We concentrate so much
on women's disorders because
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women tend to go to
doctors more than men;
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but actually, men have some very
common and some very serious
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problems as well.
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So in this program,
we'll be talking about
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men's health issues...
so we hope you will join us!
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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Some of men's health
issues are of a serious nature.
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I'd like to start out
talking about one of those
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and that's the
subject of prostatitis.
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Prostatitis can be of 2 kinds;
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it can be acute,
or it can be chronic.
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The acute form can be
really quite serious...
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so that it can cause high fevers
and chills, loss of appetite,
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backaches, perineal
pain, the floor of the pelvis
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can be really quite severe...
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And such a man may be
actually prostrate, just so weak
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and so sick that he
can't get out of bed.
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There are a number of
things that can be done for him,
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and he needs to work
diligently on applying these
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because if he's
careful in applying them,
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it will be less likely that he
will get a chronic prostatitis.
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Some men describe the
hot, tender, very painful
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prostate with acute
prostatitis as being
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a hot stone in the rectum,
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and that certainly
could be a way to describe it.
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Now since there are a number
of germs that can be involved
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in acute prostatitis, we
almost always get something like
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the colon bacteria that
are so common in the colon.
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We almost always get those.
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Sometimes we need to massage
the prostate in order to get
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secretions to culture...
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But most of the time,
if we just wait a day or so
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we can get from the
urine, the same bacteria,
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even sometimes
from the very beginning,
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we can get the pathogenic
bacterium that's causing
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the problem with the
prostate from the urine...
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which means that we don't
have to massage the prostate
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which, by massaging,
can release germs into the
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bloodstream which
could cause the germs
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to go all over the body.
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Of course, we're always
concerned in people who have
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some kind of heart
problem, that if the germs
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go all over the body, then the
individual has the possibility
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although it's not very
great, but it is a possibility,
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that they will grow on the
abnormal place in the heart.
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Now, with prostatitis,
there are certain antimicrobials
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that are of a herbal nature
that I'd like to tell you about
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Of course, everybody is familiar
with goldenseal, and Echinacea
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as herbal antimicrobial agents,
and I can recommend these
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for people who
have acute prostatitis.
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Garlic is another antimicrobial,
along with elderberry.
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Myrrh is a very
good antimicrobial.
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Calendula is very
good for the prostate.
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And, one that I like very much
is also grapefruit seed extract.
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It's a very good antimicrobial
substance that can be
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used in acute prostatitis.
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Now if one is very careful
to treat oneself during the
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acute phase, then there
is a much less likelihood
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that it will go on to the
chronic phase of prostatitis.
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The chronic phase
gives a little pain,
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sometimes a
little pus in the urine,
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sometimes a little sense of
fullness in the pelvic area,
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and often, it just sort
of subdues the man's sense of
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well-being somewhat.
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So we want to avoid
that if it's at all possible.
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Now along with prostatitis,
there is another topic that
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men often suffer from, and
I have asked Dr. Don Miller
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to talk with you about that
one, and that is the subject of
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impotence in men.
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It's getting to be
a more common problem,
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and I think that some of
the issues that are involved
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would be well to discuss
at this time... Dr. Miller
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Okay... You know, I
get my VFW magazine,
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and in every issue, there
will be a whole large page
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advertisement for
this particular problem
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They usually
either cause it impotence,
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or erectile dysfunction.
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And this is a major problem
usually having to do with
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a man when he gets
a little bit older.
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And, I would say,
probably it's not so much a
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problem of itself,
although it is a problem,
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but it's more of a
symptom of another problem...
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And there are some
rather simple things you can try
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to take care of this problem.
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Basically, the thing is going
to be a circulation problem
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For some reason, the circulation
of the blood down in that
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part of the body has
been somehow impaired,
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and when you have the
impairment of the blood flow,
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you have impotence.
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There are various things
that keep us from having good
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circulation, and some of them
we've done other programs on
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...something like diabetes.
