David Peters survived prostate cancer | rezum procedure | sacrum | colonics | cachexia | metformin

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For David Peters, what began as medical attention to address an enlarged prostate in 2022 became a diagnosis of Stage 4B prostate cancer. Prior to his undergoing a Rezum procedure, a pre-op workup a PSA level of 19. However, nobody at the hospital bothered to check the PSA level before performing the procedure, which placed David at great risk. Not long after that came his diagnosis. David’s care team recommended lifelong androgen deprivation therapy. He checked out the side effects and didn’t want to go that route. David instead opted for a three-week to Hope4Cancer in Cancun, Mexico, where he underwent an intense holistic regimen. In 2026, when the cancer spread to his bones, he went to the First Nations Clinic in Tennessee, where he is undergoing a nanotherapeutics protocol. It is keeping the cancer at bay, and he enjoys a healthy lifestyle.

David said his cancer journey did not begin with cancer symptoms. The combination of frequent urination and a weak stream led him to believe he had an enlarged prostate and went to a doctor. He had many options, but chose a Rezum procedure, in which steam into the prostate through the rectal wall and it shrinks the prostate. However, the care team wanted to first make sure David didn’t have prostate cancer, so he was given a PSA test. This was in May of 2022. In August, the surgery was performed; but it wasn’t until September that a nurse informed him that his PSA level was dangerously high at 19, meaning the surgery was performed when his risk for cancer was high, but the care team didn’t know it!

Not long after that, David Peters was diagnosed with Stage 4B prostate cancer, which had spread to his sacrum, iliac chain and a node near his rib cage. His oncologist discussed with Dave various treatment options, but urged him to immediately begin a regimen of androgen deprivation therapy, which would basically shut off his testosterone. It did not David and his wife, Kathi, to agree this was not the way to go, and they opted to see remedies that were more holistic in nature.

After some research by David and Kathi, they decided to Hope4Cancer in Mexico, where he would undergo intensive testing and holistic work. He really appreciated that Hope4Cancer treats body, soul and spirit with an eye toward wholeness. He experimented with a raw vegan diet and with fasting. David ended up being more diligent about the meats and vegetables he ate.

David continued his cancer journey in February 2026 at the First Nations Clinic in Tennessee, where he began a protocol of nanotherapeutics. They disrupt the cancer cells, and for the first time in three years his PSA went down. He goes to the clinic once a month.

David Peters is happy to report he weighs 150 pounds, like he did in high school. He walks every day, exercises three times and does pushups every day.

Additional Resources:

David’s Website: https://www.threewordsdoc.com

TRANSCRIPT

Bruce Morton: Greetings. This is the @CancerInterviews podcast and I am your host, prostate cancer survivor Bruce Morton. Our guest on this episode, David Peters of Souderton, Pennsylvania, has climbed a very steep hill since being diagnosed with Stage 4B prostate cancer. His cancer journey really was a journey, starting in his home commonwealth of Pennsylvania, then going to Mexico, then to Tennessee. It’s a story that has been well-documented and now is the time to hear it. Dave, welcome to Cancer Interviews.

David Peters: Bruce, thank you for inviting me to be on your show. Really appreciate it.

BM: Each of our guests has a life outside of a cancer journey. In order to learn a little more about you, David, tell us a bit about where you are from, what you have done for work and what you like to do for fun.

DP: yeah, I like to say I am from San Diego. That’s where I spent most of my younger years and it is kind of a sexy town to say you are from. Currently I live in Pennsylvania, just northwest of Philadelphia. My wife is from this area, so we moved here in 1999. I work in the film business, the product of my picking up a still camera when in the sixth grade, then started making films in high school with my dad’s Super 8 movie camera and decided that is what I wanted to do for a living.

BM: Dave, your prostate cancer journey began with an issue tied to your prostate, but not tied to cancer. Tell us about it.

