Welcome to Healthy Prostate Formula.  Here you will learn all about how to heal and maintain a healthy prostate.

Prostate Health

The first step of our healthy prostate plan is to understand what the prostate is, what it does and how it can effect you.  To start off with our healthy prostate formula lets take a closer look at the prostate.  The prostate is about the size of the walnut, and is a doughnut shaped male sex gland that surrounds the urethra at the base of the bladder.
The prostate supplies about 25% of male ejaculate as prostatic fluid which clears the urethral tract and carries the sperm out of the penis.  The prostatic fluid acts as a lubricant to protect the urethra from infection, and as an energy source and protection for the sperm.

The prostate is a vital part of the male reproductive system and sexual organs and prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death in men over age 30, so as such, keeping a healthy prostate should be a top priority for most men.  Before we get to discussing how to keep your prostate healthy and avoid an enlarged prostate.

Problems With the Prostate

The most common problems with the prostate include prostate infections, an enlarged prostate, and prostate cancer.  Below are more detailed explanations of these common symptoms.   In the following sections we will give you some information about what pieces go into a prostate health formula and what you can do to improve your overall health.

Prostatitis, or prostate infections, occur in many men between the ages of 30 and 50 years old, but can also occur in older men.  Studies have shown that about 8% of the population will have a prostate infection, while other studies have estimated that about half of all men will have prostatitis at one time in their lives.
The causes of prostatitis are not well understood, and it is thought that around 5% of cases are caused by either acute or chronic bacterial infections.  The rest of the cases have unknown causes.  The symptoms of an infected prostate include increased urinary frequency and difficulty, pain during urination, pain during ejaculation, high fever and chills, as well as generalized fatigue.  In chronic bacterial prostatitis, or common and recurrent prostate infections due to recurrent urinary tract infections can also lead to sexual dysfunction.  Most symptoms are also associated with infections of other parts of the urinary tract as well as symptoms of an inflamed prostate which has different causes than an enlarged prostate due to BPH.

An enlarged prostate is a result of hormonal changes that are associated with aging.  Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, or BPH, is another name for an enlarged prostate, and is usually found in men older than 50 years of age.  An enlarged prostate is a non-cancerous enlargement that causes discomfort.  The most common and recognizable symptom of BPH is frequent and uncomfortable urination. This blockage is due to the location and enlargement of the prostate, and the resulting pressure can restrict the bladder from emptying completely.  In serious cases this can lead to kidney problems as well.

Prostate Cancer is cancer that begins in the prostate.  Many of the symptoms of prostate cancer are those associated with prostatitis as well as an enlarged prostate due to non-cancerous BPH, for this reason it is very important to see a medical professional right away if you experience any of the symptoms described.  Other symptoms that occur due to prostate cancer can be incontinence, bone pain, blood in the urine, abdominal pain, a low red blood cell count, and unintentional weight loss.  Prostate cancer is treated in mostly the same way as other cancers and depends on the stage of the tumor.  You will need to talk with your doctor about your options which may include radiation therapy, surgery, or simply monitoring the cancer without actively participating in any treatments.  Many of the treatments available have side effects that will need to be discussed in detail before proceedings.

If you have prostate health issues of the type described above, then the most common symptoms you may have, as described above, may be that you need to go to the bathroom more regularly, it may be uncomfortable to urinate, and you may have trouble clearing your bladder.  If you experience these symptoms supplementing with nutrients, massage, and exercise or specialized supplements like GNC’s prostate formula may not be enough for complicated problems, so make sure to talk to your doctor quickly

Prostate problems can arise from the body’s conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, and for this reason surgery’s and medications may involve reducing or restricting testosterone production.

Treatments for your prostate include:

Frequent prostate massages, trans-urethral microwave thermo-therapy, relaxation techniques, muscle relaxants, biofeeback, and in the case of a prostate infection, erythromycin and similar antibiotics have been known to help clear up bacterial causes.

In the case of non-cancerous prostatitis, surgery is a rarity and will only be considered if medication and massage therapy treatments have not worked.  There are many supplements listed below, other posts on this site will give you information on foods that you can eat to make your own natural prostate formula with diet in mind.

Supplements to Keep Your Prostate Healthy include:

Note:  none of these formulas are to be used for the treatment of an enlarged prostate, or symptoms of prostatitis or prostate cancer.  these are meant to be taken as dietary supplements to provide the nutrients neccessary to provide prostate support in your diet.

Prostate Formula

Super Beta Prostate

Super Prostate formula

Schiff prostate health

Prostate Perform

GNC Prostate Formula

Most of the Prostate formula’s above have a combination of the following active ingredients for helping to keep your prostate healthy.

saw palmetto
helps inhibit testosterone conversion into dihydrotestosterone.  Saw palmetto has been clinically documented to help maintain prostate function as well as regular urinary flow.  This is one of the most commonly found ingredients in a natural prostate support formula.

Pygeum
same as above

Stinging Nettle
this helps to moderate the levels of prostaglandins in the body.  this also works well with Pygeum to enhance its effects.

Pumpkin seeds are a great source of essential fatty acids which must come from the diet.  Essential fatty acids have a wide range of healthy benefits, and they help with urinary flow.

Zinc is essential for prostate health, and high levels of zinc in the male body have been linked with a healthy prostate for a long time.

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There are quite a few products on the market that are aimed at helping you solve all of the problems that are associated with prostate infection, BPH or an enlarged prostate.  There are even quite a few, thank god, at keeping your prostate healthy and happy and preventing you from ever having problems.  Here we have covered our healthy prostate formula and explained how diet and exercise along with the prostate healthy vitamins that are necessary to support your prostate health can keep your risk of prostate troubles very low.  We have recently come across another product that some are claiming to be an incredibly effective non pharmaceutical prostate remedy that is effective in treating the cause and symptoms of an enlarged prostate.  We decided to take a look at this formula and see how it looks.

