The new book is out and it’s better than ever, if I do say so myself! This is the Fifth edition of a book that, in various forms, has been a number one bestseller on Amazon since Dr. Patrick Walsh and I wrote the first one in 1993. That first book was called The Prostate: […]
https://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/5138jZ-OofL-e1697741006994.jpeg420280Janethttps://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/vital-jake-logo3-300x146.pngJanet2023-10-19 12:19:442023-10-19 12:19:44Our New Book
Exercise makes the body a lot less hospitable to cancer. Or, if you think about prostate cancer as the machine that it is, hijacking countless normal body mechanisms so it can grow and spread: Exercise throws a monkey wrench in the works! UCLA urologist William Aronson, M.D., was asked recently: “What do your patients with […]
It may never need treatment – but then again, it might. So why do some doctors want to sugar-coat it? “Don’t worry about Gleason 3+3=6 (Grade Group 1)! It’s harmless! We shouldn’t even call it cancer! In fact, let’s call it IDLE (indolent lesion of epithelial origin)!” Many patients have heard reassurances like these, and […]
Can intense hormonal suppression before surgery keep potentially aggressive prostate cancer from coming back? My goal in writing about prostate cancer is to offer reassurance and hope, and also a nudge or two when it’s time to take action. I have been very excited in past posts to write about the broader window of curability […]
https://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Karzai-VJ-high-risk-e1650318413279.jpg200397Janethttps://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/vital-jake-logo3-300x146.pngJanet2022-04-18 14:58:532022-04-18 14:58:53Going After High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer
Can’t get to a gym? No problem! You can do a lot with your own 30-second circuit stations at home! It can be intimidating to walk into a gym. There’s a fair amount of peacocking (at least at the YMCA in my hometown), and there’s always at least one guy lifting huge weights loudly, with […]
https://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DIY-exercise-story-for-VJ-e1647465580647.jpg200300Janethttps://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/vital-jake-logo3-300x146.pngJanet2022-03-16 14:27:112022-03-16 14:27:11DIY Home Fitness: Starting Small is Fine!
Driving Prostate Cancer “BATty” Part Two: How BAT Works Several years ago, medical oncologist Samuel Denmeade, M.D., Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Prostate Cancer Program, and colleagues came up with a remarkable concept for attacking prostate cancer: alternating ADT with high-dose testosterone. Recently, he took the time to explain to me how and why this […]
https://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/VJ-BAT-2-e1644957478816.jpg200315Janethttps://vitaljake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/vital-jake-logo3-300x146.pngJanet2022-02-15 13:48:012022-02-15 14:36:58How BAT Works
BAT: The Opposite of Conventional Wisdom Could the flat-out opposite of conventional wisdom prove to be effective against metastatic prostate cancer? Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been the bedrock of treatment for advanced prostate cancer for more than half a century. But investigators at Johns Hopkins are rethinking it – in a way that sounds […]
Our New Book
The new book is out and it’s better than ever, if I do say so myself! This is the Fifth edition of a book that, in various forms, has been a number one bestseller on Amazon since Dr. Patrick Walsh and I wrote the first one in 1993. That first book was called The Prostate: […]
How Exercise Helps Sabotage Prostate Cancer
Exercise makes the body a lot less hospitable to cancer. Or, if you think about prostate cancer as the machine that it is, hijacking countless normal body mechanisms so it can grow and spread: Exercise throws a monkey wrench in the works! UCLA urologist William Aronson, M.D., was asked recently: “What do your patients with […]
Gleason 6: Sugar-Coated Prostate Cancer?
It may never need treatment – but then again, it might. So why do some doctors want to sugar-coat it? “Don’t worry about Gleason 3+3=6 (Grade Group 1)! It’s harmless! We shouldn’t even call it cancer! In fact, let’s call it IDLE (indolent lesion of epithelial origin)!” Many patients have heard reassurances like these, and […]
Going After High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer
Can intense hormonal suppression before surgery keep potentially aggressive prostate cancer from coming back? My goal in writing about prostate cancer is to offer reassurance and hope, and also a nudge or two when it’s time to take action. I have been very excited in past posts to write about the broader window of curability […]
DIY Home Fitness: Starting Small is Fine!
Can’t get to a gym? No problem! You can do a lot with your own 30-second circuit stations at home! It can be intimidating to walk into a gym. There’s a fair amount of peacocking (at least at the YMCA in my hometown), and there’s always at least one guy lifting huge weights loudly, with […]
How BAT Works
Driving Prostate Cancer “BATty” Part Two: How BAT Works Several years ago, medical oncologist Samuel Denmeade, M.D., Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Prostate Cancer Program, and colleagues came up with a remarkable concept for attacking prostate cancer: alternating ADT with high-dose testosterone. Recently, he took the time to explain to me how and why this […]
Driving Prostate Cancer “BATty”
BAT: The Opposite of Conventional Wisdom Could the flat-out opposite of conventional wisdom prove to be effective against metastatic prostate cancer? Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been the bedrock of treatment for advanced prostate cancer for more than half a century. But investigators at Johns Hopkins are rethinking it – in a way that sounds […]