Central Coast Home & Lifestyle Summer 2025

THE EXPERT ask by multiple professionals “you won’t die of prostate cancer – you’ll die with it”. This is not comforting to hear, and it certainly doesn’t line up with what I’ve seen with many others who are now gone. They were not all elderly by any means (the youngest just 52) but still suffered heaps as things grew increasingly worse. I find it frightening that even though they complied with the conventional advice, in every case apart from one they lost their prostate anyway and with terrible consequences. Most of the ones that didn’t pass away eventually wished they had, due to the ensuing fallout after their removal & side-effects of the procedures. I’ve heard you have been helping many without charge for 30years to enjoy their best lives. I’m very keen to pursue the same path and to be guided in the principles of natural living. Evidently when you were invited to speak at a local Prostate Cancer Support Group, you had an extremely positive effect on all the patients there. I’m hoping you will be able to advise me concerning my diet & lifestyle and whatever else I need to do. Now to my wife & daughter (she is only 34). They’ve also not long received confirmation that they both have developed breast cancer, just as an alarming number of their friends have too. FYI, just as my father never suffered with any cancer or even enlargement of his prostate as I’m aware, my wife’s parents as far as we know also remained cancer free their whole lives. It seems these days if you live long enough, there’s a huge chance you, your loved ones or friends will get some type of cancer! We do remain grateful for all things and are determined not to become embittered to keep moving forward day by day. Again, I sincerely hope you can assist my wife & daughter in helping them to make the best choices for their lives. Thanks in advance and for your continuing work among those in dire need. A: So sorry to hear you’re experiencing a triple calamity, as cancer knocks on 3 of your family doors at once. As I often say, we either get bitter or better in this short life, with the reality becoming more evident the longer we live. Nevertheless, thank God you have not gone down the bitterness road to despair. Choosing to believe that while there’s life there’s hope is truly the only way to go. Your attitude of gratitude is great & will uphold you all as you keep looking up. Of course, common sense dictates that it’s wise

BY GEOFF GARLINGE

The shocking truth about “THE FORGOTTEN CANCER”

T he following scenario is sadly all too commonplace and constitutes a failure of epic proportions to save thousands of lives via exercising genuine duty of care especially relating to early detection measures. According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA), collectively nearly half a billion dollars is spent on pre-emptive action for breast, cervical & bowel cancer screening. While not at all downplaying the publicising of associated risks of those or the new $263m lung cancer screening program backed by a nationwide ad campaign, it’s tragic that zero (yes nothing) is allocated to affirmative action in preventing and detecting prostate cancer. Astoundingly, for every death (approx. 400 this year) a mere pittance of $3243 is invested on research for prostate, compared to $9660 on breast cancer. It’s hard to believe, yet true that over 1.3million men have been diagnosed since records began being kept in the 1980s! When I first became involved then in educating men to care for themselves & specifically their prostate… the typical response was “what’s a prostate?” or “that’s secret men’s business”. As with breast cancer, which was also once a taboo subject, increased public awareness has thankfully now removed perceived stigmas and brought about positive change, to where open discussion is basically the norm today. Another shocking revelation is that prostate cancer is no longer an old man’s disease, with an increase of 500% in those being diagnosed between 30-39 over the past 2 decades – and even more appalling, the death rate increasing by 200%. As always, prevention is better than cure and it’s a fact that many lives could have been saved via a simple blood test. With approximately 80 men being diagnosed with prostate cancer each day and of those around 11 consequently dying from the disease, it’s a given that logically men should be checked at least by 40, even in the absence of any knowledge concerning genetic predisposition. Again, as with breast cancer as well as ovarian, where the risk of development is majorly increased…for the sons & brothers of prostate cancer sufferers, the probability of being diagnosed as cancer positive is at least doubled. Q: I’ve recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer, as have numbers of my friends & family members over the past few years and I’m now being told

to make good health choices. I’ll now address your points in the order you stated them… Regarding Prostate cancer, my experience goes back to the 80s & more so into the 90s when supporting Ron Gellatley N.D. author of the best-selling “How to fight Prostate Cancer and Win” book on a personal level, who had a PSA of 127. By far the best 2 chapters he wrote were on Lactoferrin & BTC. Ron did a fine job of articulating Lactoferrin’s intrinsic ability to initiate the body’s cellular immune response as our frontline defence mechanism against infection & disease, as well as being unique in nature including regulating iron. The chapter on BTC was titled “This could be the atomic bomb of cancer therapies” was where he mentions finding the Australian Manufacturer referring to myself, which led to him taking the bio-available liquid form we developed back in 1994. He really should have stated there is no guaranteed “magic silver bullet” to fight cancer. Nutraceuticals are great, though supplementation & dietary intake are crucial. There’s much more required in facilitating the implementation of a lifestyle shift. Hence the necessity for an extensive questionnaire, followed by a 2-5hr min. N/C consult to educate and subsequently devise a specific lifestyle strategy and will certainly be pleased to offer you this service at a mutually convenient time. Regarding your wife & daughter, it is best to see them together & happy to do so. Again, I have had extensive experience with many breast cases over the past 30years and still relate to many well into their 80 & 90s. People often mistakenly assume I became involved in 2001 when my wife was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, though it was many years before. Nevertheless, she was given a resolute guarantee by a renown oncology surgeon within a 2year life expectancy if she didn’t do chemotherapy, radiation and tamoxifen. Like anyone else, I would have supported whatever choices she made. Thank God, 24years later she’s still cancer free and all her diagnostics are fine Many breast cancer cases I support decide to do mainstream therapies and my response is always the same – it’s your body, your choice, your cancer, I respect your volition… and so will support you in whatever you decide.

14 Home & Lifestyle Magazine | Summer 2025 © 2024 GEOFF GARLINGE Dip. HC MR A (Medical Reg. Aust) - Geoff Garlinge is a Certified Health Counsellor, Nutritional and Nutraceutical Cancer Support Specialist & consultant to Australian University research facilities and the Natural Health Industry. With 35 years experience in the field, Geoff has lectured with as well as to Doctors, Pharmacists & CM Practitioners concerning Natural Health strategies with a reach into Asia & The Middle East. He is also founder of AUSTRALIA'S OWN Pty Ltd which he has headed since 1994.