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Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Male Incontinence
Questions about incontinence should be written down and taken with you when you visit your physician to discuss your urinary tract symptoms. Who should you address your questions about incontinence to? Either your primary care physician or, preferably, a urologist. To help you get started, here are some questions about incontinence you can ask. What…
Prostate Health: How Inflammatory Is Your Diet?
With respect to the ancient physician Hippocrates, I paraphrase one of his most famous quotes: Let food be thy prostate’s medicine, and your medicine be thy prostate’s food.” A darker admonition comes from an English proverb that I also paraphrase: Don’t dig your prostate’s grave with your own knife and fork. Both quotes address the…
Changes in PSA Recommendations by AUA
Changes in PSA recommendations this month by the American Urological Association’s (AUA) resulted in similarities with those of the US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF). The alignment may simplify patient-physician “shared decision making” with regards to PSA screening. In 2012, the USPSTF’s statements concerning PSA caused an uproar because it discouraged routine PSA screening for…
Prostate Cancer Risk Rises with Heavy Alcohol Use
Men who are heavy alcohol users are at least twice as likely to be diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer than those who engage in less heavy drinking. That’s the word from researchers at the University of California San Francisco. High-grade prostate cancer (Gleason score of 8, 9, or 10) is more aggressive than lower grade…
Are High-Protein Diets Healthy?
Are high-protein diets healthy? What man doesn’t want to believe that eating all the bacon, steaks, and cheese he wants while losing weight and feeling satisfied is the perfect diet? People really do lose some weight on high-protein, low-carb diets such as the Atkins diet, the Zone diet, and others. The problem is that these…
