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In This Issue:

Don’t Gamble When It Comes To Your Prostate!

By Dr. Mark Rosenberg

By the time you are 60 — if you’re a man — there’s a fifty-fifty chance that you’ll be suffering from an enlarged prostate. If you live long enough, your chances climb to 90%.

An enlarged prostate — a condition called benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), is a non-cancerous swelling of the prostate. As your prostate begins to swell, you’ll find that you need to make more frequent trips to the bathroom, your urine stream will be weak, and you’ll have a hard time finishing what you started… if you know what I mean.

Of course, annoying bathroom urges are only part of the problem. An enlarged prostate can also interfere with your sex life and your overall quality of life. Often an enlarged prostate is a symptom of a hormone imbalance that could be having a more significant impact on your health than you realize.

Most doctors take a wait-and-see approach to an enlarged prostate. They figure if it doesn’t grow too fast and the symptoms don’t become too severe, then it’s something you can live with. If the symptoms become unmanageable, then the next option is surgery.

This approach ignores several middle-ground options. In fact, you can begin treating your enlarged prostate right away. Many of the same steps you take now can also protect you from prostate cancer in the future — an unrelated condition. You’ll also relieve a lot of the symptoms that come with an enlarged prostate — it’s a win-win strategy.

Caring for an Enlarged Prostate…

How to Slow Its Growth and Keep it From Becoming a BIG Problem

Most doctors chalk up prostate growth to a natural part of the aging process. And that’s why they feel comfortable taking a hands-off approach until things get real bad!

I’d much rather see my patients take action to slow their prostate growth and to attempt to prevent the need for surgery from ever arising. This strategy improves the quality of your life and has the added bonus of cutting your risks of cancer.

So, just how do you keep your prostate from growing out-of-control?

Your first step is to start eating the foods that can most help your prostate. I suggest that you include a quality protein with every meal and then have cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, or cabbage four to five times a week. Snacks that are high in zinc and magnesium are also beneficial to your prostate.

But there’s more you can do.

It’s important that you be physically active. I’m not saying you have to kill yourself working out for 90 minutes at a time, but anything you can do to increase your daily physical activity will help. Research shows that men who get the most exercise reduce their risks of an enlarged prostate by 40%.¹

You can also help reduce your risks of an enlarged prostate or slow the growth of your prostate by taking a supplement that contains saw palmetto. Saw palmetto contains compounds that help slow prostate growth. It can help prevent your prostate from becoming enlarged, or if you already have an enlarged prostate, it can help reduce your symptoms.

I recommend that you choose a supplement that’s been standardized to at least 85% active fatty acids and sterols. Take between 300 and 350 mg each day.

Of course, you’ve probably already heard of saw palmetto and know that it can help your prostate, but it isn’t the only supplement that can ease prostate problems. A lesser known supplement called beta sitosterol can also be of help… especially when it comes to preventing cancer. In laboratory tests, beta sitosterol slowed the growth of prostate cancer cells.²

Another good supplement to help prevent prostate cancer is cranberry extract. Cranberries contain several natural compounds that stop cancer cells from multiplying. In lab tests, cranberry extract effectively slowed all types of prostate cancer by an impressive 50%.³

When it comes to an enlarged prostate, it’s important to take action and to take control of your health. You can slow down or even stop your prostate from continuing to grow, and while you’re at it, you’ll be giving yourself some extra protection against prostate cancer. All told, these steps can make a big, big difference in your quality of life later on.

Stay well,

Mark Rosenberg, MD

References

1. Dal Maso L, et al. Int J Cancer. 2006; 118(10):2632-35.
2. Jourdain C, et al. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2006; 15(4):353-61.
3. Seeram NP, et al. J Agric Food Chem. 2004; 52(9):2512-17.

[Ed. Note: Mark Rosenberg, M.D. is director of the "Institute for Anti-Aging in South Florida. He is a highly sought-after speaker for lectures on topics such as integrative cancer therapy and anti-aging medicine. Dr. Rosenberg is avidly involved in supplement research and is nutritional consultant for Vitalmax Vitamins.]

Weight Loss:

The Forbidden Secrets of Weight Loss

By Matthew Anderson, D.Min

Would you buy a product that had a 95% failure rate?

