Aug. 28, 2025 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Dr. Fong: New BREAKTHROUGH to Change Men’s Health FOREVER? | The Rift | Guest: Dr. Bruce Fong
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And unfortunately, there's a statistic out there that's really scary.
It says that up to 80% of men will actually develop prostate cancer before they die.
Here's the bottom line, guys: anything in your body, prostate cells included, when they're not happy, they're going to alter themselves to adjust to whatever the stressor is.
Anybody who has benign prostatic hypertrophy, ultimately, the next step is all the factors that are pissing your prostate cells off are still there.
Well, guess what?
At some point, you may actually produce cells that are not normal, and ultimately, you might have a cancer cell form.
So, we've come up at the neutronics with a great product for the prostate, but it's called prostate plus.
Everything's about research, everything's about going, what's working out there for people, and how do we combine it with what we know already?
So, the prostate plus itself is a culmination of understanding a lot of these compounds that are out there.
And then, by doing that, of course, we are reducing things like the cancer risk, reducing things like the prostatic hypertrophy and things like that.
So, again, that is an important part.
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Men's health is facing a silent crisis.
As you know, prostate problems, once thought to affect only older men, are now showing up at younger ages.
It's fueled by what they say is poor diets, and you all know that you don't eat that well.
I mean, you ever see fat people who are like, I don't eat a lot, and then they eat a lot, right?
You know, there's environmental toxins.
We know all about these forever chemicals and things that have been in our systems and lowering our testosterone.
But we also have this high-stress lifestyle where we just never stop.
And I never stop.
And it does burn you out.
You know, these issues don't just impact the bathroom, they affect sleep, energy, and even overall vitality.
Today, we're joined by Dr. Bruce Fong, medical director at Sierra Integrative Medical Center and Neutronics Labs, to break down why prostate health matters, what warning signs to watch for, and how men can take action naturally before it's too late.
Just letting you guys know, unironically, I just got back from El Salvador.
So, I myself am under the weather and have not yet recovered.
But I am happy to talk to someone who's always in chipper spirits because he actually takes care of himself.
And yeah, it's an embarrassing topic, but if we're talking about men and we're talking about men's health, we got to help men.
We'll talk about the prostate today.
I don't want to see anyone's prostate, but that's between you and your doctor.
And unfortunately, there's a statistic out there that's really scary.
It says that up to 80% of men will actually develop prostate cancer before they die at some point.
The good news is that the majority of prostate cancer is really slow growing, and you'll probably die from something else long before that.
But why get it if you don't have to?
Because what we're talking about, just like you were alluding to, is that all these different things affect our prostate.
So, in case you guys don't know what your prostate is that gland that sits above where your urethra, the tube that goes through your penis, goes out.
And it is what provides basically all the other fluids that are in your semen and things like that when, besides sperm.
And so, it also lubricates the urinary tract.
And so, one of the things that we're talking about here is that the more, and one of the big words we can use is inflammation.
The more inflamed that prostate is.
So, inflammation usually means the immune system or other parts of the body are attacking that prostate for various reasons.
Number one reason, of course, is chronically as we get older, and I'm 56, and you know, I probably am looking at this at some point here.
But the whole point is there is an issue that chronically bacteria that are normally that can get in the urinary tract, that normally aren't going to necessarily cause a lot of problems, they can colonize, not cause an infection, but colonize, meaning small amounts build up in various places.
And one of the places they can build up is in the prostate.
And again, all those factors you talked about- all the environmental toxins, the radiation, even stress-they affect various protective mechanisms we have.
And these bacteria do get built up in there.
Of course, those things very directly can also affect with the stress and everything else, indirectly or directly, your hormones.
Hormones, switching around, we'll talk about those very specifically when I talk about the ingredients and what we're going to talk about today.
There's a great product I'm going to talk to you about.
But those specific things and alterations of certain balances of hormones also put the prostate at risk.
Because here's the bottom line, guys: anything in your body, prostate cells included, when they're not happy, they're going to alter themselves to adjust to whatever the stressor is.
