Prostate Enlargement And Prostatitis

The prostate is the small sex gland that surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder. The prostate gland makes some of the fluid in semen. Benign prostatic hypertrophy or enlarged prostate is a non-cancerous growth that causes the flow of urine to be obstructed.

Prostatitis is the inflammation of the prostate gland and commonly occurs after a urinary tract infection has spread to the prostate gland. The symptoms include:

a frequent urge to urinate,
difficulty in urinating, and
pain around the base of the penis.
What you can do to help

Correct some of the commonest nutritional causes of prostate conditions, which include:

deficiencies of essential fatty acids,
a toxic overload, and
a zinc deficiency.
A decrease in zinc is implicated in prostatic abnormalities. It is recommended that you take zinc at 15 mg per day and selenium as a part of a good antioxidant supplement. This will assist in the reduction of cadmium levels which have been found to be high in many cases of prostate abnormalities.

Take 500 mg of fish oil and 500mg of evening primrose oil per day for prostate enlargement.

The herb saw palmetto has been shown to inhibit the process that encourages the enlargement of the prostate.