DP: That’s the weird part as to how my story began. Like a lot of men my age, I had an enlarged prostate. We had a lot of urgency, weak flow and I was experiencing all of those things, so I thought I could do something about that. I had multiple options, nutrition, various surgeries, then we heard about something called a Rezum procedure. This was back in the spring of 2022. I was checked out and they said it was very important to make sure I don’t have prostate cancer, so they gave me a PSA test. I hadn’t had one ion years, shame on me. I had the test, made it through the summer, the surgery was booked, but they never brought up my PSA level, which led to believe that I was just fine. Under the procedure, they inject steam into your prostate through your rectal wall and it shrinks your prostate, killing off some of the prostate cells. Anyway, I got a call around Labor Day. A nurse said they needed to have me talk to a doctor right away because my PSA level was at 19 and that is really high. We were shocked by that, but also quite put off by the test being done in May and they didn’t even look at the results until September. The procedure that I had in August to shrink the prostate should never have been done on someone with a prostate cancer diagnosis or a potential prostate cancer diagnosis. That’s when I discovered I had a rapidly climbing PSA level. Later in the fall it just shot up to 49. During that time is when I had the official diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic prostate cancer. At first I thought it was just localized, but after a PSMA PET scan, that revealed it was Stage 4B in my sacrum, iliac chain and a node up near my rib cage and stomach. That was really something to hear those words from your oncologist, not that only that I had cancer, but it Stage 4B, it’s life threatening and then some of the recommendations were just things that I never were part of prostate cancer treatment.

BM: Compared to other cancers, those diagnosed with prostate cancer are only afforded numerous treatment options. Which option did you choose?

DP: That’s a unique part of our story. That day in the oncology office, the doctor started going over various treatment possibilities. The most specific one he recommended that I get on right away was androgen deprivation therapy, or, ADT, which would basically shut off my testosterone. I had never heard about ADT even though my father and uncle had had prostate cancer. I guess we men are mostly ignorant about prostate cancer even though this disease can disrupt our lives. We can end up being impotent and wearing a diaper and yet we feel like we can ignore it and we just can’t, and that was a big lesson I have learned, and I am trying to pass along to other people. He suggested I think about ADT over the weekend and to call him the following Monday with my decision. My wife has been a health and wellness coach. We talked years before about this and we decided if one of us got cancer that we would pursue something more holisitic and integrative and see what we can do to bring healing to our bodies through supplementations, food, diet, detoxing, whatever that might be. So, we came home and we made love because based on the assessment of the doctor, that might not happen again. We then cried ourselves to sleep. In reflection, it was just amazing. The doctor kept talking about chemical castration and using terms that were so offensive to me as a man, but no resources, as in here’s someone you can talk to, but we were just left to deal with this. It was that next day that we decided we would pursue an integrative, holistic option. One of the first things I researched a day or two before was a place called Hope4Cancer, down in Mexico. It was going to be a three-week trip down there where we would spend all three weeks doing intensive testing and holistic work on treating my cancer.

BM: By the way, we hope you will find time to like and subscribe to our channel. And if you click on the bell icon, you will be notified any time we post an interview. We want to remind you that on Cancer Interviews, we do not distribute medical advice. If you or a loved one seek medical advice, please contact a licensed healthcare professional.

Let’s get back to your cancer journey, Dave. You and your wife are headed to Mexico. I can only guess you would be going there because the facility you visited had remedies you could you not get in the United States. Is that fair to say?

DP: Yeah, that was key part of it, having all of those therapies under one roof. You can get them in various places in the United States, but not all in one place. You get intensive testing. There is hair analysis, blood analysis, really trying to understand what is going on in your body because cancer of any type is a messenger, it is telling you something is wrong. Most of traditional medicine and there are a lot of good things about traditional medicine, but it is more about treating the disease rather than treating what has caused you to be sick. A key part of being at Hope4Cancer is that it is a body, soul, spirit, with an eye toward wholeness, not just treating the disease, but treating me as a person, understanding what might be going on within me and my personal environment as well as the environment in which I live, certainly related to the foods I eat as well as specific therapies that are known to inhibit and disrupt cancer development growth.

