Hello I'm new and looking for advice/help

Hi Paul,

We have significantly changed our diet. Basically removed all dairy and red meat (and just have the odd treat days) I cook everything from scratch so know exactly what I’m using and try to use organic products wherever possible. 
My OH had a heavily based dairy diet previously. Whether it will make a difference I don’t know, but I think you feel you have to do what you can to try and make a difference. If nothing else he feels so much better in himself after losing the bit of excess weight that he had. Best of luck for your appointment this month 👍🏽

There is evidence that diets high in Polyphenol-rich foods slows the progression of prostate cancer (and some other similar cancers, such as breast). This doesn't mean you have to give anything up, but ensuring you have plenty of brassica vegetables (broccoli, sprouts, etc) may help.

Pomi-T is a supplement made from Polyphenol-rich foods, if you think you'll struggle to add them to your diet.

Be careful about cutting out dairy if you are on hormone therapy, as you may increase the already high chance of osteoporosis through calcium loss. You should probably also consider taking vitamin D3 and K2 to help avoid osteoporosis, and calcium (particularly if you did give up diary), but you need exercise which stresses bones too for these to work. Calcium is a difficult one, because while essential to maintain bone health (even more so on hormone therapy), there is some thought that it might not be good for prostates. (The vitamin D3 and K2 may help make sure it goes mainly to bones.) Calcium is not compatible with some other health conditions and some bone mets, so check with your GP and oncologist first.

Personally, I took Pomi-T, calcium in the form of AdCal-D3, extra vitamin D3 and K2 during treatment. In hindsight, I would have dropped the vitamin D3 during radiotherapy sessions. I have stopped the calcium now that my testosterone has returned. I have no evidence any of this has done me any good though.

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Although tomatoes and other red vegetables contain lycopene, it's insoluble, so if you eat them raw, it mostly just passes through you as fibre.

In order to absorb lycopene, it needs to be consumed dissolved in oil. This means you have to cook the vegetables in oil and consume the oil to get the benefit of lycopene. In the case of tomatoes, it's concentrated in the skin, so they need to be cooked in oil with the skin on.

So eating a raw tomato or red pepper won't benefit you much in terms of lycopene. Other significant sources of lycopene are tomato soup, tomato ketchup, concentrated tomato puree. A teaspoon of concentrated tomato puree is probably a good source as a supplement.

Soy doesn't contain much calcium, but soy milk is usually fortified with it, so it depends how much they added.

I don't know how dietary calcium interacts with bisphosphonates such as zoledronic acid, or Denosumab, as these change the way osteoclasts and osteoblasts break down and rebuild bone. That would be an interesting question for a bone specialist.