PC Hope™

PC Hope™ is the cornerstone of Nutrition 2000 info's prostate protocols. Thousands of satisfied users will attest to this safe, therapeutic, all-natural formulation.  PC Hope™ works by:

1. Reducing 5-alpha-reductase (the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT)
2. Blocking the hormones testosterone and estrogen from binding with hormone receptors sites of the prostate gland
3. Causing anti-tumor, anti-inflammation, and analgesic effects
4. Aiding in detoxifying the body
5. Encouraging apoptosis (cancer cell death)
6. Promoting polysaccharieds that aids the immune systems effort to eliminate cancer

If you suffer from Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), Prostatits, or Prostate Cancer, you owe it to yourself to try PC Hope™.

Prostate Health With PC Hope™ and The Protocol

PC Hope™ will help you gain maximum control of your prostate health when used in conjunction with a balanced diet and products to clean up toxins. You will need to get your pH above 7.4 as quickly as possible for optimal results.  

How can you determine your body’s pH level? Using pH test strips can easily help you determine your body’s pH factor quickly and easily in the privacy of your own home. The most consistent testing is done first thing in the morning. Test the Saliva and Urine daily for one to two weeks to establish a pattern. You are looking for two things; first, the actual number to know how acidic you are, and second, how consistent the number is. Wide fluctuation indicates liver problems you need to address. Test your pH two days a week after you establish a good pattern.   

For an optimal pH level of 7.4 or higher, the Litmus paper should turn blue. This indicates that your saliva is slightly alkaline, which will allow you to get maximum results with PC Hope™. If it is not blue, call for consultation and learn how to raise your pH level. 

Understanding Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is a group of cancerous cells (a malignant tumor) that begins most often in the outer part of the prostate. It is the most common type of cancer (excluding skin cancer) diagnosed in American men. In 2003, an estimated 220,900 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in the U.S.

Early prostate cancer usually does not cause any symptoms. However, as the tumor grows, it may spread from the prostate to surrounding areas. Change in urination, including increased frequency, hesitancy or dribbling of urine may be experienced.

Prostate cancer can spread from the prostate to nearby lymph nodes, bones or other organs. This spread is called metastasis. For example, as a result of metastasis to the spine, some men experience back pain.

The Value of Early Detection

The overall prognosis for prostate cancer patients has dramatically improved compared with years ago. Over the past 20 years, the overall survival rates for all stages of prostate cancer combined have increased from 67% to 97%. This means more men are living longer after diagnosis. Some of the possible reasons for this increase in survival rates include public awareness and early detection.

Are All Cases of Prostate Cancer Equal in Risk?

Bluntly, no they aren't. One of the most infuriating problems is that for many men a diagnosis of prostate cancer is not significant! Thirty percent of American men over age 50 who die in car crashes and similar accidents who never showed any clinical sign of prostate cancer while they were alive, will have small areas of cancer in their prostates. These men could have lived undiagnosed for many more years with those small areas (foci) of prostate cancer- or possibly some of them would have been diagnosed with clinically significant prostate cancer just a few months later had lived. Amazingly, in American men over age 90, we find that 90% of them have microscopic evidence of prostate cancer.

These small areas of prostate cancer tissue that do not develop into a clinically important disease, are often called "latent" prostate cancer. For an average American man of 50 years of age, with a reasonable life expectancy of another 25 years, the chance that he will develop a microscopic focus of so-called "latent" prostate cancer tissue is estimated to be 42% (that is, 42 of 100 such men will get such a microscopic focus). However, the chance that the same man will get clinically significant prostate cancer (that is, prostate cancer that is associated with clear signs or symptoms of the disease) is only 9.5%. Finally, of the same 100 men, only about three will actually die of prostate cancer. So you can clearly see that while many men may get prostate cancer, it will actually affect relatively few of them very seriously. It is often said that most men are much more likely to die with prostate cancer than because of prostate cancer.

