Prostate problems. It is one of the most frequent problems that men have when we age. In fact, up to 90% of 90-year-old men have an enlarged prostate. For this reason, in this video we are going to see what we can do at the level of nutrition, at the level of supplementation, how to prevent the growth of the prostate, how to avoid having an enlarged prostate and also, how to reduce the symptoms if we only have the growth of the prostate throughout life, it brings inconveniences in our quality of life, it brings symptoms that we do not want to have and it is one of the things that makes us feel older. The prostate is actually a male gland that we have below the bladder and surrounds the urethra. This is logically a problem because when it grows in size, most of the symptoms depend on that relationship it has with the bladder. Our urethra can compress your bladder, it can make it difficult for you to pass urine and it can cause you many symptoms. But basically, the function and location of this gland are what determine what symptoms its enlargement can give me.

For example, the growth of the prostate can cause me to compress the bladder and make me feel urgent to go to urinate or make some, for example, urinate more frequently because we never get to completely empty the bladder. But we have other symptoms, such as the desire to go to urinate and not being able to urinate effectively, getting up at night several times to go to the bathroom or passing urine slowly and with little power to urinate. Now, these are the symptoms related to your location. As the function of the prostate has to do with our sexual function. Obviously, when the prostate is enlarged and doesn't work properly, our sexual function will be impaired, our ability to maintain an erection will be altered and even our ability to speculate will be altered. But this prostate growth here is mainly due to hormones. In your body there are hormones, catabolism, that is, hormones that help you destroy tissue, for example, and transform it into energy. And there are also anabolic hormones, which are what lead you to build tissue from the raw material you have in your body.

With which, when we have an excessive growth of a tissue, in this case the prostate, we can assume with logic and with scientific evidence that we have a balance of the hormones that these tissues develop, basically that we have a hormonal imbalance. And with regard to the prostate, we always talk about male hormones such as DHT and the medication currently used is precisely for this hormone, but other hormones such as prolactin and estrogens, for example, which are hormones that although they are present in men and women, are more important in women, therefore in men with many estrogens throughout life and low testosterone, which is something more and more frequent today, it is more and more also more likely to find an enlarged prostate. In fact, the prostate can grow due to having an excess of hormones that have nothing to do with sexuality. For example, it is the case of insulin, which is another of the anabolic hormones and obviously the foods that increase these anabolic hormones that can make our prostate grow like the F1 daughter that is an anabolic hormone, progesterone or estrogen to make foods that we should avoid.

And the main food that drives this hormonal surge and has been linked to prostate growth is milk, but it's by no means the only food that's going to affect your prostate. For example, at the level of hormonal balance, the more body fat we have, the more of an enzyme called aroma rate that is dedicated to converting male hormones into female ones. We're going to have more conversion of testosterone to estrogen. We are therefore going to have all the foods that increase my insulin that I have given myself to put on weight and that increase my body fat such as refined carbohydrates or foods with a glycemic index. I always say that eating in avoidance leads me in the long term to worsen these prostate problems. And then, of course, we have foods that directly disrupt our hormones, such as the consumption of soy or other foods that are generally not organic and that stimulate estrogen. Especially since many pesticides in our body from non-organic foods act like estrogens at low doses. These types of substances are known as hormonal disruptors, precisely because they alter our hormonal balance.

And what about inflammation? What role does inflammation play in our prostate? The more inflamed a tissue or organ is, the more space it has to occupy. Therefore, the more inflamed a gland like the prostate is, the more sexual and urinary symptoms it will give me. And how do I reduce that inflammation? Not just in my prostate, but throughout my body. There are many ways and the reality is that inflammation deserves several videos on its own. But the easiest way to do it, which is not a cure for prostate problems, but it will help me reduce the symptoms. It's improving my fat balance. What is that? Many fatty acids are necessary in our body in its correct balance. If I consume more of one and less of another, I will have a problem. In most people today there is an imbalance in omega fatty acids. They consume a lot of omega six present, for example in vegetable oils such as soybean, canola, corn or sunflower and little quantity.

