[.ca] The Natural Prostate Cure (ISBN 1884820611)

throws out the baby with the bathwater:
The author comes across as a self-appointed medical vigilante out to prove the entire allopathic medical community is wrong. While natural approaches to prostate health are worth promoting, his alarmist approach is not helpful. In particular, his repeated implications (or outright assertions) that conventional medical approaches (for prostate cancer) are synonymous with castration is ridiculous. His research into the role of testosterone is interesting but not convincing. I bought this book hoping for useful approaches to complement carefully researched "conventional" treatment for prostate cancer, but the author's opinion is that you can't use both. Hogwash. I'm returning this book.

dares to go against the grain:
As a registered nurse I have seen the medical profession at work. Most doctors still reject any method of healing if it does not come from our western medical schools. This book has excellent research throught western medicine well explained and easy to understand. The author does not claim to give medical advice. He gives a great overview to tons of research worldwide. To any one who is willing to change life style and eating habits for health reasons: follow the book! I am hoping my 84 year old father will give it a try!

Worthy of 0 stars:
This guy is a quack with a capital Q. I've been taking his product for over a year and just had my second surgery. Clearly Roger Mason is a man that is taking advantage of the desperation of the elderly. How can amazon sell this CRAP!

Informative and Helpfull:
I purchased this book for my husband because his doctor indicated that we should become more aware of his prostate health. I have to admit that I read the book first because this topic was very touchy and one that he did not want to discuss. Roger Mason has taken the time to explain things on a person to person basis while providing valuable information to our family about maintaining proper levels of hormones and what supplements my husband can take to prevent problems with his prostate. I feel better knowing that even if our situation had been more advanced that the information provided by the book would have helped us as well.My husband and I plan on giving this book to our sons so they can become more informed and take control of their prostate health. I was so impressed with this book I purchased his book for women. Thanks Roger Mason for your great work!

Flies in the face of reason:
Roger Mason's little pamphlet has some serious flaws in it. He proclaims that the way to beat prostate cancer is to eliminate meat and dairy in favor of whole grains and vegetables. His authority for this is that a grain based diet is what mankind has been consuming throughout recorded history. This is falacious reasoning at best. Archaeologists can tell him that they can determine the eating habits from ancient skeletal remains by examination of the teeth. Healthy, undecayed teeth are indicative of someone whose diet was primarily meat; while teeth that demonstrate considerable deterioration proves that their diet was primarily grains. Why is it that grains do that and meat doesn't?! In addition, they might also reveal that the natural mode of human biology is for a mother to nurse for up to three years and remain infertile throughout that time; while a grain based diet interferes with the natural biological cycle and returns a woman to fertility in as little as three months despite nursing an extant child. Mason should also explain why humans have incisors... The Atkins diet plan is juxtaposed to Mason's views. It emphasizes the more natural diet of meat and de-emphasizes grains and starches as the heaviest carbohydrates. The results are startling - reduced weight and cholesterol despite eating MORE red meat! Carbs get stored in fat cells when there is an overabunbance. That leads to disease. The human body can't store extra protein. It's the extra carbs that cause an oversupply of estrogen in men, not the consumption of protein as Mason contends. Mason just doesn't know what he's talking about. Try reading instead Drs. Eades & Eades' Protein Power, in which real medical doctors give real medical evidence about estrogen, insulin and how the body manages protein, carbohydrates and fats.