Simple strategies – how to protect yourself from benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH).

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Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH for short), is a common condition in men characterized by frequent day and night-time urination, increased urgency to urinate, straining to urinate, and a feeling the bladder hasn’t completely emptied. Sound familiar? BPH often shows up in middle age, with half of all men between the ages of 40 to 60 affected. However BPH can begin in the late 20s, however, generally younger men tend to get prostatitis, an infection of the prostate, with burning or painful urination, low back pain and fever. See your doctor. The walnut-sized prostate’s job is to secrete a...

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The 5 main inflammatory substances the body produces – learn how to quell them.

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There are five inflammatory substances the body produces in response to various factors – environmental pollution, metabolic by-products, nutritional deficiencies and poor food choices, structural stress, digestive problems, infections, and pharmaceutical drugs. 1) Histamine – the mast cells produce histamine, I am sure you have heard of anti-histamine medication. Histamine is involved in the immune process for example – asthma, eczema, and hay-fever suffers produce high levels of histamine. To counteract histamine – fruits like black currents, kiwi, and...

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