Omega three. Present seeds in fish or shellfish or in algae. This increased consumption of one and a deficit of another led our body to have a greater tendency to inflammation, something that is valid for all types of inflammation, not only for prostate symptoms. For symptoms of. Headlines, for example too. So how do we fix it? What do we do to improve it? First of all, avoid the substances that I mentioned that aggravate this hormonal imbalance. We avoid refined grains, foods with a high glycemic index, which are those that trigger our insulin and make us fat, but also make our prostate grow. We avoid hormone disruptors that increase estrogen, such as unfermented soy, processed and plastic-packaged foods, or non-organic foods. And third, we avoid dairy if possible. For these reasons and dimension now and for the reasons that I mention in the specific dairy video that I leave you in the description in case you want to see it. But what do we have to eat? Indeed.

A diet low in glycemic index, that does not trigger insulin, that is rich in foods that help me maintain a balance of sexual hormones such as cruciferae, broccoli, cauliflower or Brussels cabbage, which are rich in a substance called nature in methane. This substance helps me regulate estrogen and then we have another substance that helps reduce the size of the prostate, which is liquid peno, which is a reddish pigment that we can find in many reddish or orange foods, of plant origin, such as tomato and carrot or red repose. And I always remember that the consumption of liquor from foods rich in good foods such as tomatoes, for example, was one of the main recommendations of Lucy chan, who continues to be the person who holds the world record for life expectancy in men and who died at the 119 years. And what about the supplements that we can use as supplements to help this correct hormonal balance? The reality is that the corrections that have to do with diet, especially if I already have symptoms, unfortunately are not always enough, but it always has to be the first step, because although there are supplements and natural substances that you can use to improve your prostate, if you are putting foods into your system that harm your prostate health all the time, these supplements are not going to help you.

What we want at the level of the prostate is to block the hormones that cause prostate growth. Basically, therefore as herbs that serve as supplementation. Let it work for this. First on the list, but last in importance, we have the nettle. It is a plant that is normally used for hair loss in shampoos, but it has a very important property that is to block the aroma of cup in our body fat. It blocks the transformation of testosterone into estrogen. This is a very important process in overweight men and prostate problems at the same time, because in the long term, the increase in estrogen leads me to record the prostate picture. Secondly, we have Maca, which has a positive impact on testosterone, not directly, but because it increases your sexual desire, but it also helps prevent that testosterone, like nettle, from turning into estrogen in our body. fat. And then we have supplements that prevent the conversion of testosterone into another substance called DHT. This process happens by an enzyme called five alpha reductase and that is associated on the one hand with prostate growth, but on the other with hair loss.

And we have two well-known supplements, the wild palm and the African plum. These two plants have properties that help rebalance testosterone levels with respect to HTP. They help us especially if we have a lot of DHT and low testosterone, but because of its effect on the hair and on the prostate, it has a double benefit because it helps me avoid androgenic hair loss, which is typical of men of which three more in my life. Specific if you want. But they also help me reduce the symptoms of an enlarged prostate. Now, if you know about this topic or have done any research before, you have probably read a lot about the hormone DHT and if you have this problem, you may even be taking DHT blocking drugs. The interesting thing is that people with prostate problems do well with DHT blockers both in supplemental form to reduce symptoms and in their pharmacological form, but studies in men who received the hormone DHT for two years did not show an increase in the prostate or from inflammation. So blocking it from HT works for people who have symptoms, but DHT alone.

This hormone by itself is not directly the cause does not cause prostate growth in people who used this hormone. As you can see, hormonal balance is quite complex and you still have my specific video on DHT that I am going to leave you in the description. On the other hand, as I mentioned at the beginning, it is estimated that 90% of men over 90 years of age have an enlarged prostate. This percentage obviously increases with age. At 50 years the percentage is much lower, but at the same time cholera. Testosterone and DHT tend to decrease, so we cannot automatically associate prostate growth with a problem with my hormones such as testosterone and DHT. There is no solution to this enigma, I simply show it to you so that you know that things related to medicine are not fully resolved and that there is still a lot of information to be discovered. Probably the growth of our prostate depends on many other factors, such as the hormones that I mentioned before, or the relationship between low testosterone, high DHT and altered estrogens. But what we do understand is that there are things that are going to help prevent prostate growth and avoid foods that you have to avoid.