How To Maintain Male Prostate Health

Research has shown that the prostate responds very well to certain vitamins and minerals. Enlarged prostates can be reduced, infected prostates can be cured and cancer can be slowed or, perhaps, even cured.

The king of prostate vitamins is vitamin C. Yes, good old reliable vitamin C. The reason is that vitamin C is a very good fighter of infections. And large doses of C have been found to help to reduce the enlarged prostate as well.

Next we have the mineral, zinc. Infections lower the body's level of zinc and prostate infections have an even more acute effect on zinc levels. Research has offered the opinion that 50 - 100 milligrams of zinc daily is a good option.

Finally, saw palmetto berry is proposed to be a booster of prostate health. A teaspoon of the berries steeped in a cup of hot water once or twice a day have been found to be efficacious.

There's a terrific supplement on the market right now that helps to promote prostate health and reduce an enlarged prostate. It's called Prostacet.
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A terrific natural antioxidant that promotes prostate health is Lycopene. Lycopene is the pigment that gives tomatoes their red color.

Lycopene has been demonstrated to slow or even halt the growth of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

In a recent study, men taking just 15 mg of lycopene a day saw measurable results.

Use lycopene along with zinc and vitamin C for good prostate health.

A study has found that eating soy products appears to have a beneficial effect on the prostate.

Japanese men have quite low death rates from prostate cancer, even thought they get the disease as often as American men do. The Japanese eat a lot of tofu, soy milk and other soy foods.

Even animals fed a lot of soybeans have less prostate cancer than others. There are two specific substances in soybeans that seem to help fight cancer: genistein and isoflavinoids.
These natural chemicals are effective against the hormone-dependent cancers, which includes prostate cancer

It's usually colon cancer that people mean when they mention eating fiber to fight cancer and studies vary much more than you might think.

The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet have studies that show high fiber diets do not lower the risk of cancer or polyps, a common precursor to cancer.

However, some studies, including a study published in the International Journal of Cancer, break down the fiber sources of their subjects. And you know what? Researchers found that vegetable fiber (instead of that from cereal and fruit) was the most cancer protective.

The study focused on those with a risk of prostate cancer, but other researchers and physicians extend this claim to suggest a vegetable based high fiber diet instead of carbohydrate fiber sources would possibly be effective.

No, it isn't proof positive that fiber can fight prostate (or colon) cancer, but it's not much effort to increase your fiber intake on a daily basis, because you never know!