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There are certain ailments one expects as[br]an unfortunate consequence of getting older.

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For men, frequent late night trips to the[br]bathroom and increased risk of prostate cancer

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are regarded as inevitable aspects of aging, with treatments ranging from medication to invasive

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and debilitating surgery. But whatif prostate enlargement and cancer could be prevented

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and even reversed?  What if what your doctor isn’t telling you could save your life?

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Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and [br]welcome to another vegan nugget.

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Despite the serious complications and even fatal outcomes, the topic of prostate health is rarely

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addressed in an appropriate, [br]constructive or respectful manner.

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With an astounding array of prostate-themed jokes poking fun at increased urination and

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the horrors of rectal exams, an enlarged prostate[br]seems more like a right of passage into infirmity

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than a medical condition. And with heaps of[br]supplement scams, prescription-pushing physicians

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and scalpel-wielding surgeons, and it’s[br]hard to know what information or approach

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to trust.

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In this fourth installment of the Men’s[br]Health Series with Dr. Greger of Nutritionfacts.org,

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we’re going to see what the science says[br]about preventing, treating and reversing Benign

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Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)—the medical[br]term for the non-cancerous enlargement of

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the prostate—and prostate cancer. If you’ve[br]seen the first three installments on testosterone,

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erectile dysfunction, and soy’s effect on[br]hormones, you’ll notice a common theme of

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the medical profession—ignoring simple and[br]effective treatment in favor of ineffective

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and debilitating measures.

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Prostate surgery, the various methodologies[br]of which read like a list of medieval torture

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practices, can leave men with ongoing erectile[br]dysfunction and urinary incontinence issues,

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among other side effects.

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Let’s take a quick look at what two of the[br]leading institutions have to offer. In regards

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to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and prostate[br]cancer respectively, the American Urological

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Association and National Cancer Institute[br]do give a cursory nod to the effects of exercise

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and diet on prostate health, but fail to expand[br]upon what that means in practical terms.

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If we look at the AUA’s extensive guidelines[br]for BPH treatment, there is “watchful waiting,”

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essentially meaning, let’s just see what[br]happens, during which period no recommendations

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are made for dietary intervention. Then there[br]are medical therapies, meaning drugs, which

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receive seven pages of prescription possibilities,[br]a potentially promising section on alternatives

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only addresses dietary supplements, and surgical[br]procedures shine with a six-page spread.

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Perhaps the worst offender is the AUA’s[br]Prostate Health Playbook, in which they attempt

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to convey this misinformation through strained[br]football analogies in an astoundingly patronizing

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and condescending manner—as if possession[br]of a prostate renders one borderline incompetent,

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requiring spoon-fed sports comparisons [br]for basic comprehension.

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The information Dr. Greger will share can[br]spare you the pain of the devastating effects

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of potentially unnecessary surgery and even[br]save your life. And the fact that you’ll

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never hear this from your doctor is why you[br]should be pissed about your prostate.

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Emily: So prostate health is a huge concern[br]for men. What we usually hear the most of

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is enlarged prostate and prostate cancer.[br]The way that these are presented, though,

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by the medical field, it seems like they are[br]almost inevitable aspects of aging. Can prostate

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cancer and an enlarged prostate be prevented[br]and how so?

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Dr. Greger: Some of the most compelling data[br]for eating healthy for men and women has come

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out of Dr. Dean Ornish’s lab, who firstshowed that—[br]was first to do a randomized controlled

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trial showing that indeed heart disease could[br]be reversed with a plant-based diet and other

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healthy lifestyle behaviors. Opening up arteries[br]without drugs, without surgery.

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And so, after conquering killer #1 he’s[br]ok next and went on to kill the #2 cancer

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and took men with prostate cancer and put[br]them on a plant-based diet. Same kind of regimen

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and actually got a reversal in the growth[br]of prostate—early stage prostate cancer.

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And indeed it’s interesting when you take[br]serum, when you take blood from men who have

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been on a plant-based diet for a year and[br]drip them on cancer cells growing in a petri

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dish, they suppress the growth of that cancer[br]about 8 times better compared to the blood

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of people men eating the Standard American[br]Diet.

