Another Bad Prostate Book

- Roger Mason

     

Recently you may have gotten an ad in the mail about a new book on prostate cancer and prostate disease. I got several such ads and finally ordered it to see what the author had to say. It is called, "How to Fight Prostate Cancer & Win" by William L. Fischer. He is the author of a previous, even worse book on cancer. This book claims to be good advice on "natural prevention, alternative self-treatments and therapeutic diets". If this book had been titled, "How to Fight Prostate Cancer & Die" it would be an honest title. Fischer has almost no clue at all to what he is talking about. He has almost no understanding of what causes prostate disease or how to cure it naturally. The book has a 200 very over spaced and double spaced lines with only 200 words per page (instead of the more traditional 400 words per page) so you think you're getting a big 230 page book when, in fact, you are really getting more like a 115 page book. And it is egregiously overpriced at $19.95 plus postage.

He spends an inordinate amount of time yapping about traditional medical treatments like being butchered, being poisoned, being microwaved, being lasered and being irradiated. It seems he is not warning you about the dangers of these allopathic and destructive treatments as much as recommending them. He keeps talking of the various benefits and advantages of such standard medical treatments. I thought this was a book on natural cures?

For example he says that "watchful waiting is the best option" for older men, poor men, uninsured men (so money is the real cure huh?) or ones with differentiated cancer. Do you know what "watchful waiting" translates as? Watching yourself die and doing nothing! Wow, what wisdom, what a revelation, what great advice. Just watch myself die and do nothing about it basically.

He tries to implicate androgens (testosterone DHEA are our two basic androgens) for prostate problems in old age when it is clearly established that androgens in men fall severely after the age of 40 . Later, he admits some people feel it is a drop in testosterone levels that is a basic cause. Well, which is it? This is your first clue he is lost in the ozone. He doesn't seem to understand that excessive estrogen levels in men are the basic internal cause of prostate dysfunction as the word "estradiol" appears only once in the whole book. .He says prostatitis is "simple to treat" when it is the most difficult of all prostate conditions to treat, as often no clear cause can be discerned. This is where we get the term "non-specific prostatitis". Chronic prostatitis is medically untreatable for all practical purposes but can be cured naturally. He goes on and on about prescription drugs and especially about surgical procedures and the newest laser surgeries.

He does bring up the minerals zinc and selenium as important to prostate health but seems to have almost no idea that FAT, especially animal fats are the basic cause of prostate disease except to mention the word one time. Then he goes on to tell you it is all right to eat red meat as you're dying of prostate cancer along with cheese, butter, eggs and other such fine foods. This is why men in Asia and Africa have so little prostate problems but European men have epidemic problems. He realizes that flax oil is good for prostate health but doesn't seem to know that flax oil is an omega-3 fatty acid and that the excessive omega-6 fatty acids we eat cause prostate, cardiovascular and other problems.

Now he babbles about bee pollen being a wonder supplement for your prostate. Folks, bee pollen is a joke and has been for decades. Bee pollen contains biologically insignificant tiny trace amounts of common amino acids, vitamins and enzymes. He then goes on to recommend royal jelly from bees as another wonder supplement. This is pitiful. Royal jelly is even more useless than bee pollen but it is more expensive. He does talk about flower pollen extract which is completely unrelated to bee pollen. The manufacturers of flower pollen refuse to identify the active ingredient which is, in fact, a simple hydoxamic acid and they further refuse to tell you how much hydoxamic acid is in their flower pollen products. This makes such supplements useless. You cannot take any supplement where the active ingredient is not only identified by the amount stated clearly on the label. Now he recommends kombucha mushroom tea which has no benefit for prostate or any other condition. Kombucha is a joke just like bee pollen.

He recommends a series of herbs such as damiana, willow, ginseng, mallow golden seal, horsetail, club moss, thyme and celandine none of which have shown any proven benefit for prostate health. I'm all for herbology, but why take herbs that have shown no clinical value for your condition? That's not herbology at all. In fact taking such herbs could actually make you worse if you are biologically incompatible with them. Golden seal may be a savior for me and a poison for you as we are all biologically unique.

It gets worse folks. Now he tells you red meat is acceptable to eat as are milk, butter, cheese, eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese and buttermilk. These are exactly the foods you cannot eat when you have prostate problems- these are the foods that GAVE you the problem! Fat, animal products, red meat, milk and dairy, poultry are exactly the foods that cause prostate disease and he tells you to eat them! If you look at a chart of fat consumption and prostate (or breast or colon) cancer you see that it is a direct correlation between saturated fat consumption and cancer.

Of course he pushes saw palmetto, Pygeum, nettles and the other traditional useless herbs you see in the drug stores and health food stores. We have discussed this before and none of them contain any significant amount of beta-sitosterol or other active ingredients. He doesn't even know about beta-sitosterol even though it is THE most potent nutrient known to science for good prostate health. Beta-sitosterol is THE most powerful supplement for prostate health on the face of the earth and he doesn't even know it exists! A real professional here folks. Of course he pushes the lycopene fantasy and we have exposed that numerous times in this column. Clinical studies of blood serum lycopene in tens of thousands of men showed no relation at all to prostate health. This proves beyond any doubt it has no value at all. He goes on to promote Essiac Tea. This is another fraud in the natural food industry and not even worth discussing since decades of use has proven it to have no value.

To his credit he talks about the macrobiotic diet and recommends it. He calls Michio Kushi a "Chinese man" which would infuriate any person of Japanese ancestry but I'm not here to nitpick. At least he advised the value of this and should be given credit for doing so. You can cure prostate or any other "incurable" disease (except AIDS and radiation poisoning which are both manmade) with a good whole grain based macrobiotic diet. Please read such books as "My Beautiful Life", "Recalled By Life", "Recovery From Cancer" and "Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy" for true stories of this.

This book is a joke and the $19.95 price tag makes it a very expensive joke. If you have BPH, prostatitis or outright cancer please read my book, The Natural Prostate Cure. You can get this on amazon.com for only $6.95. This is the most researched book on natural prostate health in the world and I rewrite it every year. Yes, you can cure prostate cancer naturally, safely and effectively in less than a year by changing your diet, taking natural supplements, balancing your basic endocrine system with over the counter natural hormones and regular short term fasting.