Do You Know These Tips For Looking After Your Prostate?

This series of articles is informational only and not intended to be a substitution for your doctor’s advice, so make sure that you seek a professional opinion if you feel that you may have prostate issues.

A quick recap

In this series we have looked at:

• the most common prostate issues,
• risk factors,
• screening options and treatment modalities,
• the role of nutrition, and
• supplementation to support prostate function.

In this final article in the series, I will share five tips with you which you can implement right now.

Any one of them, a combination, or all of them.

Tip 1: Bio-hacking

If you are a survivalist, or hold a belief that your body is a temple which must be kept pure, you might consider

• drinking your water from glass bottles, rather than plastics,
• avoiding cosmetics that contain parabens (note: the jury might still be out on the subject of parabens), and
• filtering your drinking water

While there are associations between environmental phenols and parabens and prostate cancer especially in older men, since there is very little understanding of the etiology of prostate cancer, we do not really know if one leads to the other.

What we do know, however, is that increased male estrogen as a result of environmental factors is a major culprit warranting medical interventions that result in side effects, including low libido, for men.

Slovenian researchers conducted a review of the literature on exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and found

…detrimental effects of EDCs on semen quality and sperm DNA integrity-especially in BPA and phthalates, but also in parabens.

Virant-Klun, et al (2022)

For those of us who might not be able to afford bio-hacking tools and techniques, or who are not so inclined or motivated to do bio-hacking, there are other ways.

For us, then, moderation is key.

Tip 2: You are what you eat, digest and absorb

We’ve been here before, haven’t we?

If you haven’t read the article on diet nutrition for your prostate, you can read it here.

Again, moderation here is important. That could include your coffee and alcohol intake.

If you like a drink every know and then, red wine is better than white for anti-oxidant properties, and you might opt for a Cabernet-Sauvignon or Merlot.

Other wines that have been studied for their anti-oxidant properties include American, Canadian, Australian and Chinese.

We also looked at supplementation, so no need to repeat that here.

Tip 3: Let’s talk about sex, men!

Whether for procreation or pleasure, alone or with a partner, sex can benefit men particularly as we grow older. There are observational studies (and one cohort study of 55,490 participants) that show an association between a healthy sex life with moderate frequent ejaculations and a reduced risk of prostate cancer.

Having a healthy sex life combined with healthy habits can’t be all that bad now, can it?

Remember, too, that there are additional benefits for your prostate and your overall health including stress reduction.

Tip 4: Do you know how to kegel?

Do you even know what kegel exercises are?

Here’s a quick video:

If you still have trouble visualizing this, here’s a tip:

The next time you want to stop yourself passing gas/breaking wind/farting, clench the anal sphincter muscle (not your glutes, or the rest of your body).

For the more complete routine, check out this one from a physical therapist:

Tip 5: Meditation and prayer

I grew up a Oneness Pentecostal with the belief that “prayer changes things”.

Prayer is the one of the oldest and most widespread methodologies for addressing illness and promoting good health.

In this context, we are talking about prayer to God (or any other god) for an intervention in a health-related situation.

Prayer within the research context

A group of Christian and Muslim researchers from Oxford conducted a review of the effects of intercessory prayer as an additional intervention for people with health challenges. These patients would also be receiving routine health care.

If I may be so blunt with the conclusion (and I hope I am not misinterpreting it), they reckoned it was a waste of time.

They found that intercessory prayer had no effect on

• death,
• re-admission to Coronary Care, or
• re-hospitalization.

Could it be how we are doing it? Prayer, I mean?

With regard to how we see sickness and health as religionists, this was an area I used to have debates about as a former Sunday School teacher.

Using visualizations and affirmations

Did you feel a sermon coming on? Nah, not this time…I think I will save this for a special series in the not too distant future.

In the meantime…

Dynamic meditation, using visualizations and affirmations, has been found to be highly effective as a self-management technique.

One of the methods of the Silva Life System is called the Mirror of The Mind.

If you have prostate issues and are under a doctor’s care, you might want to try out the progressive version of this technique. This is so you can track the numbers from, for example, the prostate-specific antigens (PSAs) with your doctor.

Here is Laura Silva Quesada explaining how it works:

If you are not familiar with Silva Mind Control techniques (that is, for your own mind now), you could try visualizing the swollen prostate getting smaller and the PSA numbers being reduced. Or use positive affirmations.

For more information, you can start with José’s book The Silva Mind Control Method. Towards the end of the book is an powerful demonstration of using the method to heal a damaged arm.

Perhaps the reseachers could learn something?

Did I fail to mention that a young boy used the imagery of Star Wars to visualize his body attacking cancer cells after radiation therapy failed?

It worked.

That story is told by John Kehoe in his book Mind Power.

I am going to borrow a quote from José Silva:

Ignorance does not exempt us from suffering. Knowledge exempts us from suffering.

José Silva

To a better, wiser, stronger – YOU.

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Photo by Barbara Olsen

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