Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we're going to explore smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Whenever there's a new drug or surgical procedure, you can be assured that you and your doctor

will probably hear about it because there's a corporate budget driving its promotion.

But what about advances in the field of nutrition?

That's what this podcast is all about.

For American men, prostate cancer is the most common internal cancer in the second leading cause of cancer death,

according to the US Centers for Disease Control.

Lifestyle habits appear to be important in both preventing and treating prostate cancer and a plant-based diet,

especially when combined with moderate exercise may be helpful as part of this program.

Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently

reverse the progression of prostate cancer.

But that was for early stage localized watch and weight cancer.

What about for more advanced stage life threatening disease?

Here's what they found out.

So we had all this preliminary evidence based on all the case reports that prostate cancer may be sensitive to diet,

even after metastasizes may prolong survival and even cause remission of bone metastasies in men with advanced disease,

so researchers decided to put it to the test in a four-month-long intervention.

They figured too much saturated fat, too little fiber and too much meat,

maybe the biggest players in tumor promotion and progression,

so they put people on a whole food plant-based diet of whole grains, beans, seeds, and fruit,

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