That's why we see people get bone spurs and things like that because you're rubbing a certain part of your body too much, like and you, the bone, the body decides to lay more calcium down, creating like a bony outgrowth.
In a very similar manner, the prostate cells themselves, because they feel like they're under stress, they can't do their job very well.
First, they start to enlarge in something that's called benign prostatic hypertrophy, also known as BPH.
And so, from that standpoint, we're already seeing that, hey, dude, I must be getting old because I have to get up at night and go pee now.
And, you know, and that's what we call nocturia.
And again, the more times that you have to do it at night, it was really indicative that you're not able to, your prostate's becoming enlarged.
So, remember, your prostate sits right on top of the urethra, but the urethra, of course, is connected to the urinary bladder.
And the reason you have to get up at night is because since this prostate's getting bigger, the bladder can't expand as much as it used to.
And that makes you suddenly have that urge to have to wake up and pee.
So, even in a benign enlargement state, is what we call that, your urinary tract is going to get infected, affect, excuse me.
And here's an interesting thing: I mean, there's an old adage that one urologist, a really older urologist, I think he's retired now.
He used to say that, hey, guys, if you don't pee more than me at night, we probably don't need to fix anything.
Well, God love him, but I think that me, you guys know me from previous podcasts, I'm the guy who always talks about an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound and really a ton of cure.
Okay, so if we can start preventing these issues, because anybody who has benign prostatic hypertrophy, ultimately, the next step is if all the factors that are pissing your prostate cells off are still there.
Well, guess what?
At some point, you may actually produce cells that are not normal, and ultimately you might have a cancer cell form there.
And then it's a whole different story.
Okay, I'm not going to get into that today.
That's probably a little bit beyond our discussion, but I just wanted to let you know that's the progression of things.
So, what can we do?
Again, we have to be proactive.
Just like Elijah says, we need to be healthy and be proactive about things.
So, it's interesting.
One of the theories as to why, as we get, as men get older, their prostates start having more problems.
Well, one of them is take it or leave it, it's a lack of intercourse.
So, if you're not ejaculating as much, there's the one theory is that stuff is built up in there and it's not coming out, and it's causing some of the cells to change.
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So, in fact, you're telling me we've got to have a lot of sex.
Are you telling me that we get to, yeah, I mean, sex is a good thing, and you know, basically, you got to clear your pipes.
I don't know how else to say that that sounds awful.
I'm not telling you guys, go jump on everything that you see out there.
I'm just simply saying, you know, as a Christian, be with the person you're supposed to be with.
And, you know, I'm encouraging you to have more intercourse.
I mean, honestly, Elijah, I've had patients with, when they show up here, their PSAs, prostate-specific antigen, which is a blood test we use to measure the size basically of the prostate.
We've seen that even in cancer patients, prostate cancer patients, they're undergoing whatever therapy, when they're actually ejaculating, and whether that's intercourse or they're actually masturbating, we actually see that number go down because you're literally clearing out things.
Now, that alone, by the way, please don't ever take that as being construed to say something like Dr. Fawn said, go jack off and you're going to fix your prostate cancer.
That is not what I'm saying.
But I'm saying that it is an adjunct to everything else that it actually helps to lower that number.
For whatever reason, doing that seems to take some of the pressure off of the tissues and the cells in there.
So, again, this is really an issue where, you know, one, healthy lifestyles, being active, in this case, sexually active, actually helps to prevent these things.
But that's alone, unfortunately, from what you said earlier, Elijah, that's not enough these days.
And really, we live in a very toxic world.
We live in a world where things are trying to literally break us down bit by bit.
And as a result of that, those various things cause us to have first an enlargement of the cells that are in there, then sometimes an increasing number of those cells.
Then ultimately, if we keep doing that, then at some point we make an abnormal cell, and that abnormal cell, which is a cancer, starts to take over everything.
So we want to stop that progression.
So you can do all you can to detox for sure.
I'm a big believer in detox in every and any form.
