In one research study, men with mild prostate enlargement were followed for five years, by which time a quarter of them had improved without treatment. Mild prostate symptoms sometimes improve with no treatment at all. In many men, the prostate actually shrinks as they get older.2 Only about half of them actually have significant enlargement of the gland, and only a quarter have any urinary symptoms. The technical term for an enlarged prostate is 'benign prostatic hyperplasia.' It is not cancer because these cells will not invade neighboring tissues or spread to other organs.īy age 80, some cell multiplication has occurred in most men.

It does not take much prostate growth before the urinary symptoms begin.

Irritation of the urethra causes the urge to urinate and repeated nighttime trips to the bathroom. If this continues, they can pinch off the urethra, causing a poor urinary stream, dribbling, pressure, and, ultimately, infection and kidney damage. Starting at about age 30, the prostate cells alongside the urethra start to multiply. The bladder empties into a tube called the urethra, which passes through the prostate gland, where it is joined by another tube carrying sperm from the testes. Like so many other parts of our biology, the mixture of nutrients we choose every day can encourage prostate cells to grow into an aggravating mass or can help them stay put. The prostate is also the number one cancer spot in a man's body. As time goes on, many men have an enlargement of their prostates, causing annoying and sometimes painful urinary problems. One might wonder if the main purpose of the prostate is to aggravate older men. The only health problems are caused by the surgery itself.1 When the prostate is removed, men live without it quite happily. But sperm are perfectly capable of fertilizing an egg without the prostate's contributions. We do know that prostate secretions end up in semen. In spite of decades of research, we still have no idea what it is doing there.

The prostate is an organ that sits snuggled up under the bladder.

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