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what if I told you that your diet might actually help prevent BPH I'm Dr Rea Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and today we're going to talk about what changes you can make within your diet to help prevent prostate enlargement now benign prosthetic hyperplasia or BPH is a condition where the prostate becomes enlarged and the prostate gland is located underneath the bladder and around the urethra as it enlarges it makes it more difficult for urine to pass through leading to symptoms like difficulty urinating straining waiting for your stream to start having a stop and start stream splitting stream and even sometimes having to go multiple times throughout the day or at night and going very urgently and sometimes even leaking urine and BPH is incredibly common it's estimated that over 50% of men over the age of 50 have some degree of BPH and that number continues to increase to about 80% by the time men reach their 80s and today we're going to talk about how your diet can affect BPH and how adding these few things to your diet might decrease your risk of BPH by almost 30% so there's been two major studies that have looked at large populations of men to look at what dietary changes might be associated with BPH and the important thing here to realize is that these studies are observational meaning that you can see that these people who ate these things were less likely to get BPH but we can't definitively say that this causes or prevents BPH so the first study I'm going to talk about is called the prostate cancer prevention trial and this was a study that included 4,770 men from the placebo arm of the prostate cancer prevention trial also known as pcpt now this was a randomized control trial that was initially designed to evaluate the risk of prostate cancer in men taking a medication called finasteride in men who were younger than 55 and they followed these men for 7 years now of that initial study they looked at men specifically who didn't have BPH at the start of this study so at the beginning of that 7-year time period and they looked at how they changed over time and so that left them with almost 5,000 men and how they studied these guys is they completed a diet and supplement questionnaire as well as food frequency questionnaires looking at 99 different foods they were taking in food groups as well as nine Beverages and they calculated then what's called the relative Hazard or risk of getting BPH after controlling for how old they were what their race and ethnicity was how uh obese they were and what kind of energy expenditure they made usually as well as their other health conditions so number one thing is increase in protein intake so in this study they found that higher protein intake decreased BPH Risk by 15% now you might say how much higher well they looked at the total energy percentage of what you're eating if you were eating a 2,000 calorie diet what percent of those calories were coming from protein men who had more than 19.5% of their total energy from protein versus less than 14.6% of their total energy had a decreased risk of 15% now if you looked at the number of calories if 490 calories or more were taken from protein versus less than 236 that decreased the risk by 33% now the average person in the US gets about 13 to 16% of their daily intake through protein so you need to be a little higher than average to reach that 19% Mark are you struggling to get enough protein well I want to share with you guys this amazing new protein bar called David protein and I can't tell you that I'm so excited to be partnering with David protein because I actually use this bar myself I've been looking for something that will help me reach my goals which right now is to increase strength and to lose weight which means I need to increase my protein intake but keep my calorie intake low and that's exactly what David Pro prot does which is one of these bars I get 28 g of protein for just 150 calories now you guys might not know this but when you're looking at all these high protein products if you turn them over and look at the nutrition label often times they may have 15 or 20 grams of protein but their calories are significantly higher and so what ends up happening is that you're eating a lot more calories than you need to to get the amount of protein you need it's just the least calories for the most protein ever and even better it tastes really good my personal favorite is this blueberry pie flavor it's also available in chocolate chip cookie dough cake batter double fudge brownie blueberry pie as I mentioned and coming soon peanut butter chocolate chunk and salted peanut butter which I'm so excited about because I love peanut butter the other great thing about this is that most protein bars they leave you with that chalky nasty taste but this one actually tastes really good and so when I'm on the go like I'm in between podcast interviews or in between patient I can grab a David bar so I'm not famished and I'm actually feeling more satiated so I don't go and grab some high sugar piece of chocolate from the nurses station I can actually focus on meeting my goals eating healthy and still enjoying it if you want to try it go to www.david.com mallik you can order a sample pack or if you want to order four cartons you get the fifth one free so check it out and let me know what you think all right number two decrease in fat and maybe red meat intake so in that same study the pcpt study it showed that a diet high in total fat and red meat was associated with an increased risk of BPH let's talk about the red meat thing you can't differentiate people who are eating lean red meats from high fatty red meats so I assume that likely a lot of the high red meat issue is coming from high fatty red meats but they couldn't differentiate from that so I can't say specifically but when you look at the data when you compare men who ate daily consumption of red