5 Natural Cures for Enlarged Prostate

Make no mistake, the size of your prostate can have a major impact on your quality of life.

4 December 2015

Make no mistake, the size of your prostate can have a major impact on your quality of life.

This gland is about the size of a walnut when a man is in his 20s. By the time he’s in his 40s, it may have grown larger, about the size of an apricot. By age 60, a prostate may be the size of a lemon.

An enlarged prostate pushes on the urethra. This makes it hard to urinate. Your bladder can then swell and become painful, leading to kidney damage. Not to mention embarrassing dribbling, loss of sleep because of all the late-night bathroom trips… And those are just the minor effects.

Benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) can lead to prostate cancer. More than 200,000 North American men develop it each year. And 15% of them die.

But you can avoid the embarrassment, discomfort, and risk of BPH with these five natural solutions:

1. Green Tea: It's loaded with polyphenols. These plant compounds deter cell damage with their antioxidant activity. In other words, they mop up destructive free radicals.

EGCG is the polyphenol unique to green tea. It doesn’t just prevent inflammation that can lead to BPH. It also kills prostate cancer cells.

To get the highest concentration, choose matcha green tea. It has 137 times more than China Green Tips green tea. Or find a supplement that delivers at least 600 mg per serving.

2. Lycopene: Research shows this antioxidant-rich carotenoid from yellow and red plants lowers prostate-specific antigen (PSA) scores in men with BPH.

PSA is a marker for BPH. This means the higher your PSA, the more likely you are to have an enlarged prostate.

To get the most protection, you need 15 mg of lycopene a day. One medium tomato contains about 4 mg. So you may want to also add a quality supplement.

3. Vitamin D3: In one study, men with prostate cancer were given either 4,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day or a placebo. After 60 days, prostate tumors improved in men taking the vitamin. Scientists believe this is because D3 lowers inflammation.

If you’re fair-skinned, being outside in the sun with shorts and a tank top for 10 minutes a day will give you all the vitamin D you need. Darker-skinned people need a bit more exposure. If that’s not an option—especially this time of year—a whole-food supplement will do the trick. We recommend 5,000 IUs a day.

4. Stinging nettle: In addition to taming allergies, stinging nettle is widely used to treat prostate disorders. The herb has been shown to alleviate decreased urinary flow and post urination dripping.

You can find tea preparations of stinging nettle, but it’s most effective when taken as a supplement made from the roots of the plant. Look for one with .8% beta sitosterol. It’s a plant sterol responsible for stinging nettle’s prostate-curing effects.

5. Avocados: They're rich in beta sitosterol. As are pumpkin seeds and pecans. These foods are also great sources of healthy, inflammation-fighting monounsaturated fats. That makes them a double defense against a growing prostate—they fight the causes and the symptoms of BPH.

Try a few of these, and your prostate health will improve. Or try them all for even better results. You’ll save yourself from the discomfort and embarrassment of BPH­—and lower your chances of deadly prostate cancer.

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Does High Testosterone Cause Prostate Cancer?

For over 70 years, doctors, oncologists, and researchers all knew one thing about prostate cancer: High testosterone is dangerous and causes prostate cancer … and low testosterone reduces your risk.

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This belief has a tenacious hold on the medical profession. Doctors have treated hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – of men in accordance with the theory. It just happens to be dead wrong. Here’s the truth. .

Because of this “conventional wisdom,” a man with a balding head (a symptom related to high testosterone) might find himself getting checked for prostate cancer more intensely than men with a full head of hair.

Meanwhile, both doctors and their male patients with “low T” have been told to avoid testosterone-raising treatments like the plague because it would be like throwing gasoline on a fire.

But several studies from the past few years have debunked this entire school of thought. Somehow the media missed the story, and so have quite a few doctors.

Whether they know it or not, the myth is officially busted—and now, men and their doctors can take advantage of the truth about testosterone and prostate cancer to live longer, healthier, cancer-free lives.

You see, raising your testosterone levels can improve your quality of life in a major way. It would be a shame if it caused prostate cancer, too!

Nobel-winning work
based on bad science?

To set the stage, let’s start with a quick biology and history lesson.

