Welcome to Healthy Planet, the show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet on Think Tech, Hawaii. I'm your host, Dr. Grace O'Neill. Joining me today is Skip Stein, prostate cancer survivor. Welcome, Skip. Hi, how you doing? Good. So tell us how long ago were you diagnosed with prostate cancer? Well, it was back in 2010. At basically back in 2010 in March, I had your regular blood work done and it came back with a PSA of 5.5. And the doctor started panicking and stuff like this and convinced me I really had to have a biopsy. And that was probably one of the worst decisions I ever made because it was the most painful experience I ever had. They did the biopsy and they stopped after 8 because I was writhing in pain because they didn't meet. And so I went home and Nancy went to the drug store to get prescription pain medication. And I went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet and hemorrhaged and was bleeding profusely. Then my blood pressure dropped, so I passed out and fell into the shower where Nancy found me. And so that started everything wrong. And from there it just went, it was just pretty bad. And so we had, and I tell this story a lot and you can pull up that slide if you want to. You can pull up that slide. Yeah. So that basically covers that territory. And my father had died of so-called prostate cancer, but it was the pellets, the chemo and the radiation I think that actually killed him. Yeah. He died at home. We brought him home because he was writhing in pain. And he literally was in a hospital in pain in a hospital bed saying, why is it so hard to die? And so we said, he's coming home. So we brought him home, got a hospital bed, and he lasted about almost three days before he finally passed on.  So Nancy and I were waiting to hear the results of the biopsy. And they forgot to call us. So it was a month later. So I was thinking, well, maybe everything's okay because they didn't call me. So I finally called them. And so we went in and see the doctor. And he said, I had aggressive prostate cancer. Police score four plus four. And he said it was encapsulated so far.  And I said, well, I really don't want to do anything right now when I think about it. And then he started going through this list of my wife is sitting next to me. This list of horrendous things that are going to, he said, if you don't do this really fast, you know, you're going to be wheelchair bound. Your wife's going to be changing your diaper. You're going to be using a catheter. And he went on and on and on all these four. Meanwhile, my wife is sobbing because he's basically saying, I'm dying. Yeah. And he said, if you don't do anything quickly, you might last two to three years.  I said, terrific. So we left. So. And again, you know, we had, I tell people this, there used to be a show on PBS called the incurables. That's the next slide. So anyway, there was a show called the incurables. And it talked about people and it was a TV hourly show.   And so I said, maybe we should look into this. So we did some more research and we discovered the Pekala Campbell and the China study. So I read that cover to cover. I think I read it twice. And it was unbelievable because the doctor never said anything about this, anything about nutrition. The doctor never once asked me in my lifestyle, my nutrition.  So we started exploring and we found a book called A Thousand Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson. She's a wonderful, she just wrote her own little autobiography. I haven't read it yet, but she's a wonderful book. And it was great because it had a thousand vegan recipes with no pictures. Okay. Which is a good, people say, oh my God, no picture. Yes, it was great because we had no idea what we were doing. So we didn't have any expectations of what it was going to look like. So we said, well, this must be what it, what's going to be. So that started us going. And so we basically went through the house and we went, got rid of all the meat, fish, dairy and eggs. We had two freezers, two commercial sized ice box refrigerators with all kinds of dairy and ice cream and all kinds. So, oh yeah, we had, it was loaded. And so we basically emptied them out. The neighbors gave it everything to our daughter, which I feel guilty about. I don't know if I want to give her anything. I know, I know. But all our neighbors and stuff like this. So everybody got, got food. Steins were giving away food, go over there. So we cleaned everything out and went to the grocery store and started buying some vegetables. And we used the recipe book and started just cooking that stuff. And so a year went by and I had lost like 30 pounds and was feeling great. And what was beautiful about this, and I tell people, Nancy did this with me. She just didn't cook for me. Okay. She did it with me. Basically, I followed a Gerson type approach, 90 days with raw, with juicing. And after that 90 days, we went on the plant-based menus. So then we found several other people. We were doing more research. We're kind of getting into this now. And we found Holistic Holiday at Sea, which was a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale at the time. Actually, the first one we took, we took two of them. The first one was out of Canaveral. And the second one was out of Miami. But it was a seven-day cruise. I don't know if you've ever heard of it. I have. I've heard of it. Yeah. It's a seven-day cruise. And it's basically