But the God-honest truth, unfortunately, is you're still going to expose this stuff.
And until you, yeah, unless you can somehow eliminate every last toxin that's affecting those cells, that process is going to try to keep marching forward.
Again, remember, 80% of men end up with prostate cancer at some point in their life before they die.
So there is a sort of this irresistible march towards that.
But we can slow that down.
And again, detoxing, great, lifestyle changes, great.
Yeah, got to do all those things.
Don't get me wrong, I got to do all those things.
But we have to directly start to address what's going on in the prostate cells.
And one of the big things is inflammation.
I'm sorry, I think you wanted to say something.
Oh, okay.
Okay, so I'll keep going there.
So, number one, inflammation is a big thing.
Hormone changes, the imbalancing of hormones, like we said earlier, that's another huge thing.
And really, just, you know, there are a lot of different biochemical processes that are in there, but those are the two big ones.
So, we've come up at the Neutronics with a great product for the prostate effect.
I'll pull it off and bring it on the screen here, but it's called Prostate Plus.
So, we wanted to give you the hottest, newest things here, Elijah.
So, Prostate Plus is something that, again, like many of the formulas we have at Neutronics, I'm not sure if I can put that on there without blocking my view here, so I'll put it off the camera for now.
But like everything we do at Neutronics, everything's about research.
Everything's about going, hey, what's working out there for people?
And how do we combine it with what we know already?
So, the prostate plus itself is a culmination of those, of understanding a lot of these compounds that are out there.
And, you know, again, some of the lists of those compounds, you know, basically can include things like, first off, like curcumin.
And curcumin is this beautiful compound.
Everybody talks about curcumin.
They're like, hey, that's a thing that reduces inflammation, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
But beyond reducing inflammation, believe it or not, it actually inhibits androgen hormone actions, meaning that, and we're going to talk about this more in a minute, but how your testosterone is broken down in your system is a big factor in how cells get abnormal and get big and eventually potentially go the wrong way.
But turmeric, from an integrative oncology standpoint, also inhibits cancer growth from the very, what do you call it, the very fact that cancer can be thought of in one school of thought as an inflammatory disease.
And so if we are talking about reducing inflammation, we are talking about decreasing tumors sizes and decreasing cell formation that's abnormal.
You know, basically, there's some actual studies that show that turmeric alone in the prostate cells can kind of prevent that progression from precancerous cells to becoming cancerous cells.
It actually shows, I believe there's another study that showed an actual demonstrable decrease in the volume and the weight of the prostate cancer and mycomin used in that.
So turmeric, big time antioxidant, anti-inflammatory.
Everybody knows about turmeric.
It's important.
We also have in here like things like B6, which help cellular repair in the prostate itself, which means that we can properly repair those cells, not let them get big and turn into something bad, but put them back in their proper balance and they can regenerate and function more optimally.
And then by doing that, of course, we are reducing things like the cancer risk, reducing things like the prostatic hypertrophy and things like that.
So again, that is an important part.
Things like vitamin D are in there.
Vitamin D, it's interesting.
We talk about vitamin D, always like, hey, that's that vitamin that's in milk and it does all these different things about keeping our bones healthy.
Vitamin D does a lot of work throughout the whole body to the point where everybody in the endocrine community is actually, there's a push to actually reclassify vitamin D as a hormone because it does so many things.
But anyway, I mean, in this particular case, let's just say it promotes a proper hormonal balance, again, for that healthy prostate.
And again, we're getting into this now.
So let's talk about that.
So when testosterone is in your body, when it breaks down, it becomes something called dihydrotestosterone.
And the amount of dihydrotestosterone in ratio to testosterone and how your tissues are could inadvertently take us in the wrong direction.
In fact, most experts would agree that the metabolism of the testosterone, namely the levels of dihydrotestosterone, are one of the key, if not the critical factor that actually pushes us towards the abnormal cell enlargement, abnormal cell proliferation, and ultimately literally cancer cell formation.
So you guys have probably heard of something called saw palm metal.
