Starward Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 (edited) Want to ask the brain trust if anyone have thoughts on benign prostate hyperplasia? Getting to that age, that I am starting to show benign prostate hyperplasia. Got a referral to a urologist but they will only offer me drugs, one is a tamsulosin an Alpha blockers and Vasodilater got a script from the GP for it and all I have gotten so far is an ever growing headache due to Vasodilation I suspect. The other drug is a combination drug that prevents testosterone conversion, and is used for gender transition. As much as I love breasts I do not want any of my own. It also thins body hair, and makes your head hair grow back thick and long. I jokingly said "I always wanted to be a woman". Interesting the GP just pushed the drugs and had no comment on lifestyle and diet. Which seems to be a contributor, salt, red meat, processed foods, poor hidration, obesity, are possible contributors. It seems that Benign Prostate Hyperplasia is another symptom of the modern Western diet and lifestyle. As it is unknown in pre industrial societies. It seems that surgery is really the only effective options however if done by an incompetent surgeon you can have even worse side effects, who can damage you bladder or pelvic floor nerves. However it seems they hold out on the surgery until you are really dying in pain and agony. A quick search for non pharmacultical only brought up Stinging Nettle Root (Urtica dioica) as anything with data support its use. Saw Palmetto is no better than placebo. I have started taking large daily amounts of Pumpkin Seeds, half as effective as tamsulosin but no side effects. Lycopene looks promising but short of drinking tomato paste and tumeric in water there is no regular way to dose Lycopene. Anyone have suggestions? Edited June 3 by Starward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 (edited) I was gonna say stinging nettle. If the other drug you're talking about is finasteride or diasturide it stops the conversion of testosterone to DHT. It actually increase testosterone due to less conversion tondht. It doesn't lower it or convert it. It lowers dht levels which as you stated can lead to halting of hairloss or slowing of hair loss but few will see regrowth and if so minimally. Similar mechanism is why it decreases or halts prostate growth. It can cause gyno but it wont happen over night and can easily be halted and reversed with tamoxifen. Worst part is it'll likely give you erectile dysrunction, for some it will last as long as you take it for others it last as long as your hormones take to re-stablise and adjust to the drug. For others it won't effect ot at all. It's not a bad drug, it just as it pros and cons and an enlarged prostate can cause a lot of issues later on, so pros and cons. Finasterirde only converts 70% diasturide is close to 100%. Edited June 3 by Trip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starward Posted June 3 Author Share Posted June 3 (edited) @Trip thanks - I read that finasteride Quote In males aged 55 years old and over finasteride decreases the risk of low-grade prostate cancer but may increase the risk of high-grade prostate cancer and has no effect on overall survival.[31] Quote 5α-reductase inhibitors have been found to increase the risk of developing certain rare but aggressive forms of prostate cancer (27% risk increase), although not all studies have observed this.[34] Toothache plant (Acmella oleracea) Just out of interest I have been reading about toothache plant (Acmella oleracea) which I grew over summer for a friend with oral pain and now have a huge quantity of tincture. Through perusing I saw that toothache plant might promote production of male hormones. https://www.healthline.com/health/toothache-plant#side-effects This lead me to https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8797071/ which says that toothache plant (Acmella oleracea) Improved muscle mass and sexual performance. Which lead me to some articles about testosterone and BPH. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30803920/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4650459/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2050052118301434 My crude reading of these seems to indicate that testosterone supplementation in middle age or older men does nor effect the size of the prostrate and that testosterone supplementation has been shown to improve urination in men and the BPH cannot be blamed sole on testosterone levels because as men age their testosterone levels go down and yet the rates of BPH goes up. Can someone confirm my reading? This is all interesting because conventional medical reasoning till now has suggested that testosterone is contraindicated with BPH. It seems to me that there is very little understanding of causation and treatment of BPH in allopathic medicine. BPH looks like a profitable disease, that is chronic, and progressive yet does not kill the patient. An ideal disease for sustained profiteering. Might be worth trying and seeing if the Acmella oleracea tincture improve urine flow. Edited June 3 by Starward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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