During this age in a man's life the prostate gland may swell and result in symptoms ranging from irritating urination difficulties, to eventually it becoming impossible to urinate due to pressure of the gland upon the bladder. The accumulation of urine in the bladder may consequently cause infection. The common medical treatment is massage or surgery. The reason the prostate gland becomes enlarged is due to the organ's effort to make up for the loss of the male hormones which have been steadily declining with the advance of age and self-destructive lifestyles that include tobacco and alcohol usage, which no amount of massage or surgery can reverse. A lifetime of improper nutrition which leads directly to poor eating habits is as much a contributing factor to the epidemic of terminal prostate cancer as the alcohol and tobacco problem is.
Simple prevention is of course the best precaution for avoiding an early demise.
In the daily diet, the best natural preventatives and good health enhancers include easily obtainable herbs, spices, and modern day miracle food supplements and special nutrients and minerals that the human body can't live healthfully without. The shopper needs to know for example that the most popular lettuce in the supermarket has almost no nutritional value or fiber, and how we can do much better family food buying at all the usual places. Return to Top of Page Index to Food and Medicinal Herbs, Vitamins, Minerals and Food Supplements. The Immune System Dr.