listened to a very interesting podcast by Dr Geo Espinosa who featured Dr Mohit Khera a renowned urologist/scientist at Baylor college of medicine whom Dr Geo refers to as the Lebron James of Testosterone. Very interesting discussion regarding TRT (testosterone replacement therapy) and the BAT (Bipolar androgen therapy) trial. He also discusses cardiovascular events and metabolic syndrome due to a lack of testosterone. The end of the show is most interesting when he talks about active surveillance and speaks of ongoing studies and numerous clinical trials showing showing TRT is actually a positive. What really struck me was when he mentions that John Hopkins is currently treating metastatic PC with Testosterone therapy. He also debunks the theory that testosterone Therapy cause causes cardiovascular events (traverse trial)……….. a must listen. Dr geo shows are also available on YouTube
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My Gleason 10 treatment was on a Tuesday in May 2015 (so a not so thrilling anniversary today) after having my Orchiectomy (8 years ago last month on a Tuesday) then 8 months later in January 2016 my doctor (Dr. Onik) prescribed biweekly Testosterone injections contrary to all things PCa related way back then. Having another injection in 2 days and life goes on.
It was at my initial consultation with Dr. Onik, about a month before my first treatment, he asked why I had the orchiectomy and his understanding that I was an endurance athlete he said at that once treatment was done, I would begin *T*. Had he not taken care of all of the tumor he very well might have chosen to hold off prescribing the *T*.
The entire subject of whether it was ever necessary for us all to be subjected to ZERO TET (testosterone) is raw for me...it appears that there was never any science behind it...the SOC that we have been subjected to was based on the original outcomes of one (1) patient...its almost unbelievable until you read it yourself...here is what I found...
The greatest argument for TTr (TET replacement) was provided in the podcast above, where two brothers with PCa find after both have come off ADT that one has his TET totally recovered, the other (like me) finds he was chemically castrated via ADT treatment and produces none of his own...the former with natural TET is praised by the same URO who says all is well, while the latter is denied TTr as it would be 'like throwing gas on a fire.' As the brother states in the analogy how can natural TET be OK but me asking for TTr be harmful..."I want you to get my brother in here, inject him with ADT and make him as miserable as I am." Well, SOC is what it is but its based on junk science...amazing...check these podcasts out (sorry for the overkill on this, but when you read this stuff it bugs you)...Rick
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