by Dr.
Lawrence Wilson
©
January 2016, L.D. Wilson Consultants, Inc.
Many men
over the age of 30 or so, suffer from prostatitis, an enlarged prostate gland,
and later many develop prostate cancer.
Symptoms can include pain, difficulty urinating, difficulty or pain upon
intercourse, and bladder and urinary tract infections. Let us discuss natural approaches for
all these conditions.
This
condition is quite common and often goes undiagnosed. It is an inflammation or infection in the prostate
gland. This is a common cause of
difficulty in urination, pain, enlarged prostate or a sense of heaviness in the
lower portion of the body.
This
condition responds extremely well to nutritional balancing programs, often
rapidly. It is often due to a hidden zinc deficiency, copper toxicity or an
infection in the prostate that may not respond to drugs, but does respond
easily in most cases to balancing the body chemistry. Also see below for other remedies for prostate problems that
can be quite helpful, at times.
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY (ENLARGED
PROSTATE)
This is the
most common prostate condition affecting middle-aged and older men. Its symptom is usually difficulty
beginning urination, difficulty emptying all the urine, reduced urine flow,
frequent trips to the bathroom during the night, and occasionally discomfort in
the bladder area.
Prostate
enlargement is caused by an unhealthy enlargement of the prostate gland, which
chokes off the urethra (a tube that conducts the urine), causing difficulty
with urination. The prostate gland
literally is wrapped around the urethra, the tube leading from the bladder to
the penis through which urine passes.
Most men go
for surgery for this condition.
However, I know many men that regret this decision, as they now have
some incontinence or other problems.
A slower alternative solution is to repair the prostate gland. In most cases, this will cause the
swelling to subside and the problem goes away without surgery.
Prevention. Doctors often
recommend more sex to prevent this condition. It may work for a while, but sex depletes zinc, so
eventually this solution will stop working in most cases. Also, sex depletes the body in other
important, but subtle ways. For
these and other reasons, I do not recommend this method.
Hydrotherapy
can help.
Many years ago, I worked as a doctor in a very poor village in Mexico. A man consulted me for prostate
enlargement that was making it impossible for him to urinate, he said. An older natural healing book suggested
a very safe and simple remedy that worked excellently!
One places
about 2 inches of icy cold water in a shallow pan, or one can put about two
inches of water in a bathtub. The
water must be as cold as possible!
The man
pulls his pants down and sit in this cold water for at least 20 minutes. One can wear a sweatshirt or even a
sweater to keep warm. This reduces
inflammation and congestion in the prostate gland, and the gland shrinks,
causing the problem to disappear.
I do not know if the method helps long-term, but it will work in an
emergency. In my limited
experience with cold water baths, the effect can last if the procedure is done
often enough to bring a lot more blood circulation to the area, reduce
infection and inflammation, and help revitalize the gland.
The only
caution I can think of with this remedy is not to allow yourself to become
chilled. Keep your feet out of the
cold water, for example, having only your buttocks in the water. If you start feeling a chill, get out
or have some hot tea, perhaps, to warm up. Of course, combining this with a nutritional balancing
program would be far better yet.
Other
natural and safe remedies and methods. Some men are helped by herbal formulas
for the prostate that usually contain saw palmetto, pumpkin seed oil, zinc, and
vitamins A, D and E.
Homeopathic
remedies in the health food store are also occasionally effective enough to
keep the condition under control.
Most important, these methods are harmless and do not impair overall
health. Therefore they can be used
for an extended period of time.
Coping
with prostate difficulties until a nutritional balancing program can correct
it.
1. Know that
this does not impair sexual activity or any other body system. It is benign, in other words, as long
as you are able to urinate. If you
cannot urinate, however, you must do the procedure above or see a doctor
immediately. The doctor will place
a catheter or plastic tube up the penis that forces the urethra to open so you
can urinate
2. Relax a
lot when urinating. Some men do
better sitting, rather than standing to urinate.
3. Do not
drink anything after about 5-6 PM to help avoid having to get up a lot at
night. This includes avoiding a
dinner of just soup, for example, which is very high in water content.
4. Getting
up to urinate once or even twice is not much a problem as long as you can fall
asleep again fast afterwards. To
help fall back asleep quickly, avoid turning on a bright light when you get up,
if possible. Also, keep warm,
especially your feet. Put on a
bathrobe and slippers if your bedroom is cold, for example.