a seven-days class. You start at nine o'clock and you go till five. And the full day of classes is, and you can pick the ones you want. Sometimes Nancy and I split up because we wanted to cover it because they didn't repeat them. They only did it once. But it was nice about it. It was interesting because we had our own dining facility. And there was like 450 people, that's all. And that we had our own chefs. Our own food supply was all organic. It was basically macrobiotic at the time. Oh, beautiful. It's not now. But you meet for breakfast, and everybody would gather around there randomly. There was no pre-arranging seating or anything. And you introduce yourselves over breakfast, right? Hi, I'm Skip Stein from Orlando, Florida. Yeah, I'm dying of prostate cancer. Somebody else would be dying of brain cancer. And we introduced it. And that was the introduction base. So we told each other why we were there, basically.  Everybody was dying except for the chefs and the presenters. So it was really funny. And it was a way to break the ice because, you know, you've got to, everybody is up from there, from the death bed. So we did. So we did that for seven days and learned a tremendous amount. It meant wonderful people. We're still in touch with many of them. And we came back to Orlando and we started, you know, saying maybe we can help other people. Well, I was taking yoga. Oh, that was the other thing. When we started all this, because of some of the research, I started taking yoga classes. So I became a Reiki level two practitioner as well. And so we were into this up to our eyeballs. And we started teaching some classes in our home, you know, and we were just kind of stumbling our way through this. But anyway, the next year in 2013, we went on another, the second cruise that was out of Miami. And that's where we met the PCRM folks. Yeah. And that's where we started getting involved with them. And so, and again, we went on that cruise. It was wonderful. It was like 1200 people, maybe 1400 people then. I think now it's a holiday. It was holistic holiday as well. Pardon? Was it holistic holiday as well? Yeah, yeah, it was the same. It was the same cruise. Just they had to upgrade the ship because they got so many more people. We went on in 2012 was only like 400 or 420. The second one out of the next year in 2013 out of Miami, I mean, I think it was up to, I don't know, 1400 maybe. I think now it's like six or 8,000. I mean, it's just unbelievable. So we came back and we started, you know, like I said, teaching folks and helping folks and constantly learning. If you look at that, the one slide. Yeah, there you go. That's just a portion of Nancy's cookbooks now. And dietary books, you know, we, you know, T. Campbell and everybody's there. Dr. Gregor and you name it. They're all there. So we, yeah, this has been going now was 2013. And so wait a second. I'm not dying. The fact I lost more weight. I felt great.  I figured I got two years. I only got a year left now because I believe the doctor. Yeah. It was, okay.   I had seven grandkids and a beautiful daughter and a wonderful family. So I said, I'd never, I'd traveled the world. I'd worked in China, all across Europe, all across the USA, Canada, and Mexico. I was an IT consultant, auditor with financial transactions. So I had been out to all the major cities, but I'd never seen the Rocky Mountains. So I said, I want to see the Rockies before I die. So we put together or I put together a plan for a road trip. And we went on that road trip. We were gone for 43 days, 10,000 miles. And we went from Orlando, Florida, all the way across the West up to the Pacific Northwest, up to Glacier National Park, down through the Mount Rushmore in the whole Niners. We saw everything. Probably over 60 or 80 national parks and probably another 20 or 30 state parks. We learned how to hike. We bought the proper shoes. We had backpacks. We were ready to go. And so that started our trip. And we got home and I said, bye, Golly.  And so that's what we, that started this whole thing. And so then we started, I wrote a book about the road trip. And that has a lot of my background and stuff like that. And I wrote a series of essays. I have, I have 30 different websites to deal with different aspects of health, nutrition, and wellness. And Nancy writes as well. And so she wrote a series of books called Restoring America's Health. And she just wrote another one on tea. And tea and tea party and tea party planning. So that keeps us really busy. We still like to travel and road trip. We've been up through the, all through the US back and forth down to the Mexican border and Texas and Rio Grande and all that kind of stuff. So basically we're 77 years old and people say we look pretty good. And I've got plenty of energy My blood work is better than my doctors. My cholesterol is like 145, my triglycerides are 30. My A1C is, I don't know, very, very low. So all the numbers are terrific. Actually, this last blood work I got, my B12 and B3 are too high. So I've been taking too many supplements. So I got to back off a little bit. So I do take a lot of vitamins and supplements and figure what I don't use, my body will figure out and sort out and get rid of. That's where we are right now. Like I said, this has been an ongoing thing. And we're here to help people. Pardon?  