This product is called Super Prostate Formula, and is very similar to many of the prostate healthy vitamins we have talked about here before with a few minor differences.  Super Prostate formula contains quite a few vitamins with antioxidant properties as well as lycopene, saw palmetto, various amino-acids, zinc, selenium, pygeum, pumpkin seeds, stinging nettles, and panax ginseng.  Now besides the panex ginseng and the amino acids it seems they have an interesting difference by including phytosterols in their prostate health formula.  These phytosterols are found in pumpkin seeds, saw palmetto, and pygeum already, but their addition looks like a positive additive.  According to Wikipedia, beta sitosterol has been shown in studies to help slow male hair loss, help lower blood cholesterol, and in Europe is a major player in their herbal treatment of benign prostate Hypertrophy.

We mentioned that some have claimed this product is a super prostate remedy, and it is important to note that the source of these claims did come from a financially interested party.  We are currently seeking out super prostate formula reviews in order to get a balanced idea of how effective the super prostate formula really is.  That being said, based on the research that I have done, it looks like a very good product with some additions that i have not yet seen in other products.  Super prostate formula may be very popular for good reason after all.

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An enlarged prostate is very common in men over 30, and for men over 40, over half will have some type of prostate problem.  Prostate disorders have been associated with declining testosterone levels associated with age.  As testosterone levels decline, dihydrotestosterone levels begin to rise along with estrogen.  Estrogen inhibits dihydrotestosterone elimination causing those levels to stay high over a long period of time.  This dihydrotestosterone is associated with cell growth and is one cause of prostate enlargement.  Exercise is essential to a healthy prostate because it helps to promote natural testosterone production and will help to limit the effect of age related testosterone decline.

Prostate trouble has also been called a nutritional disease.  Because of this I think it is incredibly important to cover what foods are neccessary to keep your prostate healthy.

Foods for a Healthy Prostate

high fruit and vegetable-rich diets are good for your overall health.  The fiber and nutrients found in fruits and vegetables are hard to get elsewhere, because many times a multivitamin or multi-mineral supplement just won’t cut it.

There is growing evidence that may suggest milk could be bad for the prostate.  I have long subscribed to the idea that water is the only liquid you should drink, as Arnold Schwarzenegger once said “milk is for babies”.  Evidence points to excessive calcium intake which can suppress a form of vitamin D being synthesized in the body.

We have said before that tomatoes are the healthy prostate food because of the lycopene which gives them their red color.  lycopene is a powerful antioxidant that can be found in many other foods as well as in nutritional supplement form.  Guavas, pink grapefruit, and watermelons all have high amounts of lycopene as well.  The thing that really makes lycopene important for a healthy prostate  is that it not only helps to prevent prostate cancer, but it may also help to reduce the size of existing tumors.

There are a few nutrients that are very often lacking in most men’s diets that are great candidates for healthy prostate supplements that you should add to your vitamin regime.  The first most often lacking nutrient is zinc which affects the prostate quite a bit because the prostate gland uses zinc much more than any other body part.  Zinc supplementation can even reduce prostate enlargement because it alters steroid hormone metabolism for the better.  Make sure to be careful with your zinc intake though, because too much of it can be toxic.  I would suggest you grab some pumpkin seeds for a snack as they are a zinc rich food.  Pumpkin seeds are also rich in selenium which is another nutrient not found very often in our diets.  Brazil nuts are another food that is rich in selenium.  Selenium is great for a healthy prostate because it has been shown to reduce prostate cancer risk.

Vitamin D, E, and antioxidant supplementation have been shown to help keep your prostate healthy as well, and since these are all found in most multivitamins you want to make sure to have one daily.  To help protect you from cancer, and vampires, real garlic should be added to your diet on a regular basis as well.

Healthy Prostate Supplements

We have already talked about the foods that you should be consuming as well as the trace nutrients that you should be taking as dietary supplements like zinc, selenium, lycopene, vitamin D, E and the others.  For these next supplements i am going to discuss, they can be thought of as herbal prostate remedies if you like, but whatever they are, they are not likely to come up in your dietary regime unless you seek them out intentionally.

Saw palmetto is an amazing herbal extract that come from the berries of a small palm tree found in the southeastern United States.  It’s effectiveness as a healthy prostate supplement is in the way that it inhibits the synthesis or creation of DHT (dihydrotestosterone)  It also helps to lower estrogen levels which in effect helps the elimination of DHT in the body.  Saw palmetto may be “just some other herbal supplement” but it has been clinically researched extensively, and in a couple cases it has been found to be more effective in treating prostate enlargement than other prostate supplements and prescribed drugs like Proscar.  One study showed saw palmetto to be effective in almost 90% of patients after four to six weeks of use.  When drugs that are prescribed generally have sexual dysfunction as a common side effect and are less effective, you can see why saw palmetto can be so powerful.

Pygeum is another one of the amazingly healthy prostate supplements in league with saw palmetto.  Pygeum is obtained from tree bark and is an indigenous African remedy.  It shows similar benefits to saw palmetto when it comes to DHT and the treating of an enlarged prostate or BHP as it is commonly known.  Pygeum is often used in conjunction with saw palmetto in order to increase the effectiveness of both herbs.

Two other common herbal remedies include stinging nettle and Cernilton which is a common European product prepared mainly from the extracts of rye pollen.

Now that you have the foods, the vitamins and the supplements you need to get and keep your prostate healthy, it’s time to start enjoying life again!

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