Correcting
the cause of an enlarged prostate. The underlying cause of benign prostatic hypertrophy or BPH
is often a hidden infection or the presence of toxic metals or other
inflammatory substances that are affecting the prostate. Rarely, psychological factors having to
do with women and sex can affect the prostate as well.
A nutritional balancing program based on
a properly performed and properly interpreted hair mineral analysis can quite
easily correct most causese of the problem. Even better results may occur if one adds coffee enemas and
near infrared sauna therapy to the program. Distilled water may be very important for about 3-9 months
to help decongest the prostate gland.
The cold water baths above may also be very helpful, as may the use the
of a prostate formula, if needed for a while.
Urinary
tract problems in older men are often extremely chronic. This means that it may take several
years of nutritional balancing for the problem to go away completely. While correction is proceeding, one
should use the symptomatic remedies described above, if needed. This is the ideal way to handle the
problem, in my view.
Drugs
for prostate enlargement include Proscar and others. These may or may not help. They are all somewhat toxic, so beware
of this. We always recommend the
fewest toxic drugs possible, as they usually cause other problems sooner or
later.
Prostate
surgery. While
surgery for prostate enlargement is usually more or less successful, it can
cause lifelong complications if it is not fully successful. This happens often.
The main
complication is some degree of incontinence, which means leakage of urine all
the time. This is a very annoying
and possibly embarrassing symptom.
People with this usually will need to wear adult diapers to prevent
wetting the pants. If you can
avoid surgery, I suggest it.
This is
usually a slow-growing cancer that may give few symptoms. Some common ones are pain or bleeding
with urination, or occasionally a bloody discharge with sexual
intercourse. However, this may be
due to other causes, so one should not assume it is prostate cancer without
more tests.
Other
possible symptoms are generalized fatigue and other cancer symptoms such as
unexplained weight loss.
Prostate
cancer tests. The PSA
(prostate-specific antigen) test is the most commonly used screening test for
prostate cancer. It is not a reliable test, according to
many newsletters that I read. That
is, it can give both false positives
and false negative answers.
Therefore, do not rely on this test, in my opinion, either to rule out
prostate cancer or to diagnose or confirm it. This may be very important.
The PSA test
often leads men into painful biopsies and at times into medical treatments that
can be as bad as or worse than the cancer itself. Therefore I do not recommend regular PSA tests, as many
doctors like to do annually.
Instead, I
suggest that every man over about the age of 50 undergo a nutritional balancing
program. This is for prevention
only. However, hair mineral
testing will often reveal some patterns associated with prostate conditions, as
discussed below.
It may also
reveal other patterns that are more specific for cancer such as high toxic
metal levels, lowered energy production and others.
If
you suspect prostate cancer or if prostate cancer has been diagnosed.
I do not recommend nutritional
balancing for any type of cancer.
This is most important. The
reason is that cancer is a fast-moving disease in some cases, and nutritional
balancing is not designed specifically to stop it. Other therapies that are symptomatic will often stop it
quickly. Once the cancer is
definitely in remission, then nutritional balancing is a wise idea to continue
to improve oneÕs health. This is
all explained in Introduction to Cancer on this
website.
This, and
perhaps other articles on cancer on this site, suggest that one should first
bring the cancer under control with either the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy
or perhaps with a product called Protocel, available inexpensively on the
internet. The Kelley Program is
better, but more costly.
Then one can
go on the nutritional balancing program after the cancer is in remission. This is the safest way to handle
prostate cancer. I definitely do
not recommend chemotherapy, radiation or surgery for this condition, as it often
does not work well and can make the problem much worse.
Of all the
drug therapies, the use of Lupron, a hormone inhibitor, appears to be
safest. I know of many long-term
survivors who used this. However,
I know this type of cancer can often be handled naturally if one is willing to
do coffee enemas, near infrared sauna therapy and take Protocel or the Kelley
enzyme therapy.
HAIR
ANALYSIS PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE PROBLEMS
These
include:
á
A sodium/potassium ratio below 2.5.
á
A zinc level less than 14 mg%.
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A copper level above about 2.5 mg% or indicators of hidden
copper imbalance.
á
A
cadmium level generally above 0.01 mg%.
á
Mercury
and other toxic metals may also play a role in prostate problems.
As these
imbalances are corrected, the prostatitis, BPH and even some prostate cancers
go away.
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