let's talk about benign prostatic hyperplasia what does hyperplasia mean it means enlargement okay so this BPH problem is basically an enlarged prostate it affects your urination the stream of your urine is a bit on the weak side you might find that you dribble after you urinate and you just might have the Sensation that your bladder is not empty so we're going to talk about this and there's actually this one drink that you can consume every day to help you shrink the prostate but more important than the remedy is to understand the mechanism and how you develop this problem in the first place a lot of men as they get older develop this condition and some even develop prostate cancer so this video is going to cover both topics so basically you have this prostate that is just underneath your urinary bladder and there's a little tube that comes out of the urinary bladder okay that's called the urethra and the prostate wraps around that and normally it should be small but when it enlarges it becomes bigger and it can constrict the little tube that allows urine to flow and even become so big it can push up into the urinary bladder decreasing the volume of your urinary bladder so you really don't have the full capacity to hold urine all of the estrogen that women have and that men have actually originate from testosterone so estrogen is a byproduct of testosterone and the convert testosterone to estrogen you need this enzyme called aromatase and aromatase is made by the testicle as well as your fat cells so that's number one of this Foundation number two excess estrogen increases the size of the prostate that's interesting because you probably thought that your problem was too much testosterone but if that's true then why does testosterone decrease with age in men estrogen increases with age and like I said before estrogen is an anabolic hormone it makes things get bigger here's another little uh thing intraprostatic estrogen levels that means the estrogen within the prostate is not dependent on the estrogen in the blood so you can't really figure out how much estrogen you have in the prostate by measuring the levels in your blood estrogen also increases another hormone called prolactin that can also increase the size of the prostate phytoestrogens certain phytochemicals in plants can mimic estrogen but not very strongly in fact very weakly so if we look at human estrogen compared to plant estrogen plant estrogen is basically about 10 000 to a hundred and forty thousand times less strong so this is why sometimes people are confused when they're eating certain plants and herbs that might increase estrogen it's a very very very tiny amount and so you're never going to have to worry about becoming estrogen dominant if you consume any of these plant-based estrogen compounds and I'm really talking about the phytoestrogens in pumpkin seeds and saw palmetto and even certain types of soy of course if you're going to do soy you have to really make sure it's always organic because most of the soy is GMO but the remedy that I'm going to recommend for the prostate is not any one of those what I'm going to recommend is we focus on inhibiting that enzyme that I mentioned remember we talked about testosterone turning into estrogen okay with help of that enzyme called aromatase what we want to do is we want to inhibit that enzyme naturally if you can inhibit that enzyme you'll have less production of estrogen and hopefully you can shrink the prostate now the first thing to know is how does this enzyme increase okay because it does increase with age unfortunately and also it can increase with body fat this is why losing weight is an important thing it can increase with insulin I've talked a lot about that topic in fact if you're on keto you're going to be a lot better off because you're then going they decrease the enzyme directly by reducing insulin this is why even diabetics or people that do high carb diets have a big problem with the prostate now another thing that increases this enzyme alcohol I'm sorry it does alcohol is definitely a factor it can actually just make more estrogen in your body another one is whole grains so-called healthy foods that they say you should be consuming and then you also have hormone replacement therapy or birth control pills which you just need to know that like estrogen can also increase that enzyme what will decrease that enzyme this is the most important thing you need to know from this whole video number one regular consumption of cruciferous vegetables like kale broccoli cabbage arugula all of the cruciferous have the capacity of decreasing that enzyme helping you regulate this extra bit of estrogen that you have another thing that will help you is white button mushrooms make sure you saute them don't eat them raw because you don't get the effect if you have it raw flaxseed which I know some people are concerned it's going to increase your estrogen it's not going to but if you you've heard conflicting information you have two choices you can actually read the studies down below or just just omit that remedy altogether because it's not the most powerful one another remedy would be green tea but the biggest remedy I'm going to recommend okay and I'm going to put the links down below is citrus peel okay the peelings of lemon apparently there are some really interesting things in lemon peel that not only inhibit that enzyme aromatase but will perform all sorts of other benefits for not just the prostate but for the whole body there's actually five times more nutrition in that peel than the actual juice so in addition to losing weight with healthy keto reducing the insulin consuming cruciferous vegetables all you need to do you can do this at any time of the day take a whole lemon okay put it in the blender the glass of water okay and then blend it make it all nice and creamy maybe blend it for 30 seconds and you can also then add about five to ten drops of liquid Stevia okay to sweeten it or you can add one half to one cup of blueberries which also support the prostate as well you can blend all that together and drink it as a shake either with or without the blueberries the lemon peel is the most important because we're trying to reduce that aromatase so we can reduce the estrogen and keep these ratios of higher testosterone or normal testosterone to lower estrogen so out of anything you can do those are the most important steps now there's some other really cool benefits with lemon peels then if you haven't seen this video you must watch it I put it up right here