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DRS wrote:
Proton Soup wrote in message [...] Masturbate daily to lube the prostate and prevent cancer. Did you know that in medical circles prostate cancer is known as the priest's disease? It's true. Speaking as a physician, it is not true. Risk of prostate cancer is higher in folks with higher testosterone levels. Testosterone levels tend to be higher in folks that masturbate (or are otherwise sexually active) than folks who aren't. Sorry. -- Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Board-Certified Cardiologist http://www.heartmdphd.com/ |
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Tim Tyler wrote:
In sci.med.nutrition Ignoramus wrote or quoted: I am aware that there is some scant evidence that living on calorie restricted diet (1500 or so calories per day all the time) also can help one live longer. There's better evidence for that than for practically any other intervention. Maybe more evidence for it than all other interventions combined! I think this conclusion will be reversed when researchers realize that sarcopenia and osteopenia are much greater threats to longevity in people over, say, 60 years of age than bodymass per se. IOW, extrapolating animal models to humans is not reasonable here. It is most likely to affect longevity. The effects on QOL vary. http://calorierestriction.org/modules.php? name=Sections&op=vi ewarticle&artid=4 ...explains what side effects can be part of the package. Jesus! That list of horrors sure supports my case! -- -Wayne |
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:46:04 GMT, wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:38:32 -0400, "Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote: Mice live *twice* as long in captivity if they are given only half as much as they would eat ad libitum. Not only do they live longer but they a physically more active in their older age. Imagine humans doubling their lifespan to 150 years and playing tennis when they are 120 years old. You certainly have an active imagination. There is no objective evidence that caloric restriction in humans would have the same effect as in mice. I thought there was some evidence that periodic fasting was advantageous, prompting the body to go into a repair cycle. But maybe that was just speculation regarding studies on mouses. Roger I am not an animal. I am a man. Elephant Man Proton Soup |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote: :: :: Aside from proper nutrition and exercise, I think the number one :: thing most people can do to both improve their health and their :: enjoyment of life is this: Get enough sleep!!! This gets overlooked :: a lot in our busy lives, but it's so important to every aspect of :: health, both physical and emotional. Yeah, but how much is enough....it varies... You know . . . . enough. People can generally tell when they're getting enough sleep, right? Can't they? I can . . . I just assumed that it was, um, obvious? -- -Michelle Levin (Luna) http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick http://www.mindspring.com/~designbyluna |
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Roger, you can try calorie restriction which has proven to extend
lives of some animals by about 50%. Scientific American did an article about this. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...mber=1&catID=2 Excerpt: Our hunt for cr mimetics grew out of our desire to better understand caloric restriction's many effects on the body. Scientists first recognized the value of the practice more than 60 years ago, when they found that rats fed a low-calorie diet lived longer on average than free-feeding rats and had a reduced incidence of conditions that become increasingly common in old age. What is more, some of the treated animals survived longer than the oldest-living animals in the control group, which means that the maximum life span (the oldest attainable age), not merely the average life span, increased. Various interventions, such as infection-fighting drugs, can increase a population's average survival time, but only approaches that slow the body's rate of aging will increase the maximum life span. |
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:48:31 -0400, "Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD"
wrote: DRS wrote: Proton Soup wrote in message [...] Masturbate daily to lube the prostate and prevent cancer. Did you know that in medical circles prostate cancer is known as the priest's disease? It's true. Speaking as a physician, it is not true. Risk of prostate cancer is higher in folks with higher testosterone levels. Testosterone levels tend to be higher in folks that masturbate (or are otherwise sexually active) than folks who aren't. Sorry. This is what we're talking about. I'm sure more studies will follow. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993942 Proton Soup |
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Luna wrote:
:: In article , :: "Roger Zoul" wrote: :: :: ::::: ::::: Aside from proper nutrition and exercise, I think the number one ::::: thing most people can do to both improve their health and their ::::: enjoyment of life is this: Get enough sleep!!! This gets ::::: overlooked a lot in our busy lives, but it's so important to ::::: every aspect of health, both physical and emotional. ::: ::: Yeah, but how much is enough....it varies... ::: ::: :: :: You know . . . . enough. People can generally tell when they're :: getting enough sleep, right? Can't they? I can . . . I just :: assumed that it was, um, obvious? I've been able to train myself to use less sleep. Also, I've been through periods when I felt drowsy even after having lots of sleep. I think a lot of people assume they can, but that doesn't make it so. |
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Proton Soup wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:48:31 -0400, "Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote: DRS wrote: Proton Soup wrote in message [...] Masturbate daily to lube the prostate and prevent cancer. Did you know that in medical circles prostate cancer is known as the priest's disease? It's true. Speaking as a physician, it is not true. Risk of prostate cancer is higher in folks with higher testosterone levels. Testosterone levels tend to be higher in folks that masturbate (or are otherwise sexually active) than folks who aren't. Sorry. This is what we're talking about. I'm sure more studies will follow. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993942 Retrospective questionnaire type studies brought us the information that Vitamin E and C may prevent heart attacks. We now know better. If cigarette smoke carcinogens are concentrated in prostatic fluids (as an explanation for the cancer), the solution is to stop smoking instead of masterbating. Proton Soup Here's a review about prostate cancer from a more reputable peer-reviewed source: http://tinyurl.com/q4kl -- Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Board-Certified Cardiologist http://www.heartmdphd.com |
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In article ,
"Roger Zoul" wrote: Luna wrote: :: In article , :: "Roger Zoul" wrote: :: :: ::::: ::::: Aside from proper nutrition and exercise, I think the number one ::::: thing most people can do to both improve their health and their ::::: enjoyment of life is this: Get enough sleep!!! This gets ::::: overlooked a lot in our busy lives, but it's so important to ::::: every aspect of health, both physical and emotional. ::: ::: Yeah, but how much is enough....it varies... ::: ::: :: :: You know . . . . enough. People can generally tell when they're :: getting enough sleep, right? Can't they? I can . . . I just :: assumed that it was, um, obvious? I've been able to train myself to use less sleep. Also, I've been through periods when I felt drowsy even after having lots of sleep. I think a lot of people assume they can, but that doesn't make it so. By training yourself to use less sleep, do you mean training yourself to become accustomed to the effects of not getting enough sleep and learning how to function through them? If you don't have the side effects then you obviously _are_ getting enough sleep, it's just less than you thought you needed. If I don't get enough sleep I get headaches, and a particular type of ache in my muscles that feels qualitatively different from a workout ache. I can't quite describe the ache, but I know it when I feel it and I know what it means, I think the term "bone tired" is apt. I can't imagine any way of training myself not to get headaches and muscle aches, but perhaps it could be done. One rule of thumb I read for determining if you are getting enough sleep is if can you wake up on time without an alarm clock. -- -Michelle Levin (Luna) http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick http://www.mindspring.com/~designbyluna |
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"Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote:
DRS wrote: Proton Soup wrote in message [...] Masturbate daily to lube the prostate and prevent cancer. Did you know that in medical circles prostate cancer is known as the priest's disease? It's true. Speaking as a physician, it is not true. Risk of prostate cancer is higher in folks with higher testosterone levels. Testosterone levels tend to be higher in folks that masturbate (or are otherwise sexually active) than folks who aren't. Sorry. Physicians should read the literature rather than speculating: Giles GG, Severi G, English DR, McCredie MR, Borland R, Boyle P, Hopper JL. Sexual factors and prostate cancer. BJU Int. 2003 Aug;92(3):211-6. |
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