Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and I'm very excited that you joined us

this week. An interesting topic today, it is November, so that means it is Movember, which means

that's the men's health month. You may see more people walking around with facial hair, mustaches.

It's kind of that time of year,

instead of all the pink during October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. People are growing facial hair in November as a reminder that men's health matters too. And in the same vein,

something very interesting happened to me, a non-man this past week. So if you recall, we had Scott Adams on the podcast a couple months ago now.

Scott Adams is, he probably is most well known for being the Dilbert creator, the comic strip. He's also written several books. He's widely known in a lot of various different

circles. I actually love listening to him. He does these morning live streams on social media.

It's called like Coffee with Scott. And, you know, he's just, he is just so real. And he just

talks to you about everything that he's reading, everything that he's thinking.

After President Biden earlier this year came out with his diagnosis of prostate cancer,

Scott Adams decided to also share with the world that he too had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

And just like President Biden, Scott was diagnosed with

metastatic or stage four advanced prostate cancer. It had metastasized and had left his prostate

and had gone to his bones. So when he was diagnosed, and by the way, you can go back to our

episode with Scott where he goes into all details of this. Scott was diagnosed, and by the way, you can go back to our episode with Scott, where he goes into all

details of this. Scott was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, who was kind of given some

unfavorable statistics, and he decided he didn't necessarily want to undergo some of the

treatments. He had some concerns about taking anti-testosterone therapy. What would this do to him? So we decided

not to do the standard treatments that were being recommended. He did try some unconventional treatments,

which after about a month, I guess, they noticed that his lab values were not only not getting better,

but they were getting worse. So Scott stopped

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