Here’s how to find out…. if he answers “YES” to any of the following questions, there’s a high probability he has a prostate problem to some degree. Some of the questions are a bit sensitive but should be asked…
During Urination
1. Do you have to get up at night to urinate?
2. Do you have the sensation of not emptying your bladder completely?
3. After urinating, do you have to do it again in less than two hours?
4. Do you sometimes find it difficult to postpone urination?
5. Do you ever have to push or strain to begin urination?
During Sex
1. Are you suffering form some degree of impotence?
2. Are your erections becoming less intense?
3. Are your orgasms becoming less intense?
4. Do you have sex less than 4 times a month?
What’s causing the problem? Why does prostate cancer occur so often in aging men? Consider the changes in testicular hormone production as men age:
1. testosterone levels fall;
2. More testosterone is changed by 5-alpha-reductase enzyme to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), stimulating prostate growth;
3. Progesterone levels fall. (progesterone is vital to good health in men. It is the primary precursor of our adrenal cortical hormones and testosterone. Men synthesize progesterone in smaller amounts than women do, but it is still vital. Since progesterone is a potent inhibitor of 5-alpha-reductase, the decline of progesterone in aging males plays a roll in increasing the conversion rate of testosterone to DHT);
4. Estradiol (an estrogen) effect increases. Testosterone is a direct antagonist of estradiol in men. Both the fall in testosterone and the shift from testosterone to DHT allows increased effect of estradiol. Male estradiol levels are equivalent to or grater than that of postmenopausal females, but normally estradiol’s effects are suppressed (antagonized) by the male’s greater production of testosterone. Perhaps estradiol is also the culprit (along with DHT) in prostate growth.
Many men have reported their experience with progesterone cream, usually the result of handling progesterone cream while helping a woman apply it. They reported that their symptoms of prostate enlargement or benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) such as urinary urgency and frequency decreased considerably and their sexual performance increased.
Many of those same men have noticed that their PSA (Prostatic Specific Antigen) level - an indication of prostate cancer - decreased when they started using a daily dab of progesterone and that they had no progression of their prostate lesions since using the cream. We’ve seen tons of men who have been using the progesterone cream (along with diet changes, correct vitamin and mineral supplements and saw palmetto) report their cancer has shown no progression. This is startling.
Dr. John Lee states, “Since Huggins ( a doctor) showed in 1941, that castration (removal of the testicles) slowed progression of prostate cancer, physicians have assumed it was the resulting lack of testosterone that slowed the cancer and ever since have relied on suppression of testosterone in their treatment of the disease. However, the testosterone suppression benefit only lasts two to three years and then the prostate cancer progresses to an androgen (male hormone) intensive state that continues to spread. Despite this, metastatic prostate cancer patients are treated with androgen blockade through castration (orchectomy) and/or hormone-suppressing drugs.
Dr. Lee continues…. “I remember reading studies done 30-40 years ago showing that testosterone supplementation prevented survival of prostate cancer cells transplanted to test mammals. In more recent studies, it has been shown that in a prostate cancer cell culture, testosterone kills the cancer cells. A 1996 study published int he “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” showed that in mice, testosterone will shrink human prostate tumors.
Embryology teaches us that the prostate is the male equivalent of the female uterus. The 2 organs differentiate from the same embryonic cells and they share many of the same genes. It is not surprising then, that the hormonal relationships in endometrial cancer will be the same in prostate cancer; that is both are very sensitive to the harmful effect of unopposed estrogen an are protected by progesterone. Prevent the estrogen dominance and you will prevent the cancer. If the cancer is already underway, correcting the estrogen dominance will slow the cancer growth and prolong life.” Dr. Lee ends by stating… “the benefit of castration in prostate cancer is stemmed from estradiol reduction, not testosterone reduction… given the choice, I would choose testosterone and progesterone supplementation over castration.”
So the message is: share your natural Progesteorne cream with your husband or get him his own!