August last year, a man reached out and invited me to his house somewhere in Abuja.
He is a very prominent and wealthy man.
He said to me " Dr Felix, I have never joked with my health. I run routine tests twice a year. I don't know where this prostate cancer came from."
This is where most people, including the mainstream medical establishment gets it wrong.
The commonest cause of cancer is smoking. The next commonest cause is overweight/obesity.
What is in obesity that causes cancer? Insulin resistance!
How do you check for insulin resistance? By doing a fasting insulin test and calculating HOMA IR.
Medical schools don't teach this, doctors don't request the test, most labs do not even know a test like that exists.
This was what was missing in the man's routine tests.
If his doctor knew the link between insulin resistance and cancer they would have at least pointed him to it.
The man was on the big side with a 'big man' abdomen.
I could see and smell the insulin resistance from a distance.
When we finally assessed his insulin, it was not only high, it was in the diabetic range.
With the insulin and HbA1c, we diagnosed type 2 diabetes in addition to prostate cancer.
That's was when the real treatment began..
To achieve any meaningful success in a cancer associated with insulin resistance, you MUST reverse the insulin resistance.
No oncologist looks for or even consider this in their treatments.