Participants: Tim Arnott, Don Mackintosh
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000137
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00:45 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:47 I'm your host Don Mackintosh 00:49 We're glad that you've joined us today. 00:51 Today we're going to be talking with Dr. Tim Arnott 00:54 Dr. Arnott is a physician at the 00:57 Lifestyle Center of America in Oklahoma 00:59 where he helps treat the major diseases in the Western culture 01:03 and treats those through lifestyle. 01:06 And today we're going to be talking about something 01:07 that afflicts 1 in 3, some statistics say, 01:11 1 in 3 American males, that is cancer of the prostrate 01:17 Did I say that right? Prostate - that's right. 01:19 Prostate... and tell us a little bit about this. 01:21 Is there any good news that we have about this thing that 01:25 commonly afflicts most American males. 01:28 Well there is good news... and the good news is that 01:30 there are many researchers today who are looking into 01:33 the underlying cause of prostate cancer, 01:36 and they're coming up with some very interesting information... 01:40 And one of the things that we can start off with is that 01:44 there are important nutrients that the body needs 01:48 to have a strong immune system... 01:50 To have a strong ability to fight off cancer. 01:53 And so that's good news? 01:55 How is that good news? 01:57 Well it's good news because we could ADD things to our diet. 01:59 We could add things to our lifestyle that could actually 02:02 lower our risk for this important disease. 02:04 Okay, so the good news is that we can actually 02:06 eat things or do things that help us NOT be one of the 02:09 statistics of 1 in 3... Absolutely 02:11 And I would mention right at the outset here that 02:13 this information is not only important for men 02:16 and for avoiding prostate cancer 02:18 but it's important for avoiding cancer in general... 02:21 So it's also important for women. 02:23 Okay, you women that are watching today - come back! 02:26 Don't leave us - this is going to help you as well. 02:30 We're going to be talking about physiology, 02:32 and we're going to be talking about how the Creator has 02:33 designed our body so that if you cooperate with 02:37 His physiology by what you eat, what you drink, what you do, 02:41 you could strengthen your ability to fight cancer. 02:44 Some people have said there's a substance called "selenium" 02:47 that protects the prostate? 02:49 That's right - there are studies going on right now... 02:51 Looking at perspective studies where they are giving 02:53 one group - placebo, a water pill. 02:56 They're giving another group selenium. 02:58 And what is selenium? 02:59 Selenium is a trace mineral and it's found in WHOLE GRAINS. 03:05 I emphasize WHOLE GRAINS because MOST grains that Americans 03:09 eat are refined and processed. 03:11 We call it "enriched" in this country, 03:13 but one thing they don't put back is selenium. 03:18 And selenium is important because there is an 03:20 enzyme system that the Creator put inside of our bloodstream 03:25 and this machinery - its job is to mop up, to get rid of, 03:31 to sponge away - free radicals. 03:35 Free radicals are highly reactive, highly unstable 03:38 oxygen chemicals that are being thrown off, 03:41 being produced by the cells of our body continually. 03:45 The Loma Linda Nutrition and Health Letter stated 03:49 some months ago that every cell in the body, 03:53 the DNA of every cell, the genes in the genetic material 03:56 has about 10,000 hits every day from these free radicals. 04:00 From every cell - in every cell? EVERY CELL 04:02 So, in other words, if you're going to protect yourself 04:06 from damaged DNA which is the cause of cancer, 04:10 then you better be able to get rid of these free radicals. 04:13 Well, you can do that with this enzyme system 04:15 that the Creator put in our bloodstream... 04:16 And this enzyme system glutathione 04:19 depends upon selenium... 04:22 And so if you don't have enough selenium coming IN, 04:25 the body is not going to be able to make enough of the 04:28 enzyme system to protect you adequately. 04:31 So this is like our homeland security system of the body. 04:34 That's EXACTLY right! Gotta have the selenium! 04:36 That is exactly right. So - like my body right now, 04:38 right inside it's just popping! 04:40 There are all kinds of different things happening, is that right? 