Beer is good as I can't drink 3 litres of water!

[Doseydoe]

Beer is good as I can't drink 3 litres of water.

With all the drugs I have to take, I try to drink lots of water, but it's hard. Between chemo sessions it's hard enough to eat and drink as it is. But as week 3 comes around, I'm starting to feel a lot better, so I find a few cleansing ales really goes down well on the Friday before my next shot.

So regardless of what some may think, I have found it pleasing to see my urine clear. And as I have a ureter stent, the extra fluid flushing out the extra little bits is encouraging.

I usually drink a litre of water in addition to my usual teas, coffee's and cordials. But when a six pack of beers are enjoyed, it seems the continual flow and volume is helpful to flushing out my system.

Anyway, just thought I'd put it out there, as while I'm good for most of the time, a few beers can't hurt. Cheers, 😎DD.

[pjoshea13]

Do you like IPAs? The hoppier, the better. The polyphenols in hops may be benefical against PCa.

Hops - Humulus lupulus - a handful of studies. e.g.:

"Flavonoids form a substantial group of secondary plant metabolites that display several health-promoting effects. Therefore, prenylflavonoids, a subclass of flavonoids, have attracted increasing attention. Here, we investigated the possible anti-cancer potential of 6-prenylnaringenin (6-PN) and 8-prenylnaringenin (8-PN), two prenylflavonoids present in hops and beer and demonstrate an unexpectedly pronounced, dose-dependent reduction of cellular proliferation of human PC-3 prostate cancer and UO.31 renal carcinoma cells upon treatment. Based on these findings 6-PN and 8-PN are currently further clinically evaluated in detail."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/259...

[treedown in reply to pjoshea13]

Up here in the PNW we have many micro-breweries making multiple IPA's among other beers. I stopped drinking prior to dx but before that I drank only IPA's and a lot of them, a few most days. My PSA dropped from 156 to 95 between my 1st and 2nd blood test (about 3 months apart) with no treatment, and stopping drinking beer, clearly not in moderation, was something I attributed it to.

[middlejoel in reply to treedown]

A bit confused, Your PSA dropped after you stopped drinking, wouldn't that signify that drinking is not good for you?

[treedown in reply to middlejoel]

Correct, sorry my wording may have caused the confusion. I stopped drinking beer between my GP giving me my PSA of 156 and when I was officially diagnosed a couple weeks later. My PSA dropped by the time I got to a oncologist and he took a new PSA test. I attributed that drop to not drinking beer anymore, among other things. Clearly there's no way of knowing for sure what caused the drop but it is one of the changes I made in my life when I got the call my PSA was 156. Within a few hours of that call I had a pretty good idea what I was up against, and that quick research turned out to be correct.

[DarkEnergy in reply to pjoshea13]

Did someone say IPA? Awesome, I'm blessed to live near two amazing beer breweries, TreeHouse and Trillium, or maybe cursed, when looking at the belly...

[Magnus1964]

Three nice German beers is most I would ever consume in a day.

[Doseydoe in reply to Magnus1964]

Cheers to the beers, applause👏 to the hoars, here's to a jolly good f$ck! Those were the days before ADT, 😎DD.

[Hidden in reply to Doseydoe]

😂😂👏🏼

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Cheers Doseydoe. 🍻

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Good for you, I drink about 1/4 bottle of red wine nightly. (About 6 ounces).

[Kaliber]

If you want to make drinking lots of water more palatable , try drinking Propel grape or using well carbon filtered tap water and adding MiO Black Cherry flavor additive. The MiO is exceptionally tasty and you’ll want to gobble that water down. You can get it with or without caffeine. Black cherry only ... it’s popular and can be hard to find, but stick with that flavor.

Careful with alcohol as it can dehydrate you in a way that makes creaky bone joints worse...IMHO.

💪💪💪👍👍👍

[MarkBC]

Good for you. We need to take care of our health but we need to have fun too. Life without a few good IPAs just doesn't seem worth living. 😀

[larry_dammit]

Hey man do what you feel like doing 😀😀. Can’t do the beer anymore just doesn’t taste the same ,sure miss it 😢😢. A shot of Jameson Whiskey once in a while for me . Fighting the monster 👍🙏🙏🙏

[Boywonder56 in reply to larry_dammit]

Cheers to the jameson its what keep me blood thin...or thinner...im irish so as the signs say on most of the pubs in ireland....souo of the day .....whisky...if you want a good laugh u tube kathleen madigan..ireland....funny stuff.....slantje'....bw

[j-o-h-n]

Life and beer are very similar, chill for best results.....

CLICK ON THE SONG TITLE ON TOP OF VIDEO TO WATCH THE VIDEO:

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Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 07/18/2020 5:39 PM DST

[Doseydoe in reply to j-o-h-n]

Great song, cheers 👍

[Shooter1]

Barrel aged Irish stout for me. Local Kootenai Brewing Co.

[tallguy2]

Absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying your beer. I enjoy my wine and single malt scotch.

You might try those sparking ice flavored drinks that have zero calories but offer an alternative to plain water. Those drinks helped me to stay hydrated through chemo.