Thanks for including me in your group, I just signed up today. I turned 74 years old in June. My PSA scores have been above normal since my 1st blood test in March 2016 when it was 11. Latest result was 36 in September this year (2021). My next test will be in December.
I had an atrial fibrillation episode in April and gave up drinking my favourite beverage, espresso coffee, from then on. Instead i've been having sometimes high quality organic matcha and at other times cacao with a couple of squares of 95% Lindt chocolate and some extra hot cayenne pepper added for extra flavour.
I do remember seeing a study in the past that warned PC patients against having cacao and recently I cut that out of my diet as well.
Thought I'd see if I could find any more online references to cacao being CI for PC, came across your website and decided to join you.
If anyone has any more light they could shed on cacao I'd love to hear it.
My favourite pastime is off-road riding and camping-touring tho I haven't had a chance to do much since covid. Optimistically planning a trip out West past Winton next April - assuming the Qld border will be open by then.
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Cocoa as an antioxidant. Cocoa has a potent antioxidant capacity as compared with other products, a quality related to its flavonoid content (Reference Lee, Kim and Lee 4, Reference Vinson, Proch and Bose 5). Procyanidins account for the highest percentage of antioxidants in cocoa products.
Hasn't your doctor ordered an in bore biopsy using a mp 3.0T MRI for you? Taking random biopsy cores can cause damage to the prostate. You will find plenty of info about that on line.
I'm also very curious about your "unconfirmed diagnosis" of "probably aggressive PC". I think the vast majority of men on this site have confirmed advanced prostate cancer, some like me with distant metastases, all confirmed by scientific medical tests and scans. Obviously there is great respect for your abilities as a natural healer, and perhaps guessing that you have cancer means less testing, less intrusive surgeries and medications, and less fixating on numbers and of course more time riding and less time in waiting rooms, but if it is truly aggressive, then one day it will hit you hard.I ride a Guzzi, on and off road with a Griso and a Stelvio and comparing how you approach prostate cancer, is like not checking oil levels, tyre pressures or whether the gas tank is full. One day out in the bush you will be hooped, but that's your choice. I think you should confirm the diagnosis before you question whether Cacao isn't appropriate for a disease that you might not even have in the first place.
Hi, kukio, The only negative reports I have read about cacao powder, not nibs. is that almost all of the powders have high levels of cadmium. This is not the result of the manufacturing process as much as of the soils of the soils in which the plants grow. Cadmium is toxic metal. I would use cadmium levels of a product to guide me on which brand to buy. I used to take a heaping teaspoon of cacao powder with my breakfast, but although I still have product in my frig, I have not used it lately. The soil of one of the So. American countries is "cleaner" than that of the other countries, but I can't recall which one.--K
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