04:42 You can think of it that way. 04:43 I'm like a popcorn machine! That's exactly right 04:46 And that's why Dr. Brooks at Duke University 04:49 has discovered that individuals with the HIGHEST selenium levels 04:54 have about a 70% LOWER risk of prostate cancer 05:00 than those men with the lowest selenium level. 05:04 So 70% lower risk - all those things are 05:08 smashing around inside but if you got the selenium, 05:11 they can make sure that doesn't impact you. 05:14 That's one of the factors, but again, this is an 05:15 enzyme system that ALL of us have - men and women, 05:19 and so they've actually recently shown that individuals with 05:24 the highest glutathione activity in their bloodstream 05:27 have the lowest risk of developing a coronary event - 05:31 a heart attack or a bypass... 05:33 So it not only protects from prostate but also heart attack. 05:37 Because these free radicals not only damage DNA - 05:40 which can lead to cancer if you get enough damaged hits, 05:43 and you get them in the right places on your DNA, 05:45 but the free radicals can also damage cholesterol, 05:49 oxidizing it and that's what leads to coronary artery disease 05:52 So again, what's the highest... 05:53 Give me the top 3 highest foods in selenium. 05:55 Well, the very highest food is Brazil nuts. 06:00 BRAZIL NUTS... high in fats? 06:03 Well, they are high in GOOD fats. 06:05 You see, the Creator put GOOD fats in the nuts. 06:08 It's the animal products that have the saturated fat, 06:12 and it's packaged foods that have 06:13 the trans fatty acids... those are the bad fats. 06:16 Brazil nuts... what's another high food with selenium? 06:18 Well before we move away from Brazil nuts, 06:20 3 Brazil nuts will have 400 mcg of selenium, 06:25 and that is the amount being used in a study right now 06:29 to see if men can actually lower their risk of prostate cancer. 06:32 So you can join the study and get the benefits 06:36 before 10 years are up and they finally tell us... 06:39 So take 3 nuts a day... 06:40 Three nuts a day or you can get whole grains. 06:42 Red winter wheat - different whole grains, garlic... 06:48 There are a number of good sources, 06:50 but whole grains are really the one you want to 06:52 remember and Brazil nuts. 06:53 Okay, about that stuff we can eat, 06:56 what about stuff that we drink or beverages... 07:00 I mean a lot of people in America drink the 07:03 good old cow's milk. 07:04 Is that good for the prostate situation? 07:07 Well actually - a very interesting study, 07:09 the Adventist Health Study, Dr. Jacobsen and his colleagues 07:14 there in Norway, found in the Adventist Health Study, 07:17 that men who were drinking soymilk, 07:22 more than one serving a day, 07:23 so, you know, 1-1/2- 2 servings a day of soymilk, 07:27 had again about 70% lower risk of prostate cancer. 07:32 So this graphic - help me with it... 07:34 It says 0.3 there, what's that? 07:36 Well, what you want to remember about the graphic 07:38 is the shorter that bar, the BETTER... 07:42 Okay, so soymilk is 0.3 versus 1.0 and so you're saying... 07:45 1 is like 10 minus 3 is 70%... That's exactly right 07:49 So that 0.3 is only a third of the prostate cancer risk 07:56 of someone who does not drink soymilk rarely or not at all. 07:58 So do you drink soymilk? Yes I do 08:01 Do you like it? Well, I must say this... 08:04 It's wet and it gets the cereal moist, 08:06 but I don't drink it as a beverage. Okay 08:09 But there are some that are reasonably tasty. 08:15 There are all different types of soymilk... Yes there are 08:17 What about the chocolate soymilk? 08:18 Well, I'll tell ya - some of the better soymilks are 08:22 going to be those that do not have cane juice 08:24 as a sweetener for one thing. Oh, I see... 08:26 Cane juice is a higher... 08:28 BUT this study didn't get into that right? No 08:31 If you've been switched to chocolate soymilk, you're okay? 08:35 Uhhh - I think as we move along, we're going to discover 08:38 it probably wouldn't be a wise idea. 08:40 Because remember - 60% of Americans are either 08:43 overweight or obese which means they are insulin resistant, 08:46 which means if you're taking refined sugars, 08:49 and they put more of the refined sugar sweeteners 08:51 in these chocolate beverages, carob-sweetened beverages, 08:54 then you're going to have higher insulin levels, 08:56 and higher insulin drives cell division to levels that are 09:02 cancer-promoting... Boy, you took that away 09:03 from me so fast, doctor! 09:05 I was trying to get chocolate soymilk for everybody watching, 09:08 and you didn't quite let us have that. 09:09 It might be a place to start. 