Understanding Your Prostate

Your prostate is a doughnut-shaped gland the size of a large walnut, lying just below your bladder. A small but vitally important tube, the urethra, descends from the bladder, passes through the doughnut hole of the prostate and continues through your penis. This tube carries your urine and also your sperm out of the body.

It's the prostate doughnut hole that causes most of the trouble. If it gets inflamed or squeezed because the prostate has grown too large, you get all sorts of waterworks problems — pain, irritation, increased urinary frequency, especially at night, and eventually urinary retention and kidney problems. These may be the least of your troubles, however, because prostate disease also whacks your sexuality.

Popular accounts describe the prostate simply as an accessory gland that secretes an alkaline fluid when you ejaculate, to protect the sperm from acidity of the urinary tract and of the female vagina. But it's much more than that.

Above the prostate lie two pouches, the seminal vesicles, which secrete a thick liquid full of fructose. This sugar provides energy for your sperm on their journey up the female reproductive tract. The vesicles squirt out this liquid from ejaculatory glands deep inside the prostate, to mix with the thin, alkaline fluid that carries the sperm.

Ejaculation releases the sperm into the urethra deep inside the prostate. So the mixing and release of the whole shebang vital to male sexuality and human reproduction, all takes place in the doughnut hole of your prostate. No surprise then that prostate disease whacks your sexual potency hard — causing pain, impotence, loss of desire, and the inability to achieve orgasm — devastating all the vitality, well-being and confidence that are part of male virility.

You have a lot to lose if you let prostate disease get a grip, from loss of urinary function all the way to the myriad physical and mental aspects of healthy sexuality. Many men don't really mind having to get up five or six times a night to urinate, and could put up with the day-time symptoms as well. But very few could stand the loss of their virility. To keep yours, you need to know how to keep that prostate doughnut hole wide open and whistle clean.

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Prostate Disorders – A Man-Made Plague

By age 50, most men suffer some degree of prostate disease. They get recurrent prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate, usually caused by infection), or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, overgrowth of the prostate gland), or both. By age 85, over 90% of men develop prostate cancer. Urologists are loathe to admit that earlier prostate disease eventually develops into cancer, because how it does so is still unclear. Nevertheless, the figures are undeniable.

Up until a few years ago, degenerative conditions, such as prostate disease, were thought to be inevitable consequences of human aging. Recent discoveries, however, indicate they are much more the consequences of faulty nutrition and lifestyle. Yes, we have created much of the prostate disease that now plagues our lives. The good news is: being man-made, the circumstances that create a lot of prostate disease are easy to discover — and to change. When they are changed by strong public health policies, a great deal of prostate disease will simply disappear. Until that occurs, which may take quite some time, you will have to take care of yourself.

Right now, virtually nothing is being done to prevent prostate disease. To the contrary, the increasing pollution of our environment, the destruction of nutrients in our food supply by mass agriculture and food processing, and the progressive adoption of unhealthy lifestyles continue to increase the degenerative burden on all tissues, including the prostate.

The incidence of prostate disease and the death rate from prostate cancer have soared in the last 30 years. In America, during the last decade alone, the death rate for prostate cancer has grown to nearly twice that for breast cancer. It is now the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, with over 300,000 new cases springing up every year. With the right information, however, you should be able to prevent it for life.


For more information on prostate disorders and their treatment options go to: Prostate Health Supplements