DR. WILLIAM DAVIS: There's something unique about the prostate gland

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Natural ways to treat risks for prostate disease, like benign prosthetic hypertrophy, BPH, prostatitis, inflammation or infection of the prostate gland, and, of course, prostate cancer.  Most conversations involving natural methods involve herbs, like Saw Palmetto that may reduce the blockage of urine that passes through the prostate gland.  

01:00.  For years we relied on things such as the urine to determine what was going on in the prostate.  But urine is an imperfect reflection of what goes on in the prostate. The urinary bladder and then the urethra; that's the little tube that passes right through the prostate gland to convey urine to the outside.  So urine is closely allied to what goes on in the prostate, just within a millimeter or two.  Likewise, the rectum.  You know, how do you, you know how a doctor, for example, examines the prostate?  A finger in the rectum.  So the rectum is right there next to the prostate within a couple of millimeters, so you would guess the rectal microbiome and the urinary microbiome play big roles in the prostate microbiome, and that is true, though they are imperfect reflections of what goes on in the prostate.  And there seems to be a lot more going on in very unexpected ways.  

The recent use of DNA sequencing has uncovered a whole array of microbes that live in the prostate in men with prostatitis, BPH, and prostate cancer that were completely unexpected.  For instance, you can find oral microbes in the prostate, like porphyromonas gingivalis, which is a common pathogenic.  You can find stomach microbes in the prostate, like Helicobacter pylori.  You can find skin microbes in the prostate like cutibacterium that cause acne.  You can find of course rectal and urinary microbes in the prostate gland.  You can even find microbes ordinarily found in the vagina in the prostate, presumably there because of intercourse with your female partner.  In other words, the prostate gland seems to be what I call "the Grand Central Station of the microbiome."  The prostate seems to be an area that receives microbes from numerous sources, including skin, mouth, vagina, urine, rectum, and the majority of men who have prostate is like prostatitis, BPH, prostate cancer, also have SIBO, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, that is the effects of endotoxemia that originate in the small intestine.  Who would have thought why?  Because it's the rectum that's right next to the prostate, not the small intestine.  But the small intestine affects other parts of the body via the release of endotoxins.  Recall that in the majority of Americans, including men, about half the population, has allowed the over-proliferation of fecal microbes in the colon that then have been allowed to ascend into the 24 feet of the small intestine; the small intestine becomes inflamed by housing these fecal microbes.  Microbes only live for a few hours, and when they die they release their toxic components, specifically endotoxins, that enter the bloodstream and lead to weight gain in the abdomen, it leads to type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, coronary disease, atrial fibrillation, rosacea, psoriasis, dementia, in other words, virtually all the common diseases of modern people either initiating them or making them worse.  There are other factors, of course, that are involved in those conditions, but endotoxemia is a miserably neglected area that plays a big role.  In prostate disease, the majority of men with prostate disease also have SIBO with endotoxemia driving prostate disease.  

04:30.  So how in the world do you address all of this?  The answers are not yet clear and there's no one solution either.  It's to address the bodywide microbiome.  For instance, address the rectal microbiome.  And SIBO.  Well, that we can do, right? you can use, for instance, buy SIBO yogurt.  The combination of lactobacillus rotari probiotic, lactobacillus gasseri, and the optional bacillus coagulans, lactobacillus subtilis.  We ferment it as yogurt, and we consume it, and that has proven to be exceptionally effective in eradicating SIBO and rectal dysbiosis by consuming it for a minimum of 4 weeks, and more likely for a lifetime at least intermittently.  Address the oral microbiome.  Start by eliminating wheat because the amylopectin of wheat and other grains is metabolized in the mouth and disrupts the oral microbiome.  That science is quite clear.  Sugars, likewise.  Oral hygiene, of course.  If you have H pylori stool testing, eradicating H pylori you can do so by way of using natural methods.  If you don't know how to do that, see my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.  Find the forums at InnerCircle, and you'll see multiple protocols and multiple agents to choose from that have been effective in eradicating H pylori.  We address the skin microbiome indirectly.  You don't have to apply topical probiotics, but you want to acidify the skin.  You do that by consuming fermented foods, like sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, and prebiotic fibers [foods that contain inulin, like onions, garlic, dandelions, etc.], fibers that nourish microbes, because both those things acidified the skin and acidification of the skin discourages the proliferation of pathogens like staphylococcus aureus and ketobacteria that goes to the prostate and encourages the proliferation of healthy microbes like staphylococcus epidermis.  In other words, it's what I call a Whole-biome approach that addresses all the microbiomes of the body in order to gain control of the prostate so it's not a specific prostate strategy it's a whole-biome approach that I believe we're going to find out as a science emerges we need better science of course except proceed slowly because of that issue I mentioned beginning because it requires insertion of advice into the rectum and a needle biopsy of the prostate so it's not often done but I believe that the science will point us towards the idea that it's not something specifically we do in the prostate itself but it's addressing the entire microbiome of the body that'll that'll result in a reduction in the risk for prostate disease.

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