09:11 But switching from the cow's milk 09:14 to the soymilk is good. Absolutely! 09:16 All right, well you can keep that chocolate soymilk 09:19 just for a couple of minutes; 09:20 you might have to take it away later in the program. 09:22 It might be something to start with. 09:25 Well, let's move on then... 09:27 What about - you said that there's a connection between 09:30 lowering the prostate cancer risk and SUNLIGHT. 09:33 That's right - sunlight as we mentioned on other programs, 09:37 individuals who actually are getting the MOST sun exposure, 09:43 and that means they have the highest vitamin D levels, 09:45 specifically, the highest 25-hydroxyvitamin D level... 09:50 these men have the lowest risk of prostate cancer. 09:53 So, what part of the body should we be exposing? 09:56 Is this location-dependent? 09:58 Well actually, you only need to 10:01 expose the face, the hands, and the arms 10:05 15 minutes 3 times a week to get the minimum 10:10 amount of vitamin D that you need to maintain health. 10:13 That doesn't sound that hard at all... It's really not 10:15 But for someone that works nightshift... 10:17 It would be - for someone who works nightshift, 10:21 frankly, you can get a full spectrum light 10:23 that does put out ultraviolet. 10:26 Now you wouldn't want to look at it, 10:27 but if you were in its presence, face, hands and arms 10:30 you can make vitamin D that way as well. 10:31 So you have a graphic here about vitamin D 10:34 that we want to look at. 10:36 Yes, it graphically will show that individuals with 10:40 the LOWEST vitamin D levels are at 3-1/2 times GREATER RISK 10:48 of prostate cancer. 10:50 Okay, so that 3.5 is the lowest vitamin D level, 10:53 and that shows their risk at the bottom. 10:54 Yes, it shows their risk MUCH GREATER - 3-1/2 times greater 10:58 than those individuals with the highest vitamin D levels 11:00 which the lowest risk would be set at 1 and then the research - 11:04 What if someone already has prostate cancer, you know? 11:10 That's a very interesting question... 11:11 In fact, Dr. Dean Ornish has looked, and other researchers 11:15 at Duke University, for example, 11:17 have looked at individuals who already have prostate cancer, 11:19 and they have taken these prostate cancer cells, 11:22 and they put them in the cell culture, 11:24 and they've exposed them to serum of the patients... 11:28 for example, Dr. Ornish - serum of the patients 11:32 BEFORE they went on a special lifestyle program, 11:35 and then the prostate cancer cells AFTER a lifestyle program 11:40 And, for example, one of those lifestyle programs, 11:43 they simply put these individuals on a diet 11:46 that was about 10% fat and that's basically a plant diet, 11:50 a whole plant diet is about what it is, 10% fat... 11:52 They put them on flaxseed, a couple of tablespoons a day, 11:55 some exercise and they were actually able to show that 11:59 those cancer cells died off faster and they divided 12:02 less rapidly than when they were put with the serum 12:07 BEFORE they went on the program. 12:09 So if someone has got that diagnosis, 12:10 go ahead and start doing this stuff right now - ABSOLUTELY 12:13 and it will help it not, at least progress. 12:16 It may help it slow down, it may be less of a problem 12:20 as far as advancing, you may actually buy some time. 12:23 So, run outside in the sun... but seriously 12:27 what is the MOST important thing a person can do 12:30 to avoid prostate cancer? 12:33 Well, Dr. Singh and his colleagues have actually 12:35 done a very interesting study on some Chinese men. 12:38 And, they actually took men and they watched these individuals; 12:43 they divided them into 2 categories. 12:44 They divided them into a category of the LOWEST distance 12:48 around the waist, in other words, the SMALLEST 12:50 waist, the LOWEST insulin level and watched for their 12:54 incidence of prostate cancer... 12:57 And then they took men with the LARGEST waist, 13:00 and the HIGHEST insulin level and they watched for 13:03 THEIR development of prostate cancer, 13:05 and what they discovered was... 13:06 Individuals with the greatest waist size, 13:09 and the highest INSULIN levels had up to 8-fold greater risk 13:14 of prostate cancer. 