A healthy prostate and youthful testosterone levels are essential to maintain as you get older because testosterone balance is responsible for male prostate health and erectile potency.
As a man gets older, his body makes less and less testosterone and more estrogen. By middle 30’s, most men begin to make more estrogen than testosterone. This process is called ‘hormonal inversion’ and accelerates as the years pass. Also as a man ages, an enzyme called aromatase converts the remaining testosterone into a form of estrogen, called estradiol. Estradiol increases cancer risk, among other health problems.
There is another enzyme, 5 alpha reductase, that converts good testosterone into a form that causes an enlarged prostate, along with hair loss and balding.
Amazingly enough, most 60 year old men typically make twice as much estrogen as testosterone. Symptoms of testosterone deficiency become more obvious and often problematic for a man and his partner.
There are a number of physical symptoms that take place as testosterone decreases and estrogen increases. Feminization, difficulty building muscle, increased fat, thinning and wrinkling skin are all devastating to a man’s sense of maleness. But some of the most troublesome to their sexual wellness are the effects of erectile dysfunction, loss of erectile potency, genital atrophy, and the development of enlarging breasts (also called “man boobs”).
There is good news for men…and nature has created help to counteract these effects on your prostate and sexual wellness so that you can keep your maleness intact!
There are several herbs that will support your prostate health. Beta sitosterol, is derived from saw palmetto berries and is a popular ingredient in mens health formulas. Saw palmetto berries contain a small amount of beta sitosterol, so just taking them as an herbal supplement does not have the needed effectiveness. A beta sitosterol extract derived from the berries gives the greatest effect.
Beta sitosterol blocks aromatase from converting testosterone to estradiol, protecting the testosterone your body naturally makes. It also inhibits this process that causes prostate enlargement. In prostate cancer research, animals treated with beta sitosterol had 43% smaller tumors, and 1/2 the rate of metastatic cancer.
Pumpkin seed extract is another support for your prostate and sexual health. Pumpkin seed extract is a concentrated natural source of zinc, a mineral needed in abundance for prostate health. The EXTRACT from pumpkin seeds contains much more zinc than you could get by eating the seeds (though eating them does supply zinc and other nutrients).
In the same way that iodine deficiency causes thyroid swelling, zinc deficiency is a cause of prostate enlargement – which is an attempt by the gland to make up for a lack of zinc. Sufficient zinc can help to prevent this from happening.
Also, pumpkin seed extract contains zinc co-factors, other nutrients naturally found in pumpkin seeds, that enhance the benefits of zinc.
Another support is a component of raspberries called elagic acid, which has the unique benefit of causing cancer cells to self-destruct (a process technically known as apoptosis)
Magnesium di-potassium EDTA supports erectile potency! Like other glands and organs, the prostate can be invaded by calcifications (similar to the way gallstones and kidney stones form). Magnesium di-potassium EDTA reverses this process, and puts the calcium back where it belongs – in the bones and teeth.
Nitric oxide is ESSENTIAL for erectile potency! EDTA increases nitric oxide in the blood!
An herbal rectal suppository is the absolute best method of getting beta sitosterol to your prostate and testes. You may not know this, but when you take beta sitosterol orally, only about 5% of it is absorbed by your body, and very little of that actually makes it to your prostate because it is broken down and altered in the stomach into other compounds. An herbal suppository form is the quickest, easiest, most effective way to get beta sitosterol and the other ingredients to your prostate and testes. This is true because the lining of your rectal area is rich in blood vessels, your hemorrhoidal veins. Because of the permeability of the rectal area walls and blood vessels, the ingredients from an herbal rectal suppository go DIRECTLY into your bloodstream!
Another reason why suppositories are the best method of treating your prostate is because the rectal area where the suppository is absorbed is only one or two INCHES from the prostate gland. The permeable nature of those tissues allows the supplements to DIRECTLY nourish the prostate.