So after that, when you didn't think you were going to die anymore, did you go back and did you get other studies to see if the prostate cancer was gone or did you follow up? No, I figured I had prostate cancer. I still say to help people. I had prostate cancer. I don't know. I feel great. I don't really care. About five years ago, I was seeing a general practitioner because we're retired on Medicare, Medicare Plus. And the doctors said, you really need to go see an oncologist. I said, okay, fine, I'll go see an oncologist. So they made an appointment, went into the doors, got sat down, doctor came in and has his little thingy on and listened to my heart. And he said, yeah, you're still alive. And I told him my background. I had all my blood work and all my biopsy results. I was trying to be forthcoming. And he said, well, we really need to do another biopsy. I said, why the heck do you want to do another biopsy? I already know I have cancer. And so I got up and left. And that's the last time. The doctor we have now because our last doctor changed, dropped insurance policies is, I'm seeing a PA. I saw her last month. And she actually listened to me and understood what I was saying. Didn't necessarily agree with me that we were strictly plant-based and had been for almost 15 years now. And so I'm actually seeing a doctor at the end of the month, probably because my B12 is too high. And so, but again, we use doctors now mostly for just to get our blood work twice a year. And we have to see the doctor to maintain the insurance because we don't see the doctor, the insurance, you're going to give us a hassle. And so we go in and we see that we get her heart thumped and tested and to get the blood work. And they shake their head and say, you're 77 years old, your blood work is amazing. So we just keep going on with that. So before when you had the prostate cancer, did you have other medical problems? Because you mentioned your cholesterol is great now. My cholesterol was about 250. A lot of it was the LDL. I was way overweight. I was obese, really obese. I'm not technically, I'm not slim now. But I had no energy. We had issues. It was just, I didn't have a zest for life. And cancer was probably the best thing that ever happened to me because if I didn't have cancer, I probably would be dead by now because eating a standard American diet would have killed me by now. And what's lovely about this is my wife, like I said, she joined me on this diet and we eat the same food every day. She had severe arterial blockage in the ascending aorta and was due for a stent and didn't do it because she got distracted with me. And about six or eight years ago, she went in and the doctor said, we should check that out. And they checked that out again. And the arteries were clean as a whistle. And so it totally cleared everything up for her. So yeah, I say it saved my life and cured my wife. So it does amazing things. Oh, absolutely.  No. To me, a meal wasn't, no, seriously. To me, if I didn't have meat at every meal, it wasn't a meal. Okay. I would, when we would go out for breakfast, if we would go out, I would have three or four eggs over easy and two or three orders of bacon and a side of sausage. Oh my gosh. Okay. No, I mean, all out. My diet was deadly. This, like I said, if I hadn't had cancer, I'd be dead now. Yeah. Best thing to ever have. Oh, yeah. Oh, seriously. It was bad. That's wonderful. So I'm wondering, I mean, I was wondering, you know, there's a lot of plant-based diets, not all are healthy. So do you guys, when you cook, do you make sure to keep the oil down? Do you cook with water?  Lots of foods are processed, you know? The thing is, most people, when you say plant-based, they think all they see these massive salads and vegetables that are probably cooked, overcooked. Broccoli is slimy and we just had cauliflower, broccoli, and tofu. They have no idea what tofu is or how it can be. And I also tell them they're gonna save 30% on your roaster bill. But the excursion into a plant-based lifestyle opens up cuisine, not just food. It is cuisine to societies around the world. Just last week, Nancy made, I guess you have to call it tofu salmon because, no, seriously. Yeah, no, I've seen it online. I've seen it on Instagram. Pardon? I've seen it on Instagram. Oh, my God. She did a version of it that was probably, and this is really hard to top, maybe one of the best meals she's made in 15 years. I mean, it was absolutely, gloriously fantastic. The thing is, your taste buds, you know, once you start this, and once you drop meat, fish, dairy, and eggs from your diet, and all of the associated oils and crap foods, it's, I say plant-based because it's not vegan. It's plant-based. Your taste buds change in 14 days or totally refreshed. So you start tasting food, real food for the first time in your life, maybe. Then people say, oh, what about the protein? Well, most Americans get too much protein, as you probably well know. And they don't realize that there is protein in every single vegetable. Okay, at some level, the beans have more than and hopefully have a lot more than, say, broccoli and cauliflower, but they all have protein. And you can't be deficient if you live in an America unless you're starving to death. So the food Nancy has, literally she has thousands of recipes online. And her books are more of an introduction to a plant-based lifestyle.  