You might know that androgens are precursor hormones that create testosterone (T) and the more active form of T, dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

In 1941, Charles Huggins and Clarence Hodges reported that testosterone “activated” prostate cancer. This led to the belief that surgical castration, resulting in hypogonadism (or “low T”) caused prostate cancer tumors to shrink or go away entirely — even in metastatic prostate cancer.¹

In other words, they believed low T both prevents prostate cancer and treats it successfully if it’s already present. They also believed the opposite was true: The more testosterone the patient has, the more prostate cancer will grow.

They won the Nobel Prize for this “androgen hypothesis,” and every medical school student since has been taught that testosterone is fuel for a cancerous fire.

But according to Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, associate clinical professor of urology at Harvard Medical School and founder of Men’s Health Boston, the Nobel-winning work was sloppy, oversimplified, and based on outdated tests that have since been abandoned. Perhaps worse, the researchers ignored data that didn’t fit their hypothesis.²

Worst of all, he says, “They based their conclusions on … only two men treated with T injections for no more than 18 days, one of whom was already castrated. Their results are uninterpretable.”²

But … surely there have been more studies that’ve confirmed their results since 1941, right? When one man out of seven is diagnosed with prostate cancer … and one in 36 dies because of it, it’s important to get the science right.³

You might think so, but here’s what Dr. Morgentaler found. . .

Series of studies knocks down
70 years of blind belief

Dr. Morgentaler says he and his team first realized there was something wrong with the androgen hypothesis when 11 of his 77 low T patients — a condition that should have been protective against prostate cancer (PCa) — were turning up with cancer anyway.

He followed up this study with 345 more of his low T patients—and again, 15% of the men had cancer. He even noted, “The greatest risk was in the most severely testosterone deficient.”²

Dr. Morgentaler went on to do a worldwide literature review, seeking answers from both recent and older journals, questioning whether the androgen hypothesis had been confirmed. “I was stunned to discover there was no compelling evidence that high T was risky for PCa,” he said.

“The androgen hypothesis was proposed and accepted before knowledge of hormone receptors, PSA, and prior to reliable measures of testosterone.”² (PSA stands for prostate specific antigen—it’s a protein biomarker found in tissue biopsies and blood that indicates higher probability cancer is present.)

Dr. Morgentaler’s critique makes sense. If high testosterone does cause prostate cancer growth, why is it so rare for a man in his 40s to get the disease, when his natural testosterone level is still high? The vast majority of diagnoses are in older men who have low T. (Testosterone levels peak in the early 20’s and decline with age).

It seems that “common wisdom” has been working against common sense for decades. It’s young guys who should be getting prostate cancer if the theory is correct.

Dr. Morgentaler explains it thus: “The persistence of the androgen hypothesis despite strong contradictory evidence teaches us how difficult it is to abandon ideas learned during our training, even in this age of evidence-based medicine.”²

The new “saturation model”
proved by 8,000+ men

Uro-oncology researchers have a new theory: the saturation model. It states that prostate cells have a limited number of testosterone receptors … and even men with “low T” have enough testosterone in their blood to “saturate” these receptors at any given time. So, it wouldn’t matter if testosterone was higher than the number of receptors available.

For sake of example, let’s say a prostate cell has ten testosterone receptors. (This is a totally made up number.) Whether there are ten or 1,000 testosterone hormone molecules in the blood, it makes no difference. The prostate cell can only take ten.

Dr. Morgentaler says a recent clinical trial from Duke University is cold, hard proof—and puts the final nail in the coffin of the “high T equals high cancer risk” or androgen hypothesis.

Dr. Roberto L. Muller’s REDUCE trial set out to discover whether the drug dutasteride reduces prostate cancer by preventing testosterone from converting into DHT, thus reducing blood serum levels of active T.

Out of 8,122 previously cancer-free men, 4,073 received a placebo. It’s the placebo side of the study that’s relevant to this discussion, because the testosterone levels of these men AND their rates of prostate cancer were monitored for four years.

Muller reported that in the placebo participants, “androgen levels were generally unrelated to PCa detection. PCa detection was similar among men with low compared with normal baseline testosterone levels. Our findings of the lowest testosterone levels being associated with the lowest PCa risk, with no further changes with higher testosterone, support a saturation model, but must be confirmed.”⁴

In other words, higher testosterone didn’t make a difference in prostate cancer growth.

One caveat to the saturation model…

For the sake of being thorough, however, there is one special circumstance the research presented.

