Why take nutritional supplements? Besides getting a daily dose of vitamins and minerals, men who consume nutritional supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids may be contributing to better prostate health.
Under normal conditions your prostate should be about the size and shape of a walnut… and it’s responsible for providing fluid for semen… moistening the lining of your urethra… and protecting sperm from the acidic environment of the vagina and cervix.
For men who are hoping to improve their prostate health, herbal supplements and natural treatments offer them a wide range of choices, depending on their condition. For those who want to protect their prostate naturally, saw palmetto extract may balance the body’s inflammatory response, supporting normal prostate function. And now researchers have announced that for additional prostate support, a compound taken from a mushroom might help.
Taking saw palmetto for an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), may be a natural way to avoid taking prescriptions that cause low libido. A recent study of one class of BPH drugs found that they caused erectile dysfunction (ED), even after patients stopped taking the medication.
Studies have found that the presence of homocysteine in the blood may indicate an increased risk of heart disease and atherosclerosis, and new research indicates that this principle may even hold true for obese teenagers. Scientific investigation conducted at the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland in California found that teens whose body mass indexes (BMI) qualify them as obese tend to have high levels of inflammation, insulin resistance and homocysteine.
Taking herbal supplements is an effective way to get key nutrients on a daily basis, as well as of maintaining the healthy function of one's organs. Recent research has found that a drug related to a centuries-old folk treatment can reduce the risk of arrhythmia, congestive heart failure and prostate cancer. Digoxin, which is extracted from the foxglove plant, appears to lower the risk of the prostate disease among men who take it as preventive medicine, according to a study in the journal Cancer Discovery.
Besides taking herbal supplements that contain saw palmetto, men at risk for the disease may consider maintaining a moderate weight, since new research has shown that being obese can increase the likelihood of prostate cancer metastasis.
Even with a healthy diet and plenty of exercise, maintaining good prostate health is not always easy for maturing men. Enlargement of the prostate gland is a common condition, but fortunately one that has a widely used natural remedy. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or inflammation of the prostate gland, occurs quite often in maturing American men.
Researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center recently announced that vitamin D supplementation lowered the risk of estrogen-positive breast cancer among both normal weight and obese laboratory rodents.
Omega-3 fatty acids, the kind found in abundance in fish oil supplements, appear to help the body process the breast cancer medication tamoxifen, according to research done at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Research has found that acupuncture may relieve hot flashes caused by androgen deprivation therapy, a course of treatment in which testosterone is temporarily eliminated from the bloodstream.
While an enlarged prostate has its own constellation of health issues, treating the condition can result in new problems. In partnership with scientists from Denmark and Germany, urologists at the Boston University School of Medicine have found that taking a particular class of medication to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can lower the male libido.
Men who begin losing their hair around the age of 20 are more likely than those who don’t to develop prostate cancer later in life. French researchers discovered this phenomenon while interviewing men treated for the prostate disease. Their results appear in the journal Annals of Oncology. The team surveyed more than 600 men, the majority of whom had been diagnosed with prostate carcinomas.
Research published in the British Medical Journal determined that men between the ages of 50 and 69 who get screened for prostate cancer every third year die from the disease just as often as those who do not get screened regularly.
Prostate cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are often untargeted and can entail serious health risks. However, a new treatment method may sidestep some of these health consequences by using gold molecules to destroy cancer cells. A description of the unique method appears in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