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A person who is diabetic is
far more likely to be impotent
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than the person
who is not diabetic.
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And so what should you do?
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You should do the things in
your life that will keep you
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from being diabetic...
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Eating the right
foods, getting the exercise...
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But also, another thing
that keeps us from having good
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blood flow in any
part of the body...
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We're not just
talking about impotence here,
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we're talking
about the whole body!
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Let me go back to one of the
foundational health principles
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I always... whenever I
teach health principles,
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I teach 2
foundational principles...
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#1 is the life is in the
blood, but the second one is...
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Perfect health
requires perfect circulation.
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Anything that impairs
circulation is going to cause
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us not to be as
healthy as we could be...
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which is the
problem with impotence.
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So, drinking more water...
a person who is impotent
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maybe the fact that they
just don't drink water enough...
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their blood is too viscous
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and, therefore, they're
not getting the good blood flow
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in that part of the body.
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Another thing can be... tobacco
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We realize that tobacco damages
peripheral blood circulation.
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You'll see many people who
are really hooked on the tobacco
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and if they go there long
enough, they start to have
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amputations because
they started losing the
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circulation in their periphery.
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ALCOHOL certainly can be
a potent cause of impotence
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...that's a funny
way of putting it...
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"a potent cause of impotence"
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So, we need to stay
away from the alcohol.
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As a matter of fact, anything
stimulating along those lines
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are bad for the
prostate, bad for the impotence.
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Another thing you need
to do is make sure that
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you stay away
from over-stimulation.
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A person sometimes is
impotent because they have,
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for SO long
stayed so over-stimulated
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in the sexual areas.
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Basically, you're talking
about people who are into
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let's say
pornography, in any of its forms
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A person so wears out
their apparatus, that it just
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doesn't work anymore.
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It's best to sit there, and
make sure you have a pure mind.
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I would recommend to a
person who is impotent...
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and I've ran into
these people in India
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I want them to stay completely
away from anything stimulating
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for at least a month.
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Stay away from their wives...
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Stay away from anything
that might stimulate them
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Keep their minds
in a higher level,
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and perhaps sometimes
through this time-out,
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your body can recover enough.
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But then I also
recommend the other things
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...keep the blood flowing well.
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You can do things
called hot and cold sitz baths
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Basically, sitting
in a contrast bath.
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You sit in hot
water for 3 minutes,
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go into cold water for 30
seconds, back to hot water
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for 3 minutes, 30
seconds into cold.
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This vasoconstriction
vasodilatation can help to
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increase blood flow.
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We have them do that for things
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like arthritis to the
hand, and other things.
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It can work the same
way in the pelvic area.
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It's also good for the
prostate while you're at it.
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So doing the hot
and cold sitz baths
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would be very beneficial for
the person having this problem.
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There are certain herbs
that a person could take
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And, almost anything
to do with the prostate,
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saw palmetto
berries is extremely good.
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So I would recommend a
person try saw palmetto berries,
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because sometimes impotence...
some people consider that
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also along the lines
of male infertility...
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saw palmetto
berries will help that.
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Ginger will help that.
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Dr. Thrash has
mentioned ginger for the woman.
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Ginger for the man could
also be quite beneficial.
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And then, I've read recently
that people who are into
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REALLY into bicycling, I
mean getting on to the little
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banana seats, and
doing long term bicycling
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they can become impotent
because of the damage being done
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to the vascular
system leading into the area
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that's under question here.
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Also, any type of
injury to that area.
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You find many young
people today out there playing
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the soccer... They get
kicked in the wrong places
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THAT itself can lead
to impotence in the future
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because of damage
to the vascular area.
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So we need to protect
EVERY part of our body,
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and if you're concerned about
impotence, protect that part
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of your body.
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Stay away from
those little narrow seats.
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Don't sit on hard surfaces.