Prostate cancer cells have many times the number of receptors that healthy cells do—and they love testosterone and use it to grow.

But let me explain.

Let’s say a cancer cell has 50 receptors, compared with a healthy cell’s ten. (Again, an arbitrary number.) If a man goes from near-zero testosterone, which is what pharmaceutical or surgical castration does, and then gets an influx of testosterone, that influx will cause the cancer to grow.

This is exactly what the Nobel winners in the 1940s saw. Remember, one man had been previously castrated and the scientists gave him testosterone, making cancer cells flourish.

I can’t emphasize this enough: even men with “low T” don’t come close to the castration levels that would cause a similar spike in cancer cells following a sudden influx of testosterone.

As Dr. Morgentaler concluded, “The biopsy results are in. The failure to find increased PCa rates associated with higher serum androgens based on biopsies in a large at-risk population removes the last possible hope to those who wish to hold on to a disproved theoretical notion from a pre-modern era.”²

It also makes me wonder if every conventional medical belief from the “pre-modern era” shouldn’t be revisited and turned inside out for the truth.

Regardless, the androgen hypothesis is officially out of business—and men going from low T to healthy levels of testosterone can stop worrying about inflaming prostate cancer. You can safely reverse the symptoms of testosterone deficiency.

And you might experience an amazing resurgence of youth and energy if you do. If you want to know more, I suggest you read our Special Report Maximum Manhood, which will help you make a fully informed decision on the best way to raise your testosterone level.

The author of Maximum Manhood interviewed a number of top experts – including Dr. Morgentaler. He was already exploding the myth that high T puts you at risk of prostate cancer three years ago when we published this report.Click here to learn more.

New breakthroughs in prostate treatment

While we’re on the topic, a very interesting Italian treatment for enlarged prostate was recently published in the online journal, The Prostate.

Despite being non-cancerous, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) still impacts a man’s quality of life and requires treatment. Now, Dr. Rafaella Leoci’s new non-surgical, non-hormonal treatments might soon be a great option for men suffering with BPH. The treatments require only five minutes, twice a day.

Her June 2014 study in male dogs — which get similar BPH to male humans — showed using pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, or PEMF, helped reduce the size of the prostate by over 57%. The energy comes from a handheld device, no bigger than a remote control, and seems to increase blood flow to the prostate gland, reducing inflammation and overall size.

As far as I know, there are no negative side effects to this electromagnetic therapy and it doesn’t involve damaging radiation. Dr. Leoci also noted the PEMF treatment did not affect the dog’s reproductive ability, libido, or testosterone levels.

If further studies can prove the PEMF treatment truly reduces inflammation, it could turn out to be a non-invasive treatment not only for BPH but for prostate cancer as well.⁵

Though more research is needed to take this treatment into a larger cohort of dogs … and then studied for safety in human men … it’s treatments like these that make me hopeful for a future of all-natural, non-pharmaceutical, and even non-surgical treatments for cancer.

Kindest regards,

Lee Euler, Publisher

http://www.cancerdefeated.com/does-high-testosterone-cause-prostate-cancer/2998/

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Five natural ways to promote better prostate health

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July 10, 2014 | Dr. Geo Espinosa

Once men find themselves facing any kind of prostate health issue, whether it is prostate cancer, enlarged prostate due to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) or prostatitis, they immediately want to know what action to take. While the best plan is to prevent prostate problems through a healthy lifestyle, the good news is that there are actually many natural ways that a man can promote better prostate health, even if he already has symptoms or a diagnosis of a problem.

It makes sense that a man’s lifestyle, exercise habits and diet have a tremendous impact on his prostate health. Good habits can help prevent and lower risk factors for prostate disease and produce better health for other areas of the body. If a man already is experiencing prostate troubles, these natural changes can help keep these conditions from getting worse, help relieve symptoms and even help cure them.

In the case of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, which is a difficult-to-treat and often-painful inflammatory condition, traditional treatments, such as antibiotics, do not work. But changing your diet, altering your lifestyle, and trying alternative and natural treatments such as stress-relieving techniques are the only successful approaches to symptom relief.

Drink tea

Both green tea and hibiscus tea are among the top drinks for prostate health. Both types of tea contain potent antioxidants. Studies show that green tea can help prevent prostate cancer from forming and may also slow the growth of aggressive prostate cancer. Studies show that green tea can also benefit men with BPH and prostatitis.

