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boy this large prostate situation

is extremely common

as the man ages one out of two that’s 50

will get an enlarged prostate

and this is called benign prostatic

hyperplasia

which basically means an enlarged

prostate now before i get into what to

do because this is actually

not a terribly complex problem if you

understand it

and also there’s a great solution which

i’m going to get to but i want to just

first differentiate

what is the difference between bph and

cancer of the prostate

are they similar

they’re not too similar in fact they’re

pretty different in cancer you have

these normal cells that then get damaged

specifically the mitochondria and then

they switch over to cancer cells okay

and so with prostate cancer that can

spread through the body

and it can kill you it’s very deadly but

with bph

it’s benign which means it’s not going

to spread it’s not going to turn into

cancer it is not deadly now with the

symptoms of prostate cancer you’re going

to get blood in the urine you’re gonna

get blood in the semen you’re gonna have

painful urination you’re gonna have a

difficult time with an erection you may

have pain with ejaculation and so the

symptoms are are very different than bph

where really this involves just the

urinary tract mostly you’re going to get

up to the night and want to urinate you

may have the urge to urinate but can’t

urinate or you can’t fully eliminate the

bladder so it’s a bit incomplete so with

bph you just have a lot of different

urination issues simply because the

prostate is a gland and it wraps around

the urethra which is a little tube from

your urinary bladder

that comes out through your penis and as

the prostate enlarges it obstructs the

tube

and you’re not able to fully eliminate

freely all the urine that’s supposed to

come out through the urinary bladder so

you’re going to start and stop and start

and stop and have dribbling and all

sorts of issues but the prostate should

only be the size of a walnut but it can

actually get quite large now with the

prostate cancer a big question is

will

phytonutrients specifically

phytoestrogens make things worse

there are certain compounds in

herbs

and vegetables

that mimic estrogens okay they’re called

phytoestrogens and we know estrogen

dominance in general can cause

cancer in women breast cancer and also

men as well and a lot of the chemicals

in the environment mimic estrogen like

the pesticides insecticides herbicides

fungicides heavy metals they’re all

considered estrogen disruptors or

endocrine disruptors but when we get to

plant-based estrogens like

phytoestrogens

there’s a couple things you need to know

with phytoestrogens you can prevent

prostate cancer you can slow down the

progression

if you have prostate cancer

in the early stages but if you’re in a

stage of three or four or more you may

want to hesitate because there is some

data that these

phytoestrogens can actually make things

worse but i want to make a side note

the studies that i read on this were

relating to castrated males so

if someone’s castrated and they have

advanced stages of cancer they should

not consume

any phytoestrogens even in small amounts

because it can make things worse however

the purpose of this video is to focus

more on enlarged prostate so let’s talk

about that so there’s two main

theories about why

men

develop

a benign prostatic hyperplasia and based

on all the data that i’ve read i think

both of these series are true and they

both work together the first theory has

to do with

as a man ages okay

their testosterone goes down and both

men and women have both testosterone and

estrogen and so as a man ages as their

testosterone goes down their estrogen

goes up in relationship so they have

this ratio of lowered

testosterone and higher

estrogen that’s what occurs with aging

and if anything can be said about bph

it is that it’s involved with aging

factors of aging so number one we have

lower testosterone and higher levels of

estrogen and estrogen makes things grow

especially the prostate estrogen also

can cause your pituitary

to trigger another hormone

called prolactin that can also enlarge

the prostate as one ages many times they

gain more weight they have more fat and

the more fat you have the more estrogen

you’re going to have to because there’s

a certain enzyme that will convert your

testosterone to

estrogen and that enzyme is called

aromatase and this happens in both men

and women and if your liver is in damage

let’s say it’s inflamed let’s say you

have a fatty liver or you have cirrhosis

scar tissue the liver you’re going to

generate more estrogen i’m sorry to have

to tell you this if you like to drink

beer

but alcohol especially beer

will affect the liver in that you’re

going to raise your estrogen levels

a lot higher than your testosterone so

alcohol in general lower your

testosterone and raise your estrogen

okay the other thing that i want to

mention and this is this is important to

understand there’s three types of

estrogen okay

you got estrogen one

two and three and these estrogens out

there they kind of connect to these

little receptors okay in different parts

of the body

it’s only the estrogen ii

that can enlarge the prostate not

estrogen one or estrogen three

and all those phytoestrogens those

plant-based compounds that affect