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You need good
blood flow at all times
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REMEMBER, perfect health
requires perfect circulation
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...And that goes
for your prostate,
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that goes for EVERYTHING
that you have, your eyes,
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EVERYTHING needs to
have good circulation.
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I think as we keep the
circulation going, Dr. Thrash,
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we'll be a lot better off. Yes!
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Now circulation is so important
that it involves not only
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the impotence thing, but
it also involves infertility.
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So if a man has impotence,
it's probable that he will also
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have infertility.
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Now, infertility is
fairly easy to study in a man,
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not so with a woman.
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It's much more difficult
with women to study infertility,
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but with men, usually
a sample of the semen is
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all that's needed and the answer
is evident pretty shortly.
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But there are some things
about impotence that may be
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correctible even surgically
that a man should know about
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and those are varicoceles,
little tumors of the testes,
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wearing tight
pants, wearing tight shorts
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...taking hot
baths as a regular thing.
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A single hot bath can, after
a few days, actually enhance
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the production of spermatozoa,
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but if these are regular,
every day, every day, every day,
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hot baths for 1/2
an hour to an hour,
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then that can reduce the
production of spermatozoa
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and can make it so that the
man is more or less impotent.
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Then such things as
smoking, and drinking...
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they have their
influence not only on impotence,
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but also on infertility.
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The influence of
drugs is quite enormous;
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that's even
over-the-counter types of drugs.
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These things can make so much
of an influence on the man's
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health, or on his fertility,
that the couple can be infertile
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Now a couple of things
that don't directly deal with
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infertility, but
should be considered...
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One is that it's child
abuse to continue any kind of
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indulgence that makes a
problem in the prenatal area
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for the child...
such things as smoking.
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A woman, and a man as
well, because smoking in a man
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can also involve the
unborn child in an atmosphere
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that makes it so that the child
is less likely to be able to
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develop a good
blood vessel system.
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And so, the man, as well
as the woman, should not be
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smoking during the pregnancy
time, or ideally, for some time
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PRIOR to the
onset of the pregnancy.
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And, the lifestyle does
have a great influence on the
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unborn child and
should be carefully studied.
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Probably the commonest
affliction of older men
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is that of benign
prostatic hypertrophy.
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This condition is not
universal but nearly so,
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as a man gets older...
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And so, Dr. Miller is going to
talk with you about some things
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having to do with
benign prostatic hypertrophy.
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You know, sometimes when we
study how not to get a disease
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we like to study populations
that don't have that disease.
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If you want not
to get osteoporosis,
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find a population that
does not get osteoporosis,
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find out how they live...
you won't get osteoporosis,
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or at least-wise, you greatly
lessen your opportunities
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and your chances of
getting osteoporosis.
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So I read an interesting
study not long ago about a
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certain class that do
not get prostate problems,
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especially this one that
Dr. Thrash has just mentioned
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and that is "wild dogs"
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Wild dogs are found not
to have this enlargement
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of the prostate.
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But domestic dogs
almost all have the enlargement
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of the prostate...
What's the difference?
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Well, I've been down in
Africa, and I've seen the wild
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dogs, the real wild dogs.
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And basically when a
wild dog gets the urge,
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the wild dog
takes care of the urge.
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But a domestic dog, locked
up in that house all day long,
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he feels the urge... saying,
"I've really got to go to the
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bathroom," but he remembers
when he was 3 months old
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having his nose pushed down
into the carpet where he piddled
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and being beat by a
newspaper, and told...
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"You've got to do it over here"
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And that dog will hold
itself the entire day long.
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I remember I used to
come home when I was a child,
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and take our dog for a
walk, and wondering why
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that dog would go to
the bathroom 27 times from
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our house to
the corner and back.
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It's because that dog
was retaining it's urine,
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and the retention of the
urine has been placed with
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the problem with
benign prostate hyperplasia,
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or hypertrophy...
however you want to put it.
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And so, we need to make
sure that when we get the urge
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we go to the
bathroom right then.