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What’s interesting is a different group[br]of researches said, well wait a second, I

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wonder if the same effect on normal prostate[br]cell. So the same experiment and found indeed

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you go on a plant-based diet and this time[br]it was just the diet without exercise and

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stress management components. You go on a[br]plant-based diet your blood indeed is better

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able to suppress the growth of the normal[br]prostate cells.

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And I talk about in the video indeed this[br]kind of it’s kind of inevitable consequence

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of aging. You get older, your prostate enlarges[br]- No, that’s inevitable consequence of eating

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the Standard American Diet and aging.

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So I talk about the statistics in the US.[br]It effects—so an enlarged prostate—and

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when I say enlarged prostate, what does that[br]mean? It kind of squeezes off the urethra

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where the urine goes through and so you have[br]to frequently get up at night a couple times

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because you can’t, you have this kind of[br]weak, hesitant urine stream and you can’t

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completely evacuate your bladder and then[br]so your bladder fills up over and over again.

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And anyway.

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And then is a stagnant pool of urine can set[br]more than likely be infected. Fifty percent

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of men in their 50s are affected, 80% of their[br]men in the 80s. It’s an epidemic in the

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US. 16 million American men. A billion dollars[br]a year is spent on drugs to treat it and another

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billion on supplements, lots of surgery that’s[br]done. And the reason we know that it’s not

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an inevitable consequence of aging is because[br]you can look at different populations around

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the globe.

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So for example in China, there was study that[br]found at the Medical College of Beijing, they

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didn’t have 80% of me infected. They found[br]80 cases period. Eighty-four over a 15 year

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period. It was such a rare, it was considered[br]kind of rare condition until of course China

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started eating like us.

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And so there are particular food that appear[br]to help. Garlic and onions, allium family

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vegetables. Cooked vegetables appear to work[br]better than raw vegetables and legumes, beans,

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flip peas, chickpeas, lentils as well as flax[br]seeds. And there are actually head to head

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challenges of ground flax seed versus the[br]leading drug prescribed for PBH patients and

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it worked just as well without the side effects[br]but as a group Pritikin researchers showed

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its not just these individual plant foods,[br]but if you go on an entirely plant-based diet,

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you can dramatically slow down the growth[br]of the suppressed cancer cells so you don’t

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have to deal with this as one gets older.

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I hope you found what Dr. Greger shared to[br]be helpful and eye-opening. On a personal

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level, when researching for this video, I[br]did not at all expect to get so angry about

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prostates.

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But the more I looked into the studies so[br]graciously compiled by Dr. Greger, and compared

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their data to the guidelines of major medical[br]organizations, the more angry I became.

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Everyone deserves to be fully informed about[br]their health, and offered all of the possible

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treatments. As longs as doctors present BPH[br]and prostate cancer risk as just a part of

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aging and fail to alert their patients to[br]effective, non-invasive methods of prevention

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and reversal, countless men will continue[br]to undergo unnecessary surgery and even lose

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their lives.

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For more on why your doctor is lying to you,[br]see this video with Dr. Greger. Please see

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the blog post for this video linked below[br]for more information and links to Dr. Greger’s

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extensive content on prostate health, including[br]more about which foods to avoid and include

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in your diet, and to his NYT best seller How[br]Not To Die, which includes an entire chapter

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on prostate health.

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Now go live vegan, get pissed about your prostate,[br]and I’ll see you soon.

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So even though vegan men tend to have significantly[br]higher testosterone levels, than both vegetarians

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and meat-eaters—which can be a risk factor[br]for prostate cancer, the reason plant-based

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diets appear to reverse the progression of[br]prostate cancer may be due to how low their

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IGF-1 drops. High testosterone, yet low cancer.

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The bottom line… is that male or female,[br]just eating vegetarian did not seem to cut

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it—didn’t do their body many favors. It[br]looks like to get a significant drop in cancer-promoting

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growth hormone levels one really has to move[br]towards eliminating animal products altogether.

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