BM: At first, to any degree did you resist any of these new and different treatment concepts?

DP: Yeah. I am kind of an adventuresome kind of guy. We had always tried to eat healthy, but when you do a deeper dive, a different picture developed. It was recommended that we try a raw vegan diet initially and that was just a horrible experience. After about two and a half weeks, things got so stressful I just said I was going to do a three-day fast. In reading up on cancer treatments, the books said that fasting is a good thing for cancer patients because you are starving your body as well as the cancer from all nutrients; so, I tried a three and a half day fast, but I didn’t do it right. You have to prepare for those and about two and a days in, I literally thought I was going to die. Anyway, we learned a lot about food and as you change your habits and eat less sugar, your body adapts and starts craving good things. That has been one of the most unique learning opportunities.

BM: So, what are the things you eat now that you would not have eaten prior to Hope4Cancer?

DP: I think a lot of it was looking at, if you are going to eat meat, which is what we did before, where is the meat sourced? They say you are what your food eats. So, if you have a chicken and it is eating things that are not organic, that is ultimately what you are consuming. We live in a fairly rural area, so we are able to find places where the meat is grass-fed, so the steers are not being injected with hormones or antibiotics, so a lot of it was being really careful about organic food and making sure that pesticides were minimized. Basically, we eliminated all processed sugar, which we weren’t eating a lot, but as we stopped, we realized just how much we were eating. We just analyzed everything that we were eating.

BM: Did you notice your health was trending in a good direction?

DP: Yes, immediately so. I would be in treatment six days a week, and some of them would be a little bit exhausting. They did colonics, where they clean out your colon. At the end of the day, I would be done about three o’clock, and I would feel good, maybe a little tired from the therapies, but probably half of the days we were there, we went out and played volleyball for an hour, hour and a half with people we met on the beach. So, it was very different than traditional medicine, such as getting chemo when you feel laid out afterwards. I lost a lot of weight. I wasn’t really in need of losing much weight. I was 6’1” and weighed about 175 pounds, but in the months to come, I dropped down to a low of 140. I was wondering what that was about. When you have cancer, and they call it cachexia, where cancer starts cannibalizing your muscle and basically it starts taking nutrition away from your body. I didn’t have any symptoms of that. I was doing basically a plant-based diet, so the nutritionist started recommending that I eat more protein, making sure it was good, clean protein, good, clean fish, making sure it wasn’t full of mercury, wild caught fish rather than farm fish, so those were some of the changes that we made. I now 150, what I did in high school, I exercise three times a week, I walk every day, I am doing pushups every day. I feel like my muscle mass is good. I really attribute that to attitude, to my faith, I really believe God has given me strength and insight in this process, and encouragement from friends in our community, and adopting a wellness lifestyle that we will probably not change into the future.

BM: Now, we have talked about the Pennsylvania component to your journey, then your going to Mexico, but that journey also involves trips, past and present, to Tennessee. Tell us how that fits in.

DP: Over the last four years, I have had four PSMA PET scans. Our radiologist who is a very close friend of mine, had said there was very little growth in my cancer, but said in the beginning it was clearly a very aggressive cancer, and said whatever I was doing in terms of my routine, the cancer had slowed down in a major way. However, in 2024, there was continued spread, and that was what was hardest for us because it had gone into my bones, into my sacrum and my L4 and L5 vertebrae. My dad had died of prostate cancer that had gone into his bones. We not done ADT. Every time our oncologist spoke with us, we suggested ADT, claiming it would slow things down, but as I looked at the side effects of that, I just thought I don’t want to do anything to compromise how well I was feeling. He said it would make a profound difference in how I would feel, but it would also slow down the growth of the cancer. Our feeling was that there was something out there that really help us to tackle this other than ADT. I underwent 25 rounds of stereotactic radiation therapy, which worked well. Then in 2026, I had another PSMA PET scan, and it showed slow but continued spread. We had tried so many things, off-label drugs, metformin, ivermectin, we went on an intense keto diet for three months, but then we learned that for an aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis, the keto diet is probably not the best thing. We realized we needed to do something else. We heard about a clinic down in Tennessee that was doing nanotherapeutics, where they put these therapeutics that can be very disruptive to cancer cells. The cancer cells like it, it is kind of like a trojan horse, it gets inside and can disrupt them. I started treatment in February 2026 and this was the first time we saw my PSA trend down in three years. So, they are looking at blood work, tumor cells and something called an epcam score, which is how easy it is for your particular type of cancer cells to metastasize. That score has come down about 20 percent. I go there once a month.

