Many men over the age of 30 or so, suffer from prostatitis, an enlarged prostate
gland, and later many develop prostate cancer. Symptoms can include pain, difficulty urinating, difficulty or pain upon
intercourse, and bladder and urinary tract infections. Let us discuss natural approaches for all these conditions.
PROSTATITIS
This condition is quite common and often goes undiagnosed. It is
an inflammation or infection in the prostate gland. This is a common cause of difficulty in urination, pain, enlarged
prostate or a sense of heaviness in the lower portion of the body.
This condition responds extremely well to nutritional
balancing programs, often rapidly. It is often due to a hidden zinc deficiency, copper toxicity or an infection in the prostate
that may not respond to drugs, but does respond easily in most cases to balancing the body chemistry. Also see below
for other remedies for prostate problems that can be quite helpful, at times.
BENIGN
PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY (ENLARGED PROSTATE)
This is the most common prostate condition affecting middle-aged
and older men. Its symptom is usually difficulty beginning urination, difficulty emptying all the urine, reduced urine
flow, frequent trips to the bathroom during the night, and occasionally discomfort in the bladder area.
Prostate enlargement
is caused by an unhealthy enlargement of the prostate gland, which chokes off the urethra (a tube that conducts the urine),
causing difficulty with urination. The prostate gland literally is wrapped around the urethra, the tube leading from
the bladder to the penis through which urine passes.
Most men go for surgery for this condition. However, I know
many men that regret this decision, as they now have some incontinence or other problems. A slower alternative solution
is to repair the prostate gland. In most cases, this will cause the swelling to subside and the problem goes away without
surgery.
Prevention. Doctors often recommend more sex to prevent this condition. It may work
for a while, but sex depletes zinc, so eventually this solution will stop working in most cases. Also, sex depletes
the body in other important, but subtle ways. For these and other reasons, I do not recommend this method.
Hydrotherapy
can help. Many years ago, I worked as a doctor in a very poor village in Mexico. A man consulted me for prostate enlargement
that was making it impossible for him to urinate, he said. An older natural healing book suggested a very safe and simple
remedy that worked excellently!
One places about 2 inches of icy cold water in a shallow pan, or one can put about two
inches of water in a bathtub. The water must be as cold as possible!
The man pulls his pants down and sit in this
cold water for at least 20 minutes. One can wear a sweatshirt or even a sweater to keep warm. This reduces inflammation
and congestion in the prostate gland, and the gland shrinks, causing the problem to disappear. I do not know if the
method helps long-term, but it will work in an emergency. In my limited experience with cold water baths, the effect
can last if the procedure is done often enough to bring a lot more blood circulation to the area, reduce infection and inflammation,
and help revitalize the gland.
The only caution I can think of with this remedy is not to allow yourself to become
chilled. Keep your feet out of the cold water, for example, having only your buttocks in the water. If you start
feeling a chill, get out or have some hot tea, perhaps, to warm up. Of course, combining this with a nutritional balancing
program would be far better yet.
Other natural and safe remedies and methods. Some men are helped by herbal
formulas for the prostate that usually contain saw palmetto, pumpkin seed oil, zinc, and vitamins A, D and E.
Homeopathic
remedies in the health food store are also occasionally effective enough to keep the condition under control. Most important,
these methods are harmless and do not impair overall health. Therefore they can be used for an extended period of time.
Coping with prostate difficulties until a nutritional balancing program can correct it.
1. Know that
this does not impair sexual activity or any other body system. It is benign, in other words, as long as you are able
to urinate. If you cannot urinate, however, you must do the procedure above or see a doctor immediately. The doctor
will place a catheter or plastic tube up the penis that forces the urethra to open so you can urinate
2. Relax a lot
when urinating. Some men do better sitting, rather than standing to urinate.
3. Do not drink anything after about
5-6 PM to help avoid having to get up a lot at night. This includes avoiding a dinner of just soup, for example, which
is very high in water content.
4. Getting up to urinate once or even twice is not much a problem as long as you can
fall asleep again fast afterwards. To help fall back asleep quickly, avoid turning on a bright light when you get up,
if possible. Also, keep warm, especially your feet. Put on a bathrobe and slippers if your bedroom is cold, for
example.
Correcting the cause of an enlarged prostate. The underlying cause of benign prostatic
hypertrophy or BPH is often a hidden infection or the presence of toxic metals or other inflammatory substances that are affecting
the prostate. Rarely, psychological factors having to do with women and sex can affect the prostate as well.