13:16 I think you have this on a graphic, don't you? 13:17 Yes we do... in fact, it dramatically shows 13:20 that if you have a lot of insulin resistance, 13:24 which means you're carrying a lot of extra fatty tissue 13:27 in the abdomen and you have a high fasting insulin level, 13:33 you could be up to 8-fold greater risk of prostate cancer, 13:37 and this is one of the greatest differences in risk that we see. 13:41 So, if I see someone that looks like a pear instead of an apple, 13:44 in other words they have that big belly and they are diabetic, 13:49 and they know that or even if they don't know that... 13:52 With those individuals, also would typically get 13:55 prostate cancer EARLIER in life, 13:57 and it will be more of an aggressive prostate cancer. 14:00 It will be a higher grade and so 14:02 it will be more difficult to deal with. 14:04 Many prostate cancers are indolent and may not be 14:08 anything clinically that you 14:11 need to do to really help your situation... 14:13 BUT, if you're carrying extra weight in the midsection, 14:15 high insulin levels, those are often more aggressive. 14:19 We're talking with Dr. Tim Arnott 14:21 We're talking about prostate cancer. 14:23 It afflicts many people, the same principles; 14:26 however, that we've talked about in relationship 14:28 to what men can do to avoid, prevent or at least 14:31 stop the development, if it is already going on, 14:33 of prostate cancer, are applicable to women. 14:36 When we come back, we're going to continue 14:38 this gripping conversation, we hope you join us. 14:41 Have you found yourself wishing 14:43 that you could shed a few pounds? 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15:59 Diagnosed with prostate cancer? Yes 16:01 Well, one of the tests that you could do, of course is the PSA 16:04 which doesn't give you a diagnosis, 16:06 but it can tip you off that perhaps you need a biopsy. 16:10 So I would say that the diagnosis of cancer is not 16:14 something that we specialize in. 16:16 What we do is to deal with insulin resistance. I see 16:20 And insulin resistance is the underlying cause of 16:24 high insulin levels. 16:25 Many Americans have very high insulin levels. 16:28 Insulin is a growth-promoting hormone. 16:31 It is a hormone that helps to encourage cell division. 16:36 Cancer is cell division, too rapid, out-of-control, 16:40 and so high insulin levels could encourage 16:42 the whole process of cancer formation. 16:44 In our first segment, we talked about the fact 16:48 that selenium can give protection 16:50 against prostate cancer, and about Brazil nuts, 16:53 and how they're very high in that. 16:54 Are there any other foods that are very helpful 16:58 to us if we're trying to prevent prostate cancer? 17:01 Yes and I want to say again that for those women who are 17:05 listening, we're going to be talking about some foods 17:07 ...These foods are important not only to help us protect 17:11 prostate but to help us protect from breast cancer, 17:14 from coronary disease, so these are important 17:16 protective foods for both the genders 17:20 and many of the diseases that we deal with - 17:23 cancer, heart disease and stroke, for example. 17:25 And one of these, we're going to mention first of all 17:28 is tomatoes! 17:31 Dr. Giovannucci and his colleagues have discovered 17:34 that individuals who take in MORE than 10 servings 17:38 of tomato a week, have about 35% lower risk 17:43 of prostate cancer as in men who 17:46 are taking in 1-1/2 or fewer servings. 17:49 So this is your recipe... 17:57 You know, many of us are short on time and yet we 17:59 don't like to eat our food dry without any real taste... 18:05 And, maybe we don't have time to get the blender out, 18:07 and put together a cashew sauce or a tofu sour cream sauce. 18:12 Just tomatoes! Just open a can of tomato puree! 18:16 There is no salt added to tomato puree. 18:19 Many of you have tried to find 18:20 tomato products without salt, it's very difficult. 18:25 Tomato puree... just pour it over and it is lycopene 18:29 is what causes that RED COLOR in the tomato. 18:34 And that lycopene is a red pigment that protects the tomato 18:39 from the ionizing damaging ultraviolet radiation 18:42 from the sun and when you eat that pigment, 18:44 it protects YOUR cells from the free radicals that we were 18:48 talking about earlier in the program. 18:50 So instead of that free radical hitting your DNA, 18:53 damaging it, breaking a strand which can lead to cancer, 18:57 it hits the lycopene. 18:59 So it can't be green tomatoes, it's got to be red tomatoes. 19:01 Well, actually not... any color is protective. 19:05 Any color is protective - it's just that researchers like to 19:09 look at one, for example, and they like to do studies with one 19:13 But, they've actually shown if you do 3/4 of a cup 19:17 of tomato sauce a day, you can significantly lower... 19:20 Ketchup protective? YES, actually... 