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But we're in a society right now
that we hold it, and we hold it,
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and hold it, and it's the
holding of it that's going
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to cause lots of
different types of problems.
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Well, let's talk about
what's causing this problem...
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it's over-engorgement of
the prostate on a regular basis.
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Again this gets back to
the point of over-stimulation
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A person who continually
keeps himself sexually aroused
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will have an engorgement
because basically, the prostate
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is a part of the
reproductive system.
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It provides some of the
fluids, that propels the semen,
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and so it becomes engorged
every time a man gets aroused.
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It's sort of like a balloon...
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You know, when you take a
balloon, and you blow it up
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for the first time,
it's pretty tough to blow up
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but every time you blow it,
it gets a little bit easier.
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And, it gets a
little bit distended,
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it sort of stays
larger as you're doing this.
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The same thing
with the prostate.
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The prostate is
about the size of a walnut,
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and basically, it's
an organ that has a hole
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through the middle
through which the urethra comes.
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And, when you start to get
this engorgement, it swells.
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Now when it swells,
much like the appendix,
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it swells out, and it
swells in, and it pinches down,
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and that's why many
people who have this problem
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have the process, or
the problem of urgency...
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They feel like they've
got to go to the bathroom,
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but they're not able
to produce much urine.
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They've got frequency because
they're not voiding all the way
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their bladder is staying full.
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They have many, many
trips to the bathroom,
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but only void a small amount...
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So the frequency and the urgency
are signs that you've got
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prostate problems.
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So what can you do about this?
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#1... Don't become
over-stimulated all the time.
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Stay away from those things that
stimulate you, or arouse you.
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...they're very bad.
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As a matter of fact,
even taking stimulating foods,
00:17:14.04\00:17:16.70
spices, alcohol, taking tobacco,
00:17:16.73\00:17:20.25
ALL will affect
that prostate gland.
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It's in a very innocuous
place, BUT it's down there where
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it's going to get into some
problems with your lifestyle.
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You can also make sure
that your blood flow is good...
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keeping the blood less viscous
by drinking plenty of water.
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But there are some good things
you can do to take care of it.
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I've already mentioned...
saw palmetto is probably
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one of the best things
you can do for the prostate.
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Eating red and orange fruits
and vegetables... extremely good
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prostate food.
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Zinc is a food that the
prostate needs a lot of.
00:17:50.68\00:17:54.36
So where do you get the zinc?
00:17:54.37\00:17:55.49
Well, you can buy the
little pills, but you can also
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take things like popcorn,
and you can take things like
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pumpkin seeds both of which
are very good forms of zinc.
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And, there are other
herbs that you can take,
00:18:04.74\00:18:08.56
and you can look up in a
herb book, and try to find
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some of these whatever herbs
are available in your area.
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Herbs that will help you
diurese a little bit more
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would also be
good for the prostate.
00:18:16.62\00:18:18.28
And, trying to eliminate the
congestion in the prostate area
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I would recommend
again the hot sitz baths...
00:18:22.37\00:18:24.74
sitting in the hot
water, and in the cold water...
00:18:24.77\00:18:27.39
this fluxion of
the water in and out.
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Now, I've had patients
before that needed, basically
00:18:29.45\00:18:32.06
on a daily basis, while
they were under my care,
00:18:32.09\00:18:36.25
a prostate massage.
00:18:36.28\00:18:37.95
Basically, inserting
a digit into the anus,
00:18:37.98\00:18:42.75
and then into the rectum,
and massaging that prostate
00:18:42.78\00:18:46.38
to try to expel some
of the fluid in there,
00:18:46.41\00:18:48.77
and we find that sometimes
this is effective in lessening
00:18:48.80\00:18:52.52
the size of the prostate and
letting it go down to where it's
00:18:52.55\00:18:57.06
not going to be such a problem
with the rest of the body.
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So those are some simple things
you can do for the prostate.
