by Lawrence Wilson, MD
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January 2010, The Center For Development
Many men over the age of 30 or
so, suffer from prostatitis, an enlarged prostate
gland, and later many develop prostate cancer. Symptoms can include pain, difficulty urinating, difficulty
or pain upon intercourse, and bladder and urinary tract infections. Let us discuss natural approaches for
all these conditions.
This condition is quite common
and often goes undiagnosed. It is
an inflammation or infection in the prostate gland. This is a common cause of difficulty in urination, pain,
enlarged prostate or a sense of heaviness in the lower portion of the body.
This condition responds
extremely well to nutritional balancing programs, often rapidly. It is often
due to a hidden zinc deficiency, copper toxicity or an infection in the
prostate that may not respond to drugs, but does respond easily in most cases
to balancing the body chemistry.
Also see below for other remedies for prostate problems that can be
quite helpful, at times.
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY (ENLARGED PROSTATE)
This is the most common prostate
condition affecting middle-aged and older men. Its symptom is usually difficulty beginning urination,
difficulty emptying all the urine, reduced urine flow, frequent trips to the
bathroom during the night, and occasionally discomfort in the bladder area.
Prostate enlargement is caused
by an unhealthy enlargement of the prostate gland, which chokes off the urethra
(a tube that conducts the urine), causing difficulty with urination. The prostate gland literally is wrapped
around the urethra, the tube leading from the bladder to the penis through
which urine passes.
Most men go for surgery for this
condition. However, I know many
men that regret this decision, as they now have some incontinence or other
problems. A slower alternative
solution is to repair the prostate gland.
In most cases, this will cause the swelling to subside and the problem
goes away without surgery.
Prevention. Doctors often recommend more
sex to prevent this condition. It
may work for a while, but sex depletes zinc, so eventually this solution will
stop working in most cases. Also,
sex depletes the body in other important, but subtle ways. For these and other reasons, I do not
recommend this method.
Hydrotherapy can
help. Many
years ago, I worked as a doctor in a very poor village in Mexico. A man consulted me for prostate
enlargement that was making it impossible for him to urinate, he said. An older natural healing book suggested
a very safe and simple remedy that worked excellently!
One places about 2 inches of icy
cold water in a shallow pan, or one can put about two inches of water in a
bathtub. The water must be as cold
as possible!
The man pulls his pants down and
sit in this cold water for at least 20 minutes. One can wear a sweatshirt or even a sweater to keep
warm. This reduces inflammation
and congestion in the prostate gland, and the gland shrinks, causing the
problem to disappear. I do not
know if the method helps long-term, but it will work in an emergency. In my limited experience with cold
water baths, the effect can last if the procedure is done often enough to bring
a lot more blood circulation to the area, reduce infection and inflammation,
and help revitalize the gland.
The only caution I can think of
with this remedy is not to allow yourself to become chilled. Keep your feet out of the cold water,
for example, having only your buttocks in the water. If you start feeling a chill, get out or have some hot tea,
perhaps, to warm up. Of course,
combining this with a nutritional balancing program would be far better yet.
Other natural and
safe remedies and methods.
Some men are helped by herbal formulas for the prostate that usually contain
saw palmetto, pumpkin seed oil, zinc, and vitamins A, D and E.
Homeopathic remedies in the
health food store are also occasionally effective enough to keep the condition
under control. Most important,
these methods are harmless and do not impair overall health. Therefore they can be used for an
extended period of time.
Coping with
prostate difficulties until a nutritional balancing program can correct it.
1. Know that this does not
impair sexual activity or any other body system. It is benign, in other words, as long as you are able to
urinate. If you cannot urinate,
however, you must do the procedure above or see a doctor immediately. The doctor will place a catheter or
plastic tube up the penis that forces the urethra to open so you can urinate
2. Relax a lot when
urinating. Some men do better
sitting, rather than standing to urinate.
3. Do not drink anything after
about 5-6 PM to help avoid having to get up a lot at night. This includes avoiding a dinner of just
soup, for example, which is very high in water content.
4. Getting up to urinate once or
even twice is not much a problem as long as you can fall asleep again fast
afterwards. To help fall back
asleep quickly, avoid turning on a bright light when you get up, if
possible. Also, keep warm,
especially your feet. Put on a
bathrobe and slippers if your bedroom is cold, for example.