It is important to choose caffeine-free sources of tea, though. Caffeine can irritate both the prostate and the bladder. A study found that men who consumed 234 mg or more of caffeine each day were 72 percent more likely to experience urinary incontinence compared to men who drank the least amount of caffeine. If you have urinary or pain symptoms due to prostatitis, caffeine can make these symptoms worse. If you have BPH or prostatitis, make an effort to reduce your caffeine intake by cutting back on coffee, soda or energy drinks. Avoiding caffeine can make a big difference in your urinary health.

Another important drink for your prostate is water. Stay hydrated, and do not try to drink less to reduce your urine.

Exercise and lose weight

Exercise and weight loss are some of the best things you can do to promote prostate health.  Many studies show that moderate or vigorous exercise reduces risk of BPH and urinary tract symptoms while helping with prostatitis as well. Exercise also benefits your cardiovascular health and can help prevent other health and sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction.

If you are overweight, losing weight is one of the most important natural changes you can make in improving your prostate health, whether your concerns are cancer, BPH or prostatitis. A study published in the Journal of Urology found that overweight men, especially men with a high amount of abdominal fat, have an increased risk of BPH. If you are looking to shrink the prostate, losing weight can help you reduce your prostate size and help relieve annoying and frustrating urinary symptoms. On top of that, weight loss can reduce your risk for prostate cancer and help relieve prostatitis too.

Follow a prostate-friendly diet

There are many prostate-friendly foods that can help prevent cancer and slow the growth of prostate cells and cancerous cells. Some of the best foods for prostate health include oily fish that are high in omega-3 fatty acids, vegetables and foods high in healthy fats like avocados, nuts and olives. Foods that help fight prostate cancer include Asian mushrooms, tomatoes, pomegranate juice and walnuts.

In areas of the world where men have lower prostate cancer rates, they have very different diets from the typical American male. They eat fish and plant-based sources of protein. They do not eat a lot of the sugar or processed foods that are so easily found in an American diet. The best diet for prostate health is one that is low in sugar, processed foods and saturated fats. The Mediterranean diet is one diet worth looking into, because it is also a lifestyle and healthy way of eating that you can follow for the rest of your life.

Take supplements

Sometimes, your diet cannot supply everything you need in consistent therapeutic quantities. Also, you might know a food has a natural constituent that is good for you, but it just doesn’t agree with you or you just can’t bear to eat it regularly. That is why many men who are looking to make a big difference in their prostate health take a daily supplement.

Many different natural supplements can help manage better prostate health. The following ingredients are all found in of Prost-P10x, a caffeine-free daily prostate supplement formulation that can help a man with his prostate health, support normal prostate size and encourage better urinary flow:

• Vitamin D-3
• Zinc (as zinc citrate)
• Graminex flower pollen extract
• Quercetin
• Saw palmetto
• Meriva curcumin
• Green tea leaf extract
• Cranberry
• Stinging nettle
• Plant sterols
• Pygeum
• DIM

Phytotherapy, which involves using natural ingredients such as pollen and quercetin in a combined formula, has been shown in multiple studies to be helpful in acting as an antioxidant, anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory for men with BPH, prostatitis and prostate cancer.

Reduce stress

Stress negatively affects prostate health. In fact, some men unknowingly tighten their pelvic muscles when stressed. This chronic tightening can create pelvic floor muscle problems and can be one of the causes of chronic prostatitis.

Stress can also affect men with BPH. Stress can worsen symptoms such as urinary urgency, urinary, frequency and pain.

Having a prostate problem can also increase your stress and anxiety, which can make your condition worse because stress impairs the immune system’s ability to fight illness. That is why it is important to manage your stress level, release tension and take care of your emotional health. Techniques that may be worth looking into include therapy, meditation, deep breathing or activities like exercise, yoga or tai chi. Do not isolate yourself when it comes to your prostate health. It is important to maintain social relationships and to have someone you can talk to you about your frustration, fears and pain.

Making changes

Following these five natural guidelines for better managing your prostate health can have a great impact on your health. They do not cost a lot of money, and they are things you can start doing today. You do not need to get a prescription for better health.

Once you realize that better prostate health is tied to your diet, weight and lifestyle, you can start living with a goal of better prostate health. This will help improve your mental health and provide benefits for your general health as well. Some things are beyond your control, but you can control the factors that lower your risk and give your body the best tools for fighting illness.

