The governments new stand against PSA testing will create an Epidemic
The federal government recently made it impossible to get PSA testing. They made it so that if Doctors prescribe PSA tests to healthy men they may be financially penalized. This is just another way the government backs big pharm by ensuring that there will be prostate cancer in the future. The impact of this decrease in PSA testing will be an explosion of metastatic prostate cancer cases in the years to come.
With the new tests that can be performed, a range can be seen to see if the levels are elevated, and then a plan can be put in place to prevent the disease. In cases of low risk prostate cancer, men can be educated about diet, lifestyle changes, and ways to diminish exposure to factors that cancer depends upon for growth, invasion and metastasis. With a simple blood test that is inexpensive and easy to get a man can prevent this disease from ever happening. What they failed to acknowledge is that most prostate cancers are preventable when levels are balanced early. If there is an increased risk form familial history as prostate , breast ,or colorectal cancer then testing should begin at 35.
There are some nutrients that interfere with Prostate Cancer Development and Progression and through food and nutrients a person can insure to take precautionary steps to get these so that they are doing all they can to prevent it. Here is a list of things to start your way to preventing Prostate cancer. Cruciferous vegetables meaning broccoli, Kale, cabbage cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, bok choy, krill fish oil, Curcumin from turmeric, Boswellia, lycopene, Green Tea, Lignans, Boran, Lutein, Gamma tocopherol, and Vitamin D.