Secrets of Mens Health - PROGESTERONE For Prostate Problems

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The health of human bodies is very much connected with our reproductive functions that are deeply connected with level of hormones our bodies produce. Level of "male" or "female" sexual hormones and their ratio highly influences overall health of adult person.

Whenever is some imbalance, or level of sexual hormones start to drop down , thousand of health problems can occur. Men are especially vulnerable to the problems with prostate, actually almost all men can expect some of the prostate problems during their life.

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The prostate is a walnut-shaped gland, about 1,5 inches long. It is located beneath the bladder. The prostate completely surrounds the urethra, which carries both urine and semen from the body (from bladder through the penis) 
The primary function of the prostate gland is to produce part of the fluid that makes up semen.

For its function, the gland requires primarly testosterone that helps in regulating bladder control and normal sexual functioning. But, not only testosterone is important - for vital function of prostate gland man need adequate amount of "female" hormones as well. In tissue of prostate, there are receptors for testosterone, progesterone and estrogene hormones.

Until puberty, the size of the prostate gland remains of the same size and at puberty it grows rapidly and doubles in size. Prostate can grow continously but very slowly during the whole life, but in middle or older age it usually starts to grow rapidly again, causing various health problems. This happens when hormonal levels of reproductive hormones start to change when reproductive age is slowly geting over.

Majority of men are expected to have some prostate problem - from benign prostatic enlargment, prostatitis (bacterial inflammation) to the most serious cancer of prostate.

Symptoms of prostate problems most often at first affect urinary system, because swollen prostate squeezes urethra:

• Not being able to empty your bladder completely
• Need to go to the bathroom more often. The need to go to the bathroom may wake you during the night.
• A weak or slow urine stream
• The feeling of incomplete bladder emptying
• Difficulty starting urination
• A urinary flow that starts and stops
• Returning to urinate again soon after finishing

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Some other symptoms of prostate problems can include:

• Fever

• Chills

• Lower back pain

• Abdominal and groin pains

• Pain and burning when urinating

• Pain during ejaculation

• Pain with bowel movements

• Blood in the urin

• Testicle pain

• Foul-smelling urine

• Blood in the semen

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Prostate problems are primarly affecting urinary system but have serious effect on sexual vitality in majority of cases.

Human society is very cruel to the men when the problem is connected with health of their reproductive organs - myths about quantity and quality of sexual performance which is needed fo man to be a man makes many men ashamed to openly discuss their health problems, especially when hormonal levels start to drop down. Many men often try to deny that problems, untill they become very serious, because they deeply touch their self-esteem. When man starts to loose his sexual power, his self-worthyness starts to seriosly drop down. Our society forces sex as the most important activity in human life, so as result many men develop serious psychological problems when it starts to happen, in addition to the health ones.

Sexual hormonal levels drop down whenever we decide that we do not want to have children any more. The same is for men and women. Such desicion sends info to all our endocrine glands to change hormonal levels and stop forcing reproductive functions any more. Our reproductive abilities depend exclusively on high levels of sexual hormones, as well they depend on our personal intentions to have or not to have children (now, some time in the future, or not at all).

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Prostate problems are for sure matter of major concern for every man, because high possibility of developing cancer. But, what is really happening when prostate problems arise?

1. level of testosterone and progesterone drops down

2. due to that, much more testosterone then is normal is changed (by 5-alpha-reductase enzyme) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT stimulates prostate growth. Normal testosterone : DHT ratio assures balanced self-regeneration of prostate, if there is too much DHT, prostate starts to grow rapidly.

3. Why is progesterone so important? Progesterone is vital factor which blocks 5-alpha-reductase enzyme to convert too much testosterone into DHT. Progesterone is the key which assures normal testosterone : DHT ratio. In this manner, progesterone helps raise testosterone levels.

4. Due to the presence of many estrogenic supstances (xenoestrogens) in our environment (please read my Hub: MALE GENDER IS IN SERIOUS DANGER ), levels of progesterone and testosterone are droping down quickly then ever before . Estrogene dominance is major cause of cancer of reproductive organs - in men as well as in women.

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For many years medicine was surpressing production of testosterone in order to try to heal prostate cancer, because it was wrongly assumed that testosterone is "responsible" for causing cancer. How that happen? 70 years ago it was noticed, when castration (removal of testicles) was performed on prostate cancer patients, that growth of the cancer was slowed down. Physicans assumed that this happened because of reduction of testosterone production, so since then they completely relied on treating the prostate cancer by suspression of production of male hormones . Unfortunatelly, success of such treatment lasts for only 2-3 years time, after that tumor becomes insensitive on hormonal suspression and starts to grow and spread again.

