Prostate Problems – An Owners’ Guide

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The prostate gland.
The prostate gland.
We’ve all read of it, but usually just in relation to it going wrong – as well as the humiliation of having your doctor stick his finger’ up yer bum’ to check out it. So just what is the prostate? What exactly does it do and how do you keep yours in shape which is very good? Just before we get started, you’ll find 2 small points that need clarifying:
One There’s only one’ R’ in prostate. (Prostrate is while you lie face down with your arms and legs spread!).
Two The prostate is a strictly’ men-only’ kinda gland. (Girls do not have one.)
Where’s it and what does it do?
Where is it and what does it do?
About the dimensions of conker (chestnut), the prostate life sort of wrapped around the urethra, right below the exit of the bladder, Delve deeper face the inner wall of the rectum. Imagine a drinking straw with a balloon on the end. Now picture threading a small cupcake onto the straw and pushing it up as far as the balloon. The balloon is the bladder, the straw will be the urethra and the mini cupcake will be the prostate gland!
Even with its proximity to & associations with the bladder, it’s absolutely nothing to do with urine generation and it is, in fact, responsible for producing something called prostatic substance which boosts the sperms’ ability to’ swim’. So that explains why women do not have one then!
What could go wrong with it next?
What can go wrong with it next?’benign prostatic hyperplasia’ (BPH).
‘prostatitis’
‘prostate cancer’
How do I reduce the risk of or prevent prostate problems?

The negative news

The good news
Can diet really make a positive change?

Prostate Research Campaign UK

American Prostate Cancer Research Institute
However for goodness sake, in case you believe you might have a problem – get checked out by a doctor!

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