Prostate Health

Problems associated with prostate health in men will be broken down into three different areas.  Most if not all problems associated with the prostate in men can be treated with nutritional supplements, lifestyle changes, and dietary changes.  It is very unfortunate that most men are not aware of the options available to them when it comes to treating problems of the prostate.

There are three very important considerations when discussing the prostate.
  1. The warning signs of prostate problems are very clear.
  2. Treatment offered by conventional medicine seems overly aggressive and unnecessary.
  3. Making lifestyle changes can help control or prevent most prostate problems.
The three most common problems which occur in the prostate are:
a. Inflamed prostate-also known as prostatitis-which can be infection or non-infection-related.
b. Enlarged prostate-also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)
c. Prostatic cancer
Inflamed prostate  (prostatitis)
  1. Soak in warm bath for 15 minutes at least 3 times a week.  Do not soak in warm bath if infection is present.
  2. Drink lots of water (8oz glass every hour)
  3. Take medicinal herbs-echinacea with golden seal, and garlic.
  4. Take a good anti-oxidant vitamin formula which has vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and zinc picolinate.  We recommend a product called Clinical Nutrients for Men
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)

More than half of men in their 50's will have benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and by 80 years of age, 90% of men will have it.  The cost of treating BPH exceeds 2 billion dollars per year. The early signs of BPH are increased frequency, hesitancy, and intermittency in urination.  At around 40 years of age, with hormonal levels decreasing, and enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase increases the rate of converting testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. It is dihydrotestosterone which causes problems for men's prostates, not testosterone.  The most common treatment for BPH is called a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).  In this procedure, the central core of the prostate is removed.  In the U.S., around 400,000 of these procedures are performed yearly.  There are problems associated with the procedure and include:
  1. 8% experience complications within 3 months which require hospitalization.
  2. 5% develop impotence.
  3. 4% develop incontinence.
  4. 20% need the procedure repeated within 8 years.
  5. 1 in 56 men who have the procedure will die from it.
The most effective treatment for BPH is:

using two natural products, the most important of which is an herb called saw palmetto.  Conventional medicine offers medications for which you may have seen very expensive advertisements for in major magazines.  These medications are only effective in about 30% of cases.  Over 20 double blind studies have been done showing that saw palmetto is safe, effective, and helps reduce prostate size, decreases painful and frequent urination, increases urine flow rate, and decreases night-time urination.  The other natural product is called pygeum africanum  and has been used for years in europe to successfully treat BPH.  Because most men have not been told of these two natural treatments, 10 million men have been cheated out of a safer, less expensive, far more effective therapy.


To prevent problems with benign prostatic hypertrophy:
  1. Eat a diet low in red meat and high in raw fruits and vegetables
  2. Take saw palmetto at a dose of approximately 160mg twice a day
  3. Take flax seed oil capsules.
  4. Take zinc, vitamin b-6, and copper
  5. Also take pygeum africanum ( we have a very good combination of saw palmetto and pygeum africanum called "Saw Palmetto Complex".
Prostate cancer

In Sweden, doctors treat cancer of the prostate with simple observation, and guess what-  they get results which are equal to or better than our aggressive therapy.  A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in May 1993 stated that men 75 years or older are damaged by both radiation and prostatectomy when compared to "watching and waiting". These procedures destroy the patient's quality of life.  Almost all men over the age of 90 will have some form of prostate cancer, but very few will die from it, because it is usually very slow-growing and does not easily spread.  There are 240,000 new cases of prostate cancer each year and 20% of these men will die.  These two facts have not changed despite our heroic procedures.  There is no evidence that radical prostatectomies are effective, yet we have had an increase in this surgery  from 1984 to 1990 of 575%.  On average men 75 years or older will live only 30 to 60 days longer if they have this surgery.

What can we do about prostate cancer?
  1. We need to do all the things listed under benign prostatic hypertrophy.
  2. The best plan seems to be to try to prevent prostate cancer or to delay it.  It seems most of the high rates of cancer in the U.S. is related to diet.
  3. Black men in Africa have one of the lowest rates of prostate cancer .  However, when they move to the U.S., their risk becomes 10 times greater.
  4. Reducing red meat (fats) in our diets has been shown to be very beneficial.  A study done by Harvard showed that males with diets rich in animal fats (especially red meat) had an 80% higher risk of developing prostate cancer.
  5. Take essential fatty acids such as flaxseed oil.
  6. Have a PSA test done and regular examinations by your doctor if you experience any problems or after the age of 40.  You need to keep in mind that the PSA test does not detect over 30% of all prostate cancers.
  7. If you have a family history of prostate cancer (that is, a father or brother who had prostate cancer before the age of 65) your chances of developing it are doubled.
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