Not one of us would buy a car or a computer that was known to fail 95% of the time. So why then do so many of us pay enormous amounts of money and give hours of our time to diets with a 95% failure rate??

It is a fact that 95% of the overweight people who try any diet program end up fat. That means that the diet did not work. It failed.

The problem is that 99% of all diets deal with the surface causes of weight loss. It is like putting makeup over skin cancer. You don’t see the lesion anymore but nothing has been done to cure the disease.

If you are someone who has lost and then re-gained weight for years, I know how you feel. I walked the road of diet failure for years. Then I lost 65 pounds and have kept 55pounds off for 8 years. Here is what worked for me.

When I stopped looking for the right food and exercise combination, I was finally ready to explore the essential truths about real, long term weight loss. That’s because long term weight loss is not really about exercise and counting calories. Longterm weight loss occurs when and only when we discover and learn to manage the internal issues that are the real source of our eating habits.

Nothing else will work. Internal issues drive your “bad” eating habits. They become so intense that they rise up and take over and then you find yourself eating out of control.

Why are these truths forbidden? There is one simple reason: They are not fast, not easy, and not quickly profitable. Therefore, even the few diet “experts” who know these truths usually avoid them because most Americans want “quick and easy. No one is open to the real and effective facts about this subject until they have been thoroughly frustrated by the surface-oriented programs that promise a fast and painless (but guaranteed to fail) program.

What are the internal (real) issues that actually cause weight gain?

1. Food Addiction: If you think of your weight problem as a very difficult addiction, you will be immediately on the right track.
2. Inadequate Mothering: Most overweight people use food to “mother themselves because they did not get enough healthy, nourishing mothering as children. They then go to “comfort food as a temporary substitute for the missing sweetness, nourishment, care, love, attention, affirmation, acceptance, and validation that their own mother was unable to provide.
3. Fear of Strong Emotions: Out of control eating is directly connected to our fear of feeling any intense emotion. We then “eat to kill the difficult emotion, usually with comfort food.
4. Loss and Deprivation of Spiritual Needs: Spirituality is a basic human need. If we neglect this essential part of life, we often confuse soul needs with food. Since spiritual needs are intense, their neglect can cause an intense drive to eat as a temporary substitute.
5. Inadequate Stress-Management Skills: Life is tough and most of us lack certain coping tools. We then use food as a comfort mechanism.
6. Childhood Traumas: If you are more than 70 pounds overweight, there is a significant possibility that your weight gain is related to your unresolved childhood pain. Inner work is the only solution to this.

For more in-depth and tough-minded help with the real causes of weight gain and loss please contact me at my website below.

[Ed. note: Dr. Matthew Anderson is an author (The Prayer Diet), counselor and national columnist/expert on weight loss, motivation, self-management and relationships. To find tough-minded, outside-the-box guidance for taking charge of your life and/or your weight including Eating to Kill, click here.]

Healthy Recipes:

Adobo-Marinated Pork Tenderloin

By Kelley Herring

Stressed out? Calm your nerves with this soothing meal. While it’s light in calories, it’s packed with nutrients for your nervous system including a hefty 67% of the RDA for thiamin. This B vitamin is crucial for the healthy development of myelin sheaths — the fat-like coverings that surround nerves.¹

Time To Table: 1 hour

Serves: 8

The Benefits

Excellent source of: protein, selenium, vitamin B6, thiamin, niacin
Good source of: iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc, vitamin B12
Preferences: Gluten-Free

Ingredients

1 cup fresh organic lime juice (about 8 limes)
2 tsp black pepper
2 tsp ground cumin
6 tsp organic garlic cloves, crushed
32 ounce organic pork tenderloin
1 1/2 tsp organic extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp organic green onions
1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro

Preparation

Combine lime juice, black pepper, oregano, cumin, sea salt and garlic in a 2-quart baking dish. Trim fat from pork. Place pork in dish, turning to coat; cover and marinate in refrigerator 20 minutes or up to 1 hour, turning pork occasionally. Prepare grill. Remove pork from dish; discard marinade. Brush with oil. Insert a meat thermometer into thickest portion of pork. Place on a grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 25 minutes or until thermometer registers 160° (slightly pink). Cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Sprinkle with cilantro and green onions.

Reference

1. DeGiorgio LA, et al. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2003 Feb;62(2):195-207 2003.

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