Prostate and Food: about the Harmful Fruits and Vegetables

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Question

How can you determine how safe fruits and vegetables are? When you buy them in a supermarket or at a market, it is almost impossible to detect the level of nitrate contamination — and as a result the course of treatment for prostate adenoma may be interrupted, or, more precisely, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can progress more rapidly. Which foods should be avoided with prostate adenoma? Which foods are beneficial for the prostate?

Answer

Causes of BPH: neglecting proper nutrition

An excess of nitrates entering the body with food acts like a poison. Any poison has wide-ranging effects, and one of the main side effects is reduced oxygen supply, which leads to edema (swelling) in vulnerable tissue areas. Those are very favorable conditions for the development of BPH.

I once tested this on myself at a time when I already knew about the dangers of these kinds of carcinogenic substances. I had no painful symptoms in my prostate and its size was normal. The experiment was simple: once a day, every morning, I added a large serving of salad made from greenhouse cucumbers, cabbage and green onions to my breakfast. By the way, when I bought that head of cabbage at the market I couldn’t help noticing that its color was not a normal green but a sickly pale green.

In general, food becomes an unpleasant experience when you know it contains a significant contamination. After the third day of the experiment, upon waking I clearly noticed that my bladder felt noticeably fuller than usual (the muscles around it seemed tighter), and urination was rather slow. I did not try to determine which salad ingredient was the worst. I threw the remaining cucumbers, onion and cabbage away and immediately resumed my therapeutic exercises. My body, which is well trained, took about four days to recover.

Long practice with restorative exercises has taught me to assess my condition fairly accurately when necessary. During the recovery period, especially on the first day, I felt a slight heaviness when moving — the muscles had a barely perceptible swelling. I am confident that the amount of nitrates I absorbed over those three days exceeded reasonable limits several times. I think the above account may be useful to you.

Imagine how a patient who lacks this knowledge may accelerate the growth of prostate adenoma simply by eating such vegetables — he believes the menu is healthy, while in fact he is harming himself.

Now, to answer the question more directly. Some people who notice the first signs of BPH try to control the content of nitric-acid salts (nitrates) in fruits and vegetables with a special device — a nitrate tester. It is useful only when the harmful substances in the product are well above reasonable limits. But I was told about a significant drawback. For example, you test a tomato: the device indicates a safe level and the vegetable appears to be fine. Then you test the same tomato a centimeter away at the same depth — and the tester signals an excess. The conclusion is that nitrates are distributed unevenly, and the device does not meet the necessary requirements. Are we to test one vegetable 20–30 times to obtain an average nitrate value? That is absurd.

Therefore, in treating BPH the most sensible rule is: if in doubt, don’t eat it. Everything has its season, and what benefits your body are vegetables grown in natural conditions — harvested from the ground. Do not try to find something “safe” off-season on shop shelves; it is not there. Never buy the earliest (i.e., first-to-market) vegetables, berries and fruits. Producers who chase excessive profit often violate growing technologies and turn the product into a disguised poison. These products are produced in large batches and, I am convinced, some of them enter our countries (for example, Ukraine or Russia) easily, passing customs with outrageous bribes. In my view, such traders should be punished strictly: their actions cripple the younger generation and shorten the life span of the nation far more than many large-scale hostilities.

Speaking about fruits and most berries: I have encountered excessive nitrate concentrations in them much less often. Still — this should not dull your vigilance. Each of us lives in a different environmental situation.

A special note on melons and watermelons: melon and watermelon are gourd-family crops that, in the case of prostate adenoma, are better minimized or even excluded from the diet. Even with low levels of carcinogens they can have a prolonged diuretic effect, which is undesirable with this diagnosis.

Link to the page describing the non-medicinal treatment approach “Living Without BPH”:
https://adenomaprostate.com/en/articles/7/

Gennadiy Plotyan — author of the site devoted to the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of BPH.