Men do not have only "male" hormones - they have estrogenes and progesterone as well, and only adequate ratio among them assures good health.

There is no logic that testosterone is causing prostate problems, because prostate problems do not exist when testosterone is in its peak in men`s younger age.

Estrogene prevalence due to the polluters in enviromnent, is big problem in last few decades. It affects men`s health on all levels, especially reproductive organs and is major cause of raising number of prostate cancer cases. One of the 3 main estrogene hormones, estradiol, is causing growth of the tumors and cancer and supstances alike it (which act as estradiol in human bodies) can be found in many products we normally use today, as well as in all major polluters.

The same hormone - estradiol when prevalent, is causing breast cancer and cancer of female reproductive organs, what is not strange - the both male and female organs develop from the completely same tissue in embrionical state, so our biology does not differ so much as we think.

Treatment With Progesterone and Testosterone Cream for Prostate Health

Some men who were helping their wifes to apply progesterone cream started to notice that their prostate health is improving a lot, even cancer cells disappeared while being in contact with progesterone which was apsorbed through the skin. Reference: Dr. John R. Lee, M.D, who popularized the method of using progesterone and testosterone creams for improving prostate health. According to his research and recommendation, man experiencing problems with prostate needs just 6 to 8 mg per day of progesterone ( a bit less than 1/8 tsp of cream daily. This dosage needs to be respected .So, if one is going to use the cream hormones absolutely needs to be monitored with a saliva test . The saliva value of progesterone should be below 300.

Testosterone needed to be applied in cream is 2-3 mg so 1/16 tsp per day.

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Saliva levels need to be controlled reguraly, several times per year, because one should not exceed recommended dosages. Before starting with progesterone cream, check your saliva hormonal levels at first ! 

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For prostate health is essential healthy diet (phytoproteins must dominate), because levels of sex hormones are depending of  health of the liver.

Alcohol, drugs and varios medications are killers of both - of health of the prostate and health of the liver. 

When sex hormones start to drop down, it is also important to check hormones of thyroid - production of thyroid hormones starts to slow down as soon as sex hormones fall.

Xenoestrogens should be avoided. More about xenoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in my Hub: Male Gender is in Serious Danger, Effects of Polluters.

Soy does not have estrogenic effect, in its moderate use, it helps a lot to a health of prostate, if naturally grown. More about soy in my Hub: BENEFITS OF SOY 

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L-Alanine, L-Glycine and L-Glutamic Acid Amino Acid Therapy for Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BHP) has shown for decades to be a successful treatment for this disorder.

Researches showed that within the group taking these 3 amino acids:

• 92% experienced a reduction in prostate size.
• 95% experienced less need to urinate during the night
• 81% found they had less urgency to urinate
• 73% needed to urinate less frequently
• 71% had reduced discomfort.
• 70% reported less "delay" in urination
• None of the subjects reported any adverse side effects or reactions.

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 Because many people feel that using hormonal creams should be tricky and they need to be too careful with dosage, homeopathy uses vibrations of needed hormones to balance their levels - for healing prostate in homeopathy we use both - vibrations of testosterone and progesterone, as remedies that heal urinary tract and other remedies that assure normal vitality of man. Homeopathic remedies for hormones do not have any side-effect, they are completely non-invasive and also can be used in addition to creams because they also protect body from exagguration in use .

Because homeopathy requires personal (online or e.mail) consultation, if interested, you can contact me on my e-mail mihaelat999@yahoo.com . Price of consultation is 50 US$. I also prepare the remedies for my clients, on request.

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Good health is very connected with knowledge how body function. As more as we know about our bodies, how they work, we can do much more to heal them. Prostate problems cause fear to many, just because lack of true knowledge. and prejudices of medicine that for decades keep the focus only on androgen hormones in men. With such attitude, many men died in horrible pain.

I believe this article has given you some new ideas abut secrets of your health and inspired you to never stop to search how to achieve as good health as possible.

Good health is sometimes goal that is not easy to preserve, it requires care, knowledge and a little investment in products that nature offers to us in its abundance.

Copyright: Tatiana Michaela Pribic

Homeopath and Reiki Teacher

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