Category: Prostate Health

“Fake news.” It’s a term that creates more uncertainty than clarity. If everyone started labeling everything as fake news, how can anyone tell fact from fiction? And yet, we are increasingly bombarded with medical “facts” as we enter disease search terms in our search engines and smartphone apps. The abundance of information is amplified by keep reading

A January 2024 journal article begins, “Yoga is widely used as a therapeutic approach to enhance physical and mental well-being, addressing various biophysiological issues.”[i] It may sound rather generic, but the paper is actually about prostate health. Its authors call for new clinical studies on how yoga may help men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) keep reading

If you want to be grossed out, watch the 2004 documentary Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. In case you missed seeing it, it chronicles a month in his life when he ate only McDonald’s food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. McDonald’s is hardly a fast food chain that specializes in fresh vegetarian meals. In an extreme form of the Western diet, for 30 days Spurlock lived (if one can call it living) on meat, cheese and refined flour. In terms of impact... keep reading

What’s the most important sex organ? If you answered it’s the brain, you’re correct! Arousal begins in the brain, based on sensory input such as a sexy movie scene, a slow stroke on the leg, an evocative fragrance, a close dance—in fact, just thinking about sex can trigger the cascade of biological and psychological events keep reading

Have you ever had a moment of alarm over a pain in your chest or left shoulder, and wondered if it could be your heart? How about getting a rapid heartbeat for no apparent reason? Or you walk up a flight of stairs and find yourself a little winded? In such moments, you may indeed wonder about the health of your heart or lungs, but I bet that the last thing on your mind is your prostate... keep reading

Because of my interest in immunotherapy, especially in conjunction with focal treatment of prostate cancer, I investigated claims that naltrexone (a drug approved for treatment of alcohol or opioid1 dependency) can normalize the immune system when taken in subtherapeutic (low) doses. keep reading

I have posted many blogs on how your food influences prostate cancer (PCa) risk. Most of the research based content in my blogs is based on diet and inflammation. Since chronic inflammation is a known set up for many types of cancer, including PCa, the chain of events seems pretty obvious: Western dietary style → keep reading

Fat is fat, right? Well, not exactly. All fat is not alike. It may surprise you to learn that there are two different kinds of fat, and one of them may actually increase the risk of prostate cancer... keep reading

If you’re like most men, you never think about your prostate gland unless there’s a problem. Why should you? You also walk around without thinking about most of the body parts that help you function, things like rotator cuff, lungs, vocal cords, small intestine, etc. All of us take for granted that our physical systems keep reading

Eating red meat has gotten a poor reputation among cardiologist, and a few years ago, a report came out linking grilled red meat—especially well done—with the risk of developing prostate cancer. keep reading