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Very simple, very
nice things and recently,
00:19:02.87\00:19:06.23
there have been these probes
that can be inserted into the
00:19:06.26\00:19:10.59
rectum that deliver heat,
and that can help to soothe
00:19:10.60\00:19:15.89
the prostate and
sometimes in acute prostatitis,
00:19:15.92\00:19:19.03
in chronic prostatitis, in
benign prostatic hypertrophy,
00:19:19.06\00:19:23.13
and in cancer of the prostate,
all of these conditions
00:19:23.16\00:19:27.43
will sometimes respond
to the heated probe that
00:19:27.44\00:19:32.42
is now available on the market.
00:19:32.45\00:19:34.93
I'd like to talk to you a
little bit about cancer of the
00:19:34.96\00:19:37.56
prostate in men.
00:19:37.59\00:19:38.63
This is a fairly
common disorder in men,
00:19:38.64\00:19:43.22
and a
moderately serious problem.
00:19:43.25\00:19:46.76
There are 2 general
types of prostatic cancer...
00:19:46.77\00:19:50.78
One is a fast-growing
type, and the other is a
00:19:50.81\00:19:53.67
very slow-growing type.
00:19:53.70\00:19:55.48
Generally, men in
the Orient, in Asia,
00:19:55.51\00:20:00.56
they tend to have
the slow-growing kind;
00:20:00.59\00:20:04.61
whereas, in the Western world,
men generally tend to have
00:20:04.64\00:20:10.55
more the fast-growing
type, or the faster-growing
00:20:10.56\00:20:14.21
than that in Asia.
00:20:14.24\00:20:16.55
An Asian man may get
cancer of the prostate,
00:20:16.58\00:20:19.26
and may die of something else
after 15 or 20 years of knowing
00:20:19.27\00:20:23.90
that he has
cancer of the prostate.
00:20:23.93\00:20:25.44
So it grows very
slowly... is what we might call
00:20:25.47\00:20:29.63
almost innocuous.
00:20:29.66\00:20:30.96
It CAN pickup speed,
and eventually kill the man,
00:20:30.99\00:20:34.73
but most of the time in
Asia, the disease is not
00:20:34.76\00:20:39.99
as rapid-growing as it
is in the Western world.
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Past the age of 65,
the commonest cancer in man
00:20:43.01\00:20:48.57
is prostate cancer.
00:20:48.60\00:20:50.78
Now with proper
treatment, most men can expect
00:20:50.81\00:20:53.80
...or at least 65% of men,
can expect that they can survive
00:20:53.83\00:20:58.05
10 years or more.
00:20:58.08\00:20:59.52
They may still have
cancer of the prostate,
00:20:59.55\00:21:01.98
but it has been so slow-growing,
and the treatment has been
00:21:02.01\00:21:08.53
the kind that can help a good
bit with the prostate cancer.
00:21:08.56\00:21:12.71
If a man gets prostate cancer,
he should study the kinds of
00:21:12.74\00:21:16.99
treatments that are available.
00:21:17.02\00:21:18.37
There are many different
kinds, all the way from
00:21:18.40\00:21:21.03
natural treatments, to VERY
high-tech types of treatment
00:21:21.06\00:21:25.23
for cancer of the prostate.
00:21:25.26\00:21:27.69
With most of
these, or many of these,
00:21:27.72\00:21:30.23
he can expect a good
10-year survival rate
00:21:30.26\00:21:33.33
without serious
problems with the cancer.
00:21:33.36\00:21:39.23
Now, an interesting feature
about cancer of the prostate
00:21:39.26\00:21:42.11
is that it can metastasize
quite widely throughout
00:21:42.14\00:21:46.88
a lot of the bones,
the liver, and other areas,
00:21:46.89\00:21:50.36
and still not
cause a lot of symptoms.
00:21:50.39\00:21:53.79
That's an interesting feature
about cancer of the prostate.