So we're talking about the prostate.
A lot of guys have heard about saw palmetto.
Yeah, I take saw palmetto, and some of the urologists don't really believe in it.
But what's been shown in studies is that it actually clinically does reduce inflammation.
And here's the coolest part about saw palmetto.
Now they're showing what the main mechanism is.
It actually inhibits the conversion of testosterone to DHT, meaning that it's kind of slowing down the breakdown of testosterone.
And thereby, because the rate of that DHT clinging to your prostate cells is what creates that impetus, or it's not really inflammation in this case, but that impetus for those cells to get bigger, for those cells to unfortunately start to proliferate and eventually get an abnormal one.
So if we can slow down the rate of conversion of testosterone to the breakdown product of DHT, it's going to actually decrease the growth and enlargement of the cells and very likely will kind of take us down that path where the cancer itself is, cancer cells don't want to develop as much.
And then the next one, of course, people have a big thing they've talked about is something called beta-cytosterol.
That's the, oh, I shouldn't name other products, but that was a big deal out there for it was on TV and all kinds of things.
And beta cytosterol, primarily, it's also known to decrease inflammation, but it's now that dihydrotestosterone binding to those cells.
So again, saw palmetto prevents conversion of testosterone, at least slows it down from that to DHT, the breakdown product.
And now beta cytosterol prevents the DHT from clinging and getting onto our cells.
By doing that, you know, it actually, of course, if that's the main motivator, then the main impetus for the cells to get larger and start to proliferate is now gone.
Again, gone is a relative word.
I mean, this is not 100% effective.
But again, it is a huge factor to have both of these compounds in here, along with everything else we talked about.
You know, other things we can probably think about here that are in this product, pygeum.
That's right.
Pygeum bark is in here.
That's anti-inflammatory.
It actually, for some reason, it increases the ability for the bladder to empty properly.
It works through inhibiting things like prostaglandins and other inflammatory mediators.
So again, this is working on inflammation, like we talked about earlier.
People have used things like stinging nettle root as well.
That's something that actually balances those hormones like we talked about.
It also decreases inflammation, apparently.
Let's see.
There was one more real big one.
Lycopene, lycopene.
The ingredient lycopene.
People have shown that this massive antioxidant.
It really, really has been shown in clinical studies to protect the prostate cells.
Basically, antioxidant mechanisms.
And I do a little bit of integrative oncology.
So there's a thing called apoptosis.
So the biggest, by the way, biggest difference between our regular cells and a cancer cell.
Cancer cells are not programmed to die.
All of our other cells have a certain life span that's programmed into them.
Then they basically break down.
Cancer cells don't.
That's why they can keep growing and getting bigger.
So this somehow lycopene, we don't really understand how, but it induces apoptosis.
This process of programmed cell death, that is something huge.
And again, this is good for even prevention of the cells going into cancer too.
So just a great ingredient there.
And again, the mix of everything that we talked about is just this most comprehensive mix I've ever seen of the various natural compounds out there that worked against enlargement and proliferation of the prostate cells.
The element, zinc.
You know, there's a lot of studies about zinc.
And apparently, of all things, the prostate has the highest concentration of zinc in the body.
We're not sure why, but all we know is that whenever we see cancer, there's clearly a deficiency of zinc.
And so when you take the corollary, we give patients more zinc.
It tends to actually seem to work towards prevention of, again, the cancer specifically at this point.
And of course, every product from Neutronics Labs, our secret is that we add the deer antler velvet.
So deer antler velvet is an extract of a growing deer antler.
And the inside of it, we basically cut the little tips off the end of a growing antler.
And the actively growing antler inside of there has a growth matrix.
Literally, you vacuum it out, cold press it, and that's where we get our compound from, the deer antler velvet.
And that deer antler velvet is the exact, I'm sorry, it's a growth matrix with the exact composition of growth factors that's in our body when we have the presence of human growth hormone.
So the biggest thing being IGF-1 or insulin like growth factor one, which a lot of people equate to, you know, putting on muscle, being more athletic, burning off fat, but also helping to heal from injuries.