A
nutritional balancing program based on a properly performed and properly interpreted hair mineral analysis can quite easily
correct most causese of the problem. Even better results may occur if one adds coffee enemas and near infrared sauna
therapy to the program. Distilled water may be very important for about 3-9 months to help decongest the prostate gland.
The cold water baths above may also be very helpful, as may the use the of a prostate formula, if needed for a while.
Urinary
tract problems in older men are often extremely chronic. This means that it may take several years of nutritional balancing
for the problem to go away completely. While correction is proceeding, one should use the symptomatic remedies described
above, if needed. This is the ideal way to handle the problem, in my view.
Drugs for prostate enlargement
include Proscar and others. These may or may not help. They are all somewhat toxic, so beware of this. We
always recommend the fewest toxic drugs possible, as they usually cause other problems sooner or later.
Prostate
surgery. While surgery for prostate enlargement is usually more or less successful, it can cause lifelong complications if
it is not fully successful. This happens often.
The main complication is some degree of incontinence, which means
leakage of urine all the time. This is a very annoying and possibly embarrassing symptom. People with this
usually will need to wear adult diapers to prevent wetting the pants. If you can avoid surgery, I suggest it.
PROSTATE CANCER
This is usually a slow-growing
cancer that may give few symptoms. Some common ones are pain or bleeding with urination, or occasionally a bloody discharge
with sexual intercourse. However, this may be due to other causes, so one should not assume it is prostate cancer without
more tests.
Other possible symptoms are generalized fatigue and other cancer symptoms such as unexplained weight loss.
Prostate
cancer tests. The PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is the most commonly used screening test for prostate cancer.
It is not a reliable test, according to many newsletters that I read. That is, it can give both false positives and
false negative answers. Therefore, do not rely on this test, in my opinion, either to rule out prostate cancer or to
diagnose or confirm it. This may be very important.
The PSA test often leads men into painful biopsies and at
times into medical treatments that can be as bad as or worse than the cancer itself. Therefore I do not recommend regular
PSA tests, as many doctors like to do annually.
Instead, I suggest that every man over about the age of 50 undergo a
nutritional balancing program. This is for prevention only. However, hair mineral testing will often reveal some
patterns associated with prostate conditions, as discussed below.
It may also reveal other patterns that are more specific
for cancer such as high toxic metal levels, lowered energy production and others.
If you suspect prostate
cancer or if prostate cancer has been diagnosed.
I do not recommend nutritional balancing for any type of cancer.
This is most important. The reason is that cancer is a fast-moving disease in some cases, and nutritional balancing
is not designed specifically to stop it. Other therapies that are symptomatic will often stop it quickly. Once
the cancer is definitely in remission, then nutritional balancing is a wise idea to continue to improve one’s health.
This is all explained in Introduction to Cancer on this website.
This, and perhaps other articles on cancer on this
site, suggest that one should first bring the cancer under control with either the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy or perhaps
with a product called Protocel, available inexpensively on the internet. The Kelley Program is better, but more costly.
Then
one can go on the nutritional balancing program after the cancer is in remission. This is the safest way to handle prostate
cancer. I definitely do not recommend chemotherapy, radiation or surgery for this condition, as it often does not work
well and can make the problem much worse.
Of all the drug therapies, the use of Lupron, a hormone inhibitor,
appears to be safest. I know of many long-term survivors who used this. However, I know this type of cancer can
often be handled naturally if one is willing to do coffee enemas, near infrared sauna therapy and take Protocel or the Kelley
enzyme therapy.
The tube that is used to transport urine from the urinary bladder is called the urethra, this tube is surrounded in
males by a walnut sized gland called the prostate gland, any impairment or problem with the prostate manifests itself in urinary
difficulties or disorders together termed as prostate problems. The occurrence of a harmless form of prostatic disorder called
a hyperplasia, or a prostate hypertrophy often termed BPH is the most common form of prostate disorder in men, it arises as
a condition in men over the age of fifty, as a non-malignant enlargement or swelling of the prostate. While the likelihood
of prostate cancer occurring in the individual is not connected to the condition, the disorder or swelling in the prostrate
itself may persist without any apparent symptoms over a period of years before it starts to cause any significant discomfort
to the individual. The possibility of prostatitis which is an inflammation in the prostate gland and the possibility of cancer
has to be examined by a medical practitioner as these conditions can possibly be present, and because they are far more serious
conditions, one must make sure that adequate medical checks completely rule them out.