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Treat Urinary Incontinence Naturally

Dr. Geo Espinosa | Mar 06, 2014

If you have been recently diagnosed with urinary incontinence, or even if you have been dealing with it for some time, you are not alone. More than 2 million men are affected by urinary incontinence. The good news is that there are natural ways to treat urinary incontinence and support your urinary health.

Incontinence is a symptom of a urinary tract problem, and there are different types of urinary incontinence. Men most commonly experience stress incontinence — the accidental release of urine when the bladder is under pressure — after being treated for prostate cancer.

Another type of incontinence is called overflow incontinence. This is associated with enlarged prostate — benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BPH can squeeze the urethra and keep the bladder from completely emptying.

Whether you have stress incontinence or overflow incontinence, there are natural steps you can take to support your urinary health and restore continence. If an enlarged prostate is causing your symptoms, you can learn how to promote a normal prostate size.

The first step is to talk to your doctor about what is causing your urinary incontinence and to develop a plan for dealing with the problem. Learn as much as you can about prostate health and urinary incontinence. Keep an ongoing conversation going with your healthcare provider.

The lifestyle choices you make and the foods you eat can help you regain control of your bladder. Following are several lifestyle changes you can make that will positively affect your bladder control, prostate and urinary health.

Take Supplements

There are several natural supplements that support the urinary tract, and many supplements that shrink the prostate. Many men find urinary health benefits from quercetin, saw palmetto, curcumin, green tea extract, cranberry, stinging nettle and pygeum.

Eat Plenty Of Fruits And Vegetables

These foods are high in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber. These support prostate health and urinary tract health, as well as being good for the rest of you too.

Eat Healthy Fats

Healthy fats such as omega-3 fatty acids and monounsaturated fats help promote prostate health. These fats are part of the Mediterranean diet, which has several prostate health benefits.

Manage Fluids

Drink pure water. While it is important to stay properly hydrated, you want to avoid drinking in the two to three hours before bedtime.

Avoid Food Additives And Sugar

Some foods and additives are harmful to the prostate and your urinary function. Try to avoid the worst ingredients in processed foods.

Exercise And Maintain A Healthy Weight

Being overweight can worsen symptoms of urinary incontinence by putting excess pressure on the bladder. Exercise helps promote prostate health.

Do Kegel Exercises

Doing Kegels every day can help improve bladder control. Other alternative treatments such as physical therapy may also be of help.

Don’t Smoke Or Drink

Smoking is a risk factor for stress incontinence. Alcohol increases urinary frequency, so try to limit or avoid it.

Drink Green Tea

Green tea health benefits come from its strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Whether your drink it or take it as a supplement, look for caffeine-free green tea.

Avoid Caffeine

Caffeine from coffee, tea and soda can promote urinary frequency. A study on incontinence in men and caffeineshows that men who consumed 234 mg or more of caffeine every day were 72 percent more likely to have some urinary incontinence compared to men who drink small amounts.

Avoid Foods That Irritate The Bladder

Foods and drinks that can irritate the bladder include citrus fruits, citrus juice, carbonated drinks and spicy foods.

Go When You Need to Go

Don’t hold your urine when you need to go. Holding it can irritate your urinary tract and possibly lead to a urinary tract infection.

Step By Step

Following these steps and eating a healthy diet should help you regain control over your bladder. For more specific eating advice, take a look at: the best foods for men over 50, which can help you adjust your diet to your body’s changes as it ages.

Of course, there are medications and other treatments that can help with urinary symptoms of BPH, but they have some unwanted side effects. Before taking any medications, you should give some of the natural supplements and lifestyle changes a try. They may help and they won’t hurt.

If you are considering medication, first ask your doctor about Proscar side effects and the effect of Flomax on sexual function. These are medications that are often prescribed for men with BPH. Before taking drugs, see if natural methods yield the results you are looking for. It may take some time; but if you adopt a healthier lifestyle, you should start to see some changes in more than just your urinary health.

Reference:
Davis NJ,  et al. Caffeine intake and its association with urinary incontinence in United States men: results from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005-2006 and 2007-2008. J Urol. 2013 Jun;189(6):2170-4. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.12.061. Epub 2012 Dec 28.

