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

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

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

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

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

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

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

addressed in an appropriate, 
constructive or respectful manner.

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

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

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

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

to trust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

and debilitating measures.

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

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

among other side effects.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

requiring spoon-fed sports comparisons 
for basic comprehension.

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

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

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

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

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

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

cancer and an enlarged prostate be prevented
and how so?

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

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

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

healthy lifestyle behaviors. Opening up arteries
without drugs, without surgery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

of people men eating the Standard American
Diet.

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

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

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

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

able to suppress the growth of the normal
prostate cells.

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

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

the Standard American Diet and aging.

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

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

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

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

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

And anyway.

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

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

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

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

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

the globe.

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

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

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

started eating like us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

have to deal with this as one gets older.

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

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

prostates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

their lives.

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

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

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

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

on prostate health.

To make sure you’re getting the prostate-healthy
nutrition you need, I wanted to let you know

about Cronometer. It’s a free website and
app that I’ve used in several of my videos

because of it’s uniquely detailed nutrition
reports and ease of use. Plus, they’ve reached

out to help sponsor the Men’s Health series
to get this vital educational information

out to those who need it. Click the link in
the description, or go here to make your free

profile. It’s not an affiliate link, but
it will let Cronometer know that Bite Size

Vegan sent you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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