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It Is Not In His Head - It's What ADT Does To the Body
I want to share something that comes up a lot in conversations with men who have been through prostate cancer treatment.
They describe feeling heavy. Slow. Less like themselves. Their partners describe watching them change and not knowing what to name it. Most put it down to putting up the good fight and they are just tired. This is more true than they know.
A new study in Nature has mapped exactly what happens to muscle at the cellular level during androgen deprivation therapy. The mitochondria - the energy engines inside muscle cells - are being depleted. That is the mechanism. It is documented.
This is not weakness or depression. It is biology.
And here is the part that matters most: men who start resistance exercise before treatment - and keep it going - slow the loss significantly. That is something to raise with your doctor before the first treatment, not six months in.
Has anyone in the community been through this? I would like to know what helped.
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It Is Not In His Head - It's What ADT Does To the Body
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