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Protect Your Prostate

Bob Livingston | Jul 13, 2013

Increasing longevity has caused the evolvement of prostate enlargement (benign prostate hypertrophy [BPH]), prostate cancer and the evolvement of a male cancer industry.


Conventional medicine in the United States has nothing to offer for BPH or prostate cancer except surgery leading to impotence and incontinence (constant leaking) in many, many cases. Also, conventional medicine has no therapy for prostate cancer other than radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, their same “approved” solution to all other cancer.

Conventional medicine has a basic procedure in prostate cancer that defies logic, common sense and biochemistry. It’s called androgen blockage. It is the killing or blocking of testosterone production, which is essentially ineffective against prostate cancer.

Progesterone And Testosterone

Hormone Balance For Men by John R. Lee, M.D., at http://www.johnleemd.com, states:

“Conventional medicine ignores the fact that at the age of highest testosterone levels (age 18 to 50) prostate cancer rarely, if ever, occurs. Prostate cancer occurs because testosterone and progesterone levels fall (this is why we recommend progesterone for men and women) with age as estrodial (estrogen) levels rise, leading to estrogen dominance in older men. The same mechanism that causes breast and endometrial cancer in women causes prostate cancer in men.”

It is not testosterone, “the substance of life,” that causes prostate cancer but the lack of it with aging. It is the rise in estrogen levels with aging that causes prostate swelling and prostate cancer. Estrogen begins to dominate, and testosterone depletes with age. This is the key to understanding BPH and prostate cancer as a hormone imbalance.

It’s estrogen dominance that causes the proliferation of prostate cells, BPH and cancer. And what causes estrogen dominance with aging? Estrogen dominance is caused by diet and lack of proper nutrition (i.e., specific prostate nutrition).

We can safely say that estrogen dominance is caused by the same diet that causes insulin resistance (which leads to estrogen dominance) and, in most cases, obesity. The more obese we are, the more estrogen dominant we become because fat makes estrogen — although lean people are not exempt.

The bad diet leading to estrogen dominance and insulin resistance consists of sugar, trans fatty acids, white flour bread and grains as well as predominant carbohydrate diets. In other words, the American diet is killing us.

Progesterone stimulates the action of the cancer preventive gene p53 and helps maintain testosterone, which is a direct antagonist to estrogen. Enlarged men’s breasts with aging is a signal of estrogen dominance and low progesterone and testosterone. All studies show that estrogen rises in men and women with age. This must be balanced with progesterone and testosterone along with diet for both sexes and specific prostate nutrients for men. Note: Testosterone for women is important, but only 1/10 as much as for men is needed.

Victim Of Imbalance

The prostate gland is the first victim of hormone imbalance and nutritional deficiency, but the same hormone imbalance that causes prostate cancer also causes breast cancer.

The decline of testosterone and progesterone with age brings on heart disease, higher LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, lower HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms and angina, insulin resistance, muscle and bone weakness, depression, loss of mental acuity, abdominal weight gain and of course prostate disease.

The protocol for hormone balance calls only for physiological doses of testosterone (androsome) and progesterone. No synthetic hormones at all are recommended and no drugs. The nutritional protocol for cancer is also all natural.

It is testosterone that makes men different from women and little boys. And it is the decline of testosterone with age that turns strong, vital, healthy, alert men into fragile, chronically ill, mentally dull old codgers who haven’t had an erection in decades and couldn’t care less.

Specific Prostate Nutrition

Many urologists consider disease of the prostate among the most neglected male diseases in the U.S. The presence of non-cancerous prostate growth is a condition in which the prostate begins to enlarge. This is most common in men as they enter their 40s. For more than 80 percent of adult men, it becomes a significant issue. Once this growth starts, it continues throughout life. The effects of this growth may vary, but for most men the symptoms most common include:

• Frequently getting up at night to go to the bathroom.
• Sudden, almost irresistible need to urinate.
• A weak, start-stop stream.
• Problems getting the stream to start.

In addition to progesterone and testosterone, vital nutrients that are specific to prostate health include: zinc, copper, saw palmetto, red clover, stinging nettle, pygeum, lycopene and beta sitosterol.

Let’s take a look at each nutrient and what it specifically does for prostate health.

Zinc

The prostate contains a higher concentration of zinc than any other organ in the body. Numerous studies have clearly shown that a zinc deficiency will adversely affect the condition of your prostate.

