Prostate Health And BPH

When a man’s prostate enlarges because of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), he often has trouble urinating and completely emptying his bladder. Preventive, alternative medical care is essential to a healthy prostate. If you let conventional medicine start testing you, you’ll rue the day you started down that dead end medical street.

Uncomfortable Symptoms

The symptoms of BPH are classified as storage or incomplete voiding. This can be a progressive disease, especially if left untreated. Incomplete voiding results in stasis of bacteria in the bladder residue and increases your risk of urinary tract infection.

Urinary bladder stones are formed from the crystallization of salts in the residual urine.  Urinary retention, termed “acute” or “chronic,” is another form of progression.

Acute urinary retention is the inability to void. In chronic urinary retention the residual urinary volume gradually increases, and the bladder distends. Some men who suffer from chronic urinary retention may eventually progress to renal failure, a condition termed “obstructive uropathy.”

Familiarity

Most men over age 50 are familiar with BPH and its symptoms. In the United States a host of urologists who are specialists attend specifically to the prostate. Lack of alternative information drives men into the offices of prostate doctors when they experience symptoms of BPH which include swelling of the prostate gland (normally no larger than a hickory nut) leading to urinary hesitancy, frequent urination and dysuria (painful urination).

The symptoms alone cause anxiety in millions of men, but is further inflated by the overuse of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test by conventional medicine.

Medical tests like this are a huge income-generating business for doctors, hospitals and labs. Everybody is tested many times over and over for everything, or for the slightest suspicion of a medical problem or the slightest imagination of a medical problem. It is so common and widespread that the general public confuses tests with treatment. It is assembly-line medicine and is mostly useless and misleading.

But there is a more subtle and more profitable agenda for the vast enterprise of medical tests. They lead the patient straight into more treatment and surgery. Pathology today in the United States is a test. The system thrives on tests.

Big Business

This represents big business for everybody, and hospitals require it for inpatients and outpatients. The hospital privileges of physicians depend on a steady flow of prescribed hospital tests.

Every man with prostate hypertrophy knows about the PSA test. This test scares men right into anxiety and worry and into the wrong decision about treatment.

The system uses PSA numbers, which are very arbitrary, to discipline men to make regular trips to the doctor for updates of their PSA tests. The procedure usually involves a digital exam and blood test. And if the doctor holds sway over the patient, a biopsy follows. This is the process that leads men to surgery, the way it is perfectly designed to do. And then straight downhill with prostate complications, not least of which is destruction of the male sex life.

Myth Of Infallibility

Remember, BPH tests produce arbitrary results and widely vary with the individual male, but they are vital to the income of medical professionals. They present the test as an infallible medical science.

BPH may show elevated PSA levels because of swelling of the prostate (increased organ volume) and inflammation due to urinary tract infections. I myself have had BPH for at least 25 years. After I had the regular rectal exam and blood test, the doctor said: “This is all you need.” Then he called me one day soon after and asked me to come in for a biopsy. I asked, “What for, did you find something?” He replied that I just needed to come back to his office for a prostate biopsy.

I dismissed it immediately and never went back. That was some 20 years ago. But what do you think that most men do? I can tell you. They wind up in surgery leading to a pattern of complications such as incontinence, infection and loss of sex life.

BPH, PSA notwithstanding, is not considered to be a premalignant lesion and should not scare men into foolish medical treatment.

Prevention

Preventive health care is essential to male prostate care. But preventive, alternative care is anathema to American medicine. After all, preventive care destroys and eliminates huge profits to the medical system. This is to say nothing of the suffering and death of tens of thousands of men.

I have not had prostate cancer in my family, which I think is primarily due to consistent preventive care. Preventive care costs so little in time and money compared to the risk of conventional medical treatment.

Start as early as age 25. There are many natural prostate formulas.  I like and use beta- sitosterol made from Hypoxis rooperi (African stargrass). I also use stinging nettle in the form of Palmettoplex and Cataplex F by Standard Process. I also eat pumpkin seeds daily, at least two tablespoons.

Of course, none of these non-prescriptions are approved by the FDA or any agency, but they are approved and used in Europe.

Invasive Therapy

Sometimes outpatient transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) kills excess tissue, shrinking the prostate and relieving the obstruction of the urethra and BPH symptoms.

I went to Germany for a similar procedure (not available in the United States) called transurethral radiowave thermotherapy. It was some seven years ago and was successful. Symptoms were greatly relieved. However, I have not been able to get the German clinic to respond lately.

I think that local outpatient procedures carry minimal risk. The goal is decreased prostate size, leading to significantly decreased nocturia, and improved urine stream with urinary bladder emptying. At the same time, this lessens the risk of infection.

Signs To Watch

Screening and diagnostic procedures for BPH are similar to those used for prostate cancer. Some signs to look for include:

• Weak urinary stream.
• Prolonged emptying of the bladder.
• Abdominal straining.
• Hesitancy.
• Irregular need to urinate.
• Incomplete bladder emptying.
• Post-urination dribble.
• Irritation during urination.
• Frequent urination.
• Nocturia (need to urinate during the night).
• Urgency.
• Incontinence (involuntary leakage of urine).
• Bladder pain.
• Dysuria (painful urination).
• Problems in ejaculation.

All of this information assumes the patient has no malignancy. Even if there is malignancy, the utmost care should be exercised in opting for conventional prostate surgery. Remember that whatever happens to a man getting treated, the medical people all get paid in full. So consider that their advice could be profit motivated.

Finally, you can greatly relieve your BPH symptoms if you stay away from caffeinated coffee. Coffee is a strong diuretic and compounds the symptoms of BPH.