Prostate Information
March 2006 - Capsaicin is the natural chemical that makes peppers hot and according to U.S. and Japanese researchers, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves.
80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice died in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said. The mice ate the human equivalent of 400 mgs of capsaicin three times a week. About 5 fresh habanero peppers, depending on how hot they are.
The capsaicin inhibits the activity of NF-kappa beta, a molecular mechanism that helps lead to apoptosis in many cell types.
Prostate cancer is the most common malignant cancer in U.S. men. It is diagnosed in 232,000 men every year and kills up to 30,000 of them. Worldwide, 221,000 men die every year from prostate cancer
Hank: Peppers, Tomatoes and a Good Wank at least three times a week will help prevent prostate problems. Tell your young friends!
Masturbate for Health
Hank & Ed, found this at Betty Dodson.com.....a policy that i have spoke of before with you....and advocate very strongly.
If doctors could tell young men that they're less
likely to get prostate cancer if they masturbate,
"that would be one hell of a message. That's going
to give everybody license to have a lot of sex."
Frequent Masturbation Can Lower a Man's Chances
of Developing Prostate Cancer, Study Claims.
Doctor calls the possible connection between self-
gratification and better health potential "dynamite."
From healthday news.com
-- Word first came on Wednesday that scientists have discovered a baldness drug can prevent prostate cancer making it the first medication to reduce the risk of the tumors.
But the drug, finasteride, may soon have some big-time competition that doesn't cost a cent.
Frequent masturbation, especially during the young adult years, can lower a man's chances of developing prostate cancer, a new study claims.
It's not clear why masturbation may help men avoid prostate tumors. One theory is that purging the gland regularly clears it of cancer-causing substances. Another suggests it allows cells in the organ to become more cancer-resistant. But the study, by Australian researchers, says that the more and the earlier, the better.
Several doctors who were asked to comment on the study declined to do so, saying they hadn't read it yet.
They included Dr. Ira Sharlip, a San Francisco urologist and sexual medicine expert, who urges caution on interpreting the Australian research. But he calls the possible connection between self-gratification and better health potential "dynamite."
If doctors could tell young men that they're less likely to get prostate cancer if they masturbate, "that would be one hell of a message," Sharlip says. "That's going to give everybody a license to have a lot of sex."
The study, reported July 17 in the New Scientist, compared the sex habits and cancer risk in 2,338 Australian men, of whom 1,079 had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Those who reported ejaculating more between the ages of 20 and 50 were less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Men who masturbated more than five times a week while in their 20s had about two-thirds the risk of developing prostate cancer, compared to men who did so infrequently.
"It's a prostatic stagnation hypothesis," study leader Graham Giles, of the Cancer Council Victoria, in Melbourne, told the magazine. "The more you flush the ducts out, the less there is to hang around and damage the cells that line them."
The findings appear in BJU International, a European urology journal.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, trailing only skin cancer. This year, nearly 221,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with the disease, and 28,900 will die of it, according to the American Cancer Society.