meat meaning every single day versus less than once a week they increase their Risk by 38% but when you look at the consumption between one to seven times a week there was no significant increase in Risk so all I can tell you based on this data is don't eat it seven times a week meaning don't eat it every single day ideally I would recommend eating lean red meats because we do know that again fat is associated with BP so let me tell you the data on that when you look at diets high in fat they increase the BPH Risk by 30 31% meaning those who ate about 38% of their calories came from fat were 38% more likely to get BPH than those that had less than 25% of their calories from fat now why is fat such a problem well the reason behind this is that diets that are high in fat May potentially promote inflammation and cause hormonal changes that then drive prostate cell growth and not only are they causing inflammation but they may be causing hypoxia and tissue remodeling meaning they may actually reduce the oxygen in the prostate and cause this Remodeling and enlargement our next one comes from a different study and this study is called the health professionals follow-up study now in this study they looked at over 32,000 men who were health professionals doctors dentists veterinarians Pharmacists and they collected some baseline data in 1986 using sort of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire and they wanted to look if they consumed any of over 131 food items as as well as looking at what vitamins and supplements they took then they followed them from 1992 to 2000 so these men were followed for a long time and they wanted to see if they had any symptoms or surgery related to BPH and what were the odds of developing BPH based on these dietary factors and again they controlled for age body mass index smoking alcohol and in this case protein intake energy intake and polyunsaturated fat intake so that brings us to number three which is increasing your vegetable intake so in this study they found a 32% decreased risk in men who consumed six or more servings of vegetables per day compared to less than 1.6 servings and in particular they found that fruits and vegetables that were rich in beta carotene lutein and vitamin C reduce the odds of BPH by anywhere from 11 to 177% now you may be thinking vitamin C oh I can take that as a supplement however they did look at Vitamin C in Foods versus vitamin C in ements and they didn't see the same impact when taking vitamin C in a supplement form specifically when you're looking for foods that are rich in lutein or beta keratine you want to look for things like cooked spinach raw spinach peas Brussel spouts and peaches also things like oranges grapefruit or fresh orange juice or grapefruit juice was also seen to be beneficial legumes like string beans peas beans and alala Sprouts were shown to be beneficial and cruciferous vegetables like broccol broccoli sauerkraut klaa cooked cabbage cauliflower again brussels sprouts kale all those things were shown to be again beneficial for potentially preventing or having a lower odds of BPH other vegetables were things like corn mixed vegetables mushrooms yams iceberg lettuce Roma lettuce and garlic so a lot of vegetables and so a lot of them were associated with a lower odds of getting vph number four is zinc intake now not from a supplement in fact zinc supplements didn't show a difference but higher dietary zinc was linked to a reduced risk of BPH with men taking more than 18.9 Mig per day having a 32% lower risk compared to men taking 8.8 Mig or less so you might be wondering what kind of foods have zinc in them well first off oysters two oysters contain almost 12 Mig of zinc pumpkin seeds 100 G of pumpkin seeds contains almost 8 Mig of zinc so 100 G of beef contains almost 5 Mig of zinc and almonds 100 G serving of almonds contains almost 4 Mig of zinc and other sources can be things like hemp seeds chickpeas lentils sunflower seeds or chia seed which leads us to our last item which is flax seeds or flax seed extract so in a small study of 87 men they found that flax seed and its active component psycho isolus dig glucide I don't know if I'm saying that correctly can help reduce the risk R and symptoms of BPH so in the study was a randomized double blind Placebo controlled trial where they administered either Placebo 300 Mig or 600 Mig per day of the flax seed extract containing that sdg to 87 men and followed them for four months and after four months they saw that their score of urinary symptoms called the ipss as well as their quality of life scores improved so they noticed that their symptoms went from moderate to severe to mild and while that may not seem like a big deal to you I would say a lot of patients would love to go from moderate to beer symptoms to mild without having to undergo surgery or other procedures now this is a very small study it's only covered four months but it may be helpful in some patients bottom line I think there's so much that we can do for our health to improve our quality of life and hopefully prevent chronic conditions like BPH I hope there's more investigation into this area of prevention because I think it's so so important with 80% of 80-year-olds dealing with BPH I mean it's really important for us to try and find ways to prevent it if you guys enjoyed this content make sure to check out my podcast it's here on YouTube but you can also find it wherever you listen to podcast whether it's Apple podcast Spotify or any other application it's the Reena Malik MD podcast because sometimes let's face it you don't have the time to watch a video but you can always put your earbuds in go for a walk or listen to it in the car and hear a podcast and learn something that's going to help your life and help you feel better have better sex and overall live a better life so as always I'm going to take care of yourself because you're worth it

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