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Article: Natural therapies for the prostate gland: a scientific review of nutrient and herbal combinations that promote prostate health.(Therapeutic Nutrition)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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The prostate is a walnut-sized gland that sits at the base of the male bladder, surrounding the prostatic urethra. As part of the reproductive system, this gland secretes seminal fluid, energizes sperm and provides for it a favorable alkaline medium. The prostate is subject to several disease states including infection, hypertrophy and cancer, causing pain, urinary frequency and urgency, inability to urinate, painful urination and sexual dysfunction.
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostate cancer, and prostatitis are its most common disorders. More than 50% of men in their sixties and as many as 90% of men in their seventies ...