estrogen only affect estrogen number one

not two not three so phytoestrogens do

not enlarge a prostate however

they do attempt to go into the receptors

in estrogen ii

and end up blocking them so other types

of estrogen cannot create the effect

so they help lower the estrogen too

which indirectly protects you against

this prostate enlargement problem so

when you hear all this information out

there about

plant-based estrogens

enlarging your prostate it’s absolutely

not true it’s not going to happen all

right the second part of this puzzle

involves testosterone as your

testosterone decreases

you also have

a powerful form of testosterone called

dht okay that increases

dhc is responsible for hair loss it’s

also responsible for the enlargement of

your prostate so as you age

you have lower testosterone and higher

levels of dht

those people that have genetic problems

where they can’t make dht

never develop in a large prostate

so the question is

what’s making more of this dht

well this relates to another enzyme okay

the name of that enzyme is called

5-alpha reductase and if you have too

much of that enzyme you’re going to get

too much dht and that could potentially

enlarge your prostate all right so now

that you know both mechanisms uh what

can we do about it okay well the first

strategy

is to start consuming more

phytoestrogens okay that’s going to help

you and there’s a real common one called

genenstein that a lot of people take for

an enlarged prostate and genisan is a

phytoestrogen that’s in a lot of legumes

it’s in a lot of different things that

can help with this enlarged prostate uh

the next thing is cruciferous vegetables

kale broccoli brussels sprouts

cabbage all increase the amount of

phytoestrogens in the body so you should

start eating those foods on a regular

basis they will not increase the

estrogen number two they’ll block it to

prevent other things from entering into

that receptor

that can cause enlarged prostate now the

next two strategies involving blocking

those two enzymes

one of the enzymes called aromatase and

that’s the one that converts

testosterone into estrogen okay and

that’s in your fat cells it’s in other

cells and so you want to take aromatase

inhibitors okay

now certain medications for the prostate

do it synthetically i recommend doing

the natural versions of that and believe

it or not i released a video recently

by blending the entire lemon the lemon

peel the white part the seeds everything

every morning with some stevia and you

blend it in some water and drink that

apparently citrus peels okay from lemons

and limes

can act as an aromatase inhibitor so if

you haven’t seen that video i put it

down below it’s a real easy thing to do

and it’ll also give you a lot of vitamin

c and other things as well another

really powerful aromatase inhibitor is

stinging nettle root i like stinging

nettle root a lot because it’s a great

anti-inflammatory as well so if you have

arthritis definitely want to take that

one and then the other one is dim okay

dim is a concentrated

cruciferous compound

that you can take as a supplement and

greatly help

in the balance of excessive amounts of

estrogen and then the third category is

to block the other enzyme called 5-alpha

reductase and so you want to inhibit

that enzyme and that would be by taking

saw palmetto which you probably already

heard that’s good for the prostate also

pumpkin seeds will help reduce that

enzyme and green tea will reduce that

enzyme and zinc will help produce that

enzyme so now you know why it works

but on the flip side you also want to

avoid certain things too

high levels of insulin

can act as a

growth factor for your prostate so you

definitely need to go low carb

as well as doing intermittent fasting i

would also

avoid dairy products because dairy has

some estrogenic compounds and you may

have already connected the dots between

times that you

for supper had more dairy and then that

night you’re getting up having more

urination problems or having problems

avoiding so dairy is a is a factor uh

then we have alcohol okay if you want a

good alternative for alcohol i would um

try kombucha tea it’s similar in texture

to beer and it gives you a nice

relaxation effect now the other point i

want to bring up is plastics i’ve done a

whole video on this but unfortunately

the plastics in our environment

are mimicking estrogen and creating some

serious problems especially with an

enlarged prostate an average person in

the u.s consumes the amount of

nano plastics that would equal the size

of a credit card

so i do have a video on that and i put

that down below as well

if you’re drinking water and without a

filter like tap water you’re going to be

getting a lot of compounds that mimic

estrogen as well

especially those plastics so you want to

get a water filter for your house and

then you have the hormones and the foods

right so if you’re not consuming

many organic foods and you eat out at a

fast food restaurant

you’re getting a lot of hormones that

are coming from the animal products that

are being mimicked from the pesticides

herbicides fungicides things like that

now as a really simple thing that you

can do

right off the bat

is to start including

whole lemons okay in the blender with

water

every time you get up in the morning if

you haven’t seen that video i’m going to

put it up right here check it out