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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Physical Labor

Question

I often feel worse after physical labor, including in the area of my prostate. What level of activity is appropriate with a diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia when working, for example, in the garden? I ask this because I live in a rural area, have my own house, a garden plot, and a small household. I need to work regularly. How should I load my prostate? I do not always understand when I have worked correctly and when I have harmed myself. Could you give me some advice?

Answer

Get Used to Self-Analysis

I will begin with one key piece of advice. If you have started actively working on improving your health but the results are less than satisfactory, take a pause in your efforts and try to analyze each action while you are at rest. When you are calm and inactive, recalling your own efforts and thinking about them usually works much more effectively. Do not worry about the time spent reflecting while inactive. Learn once and for all that you must first get used to listening to your own body and understanding what it tells you, and then drawing correct conclusions. Taking such a thoughtful pause will ultimately be far more beneficial than performing actions thoughtlessly.

Today, people give each other many tips for treating chronic prostatitis or benign prostatic hyperplasia, and the speed at which information spreads makes recommendations available to most interested people almost immediately. This is excellent when the advice is appropriate. However, everything should be adapted to your own situation and only used after you have thought it through carefully for yourself.

Most specialists familiar with this topic say that benign prostatic hyperplasia can be slowed or managed through activity, and physical labor is considered one type of beneficial activity. Yet, almost no one explains in detail how this should be done. This lack of detail has created a misleading stereotype that almost any kind of movement is helpful for benign prostatic hyperplasia. In other words, it is often assumed that any activity is useful as long as you do not immobilize yourself excessively. Let us look more closely at specific examples from gardening and horticultural work, since this question comes up frequently. I will try to explain it in the simplest possible way, and if you understand it correctly, you will gain practical benefit.

The Main Mistake – Monotonous Labor

Suppose you are working on your plot, hand weeding or hilling plants. In this case, your gardening tool is a hoe, which may also be called a spade, mattock, or cultivator depending on the region. You begin cultivating the soil, taking a certain posture, usually slightly bent, and you should maintain this posture until the work is finished or you take a break. During this time, your arm muscles are actively working, while your legs are only slightly involved. That is essentially all the activity. The pelvic area and spine remain almost immobile, and certain groups of muscles surrounding them, including the muscles near the prostate, stay tense without any relaxation. These muscles are exposed to all the negative effects of this type of workload, including mild oxygen deprivation, and there is no real benefit to them.

If you need to cultivate a large area of land in one session, problems may arise not only with the prostate. Your body will be slightly more active when using a rake. During harvesting, it depends on the type of work, but partial restriction of movement is still unavoidable.

If possible, try to break such activities into short sessions, for example ten to fifteen minutes each. During these intervals, it is much easier to focus on the quality of your movements, even if some movements are extra, and also on your breathing. During breaks, stretch the parts of your body that have become tense. In your situation, the most suitable movements include twisting, rotating the torso, and bending. If you need to perform several types of work, alternate them in similar intervals and combine them with breaks. Do not hesitate to walk more intentionally; it may not be the most efficient way to work, but it is certainly more beneficial. For example, you can begin working on the soil in different, opposite parts of your plot. This kind of physiotherapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia will be helpful.

You can also consciously induce significantly more muscle activity and relaxation in these situations by reading and understanding other articles on this website. For visitors who are on this page for the first time, I suggest looking at the List of Articles and continuing to explore the topics in more detail.

Overheating and Hypothermia

Remember that in hot weather you need to protect yourself from overheating and avoid exposing any part of your body to direct sunlight. In cooler transitional seasons, you should prevent your body from becoming chilled. I am confident that on your personal plot of land, you will never come into contact with mineral fertilizers. You should not even consider using inorganic compounds for your own purposes. Take the time to improve or adjust your gardening tools to suit your needs, such as sharpening them properly, lengthening or shortening them, widening or narrowing them, if you feel the need. In general, apply rationalization in every aspect of your work, and, of course, avoid any kind of injury.

From this, we can draw a conclusion. Work that is only partially active, but mostly monotonous or routine, will provide no benefit for benign prostatic hyperplasia. On the contrary, it may even lead to complications and the appearance of painful symptoms, since the muscle contractions are largely ineffective. Physical labor, especially if prolonged, is by no means a substitute for therapeutic exercise. Some muscles may go into spasm during such work. Proper breathing is rarely applied – in fact, you are unlikely to even think about it during the process. And if your mind is focused on completing the task rather than on improving your health, there will be no benefit.

On Side Harm

One final point. In addressing this question, I confidently assume that you are not causing yourself harm in other ways. I will give an example. Once, I received an email, roughly as follows (the original has not been preserved):

“Dear website author, I am writing with a strong desire to overcome benign prostatic hyperplasia, which has caused me a great deal of trouble recently. I read your method, and it gave me not just hope, but faith. I am a very energetic and active person, not too old, and I enjoy working productively. My main hobby is working on my garden plot. I do not smoke, so I have almost no bad habits. The only thing I allow myself is to drink, every day before dinner, exactly one hundred grams of strong homemade vodka, no more, no less, and I have done this consistently for several years. I am interested in your eighth topic as soon as possible, because the gardening season is approaching, and I want to start it healthy, without benign prostatic hyperplasia.”

My response to the sender was straightforward. Any attempts at improving health with a diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia should only be undertaken after completely giving up harmful habits, especially alcohol. With benign prostatic hyperplasia, wine and other alcoholic beverages are strictly contraindicated. Naturally, the correspondence ended immediately, because it is not easy to give up even such a seemingly minor addiction, which provides pleasure. I did not send any hidden materials to the person and did not inquire about their further efforts.

I consider my response to your question to be complete and practical for any interested visitor to this website.

Respectfully, Gennadiy Plotyan, blog on symptoms, diagnostic nuances, and treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

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