Someone in my circle asked me last week about metformin - the cheap diabetes pill the internet keeps saying might fight prostate cancer. He is on active surveillance and wanted to know if he should push his doctor for it. I get the pull. When you are being watched and waiting on a result, doing nothing feels like doing nothing. A pill feels like action. So here is what the proper trial - MAST (the Metformin Active Surveillance Trial) in Canada found. 407 men, three years, metformin against a dummy pill. No benefit. The heavier men who took it did a bit worse. I am not a doctor. But I have watched a lot of hopeful headlines shrink the moment someone finally tests them properly. Here is the part that helped my friend breathe out: for low-risk cancer, the watching is not "doing nothing". The checks are the treatment. Showing up is the action. He still gets checked every 6 months, just to be sure. Have you ever chased a supplement or a pill you read about online? What made you try it, or what made you stop? I would like to hear it. https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

Encouraging news this week on getting the word out. Gary Bennett said it plainly - "the worst thing you can do is ignore it" - and he and Mick Harford are leading a whole football city on a walk to raise awareness (the Sunderland Fans' Walk, 10 July). I love seeing this. It hands every family a place to start the conversation with the men they love. And here is the proof it works: deaths from prostate cancer among Black men are down 56% since 1993. I will happily admit that in 1993 I had no idea what a prostate even was, and I did not care. I was 33, and I had not yet met my prostate demons. That came later. I did not start reading about it until 2010, when I had to. You do not have to learn it the slow way like I did. Start the conversation today. https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

Who was the first person you told? Sharing this here because it sits right at the heart of what we do. There is a new film out called "The Unspoken Truth," made with Northwell Health and the American Cancer Society. It is about prostate cancer among Black men, who carry more of this disease and lose more men to it - a lot of it down to the conversation coming too late. Watching how they built it - survivors, a former NBA player, community leaders all sitting down to say the hard thing out loud - got me thinking about how any of us break a silence like this. Because somebody usually goes first. For me it was a friend in an airport who noticed something and just said it. That one awkward sentence set off sixteen years of me actually paying attention. So here is my question for the community. Who was the first person who ever said the words out loud to you - about your prostate, or a health thing you had been avoiding? And what did it take for them to bring it up?

A large study of more than 28,000 people looked at who followed the basic cancer-prevention advice - healthy weight, regular movement, more plants and whole grains, less red and processed meat and alcohol. The ones who stuck with it had a lower risk of dying. Not one supplement on the list. I will be honest, I take supplements myself and I think they have helped me. But I also changed how I eat and how I move, and that may be what actually did the work. I am not a doctor, so I hold that loosely. What I do not hold loosely is this: the boring basics have the strongest evidence behind them, and they cost nothing. What is the one basic you already know you should do but keep putting off - the walk, the plate, the weight, the drink? Name it here. Saying it out loud is how it starts. https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

This is where the prostate needs to be visible, talked about - known. June 29, 2026 - Nearly 1,500 people, most in blue shirts, out walking for prostate cancer. What got me was who showed up - young men, army cadets, and a government minister with his son walking beside him. For one morning, the subject most men will not say out loud became the easiest thing in the world to talk about. That is the thing about doing it together. On your own, the words stick in your throat. In a crowd, they come out easy. It is what I have been saying all along, awareness is key. Start the conversation. We are a smaller crowd here, but we are the same idea - a place where you can say the words. Have you ever done a walk or an event like this, for any cause? Did being in the crowd make the hard thing easier to talk about? I am sure it did.