00:21:53.82\00:21:57.10
The first cancer of the
prostate that I ever saw,
00:21:57.13\00:21:59.96
when I was in medical
school, was just such a cancer.
00:21:59.99\00:22:02.97
The man had metastases
everywhere by the time he died.
00:22:03.00\00:22:07.31
And, he died at
quite an OLD age.
00:22:07.34\00:22:10.14
As I recall, he was well
into his 80s, and still had good
00:22:10.15\00:22:17.43
function and very few symptoms.
00:22:17.46\00:22:19.88
Now, what are the causes
of cancer of the prostate?
00:22:19.91\00:22:22.81
Generally speaking, experts
in this area will say that
00:22:22.84\00:22:26.31
we don't know what
causes cancer of the prostate.
00:22:26.34\00:22:29.51
But inactivity is one of those
things that we can feel pretty
00:22:29.54\00:22:33.14
certain is a problem
with cancer of the prostate...
00:22:33.17\00:22:38.13
And some people feel that
the massaging action of the
00:22:38.16\00:22:41.65
muscles of the pelvic
floor, and the muscles of the
00:22:41.68\00:22:45.36
buttocks, may be a part of
that that keeps the prostate
00:22:45.39\00:22:49.46
in very good health.
00:22:49.49\00:22:51.49
We know, also, that a high
fat diet, a diet high in animal
00:22:51.52\00:22:56.78
products... these are
also likely to be a part of
00:22:56.81\00:23:00.19
what we can consider
could be a part of the cause
00:23:00.22\00:23:05.03
of prostate cancer.
00:23:05.06\00:23:06.96
Now from a natural standpoint,
there are a number of things
00:23:06.99\00:23:09.79
that will enhance the treatment
of cancer of the prostate,
00:23:09.82\00:23:13.93
and many of these are what can
be called "hormone modulators"
00:23:13.96\00:23:18.23
There are a number of
herbal-types of hormone
00:23:18.26\00:23:22.06
modulators, and the best
known of these for men is
00:23:22.09\00:23:26.31
saw palmetto berry.
00:23:26.34\00:23:29.12
This herb has a very
good ability to inhibit the
00:23:29.15\00:23:38.85
functioning of 5-alpha-reductase
which, of course, then gives it
00:23:38.88\00:23:43.44
some inhibition of the
growth of prostate cancer.
00:23:43.47\00:23:47.10
Now, there are also
some antineoplastic herbs
00:23:47.13\00:23:54.61
and one of those is soy.
00:23:54.64\00:23:58.57
I'm very interested in the
new research that's going on
00:23:58.58\00:24:02.02
in many
university centers about soy.
00:24:02.05\00:24:06.56
And, one of things that we
know about soy is that it has
00:24:06.59\00:24:11.10
antineoplastic properties.
00:24:11.13\00:24:14.06
We know that breast cancer
is definitely inhibited by the
00:24:14.09\00:24:19.67
various constituents of soy.
00:24:19.70\00:24:22.38
Some of these
constituents, the most common is
00:24:22.41\00:24:25.76
isoflavone, but then in
addition to isoflavones,
00:24:25.79\00:24:30.08
there are some others
like protease inhibitors,
00:24:30.11\00:24:33.64
and saponins, and
inositol phosphohexate...
00:24:33.67\00:24:38.08
all of these are constituents
of soybeans that make them
00:24:38.11\00:24:42.86
very beneficial as
an antineoplastic agent.
00:24:42.89\00:24:47.59
Now, in addition to the soy,
there are other antineoplastic
00:24:47.62\00:24:53.73
or anticancer types of
foods, such as flaxseed.
00:24:53.76\00:24:59.15
Now the isoflavones are
largely responsible in soy,
00:24:59.18\00:25:02.78
but the lignans are
responsible in flaxseed
00:25:02.81\00:25:07.06
for the antimalignancy,
or antineoplastic factors,
00:25:07.09\00:25:12.46
and they are phytoestrogens,
just like the isoflavones,
00:25:12.47\00:25:17.93
but they work in a
slightly different way.