There is a connection between
the enlargement of the prostrate and aging in men, enlargement typically occurring in the gland, as the man gets older. There
could be possible hormonal actions for the enlargement of the prostrate gland caused by the male hormones, however the true
causative reasons for the condition is unknown. BPH comes about whenever the there is pressure against the urethra because
of the enlarged prostrate, the condition depending on severity of the degree of enlargement in the gland, as an extremely
large prostate may restrict the flow of urine to a greater extent compared to a small prostate. A bacterial infection that
is present somewhere else in the urinary tract of the man may lead to the more uncommon disorder typically called prostatitis
which is much more severe in its affect on health, additionally prostate problems could be the underlying signs of prostrate
cancer in the affected individual. Urinary discharge and function is typically disrupted and serves as symptoms in these two
conditions as well, these conditions also cause a swelling of the prostate either due to the tumor or because of infection.
Supplements and herbs Supplementation must be done over a long period of time and on a regular
basis to produce effective or optimal remedial actions against mild to moderate forms of BPH, these supplements are most effective
against these forms of BPH and the dosage period should typically exceed a month or several months depending on the severity.
All over the counter drugs and other prescription medications are not affected or disturbed in their action by these supplements,
rather these substances can be used in conjunction with those that your allopathic doctor has advised for use against a prostrate
disorder. It is important to look for results and consult with your doctor at least once every six months for sings of improvement.
Milder forms of prostatitis can also possibly be aided by supplements, however all prostate infections and cancers are extremely
serious and will need examination and immediate medical measures and cannot normally be helped in anyway whatsoever by prolonged
supplement usage after they have progressed to some degree.
The essential mineral zinc can relieve
some of the symptoms of BPH while also being useful for general health in the body, this mineral can effectively minimize
the size of the enlarged gland and its role in this respect has been documented through research. Levels of the mineral copper
in the body may be depleted if a lot of zinc is supplemented as zinc restricts the absorption of copper into the body, and
in order to prevent this from occurring, supplementation with the mineral copper can also be concurrently done. Prostate health
can also be maintained through extra doses of the vitamin E, the powerful antioxidant vitamin, this vitamin is important as
an antioxidant because of its role in preventing cancer as DNA damage from free radicals is reduced by it within the body.
The enlargement of the prostate gland may be slowed down by herbs, which may in addition reduce and soothe
some of the associated symptoms of BPH in the affected individual. By managing levels of fluctuating hormones in the body
the well documented properties of the saw palmetto may come in handy when dealing with prostate problems, this very useful
herb may also minimize the ensuing inflammation and can reduce swollen gland during sever or chronic prostatitis in the affected
individual. The anti-inflammatory herb called the pygeum africanum may also be effective against forms of the BPH or prostatitis,
when used in a combination with the saw palmetto, especially if the effectiveness of saw palmetto used alone is not sufficient.
Another herb called the nettle may have an ability to improve their property of reducing the symptoms and can lower the rate
of the progression of the BPH, the nettle may be combined with both or either of the two herbs in a supplement form.
Some
other nutrient substances may help alleviate the condition when used as supplements against prostate problems in the affected
individual. Inflamed prostate and swollen prostates especially arising due to prostatitis or BPH can be prevented through
supplements rich in essential fatty acids, these acids are especially abundant in the oil of the flaxseed herb and this oil
can be used as an extra supplement during prostate problems. While they may not prevent or stall the enlargement of an affected
prostate, some supplements such as the following amino acids including glycine and alanine, and glutamine, can relieve symptoms
of the disorder when used in a combined form, and on an empty stomach.
Usual dosage
Flaxseed oil, One tbsp (14gr) daily. Saw palmetto, 160 mg two times daily between meals. Nettle, 250 mg two
times daily. Pygeum africanum, 100 mg two times daily between meals. Vitamin E, 400 IU a day. If you take anticoagulant
medications, check with your doctor. Amino acids, 500 mg each of alanine, glutamine, and glycine daily. Add a mixed
amino acid complex after one month. Copper / Zinc, 2 mg copper & 30 mg zinc daily. If you use zinc longer than one
month, add copper.
According
to Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, from Australia ‘The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our
own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you
something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well
you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize
your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some
things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things
better, evolve and grow.”
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