Statistics Prostate

The statistics are shocking and seem to be even more significant with the advent of the baby boomers reaching their 40's. The number of men with prostate problems over age 40 is now about 60%... with men over the age of 50 accounting for 75% of all prostate problems. The Prostate is the source of most problems with the male genitourinary system. Nearly every man over the age of forty-five will have some enlargement of the prostate. Most prostate problems don't become troublesome until a man reaches the age of sixty.

The search for a natural remedy for prostate problems have taken giant steps in the past few years. PC Hope™ is specifically formulated with all-natural ingredients clinically shown to alleviate symptoms associated with prostate enlargement and infection. Yet, this formula works without the side effects associated with conventional medications and treatments.

As you grow older, your chance of having a diagnosis of prostate cancer increases. In fact, we believe that one of the reasons that prostate cancer is now so much more common than it was 50 years ago is very obvious: more men live longer today than they did 50 years ago. If you live longer, your chance of having a diagnosis of prostate cancer goes up proportionally. There are some studies, based on post mortem findings, estimating that all men would have prostate cancer if they all lived to over a hundred. 

The average age of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in America is still over 60 years (although diagnosis in younger men is much more common than it used to be). And the range of ages is very wide. Cases of prostate cancer have first been seen in men in their twenties and in men in their nineties.

Environment

The cleaner your environment the less likely you are to be at risk of prostate cancer. But then that is true for nearly all cancers, and explains why smoking is such a particularly foolish thing to do if you want to avoid cancer. Smoking introduces pollutants directly into your lungs, and from there to almost every other organ of the body. You might as well go and stand beside the nearest major freeway and inhale car and truck exhaust fumes all day! Once again, however, there is no perfectly clean environment that will allow you to live without the risk of prostate cancer!

IGF-1

Insulin-like growth factor is a normal chemical that we all make.  It is involved in the regulation of normal cell life, growth and death.  There is a strong link between levels of this chemical in the blood and prostate cancer risk. 

This research is still in the early stages and it is still a bit "chicken and egg" at the moment.  Some researchers think that IGF-1 might help to cause prostate cancer.  Others think it might be made by prostate cancer cells, higher levels meaning you already have the disease - so they think it is a marker for cancer, like PSA.

What we do know is that several things affect the level of IGF-1 in your blood.  Low fat diet, eating fewer calories, lycopene, eating tomatoes and strenuous exercise can all lower IGG-1 levels.   A lot of milk, dairy products, calcium and polyunsaturated fat in your diet all increase IGF-1 levels. 

Hormones

The prostate gland is a sex organ. It produces a liquid which is mixed with sperm to form semen.

Testosterone is a sex hormone produced by the testicles. The prostate gland needs testosterone to work, but testosterone may help to cause prostate cancer. Men who lose both testicles early in life, and who don't have testosterone replacement do not get prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer cells need testosterone to grow. If testosterone is prevented from getting to the prostate cancer cells, then they can often shrink the cancer.

Vasectomy

One question that crops up over and over again is whether having a vasectomy (the procedure that stops a man from making a woman pregnant) can lead to a later diagnosis of prostate cancer.

First of all, it has to be said that men who have vasectomies do appear to be more likely to have a diagnosis of prostate cancer 20 years later than men who do not have vasectomies. However, it also has to be said that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of a cause and effect relationship. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that this is a statistical coincidence that has to do with the attitudes to health of men most likely to have vasectomies.

Basically, men who have vasectomies exhibit what is widely described as "health-seeking" behavior. In other words, they are the type of men who look after their health, tend to go for regular check-ups, and generally have a lifestyle which could be considered as "healthy." They are presumed to be more likely to have vasectomies because they have considered that the risks associated with a vasectomy are far lower than the risks associated with their wife/partner having a late or unwanted pregnancy.

Now it is also reasonable to suppose that men who exhibit health-seeking behavior are more likely to seek regular prostate examinations as part of that behavior. This immediately implies that the same men who seek vasectomies are more likely to have a prostate examination than the men who do not have vasectomies. Therefore these men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer!

The bottom line is that men who have vasectomies are somewhere between 1.5 and 2.0 times more likely to have a later diagnosis of prostate cancer than men who have not had a vasectomy... but that we have no reason to believe that there is any connection between the two.

Questions & Answers

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