Announcements:
Jerome Freiburger 5yrs in Rotary
Jeff Heimpel 5yrs in Rotary
Reminder of our curling social Feb 22nd. Please see Marc Engel if interested.
Mac Graham mentioned there are still spots open for the Trivia Challenge March 6th
Guess the member: Member was John Vickery and no one was able to guess so John took home some fine wine.
50/50 pot was $550.00 Tim Bradich, Todd Aitchison and Laura Power went up but no winner!
Guest Speaker
Guest speaker was Dr Peter Cybulski a Urologist born in Barrie’s Bay a Polish community and went to Queen’s University originally for engineering but then decided to go into medicine.
He began his career doing surgery and has since changed his practice from more surgical work to consulting and then when needed refers his patients to the surgeons to appropriate treat his patients.
Dr. Cybulski indicated that the prostate starts the size of a walnut and is the gland that men urinate through. As men get older the prostate naturally gets larger. Another function of the prostrate is to provide nutrients for sperm.
As a normal function of getting older and the prostate getting larger men often need to get up once or twice in the night to urinate and the older we get the more likely that males will not be able to sleep through the night without getting up.
No real additives that we can take to help make our prostate healthier other than watching our diet, eating better and avoiding red meats and pork or eat them in moderation.
Six things we should know that will irritate the bladder alcohol, smoking, caffeine, carbonation, spicy foods and citrus fruits.
To ensure you have a healthy prostate or to have an early detection protocol Dr Cybulski advised that all men over 50 should have a PSA test done. It is very reliable and if done early can help to prevent prostate cancer from spreading and can be treated early on.
Most men who get diagnosed early and have “low grade” prostate cancer usually die with prostate cancer rather than from prostate cancer. If caught early this form of cancer is very treatable. If you get diagnosed with high grade prostate cancer it will result in surgery, radiation and in many instances chemo therapy. Prostate cancer presents itself with little or no pain which is why the PSA test is so critical for early diagnosis.
If you are over 50 and have never had a PSA test…..GET IT DONE!
