a long gap and saw your posts. Yes... this ADT is an obnoxious treatment. I am going to read all your info in the next day or so. WIshing you much love, Moonlitnight and Don

Rakendra

I am not an expert and know little about supplements. However, the flaxseed oil is considered good in arteries therefore good for the heart. The Linoleic acid is an unsaturated omega-6 fatty which is regarded as essential, meaning that your body requires it for health purposes but cannot produce it so you must obtain it through your diet. Saturated fatty acids are generally thought to promote heart disease, while unsaturated fatty acids are considered to be a healthier source of dietary fat.

You could add in your diet the best Monounsaturated fat OLIVE OIL. It can help to lower the bad cholesterol (LDL).
http://www.filippoberio.com/yourhealth

Just for fun: I use linseed oil in my paintings which is made out from Linoleic acid. It combines and smooses the collor oils I use. A real red heart.

Best VG

Rakendra said:

Update and Gerovital

I will update my condition, but first about Gerovital.

http://www.i-newswire.com/procaine-turns-off-telomerase-and/123670

Now, I have injected GH3 for 45 years as a health aid, an anti-depression med, and as an aging delayer.  Because of its many benefits, I strongly recommend that Pca suffers should look at this seriously.  Of course, even though GH3 has been on the marked to 60 years with hundreds of tests showing its benefits, the FDA has banned it in USA for not being effective.  Now something is keeping my cancer at bay, perhaps it is GH3.

   Update:  After deciding to do TRT, everything changed before I could start.  I worked out for one year with NO results.  No pump, no gain in strength, nothing.  Then after deciding to do TRT, but not doing it yet, I got a pump in my workout. So now no need for TRT.  Now, if I can get a pump, I can build muscle, so I started working out six days a week and eating six times a day.  I got stronger and much bigger and now weigh 196.  I am going to compete again in Mr. Davao in Feb.  I have been studying http://www.dr-ronlaura.com/matrix.html and looking at all of the videos especially of the new techniques.  On Monday, I will start a new program of five days a week working out three times a day four  days a week and doing whole body one day a week with a day of rest.  This is a very intense program, but I LOVE the gym and working as hard as I possibly can.  I will do one body part in the AM, another at 1300 and go back for a third at 0400.  As a reminder, I have stage 4 with very advanced matastasses, I am almost 83, have had castration so no testosterone, and am told that body building in my case is impossible.  

         

It is great to know that you managed to find a way to counter the effects of low testosterone. I do not work out in a gym but believe in the benefits we get from physical fitness programs. Mine is trimming trees, sowing the soils and picking weeds out from my cultivated grounds. I also walk my dogs about 8km a day.

A worrisome to your work-out is the weight gain. You are too big at 83 which may be prejudicial to your heart health. Try doing things moderately.

The story of GH3 is interesting but it did nothing in preventing your cancer after 45 years of taking it. Probably your gain from the supplement is in the slow aging process.

I will be looking forward for another post of yours.

VG

Rakendra said:

Weight gain

As usual, the fount of wisdom answers with clarity and alacrity.  Thank you.  About the weight gain.  I am puposely trying to gain weight by eating six times a day.  I eat a lot of egg whites, sweet pototatoes, raw veggies and fruit, green juices, salad, oatmeal, BCAAs, bananas, and whey protein.  Now, I used to think that whey protein was a dairy by product and not allowed on my anti-pca diet.  But I read a report from Mayo that said that Whey was great for Pca.  Now, please do not take my word for this, as I do not have the url at present.   I am hoping to bulk up to 210 by contest time, and then to cut back, but 210 may be optimistic.  It is not fat I am adding.

     About the heart.  That is a worry.  No testosterone is a very, very bad idea for heart health.  I am taking supplements, and, believe me, Matrix is cardio vascular work out.  I have added virgin cocoanut oil to my diet, and I drink cocoanut juice every day.  My medical team here is a joke compared to that which is available in the USA, but, then there are tales of woe about Drs. in the USA as well.  

     A major gain from GH3 for me is the anti-depression aid.  I have severe Manic Depression, as does everyone in my family, and this has left a horror trail of Alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide.  Luckily for me, Cocaine was not around in my youth in the late 40s and 50s. However, I was a big fan of Dixieland Jazz and hung out a lot with the musicians on the South Side of Chicago.  I was a very early user of Marijuana before most had even heard of it.  I used to buy a tin for about $15.  It was called a tin in those days because it always came in a Prince Albert tin tobacco can.  It was always cleaned.  In those days, I spent a lot of time at the Cadillac Lounge on the South Side.  The few white people who came never felt threatened and were more than welcome in the predominately African American club.  Of course, in those days African American had not been heard of, and today I doubt many  Caucasians would dare to venture to the South Side, much less be felt welcomed.

       Like all of you, I have no idea about time lines, life expectancy or the future.  And this is good, as it lends my life to living even more in the moment and totally enjoying the Here and Now of this very moment.  Osho taught there is no future and no past, only this very moment, and now the next and the next.  Pca teaches the same.  For if you worry about what is to come and when it will come, you certainly lose the exctasy of this very moment.  Each day for me is a celebration of all I have been given.  What an immense gift I have of being able to go to the gym and having the support of my wife.  I am truly blessed, as we all are.  love, Rakendra

    

Rakendra,

While I know nothing of the supplements of which you speak, I must say that this whole thread is one of the most remarkable I have ever read.  I was a philosophy major as an undergrad, and within sociology I also studied cultural attitudes and practices related to end-of-life, death and dying.   You are a master.  I am not sure exactly of what, but a master indeed.

I assisted a friend for over a year with advanced, Stage 4 Pca until he passed a year ago in September. He had no family within several hundred miles, and lived alone. I learned a lot about end-stage disease and the latest pallative drugs for prostate -- he went through them all. Jevtana was what he used last.  He almost never got scans, but had a PSA of over 1,000.  A retired manager for an engineering company, he too was a philosopher, but of the bar stool.  A great joker, he had the quickest wit, and was telling jokes the day before he died.  It took him at 72, after 13 years of mostly excellent health with the disease.

Thank you. May whatever you are doing keep you with us for a long time yet,

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