19:23 I mean, I wouldn't recommend that because of the 19:26 SUGAR that's in there and high sugar intake 19:29 can actually increase your risk of cancer... 19:30 But yes, the lycopene in ketchup can actually be protective. 19:36 In fact, MANY of the foods that are protective of Americans 19:39 are not really the healthiest foods but there is something 19:41 healthy in there and they still get some of the benefit. 19:44 What's the next one on our list here? 19:45 Well, one of the other things that we should mention is 19:49 just dairy products, for example. 19:50 Well we have Brazil nuts here... 19:52 Okay, well we'll talk about Brazil nuts. 19:54 Brazil nuts, again, are the selenium. 19:56 The selenium in Brazil nuts is very important for 19:59 feeding the glutathione reductase enzyme 20:03 which job it is to get rid of those free radicals. 20:06 Those ping-pong balls smashing around in the body! 20:09 You know, DISEASE is largely 20:11 an issue of what you do with free radicals. 20:13 Whether they just ravage through the body 20:15 and damage your tissue at will 20:17 or WHETHER you have taken into your body these pigments, 20:21 these colors whether it's the red of the grape 20:25 or whether it's the purple of the blackberry, 20:27 whether it's the green of spinach... 20:30 Spinach is one of the highest 20:31 antioxidant foods in the vegetable kingdom. 20:34 And, in bringing those into the body can get rid of those 20:37 free radicals at protecting your prostate, your breasts... 20:39 What's the next one on our list here, we have... 20:41 Okay... switch from skim milk to soy. 20:47 Recently in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" 20:49 there was an article that showed that individuals who drink 20:53 the most dairy products - and we're talking about 20:55 2-3 servings a day - they have 20:58 the highest risk of prostate cancer versus men who 21:02 use the LEAST dairy. 21:03 It's about a 35% increase risk in prostate cancer 21:07 for those men using the most dairy. 21:09 So, putting that together with our earlier study 21:13 by Dr. Jacobsen, if you switch from dairy to soy, 21:18 you're going to get a significant improvement 21:21 in prostate cancer risk. 21:23 Okay, our next thing on our list... 21:25 We're just going through a number of these... 21:27 We have - Choose scrambled tofu in place of eggs. 21:32 You know, it's well known that testosterone, for example, 21:37 increases the production of prostate cancer. 21:40 In fact, one of the reasons why men are discouraged from 21:44 injecting it or having testosterone injections 21:46 is it could increase your risk of prostate cancer. 21:49 Well there are, in the foods that the Creator has made, 21:53 there are steroid-like compounds. 21:57 We call them phytoestrogens, for example, phytoprogesterones, 22:00 phytotestosterones. 22:02 These are plant compounds that are like those 22:06 sex hormones and what they can do is... 22:09 They can bind to the testosterone receptor, 22:13 for example, for the estrogen receptor in the case of 22:15 breast tissue and they can actually LOWER the overall 22:20 sex hormone effect on that tissue... 22:23 And of course, the testosterone promotes growth. 22:26 Estrogen promotes growth. 22:28 And so if you can lower the net effect of those 22:31 sex hormones in the body, you're going to have 22:33 lower risk of promoting a cancer 22:36 in those hormone-sensitive tissues. 22:38 So moving away from a dairy product towards a soy product 22:41 would do that. Absolutely 22:43 Okay, our next thing on our list as we look at 22:45 foods that protect... 22:46 Use cashew or tofu-based sauces in place of cheese. 22:51 Oh - everyone is gasping! YOU'RE TAKING THE CHEESE 22:55 How does this work? 22:56 Well actually, it's very similar. 23:00 There have been studies showing that the high fat intake, 23:04 especially the high animal fat intake, 23:08 the saturated fat intake can actually increase 23:10 your risk of cancer. 23:11 And so cheese has more saturated fat than meat, actually. 23:16 In fact, it has more saturated fat 23:18 than another other food that's out there. 23:20 And it actually has more cholesterol than meat 23:23 as well by a little bit. 23:25 So cheese is something that you DON'T want to switch to 23:29 if you're trying to move away from meat. 23:31 You want to move PAST the cheese and on to the 23:34 nuts and seeds, olives, avocado, those are the good fats 23:39 and those are the kind of fats that are going to actually help 23:42 lower risk of cancer. 23:44 Next on our list, we have as we're moving down 23:46 foods to protect - Spend 15-30 minutes 23:49 in direct sunlight daily. 