Correcting the
cause of an enlarged prostate. The underlying
cause of benign prostatic hypertrophy or BPH is often
a hidden infection or the presence of toxic metals or other inflammatory
substances that are affecting the prostate. Rarely, psychological factors having to do with women and
sex can affect the prostate as well.
A nutritional balancing program based on a properly performed
and properly interpreted hair mineral analysis can quite easily correct most causese of the problem. Even better results may occur if one adds coffee enemas and
near infrared sauna therapy to the program. Distilled water may be very important for about 3-9 months
to help decongest the prostate gland.
The cold water baths above may also be very helpful, as may the use the
of a prostate formula, if needed for a while.
Urinary tract problems in older
men are often extremely chronic.
This means that it may take several years of nutritional balancing for
the problem to go away completely.
While correction is proceeding, one should use the symptomatic remedies
described above, if needed. This
is the ideal way to handle the problem, in my view.
Drugs for prostate
enlargement include Proscar and others. These may or may not help. They are all somewhat toxic, so beware of this. We always recommend the fewest toxic
drugs possible, as they usually cause other problems sooner or later.
Prostate surgery. While surgery for prostate
enlargement is usually more or less successful, it can cause lifelong
complications if it is not fully successful. This happens often.
The main complication is some
degree of incontinence, which means leakage of urine all the time. This is a very annoying and possibly
embarrassing symptom. People
with this usually will need to wear adult diapers to prevent wetting the pants. If you can avoid surgery, I suggest it.
This is usually a slow-growing
cancer that may give few symptoms.
Some common ones are pain or bleeding with urination, or occasionally a
bloody discharge with sexual intercourse.
However, this may be due to other causes, so one should not assume it is
prostate cancer without more tests.
Other possible symptoms are
generalized fatigue and other cancer symptoms such as unexplained weight loss.
Prostate cancer
tests. The PSA
(prostate-specific antigen) test is the most commonly used screening test for
prostate cancer. It is not a reliable test, according to
many newsletters that I read. That
is, it can give both false positives
and false negative answers.
Therefore, do not rely on this test, in my opinion, either to rule out
prostate cancer or to diagnose or confirm it. This may be very important.
The PSA
test often leads men into painful biopsies and at times into medical treatments
that can be as bad as or worse than the cancer itself. Therefore I do not recommend regular PSA tests, as many doctors like to do annually.
Instead, I suggest that every
man over about the age of 50 undergo a nutritional balancing program. This is for prevention only. However, hair mineral testing will
often reveal some patterns associated with prostate conditions, as discussed
below.
It may also reveal other patterns
that are more specific for cancer such as high toxic metal levels, lowered
energy production and others.
If you suspect
prostate cancer or if prostate cancer has been diagnosed.
I do not recommend nutritional balancing for any type of
cancer. This is most important. The reason is that cancer is a
fast-moving disease in some cases, and nutritional balancing is not designed
specifically to stop it. Other
therapies that are symptomatic will often stop it quickly. Once the cancer is definitely in remission,
then nutritional balancing is a wise idea to continue to improve oneÕs
health. This is all explained in Introduction to Cancer on this website.
This, and perhaps other articles
on cancer on this site, suggest that one should first bring the cancer under
control with either the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy or perhaps with a
product called Protocel, available inexpensively on
the internet. The Kelley Program
is better, but more costly.
Then one can go on the nutritional
balancing program after the cancer is in remission. This is the safest way to handle prostate cancer. I definitely do not recommend
chemotherapy, radiation or surgery for this condition, as it often does not
work well and can make the problem much worse.
Of all the drug therapies, the
use of Lupron, a hormone inhibitor, appears to be
safest. I know of many long-term
survivors who used this. However,
I know this type of cancer can often be handled naturally if one is willing to do
coffee enemas, near infrared sauna therapy and take Protocel
or the Kelley enzyme therapy.
HAIR ANALYSIS
PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE PROBLEMS
These include:
á
A
sodium/potassium ratio below 2.5.
á
A
zinc level less than 14 mg%.
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A
copper level above about 2.5 mg% or indicators of hidden copper imbalance.
á
A
cadmium level generally above 0.01 mg%.
á
Mercury
and other toxic metals may also play a role in prostate problems.
As these imbalances are
corrected, the prostatitis, BPH
and even some prostate cancers go away.
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