00:25:17.96\00:25:20.47
So, if one mixes both flaxseed
and soybeans, and it is soyBEANS
00:25:20.50\00:25:25.24
I prefer the soybeans
to any kind of product made
00:25:25.27\00:25:28.42
from soybeans when
we were treating cancer,
00:25:28.45\00:25:31.56
or treating any other
kind of serious problem.
00:25:31.59\00:25:34.57
So I'd use the
flaxseed freshly ground...
00:25:34.60\00:25:37.55
Don't grind a quart of flaxseed
and put that in the refrigerator
00:25:37.58\00:25:42.05
even in a dark jar...
00:25:42.08\00:25:43.62
Just wait until the very time
that you're ready to eat them
00:25:43.65\00:25:46.79
and then grind the flaxseed.
00:25:46.80\00:25:49.49
With flaxseed, the
androgen levels fall.
00:25:49.52\00:25:52.73
Now androgens are
male sex hormones,
00:25:52.76\00:25:55.96
and we know for certain
that male sex hormones are
00:25:55.97\00:25:59.57
involved in the production
of benign prostatic hypertrophy
00:25:59.60\00:26:03.22
and prostate cancer.
00:26:03.25\00:26:06.68
There are a number of
other hormone modulators
00:26:06.71\00:26:10.53
in the herbal
world, and I'd just like to
00:26:10.56\00:26:13.89
read you a list
of some of these...
00:26:13.92\00:26:17.26
Licorice is one of those.
00:26:17.29\00:26:19.06
The glycyrrhiza
compounds in licorice root
00:26:19.09\00:26:24.00
makes it so that it's a
very good antineoplastic,
00:26:24.03\00:26:28.87
and hormone modulator
which can be beneficial in
00:26:28.90\00:26:32.70
cancer of the prostate.
00:26:32.73\00:26:34.41
Skullcap, Asian and
American ginseng, both of them
00:26:34.44\00:26:38.86
are very helpful.
00:26:38.89\00:26:40.70
Chaste tree, which we usually
think of in dealing with women's
00:26:40.73\00:26:44.56
problems, but chaste
tree is also EXTREMELY good
00:26:44.59\00:26:47.52
for men with prostate cancer.
00:26:47.55\00:26:50.22
...Partridgeberry,
false unicorn and vitamin D.
00:26:50.25\00:26:56.09
Vitamin D is almost
always low in men who have
00:26:56.12\00:27:01.21
cancer of the prostate.
00:27:01.24\00:27:03.09
So, take a good dose of
vitamin D as a supplement
00:27:03.12\00:27:07.57
and that can be helpful
in cancer of the prostate.
00:27:07.60\00:27:10.21
Now, anything that will
boost the immune system in a man
00:27:10.24\00:27:14.82
with cancer of the
prostate is quite helpful.
00:27:14.85\00:27:17.89
Exercise, hydrotherapy...
that means hot baths,
00:27:17.92\00:27:22.36
or this probe that I was
mentioning, can be helpful.
00:27:22.39\00:27:26.51
And, of course,
Echinacea is very good.
00:27:26.54\00:27:30.15
Eupatorium, Venus flytrap,
comfrey, and we don't recommend
00:27:30.18\00:27:34.62
taking comfrey more
than 3 months at one stretch
00:27:34.65\00:27:38.70
because of the possibility, I'm
not sure that it's a probability
00:27:38.73\00:27:42.25
but the possibility of
some kind of liver damage.
00:27:42.28\00:27:45.76
And then astragalus,
ashwagandha, zinc and selenium.
00:27:45.79\00:27:52.15
Now, I hope with this
very brief discussion,
00:27:52.18\00:27:54.97
that you have received some
information that will help you
00:27:55.00\00:27:58.11
with prostate cancer
00:27:58.15\00:27:59.57
and all other men's problems.
00:27:59.60\00:28:01.63