And then she, her Pinterest site has, I don't know, how many thousands of recipes on that. And then she posts on, she's got a Miwi site and Facebook site. And she posts meals every day. Whatever we eat is documented. And we are here to offer to help people. I do Zoom sessions with the cancer patients, mostly prostate cancer guys, because sometimes it's nice to talk to somebody, look eye to eye. And I do have a degree in psychology, so I do know something about counseling. And so I offer that kind of support. And if they want it, Nancy can help them with their dietary things. So how many people have you helped kind of follow the same pathway as yourself? I don't know how many people I've actively helped, maybe 50 in the last year, year and a half. But I mean, I have no idea how many we've helped online. Nancy has lots of people in her groups. And it's not just cancer, it's just heart. We can reverse diabetes too in 30 days. I refer everybody to pcrm.org. Because you have a great approach to diabetes too. And it's so easy, quick, and delicious. That's the thing. People have to understand how delicious this way of eating is. And Nancy makes her own chicken fried steak with seitan. We grill sirloin steak. We have people over. We've had people over for sirloin steak. And if you look at our cuisine site, she makes deviled eggs that we have served to people. And they thought they were eating eggs, even though they're made out of tofu. No, seriously, we went to, there was a gentleman who we catered, we used to cater some up in Orlando. And he was a plant-based or vegan. And he had a small group and he had those people over and we catered it. And we had delicious food and buffets and stuff like this. But there was a tray of deviled eggs on the table. Nobody touched because everybody was vegan. Okay? And they don't eat eggs. But one man who was there with his wife, she dragged him there, was off in a corner and everybody else is over here. And he would reach down and grab one of those and he ate it. And he's, oh, that's pretty good. And so he looked around again and he grabbed another and he ate one. So he's the only, he ate two. So I walked over to him and I said, you like those, huh? That was pretty good. He said, oh, God, don't tell my wife I'm eating them. I said, why not? He said, she won't let me eat eggs. I said, those aren't eggs. That's tofu. And he didn't believe me. So it's an amazing life, an amazing lifestyle and a delicious way to live, love and eat. It really, really is. And like I said, we're going on 15 years this year and don't plan on stopping. And people's, you know, I figured, yeah, maybe I'll make it to 114. Who knows? Yes. Yes. Guys, the limit. So is there, there is a slide that shows how people can get in touch with you, right? Which one? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I just want to show that before we go, just have that. And then I was going to ask you, do you have any takeaway for our viewers? Just live, love and be happy.  It is, it is so easy and you save so much money and it's so simple and delicious. That's the people that you don't realize. It takes time. And it may be for many people, maybe the hardest thing they've ever done. But once you've done it, it's an amazing, self-rewarding way of life. It really, really is. And it's delicious. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. We have to wrap it up. I'm Dr. Grace O'Neill. This is Healthy Planet on ThinkTek Hawaii. I'm talking with Skip Stein who cured his prostate cancer with lifestyle changes. Thanks for being here. If you enjoyed this coverage, you're welcome. And this conversation, please hit the like button and subscribe to our channel, youtube.com slash link tech Hawaii for more great content on ThinkTek. Just sign up for our email advisories and get a complete listing of our shows or to make a donation and keep us going. Visit our website at thinktechhawaii.com. We'll be back in two weeks. 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This paper presents a novel two-stage approach called Fusion RCNN which combines LiDAR and camera data to improve the performance of 3D object detection. The proposed method uses a unified attention mechanism to integrate the sparse geometry information from LiDAR and dense texture information from cameras. Experiments show that Fusion RCNN significantly boosts the performance of existing detectors and now performs other two-stage approaches. This article was authored by Sheenli Su, Xiaotsong Dong, Tingfa Su, and others.


When you consider the greatest enigmas of our planet regarding lost civilizations, our attention automatically sweeps to Atlantis, the Pyramids, Pompeii, and the Kelasa Temple, for example. But why do we still consider Atlantis? This is a place that has never been found, yet it continues to defy logic in this day and age. Why is that, you have to wonder? Is there something deep within our consciousness that is screaming at us that is in fact ready to be found? Where is Atlantis exactly? No one knows of course, but one place stands out as a clue as to what may have been of this lost continent, and more importantly, a telling sign that we are still missing the bigger picture. West of Ireland, a fabled island, is said to exist. It has appeared in detail on geographic maps from as early as the 1300s and into the late 1800s. So, there is very little doubt that this place exists, but just like Atlantis, which Plato described as existing near the Straits of Gibraltar, high Brazil cannot be found in modern times. Irish legend has it that this island only becomes visible from the mist it is cloaked in on the