Zinc helps tissues grow and repair themselves. In addition to helping heal wounds faster, zinc is probably the most important mineral for keeping the immune system strong. Too little zinc can lead to a drop in infection-fighting white blood cells, which can increase your risk of getting sick. On the other hand, too much zinc may interfere with the workings of another trace mineral you need: copper.

Copper

Zinc blocks the absorption and enhances the excretion of copper when taken over time. So when zinc is recommended long term (over many months) for any condition from arthritis to prostate problems or even Alzheimer’s, it’s important to get some copper as well. A combination product will help prevent a copper deficiency and the anemia that can develop as a result. As a rule of thumb, every 30 mg of zinc needs to be balanced by 2 mg of copper. High-quality zinc products will automatically provide the extra copper you need.

Saw Palmetto

Recent clinical studies involving more than 2,000 men confirmed the effectiveness of saw palmetto to promote prostate health, remedy the excessive need to urinate, especially at night, and enhance urinary flow. In fact, research has proven that saw palmetto is as effective as a commonly prescribed pharmaceutical drug, without the cost or dangerous side effects. Saw palmetto is a key nutrient that inhibits estrogen and helps reduce prostate swelling.

Red Clover

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine recently published an article by Dr. Aaron Katz, M.D., director of the Center for Holistic Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital. The peer-reviewed article finds that, based on current scientific evidence, isoflavones from red clover extract appear to be the best alternative treatment for prostate health and to relieve the symptoms of BPH.

Nettle

Stinging nettle has been used for hundreds of years to treat rheumatism, eczema, arthritis, gout and anemia. Today, many people use it to treat urinary problems during the early stages of enlarged prostate or BPH. The flavonoids and potassium in nettle leaves are most likely responsible for their diuretic action. No harmful drug interactions have been reported.

Pygeum

Pygeum is an evergreen tree found in the higher elevations of central and southern Africa.

Historically, the powdered bark was used as a tea for relief of bladder and urinary disorders. Successfully researched in Europe, studies show pygeum to be exceptional in helping to maintain a healthy prostate.

Recently, numerous clinical trials have demonstrated the usefulness of pygeum for prostatic hyperplasia, particularly benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). BPH and other cases of enlarged prostates are characterized by containing abnormally high levels of cholesterol. All studies indicate that this herb works differently than saw palmetto, so the cumulative effect of using both may be to your advantage. Clinical trials have found that men tolerate pygeum treatment well. Consumption of Pygeum resulted in significant reduction of symptoms.

Lycopene

Studies spanning more than seven years at the Harvard School of Public Medicine and Health, which examined the diets of more than 47,000 subjects, indicated that only tomato products, which contain high levels of lycopene, could reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Beta-Sitosterol

This is called “Natural Prostate Miracle.” It is the miraculous common denominator in saw palmetto, Pygeum africanum, pumpkin seed oil, stinging nettles and other natural prostate remedies. Numerous international scientific journals have published scientific studies that prove that beta-sitosterol is the most effective remedy known for prostate problems.

Beta-sitosterol is already in your diet in common foods we eat every day, but only in small amounts. It is completely safe and without side effects.

The real facts about prostate problems include:

• Each year, more than 400,000 men in the United States alone undergo prostate surgery, and more than $1 billion a year is spent on prostate treatment. Proscar®, the leading drug, is highly dangerous and, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is no more effective than sugar pills. Surgery often results in incontinence and impotence. Are you ready to wear diapers, suffer castration and never have sex again?
• Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death for men after lung cancer. Ninety percent of prostate cancer goes undetected until it is untreatable and has spread to the lymphatic system. By the age of 50, 35 percent of men have cancer cells in their prostate.
• Odds are 2-1 you’ll have prostate problems by the time you are 60. By age 65, most men have enlarged prostates. The first signs are night urination and difficult urination. Literally 97 percent of all men will be affected with prostate problems during their lifetime.

What About Prescription Drugs?

Your doctor or urologist has many Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs to treat the symptoms of and enlarged prostate gland. But, like surgery, they too can have undesirable and dangerous side effects.

Pharmaceutical companies do not offer any solutions. They cannot patent herbal extracts and charge the $5 or more a tablet they do for highly dangerous and ineffective treatments like Proscar®. The answer is simply greed and indifference to your health.