BM: Excellent. We had mentioned at the top that your journey has been well-documented. You are a filmmaker. Tell us how these two things come together.

DP: As soon as I was diagnosed, I put a post up on Facebook and I thought I would let people know what was going on. Both Kathi and I were really surprised and blessed by the number of people that responded and appreciated the detail which I shared in the story. They said to me to please keep them posted. Most people assumed that those diagnosed with cancer do what their oncologist told them to do. They were curious to follow this journey. Some were critical, including family members who thought I was crazy. At the time, we thought we are filmmakers, so let’s document this story. Just a few days after we decided to do that, the distributor that we have done several films for, called us, and asked if we have thought of doing a documentary on my cancer journey. So, we just started documenting. I thought we could do all this in one year. It would be a great film. It would have a crisis, an inciting incident like a film needs to have and within a year we would Act One and Two and Three done with a nice plot twist at the end, but it didn’t turn out that way. No matter what path you choose with cancer, it is usually a difficult one. We tried to be as honest as we could. We told the story and things we have learned, things that we did wrong, and we are not saying everyone should follow our path. Especially after the first situation we had where I didn’t know my PSA until five months later. You know what? I could have known. I could have looked that up on the portal myself. That was the biggest takeaway. You are responsible for your own health. Yes, you can have great doctors, but you are part of a system involving a lot of people. You’re the quarterback, you’re the CEO, you’re responsible. Respect your doctors, absolutely, but ultimately, you are responsible for your health. That was a real takeaway, so, we explore of things, we document our treatment, our trip to Mexico, different things we have tried, some of the ups and downs, we did 25 rounds of radiation, so we documented that process. There is a lot you can do to mitigate the side effects of the poison you’re putting into your body.

BM: And if someone wanted to get a look at your documentary, where would they go?

DP: We have a website called https://www.threewordsdoc.com It will include all the information you need when watching film.

BM: And we will have that information included in the Description and Show Notes below. David, thank you very much for a terrific story, we appreciate it. It can be a source of inspiration and information for anyone. All they have to do is watch and listen. Dave, thanks so much for being with us on Cancer Interviews.

DP: Bruce, thank you so much for inviting me. Thank you.

BM: And we want to remind you as we always do when we conclude, that if you or a loved one are on a cancer journey, you are not alone. There are individuals like Dave Peters and his wife, Kathi, that have wise words that can ease the cancer journey. So, until next time, we’ll see you on down the road.

Additional Resources:

Dave’s website: https://www.threewordsdoc.com

SHOW NOTES

TITLE: David Peters, Prostate Cancer Survivor – Souderton, Pennsylvania, USA

Additional Resources:

David’s Website: https://www.threewordsdoc.com

Time Stamps:

02:46 David’s cancer journey began when he sought treatment for an enlarged prostate.

05:08 Recalls when he learned of his diagnosis.

06:07 Is asked which treatment regimen he chose.

08:37 David describes his three weeks at Hope4Cancer.

11:14 Did he resist the unconventional protocols at Hope4Cancer?

12:57 How his eating habits changed.

21:35 David describes the nanotherapy protocols in Tennessee.

26:42 Advice to others.

KEYWORDS (tags):

prostate cancer

rezum procedure

sacrum

androgen deprivation therapy

iliac chain

chemical castration

colonics

cachexia

metformin

ivermectin

nanotherapeutics

epcam score

David Peters survived prostate cancer | rezum procedure | sacrum | colonics | cachexia | metformin

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