If you are a man suffering from the unpleasant, sometimes agonizing symptoms of prostate enlargement, you are not alone. Most men suffer in silence, too embarrassed to admit to the discomfort that disrupts their personal and professional lives. Every day men battle the symptoms caused by prostate enlargement that range from annoying to the excruciating, such as the need to urinate constantly, difficulty in urinating, incontinence, bladder infection, as well as the psychological stress it causes.

This small, walnut-sized gland that sits at the neck of the bladder where it meets the urethra, behind the pubic bone, and in front of the rectum, weighing 20 grams when it is healthy has very limited use. At puberty, though, this anatomy begins to change. The surge of the male hormone testosterone stimulates these seeds to germinate and grow. The boy’s external sex organs- the penis, the testicles, and the scrotum-also enlarge under the influence of the male hormone at this time, as he finally becomes a man. Now he has a prostate gland. But you need to know that without a prostate gland, urination can be as normal, a sex life just as satisfactory, and an orgasm just as intense.

Living well and maintaining a healthy immune system is the best prevention for a healthy prostate. Certainly it has been well established that diet and lifestyle changes can make a difference in certain medical conditions. Maintaining a healthy diet is one of the simplest things you can do for prostate health, for your general health, and for giving your immune system a hearty boost. Asian men in Japan and China who eat those countries traditional diet of vegetables and fish have been shown to have lower incidences of prostate cancer than men who leave their Asian countries and begin to eat a diet closer to the standard American diet. On average, Japanese citizens tend to live six to seven years longer than American men and woman, and some think this is due not only to a diet with more fish and vegetables but also to the fact that the Japanese consume fewer calories. In fact, they have the lowest daily caloric intake of any industrialized nation.

What you put into your body can actually strengthen or weaken your immune system, and can help fortify you against getting prostate cancer, as well as heart disease, stroke, and other major killer diseases. Your body needs many nutrients to continue functioning in top form and to maintain prostate health, and thus giving you the best chance to avoid prostate enlargement and even prostate cancer.