And there's a whole mirror of things we can talk about.
But that alone, you know, added to all this, these factors really takes us back to the fact that we're dealing with a very, very comprehensive product specifically designed to not only, again, promote prostate health from a preventative standpoint of maintaining good cells, but potentially reversing some of the proliferation or enlargement of cells already and thereby reducing your risk of cancer.
So again, I can't speak more to, I mean, I'm very proud of the research team, you know, and we all looked at this and I was very impressed with some of the data they found.
And so this is what kind of prompted us to put all that together.
And by the way, most of our products are liquid-based.
This one's actually a pill.
And it is a very comprehensive formula, like I said.
But, you know, Elijah, we were talking earlier about, hey, let's talk about men's health in general.
Well, prostate, it's an issue typically for older men, but we're starting to see issues with the prostate as early as the guys in their early 40s.
If you're doing something prior to that, there might be a bit of an issue.
But anyway, long story short, that's only part of the picture.
But did you know?
So you were mentioning earlier the issues with prostate.
Yeah, it makes you get up at night.
But did you know that if you have prostate issues, you're going to have problems with sexual function?
Like one, it might be harder to ejaculate or make, or the corollary could be true, it can make you go too quick.
It actually could mess with your erectile function, too.
So, again, these are issues that every guy cares about.
And again, we need to keep that prostate healthy for all these things to be right.
But to be a more comprehensive thing, we also recommend we have a wonderful product that we call Man's Edge.
I think we talked about it last time I was on the show.
This is a combination of, again, we did this research of all the various natural products that are out there.
And the man's edge has everything from the tonkara yi, also known as long jack, tribulus.
And again, it's got all these various ingredients that actually help with the production of testosterone, but more importantly, the utilization of testosterone.
And then lately, also, within the last year and a half, we've added an improvement to it.
We've added citrulline and allarginine to it.
These are compounds which promote the production of nitric oxide, which then helps to dilate blood vessels.
So, we're going to get these compounds to the body.
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the most important ingredients called fenugreek.
That's been shown clinically to be the most potent natural product for all this.
And again, it gets it to the body.
You're opening up circulation so you can not only get these compounds to the various parts of the body that help with the utilization and production of testosterone, but increased blood flow.
Here we go with erectile function again.
When you don't have enough blood flow, things aren't going to get as stiff or functional as you want.
But man's edge and the prostate that's part of this formulation.
And, of course, I would always recommend getting on our flagship product, which is the original product known as IGF-1.
This is the pure deer antler velvet, which has all those growth factors, just like you have in the presence of human growth hormone.
And as you know, we have a lot of that.
And then, when we as we age, we hit a critical point, maybe like our mid-30s, and we don't produce enough in our bodies to continue to maintain ourselves to be the best we can be.
And we clearly feel that supplementing this allows you to, shall we say, age gracefully, but really age in a manner that keeps you the best that you can be.
So, those three things together are this wonderful combination that I think every man should be on.
And for, of course, for the ladies, I would do the main IGF-1 product.
And we actually make a ladies' product now.
And I don't think I have a bottle of that in here handy to show you.
But the bottom line is the women's formula is more formulated for women and it has various ingredients in there: a couple of B vitamins, iron, vitamin D, and again, various elements to help regulate hormones, increase vascular health as well as bone health.
So, again, those combined with the IGF-1 would be a wonderful combination for the ladies.
And so, but you know, I don't want to go through the whole catalog here.
That's not what my purpose is.
But I want to just to put it out there, guys, that you have combinations of products here from us that can really make you the best that you can be, whether you're a man or a woman.
You know, again, being the best you can be is important because you owe it to yourself and to the loved ones around you to be that best person.
You've got a purpose here.
A Christian, I always believe that God has us here for a very specific purpose.
And I want you to be able to fulfill that purpose with as much zeal as possible.
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Wow.
You know, I think that's an amazing thing.
