Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1

Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer; this was for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease?

Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

Image credit: Kristina DeMuth

[jelybrd]

Absolutely amazing. My mom's friend has cancer and refused to give up meat. My mom has been suffering from pain and depression, made the switch and is rapidly getting better. Everyone has a choice

[chubbieminami]

YES, My dad's PSA Two months ago, I changed my diet to whole food plant based and far less meat and far less saturated fat. I am taking care of my 86 years old dad who has prostate cancer. His PSA was creeping up to 20 in June. The doctor was telling me to consider switching to a VERY expensive medicine. On Monday (July 19th), my dad had a check-up PSA, and to my BIG surprise, his PSA decreased to 14. The doctor said we can stay on the same less expensive medication. I immediately asked myself why the PSA went down and the only reason was because I changed his diet as well. I am cooking for my old parents and they were eating far more vegetables and fruits and less sweets and meat after June. I was trying to keep my parents diet separate but got tired preparing 2 very different lunches and suppers, so I started giving them more and more salad and fruits and less meat and sweets. I HAD NO IDEA that it would make PSA go down. The doctor seemed surprised and happy to see improvements too. I had to verify my theory and found this video. People, it worked for my Me? So far, my LDL is looking great and I am at my ideal weight!!

[sreegoogid]

Dr.Greger, you are making such a seminal contribution to increasing awareness of plant based whole foods diet in the world. You are such a humorous but equally rigorous advocate - inspiring! Thank you Sir

[john]

Pomegranate, broccoli, turmeric, tomato sauce, garlic, rye bread, cranberries, lemonade, green tea, Brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds, coffee, ....🥴

[ghaloise]

This is awesome! We eat at home around 40g to 60g of fiber a day :) It make me reassure that my boyfriend eat healty enough to do not have prostate cancer! Woop woop!

[VeganWalk]

Right now this is one of my favorite videos of yours and I've seen hundreds. I emphasize right now because I'm sure if I rewatch all those videos again I'll start feeling that same way about countless others. But this one really focuses well on a topic that is close to home and covers a nice Spectrum The Way We should approach science from anecdotal none-the-less clinically significant to rigorously controlled scientific methods. Your work is the best Dr. Greger!

[DrSRanjanMBBSAcupuncturist]

4:18 The man whose fiber improved the most had the best PSA result, and the man whose fiber intake dropped the most had the worst PSA result. Here’s the graph. And, indeed, it appears the more change they made to their diet, the better their results.

The researchers concluded that “a plant-based diet delivered in the context of [stress management]…may slow the rate of tumor progression, ” and unlike other treatments, may give patients some control over their disease.

[jasminesmith]

1) Dr. Gregor most likely already knew this information before he posted it
2) He doesn't post what he doesn't know, he posts what is new in plant based research
3) it is research and studies, all of which have actual numbers and data to back it up.

These aren't speculations or theories. This is actual research and conclusions. What you do with it is your own business.

[jadek]

This lifestyle & my husband’s cancer completely disappeared! 💚We offered this information to my dad, dx mets from prostate cancer but he’s sadly not interested. 😢

[Jack-urin]

Excellent video ! Now We all know what to do if we’re serious about reversing this disease. 👍

[porscheoscar]

My father had a partial prostectomy at age 77 for BPH. Unfortunately two years later cancer (Gleason 6-7) was found in the part of the prostate that was not removed less than two years after a very difficult surgery. By the way, there was a dramatic decline in cognitive function immediately after surgery. No explanation was given by any doctor including the attending neurologist for this decline that got much worse before eventually most of the cognitive function returned, but not all. PSA two years after the surgery reached 49 before Lupron hormonal treatment began (continuous, not interment). One year later on Lupron injections and the PSA is now at zero but the hormonal treatment has has brought on some significant cognitive decline (not sure if correlation or causation). We have cut out high methionine foods and introduced organic soy milk to aid in suppressing testosterone. I'd like to know if the patients in this study did similarly. My concern with a whole food vegan diet is that testosterone is typically higher than non-vegan diet which would fuel cancer growth.

[affiliateinternetmarketing]

This is an eye opener for me. I am preparing a video about Prostate cancer, and I wish you let me use your video in my project.

[williamhenry]

Henry Kissinger's favorite foods were bratwurst (sausage) and wiener schnitzel (deep fried veal cutlets). Being German he most likely washed it all down with a beer. He lived to be 100 years old.

[ourmodernworldofficial]

Very very intresting! I love these kinds of videos! Thank you for sharing! <3

[diannekoelzer]

Without going into details, Except for to say that my husband has stage four metastatic prostate cancer. My husband is not wanting to do the standard of care treatments in any form or fashion. He would like to do it with his lifestyle change he made last November oncologist, and radiologist think we’re irresponsible and that they’ve told us and no uncertain terms that lifestyle will not cure cancer Or even curb the affects.

[purewonka]

I typically get over 70g of fiber a day. Go me!

[Zane_Zaminsky]

Dr. Max Gerson, Dr. Norman W. Walker, Professor Arnold Ehret.

[susansobon]

My husband had been vegetarian for over 20 yrs, then vegan/wfpb the last 5-6. He had a prostate cancer diagnosis this year. And it spread to 3 lymph nodes. What do you make of that? He eats a fair amount of sugar and was drinking energy drinks until the last month or so, 3 months after diagnosis

[theportraitist]

I'm wondering why there's no mention in your video of the macrobiotic diet. The documentation you show, at 46 seconds in, clearly says that the patient was working with a macrobiotic counselor and that his diet was macrobiotic. Yet oddly, only Dr. Ornish is given credit, as opposed to macrobiotics or Michio Kushi.

[sirgaymeerkat]

What I suspected would happen, cancer research probably knew about this but weren't saying nothing!