Preventative Prostate Health Maintenance

What does preventative maintenance include?
Diet plays a role in this condition as in so many others. Increasing fruit and vegetable content in your diet and reducing butter, margarine and other fats including animal fats will reduce your chance of developing BPH. Foods high in quercetin such as apples and onions also act as natural anti-inflammatories.
Increase your level of physical exercise. One study associated a lower frequency of BPH symptoms with increased physical activity, specifically walking. Men who walked for two to three hours per week had a 25% decreased rate of BPH symptoms. 1

1. Platz EA, Kawachi I, Rimm EB, et al. Physical activity and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Arch Intern Med 1998;158:2349–56.