Being under the weather right now, I want to remind people as well, you know, you can actually visit neutronicslabs.com, N-U-T-R-O-N-I-C-S-L-A-B-S.com.
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You can always do that too.
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And I think, you know, it's probably better to take it preemptively, right?
To help heal, you know, help with prostate health.
Get it now, even if you're young, because, you know, prostate cancer is serious stuff and you can prevent it by getting this product.
And what age would you say they could start using it or should start using it?
Well, I personally would probably say that any man in the maybe even as early as their mid-30s, but definitely by the time they hit their 40s, should be on the prostate plus product.
Any man in general should be on the IGF-1, the main product, the deer antler velvet.
And as their testosterone starts to decline, or if you just want to be the best you can be, you want to get on that man's edge whenever you feel like you need that extra boost.
And again, ladies, I apologize, I had a bottle to show you here, but I don't know what happened to it.
But the IGF1 ladies formula, it's got the deer antler velvet.
It's got boron again for the hormones.
That one's a great one in combination with our main product, the IGF-1 Plus, to really make you the best that you can be.
Again, so again, a little bit of everything for everybody out there.
Again, like Elijah mentioned, please check out our website.
We have a lot of stuff we've done a lot of research on.
We would love for you to try these things.
And again, this, and to be realistic, I thought this coming up Labor Day special was a little too generous.
But anyway, we want you guys to check it out.
So that's our gift to you.
So when you do something called AutoShip, it means that you're buying and you're subscribing.
You're going to get one bottle of the stuff every month.
If you do that with any, well, any strength from 25,000 up to our new 600,000 nanogram IGF-1, we will then send you a free bottle of the man's edge I just talked about.
And also something we call sleep miracle.
Sleep miracle, and we can talk about this a whole topic another time, is again the same thing.
Everything we talk about, we research all the stuff that's out there.
And it's a spray that's under the tongue, has melatonin, hops, faleriana, and a number of the very effective non-pharmaceutical things that help us to sleep.
And it does combine that again with the Dear Antler Velvet, the IGF-1 to bring it to your steps.
And by the way, the most important thing I forgot to mention, every one of our liquid products, which is the critical thing that sets us apart from everybody else, they're in a liposomal delivery system.
It means it's a fat-based compound that allows you to put it under your tongue and it absorbs right into your bloodstream.
So there's no stomach acid or digestive enzymes chewing this stuff up.
It goes right in your bloodstream.
And we have a third-party independent verification of a number of our products showing up to 98.7% absorption.
So again, all the stuff that you're getting here, almost all of it's going to get in your body.
In case you don't remember what capillary beds under the tongue are for, ask anybody who has chest pain.
take those little nitroglycerin tablets, they put them under their tongue because that's where that basal dilator gets into the bloodstream right away and can help with chest pain.
If you swallowed it, it could take up to half an hour or more to work.
You don't need that.
You want it to work right away.
So same thing with these growth factors and all the other compounds we're talking about.
They go under the tongue and they really get in there and they help to bring about change very quickly.
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Awesome.
Dr. Fong, thank you so much for all that information.
Make sure you check out the links in the description.
People want to find you, if they want to follow your work, how can they keep up with your information or is there anywhere you post regularly?
Well, if you want to really find me, I'm the medical director here at Sierra Integrative Medical Center where I'm at right now.
We're located in Reno, Nevada.
You can check us out on the web at www.sieraintegrative.com, which is S-I-E-R-R-A-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-V-E dot com.
Or, you know, if you're old-fashioned, you want to just give us a phone call.
We love talking to people.
That's 775-828-5388.
Again, 775-828-5388.
I am an internal medicine doctor by training, but we do a lot of the integrative medicine here now.
So I call myself literally an integrative internist.
I'm here to listen to you.
So let me help you out with your problems if you need me.
And I spend about on average about 90 minutes on my new patient appointments so that we can get to the heart of what's going on with you and try to fix those things.
And of course, we use a lot of the Neutronics Lab products to help both balance you as well as to help you recover from injury and illness.