Has your doctor told you of the side effects of frequently prescribed drugs like Proscar®, Hytrin® and Flomax®? Proscar® has been shown to be moderately successful in reducing prostate size in some men and in addressing some of the urinary symptoms associated with BPH. However, it can take as long as six months before it shows results. And the drug has negative side effects, including a substantial increase in prostate cancer risk.

In fact, men who take this drug have their prostate cancer risk increased 300 percent, according to a 1999 clinical study conducted by the prestigious Norris Cancer Institute of the University of Southern California (USC). It also has the potential to decrease libido and to cause premature ejaculation and impotence.

It can even cause birth defects in pregnant women who come in contact with the drug or possibly even with the sperm of a man who has taken Proscar®. It can also artificially lower a man’s prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels by as much as 60 percent. This is very important to note, because it can interfere with the results of a PSA test in detecting prostate cancer.

Another category of drugs called alpha blockers is prescribed for symptoms of BPH. They act by relaxing the smooth muscle of the prostate gland and neck of the bladder to improve urine flow. One such drug, terazosin, is marketed under the name Hytrin®. Unfortunately, alpha blockers can also have undesirable side effects, including headaches, fatigue, nasal congestion, dizziness and even sudden loss of consciousness. What is more important than these potentially dangerous side effects is that these alpha blockers do nothing but temporarily relieve BPH symptoms. You cannot get well by treating symptoms.

What’s The Alternative?

The alternative is to treat your prostate problems naturally with supplements that have been clinically shown to reverse prostate problems and that also have numerous health benefits like lower cholesterol, greater vitality, life extension, reduction in bone loss and even a slowing of hair loss.

All disease originates with diet that leads to metabolic imbalance. Metabolic imbalance specifically relates to estrogen dominance and testosterone deficiency. Only preventive care in terms of diet and specific prostate nutrients coupled with progesterone and testosterone (androsome) supplementation will maintain metabolic balance and prostate health.

St. George Clinic And Hospital, Bad Aibling, Germany

St. George Clinic is a cancer therapy clinic located about an hour’s drive from Munich, Germany. Their patients are about half German folks and half from other countries. St. George is a noninvasive complementary practice using hyperthermia, electrotherapy and some forms of low-dose chemotherapy on some patients.

Basically, hyperthermia is the treatment of cancer with heat. At St. George, they use both whole body heat in the case of metastasized cancer and local hyperthermia directed straight to the tissue or organ affected by the tumor or cancer.

These treatments are noninvasive, and there is no pain and very little discomfort with the procedures.

How does it work? Simply explained, heat kills cancer cells and does not affect healthy cells. This treatment is highly successful. St. George is an approved hospital, and I am told that some insurance companies in the United States will reimburse you for the cost of treatment. But I wouldn’t count on it because this therapy is not approved by the FDA in the United States. I am so glad; because if it were approved by the FDA, I would not give it any credibility.

St. George is a very clean hospital and clinic – superior, in my opinion, to the ones I have experienced in the United States. The professionalism is superior as well.

As you would expect, many patients come to St. George as a last hope. Many have been pronounced terminal after their immune system has been destroyed by conventional surgery, radiation and chemical poison torture.

St. George treatment has a marked effect on quick pain reduction, and patients on high doses of morphine no longer need pain medications. St. George is a complementary treatment facility, because they use alternative medicine including nutrition coupled in some cases with conventional medicine.

I would classify St. George as being outside of the pharmaceutical cancer industry. I consider their modus operandi to be healing cancer patients, whereas “cancer therapy” in the U.S. is an industry in pursuit of commerce. Most patients die after going through the U.S. oncology torture chamber in about a year.

St. George is the only hospital of its kind that I know of in the world.

I arrived at St. George in early August one year and stayed for 10 days. I did only one treatment of prostate hyperthermia as recommended for my nonmalignant prostate hypertrophy (BPH). My intention was to reduce blockage and destroy any possible cancer. The procedure lasted three hours with very little discomfort but almost immediate improvement with the prognosis of full benefit to be achieved in four to six weeks. This is the exact same procedure for localized prostate cancer. Just think: no cut, burn or poison, as you get with prostate therapy in the United States, and no incontinence or impotency.

Only one caveat: If I had prostate cancer or just BPH, I would not allow androgen blockage as discussed above

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