seventh day of the seventh month every seven years, but still cannot be reached. It's crazy and sounds like a myth, but it is recorded throughout history. It is documented, and there are hundreds of eyewitness accounts of this place, including that of the very famous geographer Abraham Ortolis, and get this, in 1473 the nautical map of western Europe shows high Brazil as a circular shape with a band going through it. This has stunning similarities to the southern American country of Brazil's national flag today that they only adopted in 1889, ten years after the last known sighting of the island near western Ireland coincidence, you be the judge. Just wait till you hear this. This island is a major piece of the puzzle, you know. We may not know why this is at the moment, but throughout history there have been reports of godlike activity and even Saint Brendan's famous journey to the Promised Land was said to have been to that of high Brazil. One of the more startling claims however comes in the form of a UFO incident in the forest of Rendlesham in England in 1980. Investigating strange lights, Jim Peniston and John Burroughs approached what can only be described as a UFO. He noticed Egyptian style hieroglyphs engraved on the craft and touched him with his hand. Jim then went into a brief trance in which he sees binary code in his mind. There are reports that he was missing for hours along with Jim Burroughs, but the two men only a brief moment had passed and the craft was gone. The next day Jim wrote the binary down that he was seeing in his mind and after decoding this universal language it reads, exploration of humanity continues for planetary advance. Followed by seven sets of coordinates including the exact location of the Nazca lines and the Great Pyramid, but the seventh set of coordinates was that of high Brazil. Is there something about the seven you have to wonder that is important? Maybe a clue to a warning much like in Biblical times where there are countless tales of visitations and instructions received from the gods. If Jim Peniston had encountered such an occurrence a thousand years ago for example, how would he perceive it then? Just a thought. In Celtic folklore it is said that this place is the courtroom of the High King of the World where he would judge every civilization. The name of this king is Brassal and this is where the name is said to originate. Regardless of the name or location of the island its history is consistent throughout the ages. It is the home of a wealthy and highly advanced civilization. Those who visited the island returned with tales of gold roof towers and domes, healthy cattle and wealthy citizens as well as strange activity and secrecy but always treated graciously. One of the most famous visits to high Brazil came in 1674 by Captain John Nesbitt of County Donegal and he and his crew were in familiar waters west of Ireland when a fog came up. As the fog lifted the ship was dangerously close to rocks. While getting their bearings the ship anchored in three fathoms of water and four crew members rode ashore to visit Brazil Island. Captain Nesbitt and his crew spent the day on the island and returned with silver and gold given to them by an old man who lived there. Supposedly the captain told of large black rabbits and a magician who lived in a castle by himself on the island as well as a constant sound of harmonious music. Upon the return of the crew to Ireland a second ship set out under the command of Alexander Johnson. They too found the hospitable Irish island and returned to confirm the tales of Captain Nesbitt and crew. However, further efforts to reach this place would prove hopeless as the island became harder to trace as history unfolded. The last documented sighting of high Brazil was in 1872 when author TJ Westrup and several companions saw the island appear and then vanish. This was Mr. Westrup's third view of the Irish island and he had brought his mother and some friends to verify its existence. The famous Perry Rez included a round island off the west coast of Ireland in his map of Europe and the Mediterranean in 1513. In addition, two maps from 1595, the Orderless map of Europe and the Europa Mercator map both continued to situate a round island named Brazil to the west of Ireland. On July 7th, 1878, the inhabitants of the Irish seaside town of Ballycotton and County Quirk were both surprised and astounded by the sudden appearance of an island that had not been seen in the ocean before. Sightseers gathering were able to see the island quite plainly and were able to make out its coastline, woodlands, fields, and deep valleys. A number of County Quirk fishermen set out in boats to investigate but as they approached, the entire island disappeared out of existence, leaving them amazed and wondering and this was seen by hundreds of people by the way. It was an eyewitness account. Is this place where a higher civilization exists? Why is it hidden and why is it so important and from this legendary place visited by Jim Peniston on a cold December evening in 1980 to warn us of a planetary advance? Perhaps this is a secret alien base just off the coast of Ireland. One thing is for sure and that is that High Brazil will continue to fascinate the imagination for years to come. How easy or hard is it in this day and age to even hide an island you have to wonder? What do you guys think of Ireland's Atlantis? Comments below and thank you for watching.