23:50 I guess this has to do with the vitamin D... Absolutely 23:53 Vitamin D is something that we've talked about it before, 23:56 but it's worth talking about again 23:58 because people really aren't getting the message. 24:01 We hear about it but we need to act on this. 24:04 We need to get out in the sunlight because 24:06 there are actual vitamin D receptors on the prostate tissue 24:12 And in fact, it has recently been discovered that 24:14 prostate cells are actually able to produce the active form 24:20 of vitamin D - right there in the prostate tissue. 24:23 We actually thought it was just the kidney, 24:25 but studies out of Boston University revealed that 24:29 the prostate cells are actually able to make this 24:32 active form in the vitamin D. 24:33 BUT, they must have the 25-hydroxy to do it, 24:36 and you only get that when you get that sunlight 24:40 on your skin producing that pre-vitamin D which can then go 24:44 to the prostate cancer cell. 24:46 So vitamin D supplements won't help then. 24:47 Well actually, vitamin D supplements WILL help. 24:50 In fact, we would recommend that you do both. 24:53 That you go out and get 15 minutes of sunlight 24:56 twice a day... As you're walking to buy 24:58 those supplements... That's exactly right! 25:01 Because you know, the reality is that we ARE an indoors culture, 25:04 and I don't know if that's going to change anytime soon. 25:06 So get out when you can, 15 minutes twice a day, 25:09 hopefully you can do that. 25:11 Also take a vitamin D supplement. 25:13 And currently it's recommended that we get at LEAST 25:17 1,000 IU a day. 25:20 Now I can tell you that that probably won't raise 25:23 your level if your level is low. 25:24 In fact, you may need to take... 25:26 In fact, what we do at the Lifestyle Center of America 25:28 is we put individuals on 50,000 IU once a week 25:33 for 4-6-8 weeks, get their level up to about 25:36 30-40-50 that's the safest level 25:41 and will give you the lowest risk of prostate cancer 25:43 in these epidemiologic studies. 25:45 So, it can get too high; someone has said 25:48 over 150 is too high. That's correct 25:50 So if you're taking any kind of supplement that's not a 25:53 water soluble type thing, you know, you don't get rid 25:57 of it by urinating, you need to make sure and get that level 26:01 checked now and then, right? That's correct 26:02 And, you know, actually to be very honest with you, 26:05 it's going to be very difficult for the average person 26:08 to get a D level that's toxic because researchers have 26:12 actually shown that you need about 10,000 IU a day 26:16 to get to a toxic level. 26:18 Two questions I want to ask you. 26:20 One is - what do these things, these recommendations 26:23 do to help a woman's risk again cancer... 26:25 And then, lastly, what kind of screening should we be doing 26:28 and we have about 1-1/2 minutes. 26:30 Well if we talk about vitamin D, for example, 26:33 remember that our vitamin D levels are the highest 26:38 vitamin D levels are not only helpful for men, 26:41 protecting them from prostate cancer and colon cancer, 26:44 but women with the highest vitamin D levels also 26:47 have the lowest risk of ovary cancer and breast cancer, 26:51 so that's important. 26:52 Lycopene is important not only for the protection 26:56 of the prostate DNA against damage from the free radicals 27:00 but it will also protect breast cell DNA, 27:04 and ovarian cell DNA against the 27:06 damaging effects of free radicals. 27:08 So this is a program for women as well as men. Absolutely! 27:12 Now, I want to put up that last graphic about 27:14 a test that we need to have. 27:16 What is this test we need and when do we need to have it? 27:18 It's a prostate specific antigen test. 27:21 It should be done at age 50 in a man, 27:24 and if you've had a family history 27:26 of prostate cancer, then at age 40. 27:28 It should be done with a digital rectal exam where 27:32 a urologist or other physician puts their finger 27:34 on your prostate to make sure there are not any hard nodules 27:37 or something that would indicate a cancer. 27:39 Even after 40 is okay, right? Absolutely 27:41 We've been talking to Dr. Tim Arnott 27:44 He's a physician at the Lifestyle Center of America 27:46 in Oklahoma 27:48 And we hope that today's program will help you 27:50 avoid prostate cancer and that you'll have 27:52 health that lasts as a result for a lifetime and beyond! 27:56 Thanks for joining us! |
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