Preventive measures against prostate problems


        PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST PROSTATE PROBLEMS

• Magnesium deficiency has been studied in France in this connection-as long ago as 1930 a French specialist found that it was a valuable food supplement in men with prostatic problems. In one study twelve men with prostatic problems were given magnesium tablets. Ten of them were cured. Another French doctor found that magnesium reduced the swelling of benign enlarged prostates. Often, the reduction in size was small but the improvement in the man great. The specialist concluded that magnesium contributed to the battle against senility. Food sources of magnesium are Dolomite tablets, wheat-germ, honey, nuts, brown rice, seeds of various kinds and kohlrabi.

• Zinc is now the most researched of all the trace elements, with more than a thousand learned papers a year appearing on the subject in the western world alone. Zinc is especially plentiful in the prostate gland for reasons that are as yet unknown. There is a well-established link between a lack of zinc and prostate problems. A prostate gland that is abnormal due to infection contains less zinc than a healthy one. In benign enlargement zinc levels are the same as normal but in cancer of the gland zinc levels are low. Semen too is very rich in zinc but it is still not known why all this zinc is necessary in the male reproductive tract. Zinc appears to be related to spermatic physiology so perhaps prostatic fluid (which contributes substantially to the amount of fluid a man ejaculates) is rich in zinc to sustain sperms and to help them mature.
In a Canadian study, a 35 per cent fall in prostatic zinc levels resulted in mild enlargement of the gland. When the drop in zinc approached 40 per cent the men suffered from chronic infection of the gland. When it dropped by 66 per cent the men developed cancer. Foods rich in zinc are seafood, brewer's yeast, onions, bran, eggs, nuts, rabbit, peas, beans, lentils, wheat-germ, gelatin and beef liver.

• Coffee and sugar have provable effects on the prostate gland. Every year thousands of men in the UK and US die from prostatic cancer or from the more severe effects of benign enlargement. In Japan cancer of the prostate is almost unknown and even benign enlargement is uncommon. Japanese researchers examined the differences between the diet of men with prostatic troubles in Japan and in the West. There were, of course, many differences but the most compelling was that the Japanese male drinks almost no coffee. The Japanese researchers then went to World Health Organization statistics and found that in Sweden, where the death rate for prostatic cancer is the highest in the world, coffee consumption is also the highest in the world (8 kg per person per year). They then went through a list of twenty countries and found that for nearly all of them the correlation applied.
They next checked for research into cancer-causing agents in coffee. A US study had indeed found that benzo-pyrene and other cancer-producing hydrocarbons are present in lightly roasted coffees such as are drunk in the US and Europe. Very long roasting does not produce a coffee rich in these substances-such coffee is drunk in Italy where cancer of the prostate is half that of Sweden. So could it be that over thirty years of coffee drinking these tiny amounts of carcinogens can produce prostatic cancer? Sugar consumption is also statistically linked to prostatic cancer and whilst no correlation can be found between coffee consumption and other types of cancer in the body, this is not so with sugar. There is a higher incidence of cancer of the breast, ovary, intestine and rectum the more sugar a person consumes. This raises the question as to whether it could be the sugar in the coffee that could be causing the prostatic cancer and not the coffee itself. More research is needed.

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