Books : The Prostate Health Program : Excerpts

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Max Gomez, Ph.D.

I. Preventing Prostate Problems and Diseases

1. An Overview

• Liberating Yourself
• The Nutrition Connection
• The Exercise/Fitness/Lifestyle Connection
• The Importance of Regular Checkups
• Prostate Myths and Reality

2. The Healthy Prostate

• Prostate Power
• The Male Urogenital System
• Do I Have a Problem?
• Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer

3. The Prostate Checkup

• Warning Signs
• Basic Diagnostic Tests
• When Should You See a Urologist?

II. The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Cancer Prevention Diet

4. The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Nutrition Connection

• The Prostate Health Pyramid and the Basic Food Groups
• Nutritional Elements of the Prostate Health Pyramid

5. Negative Nutrition

• The Fats and Calcium Controversies
• The Worst Foods for Your Prostate
• The Irritants
• Additives • Supplements: Good and Bad

6. The Transition Diet

• A Gradual Approach
• A Better Way
• Getting Ready -- Suiting Up
• The Six Food Settings
• The Five Passageways
• A Parting Word

7. Menus and Recipes: Prostate Health, the Delicious Way!

• Choosing the Right Meals

III. Prostate Health and Fertility

8. The Healthy Prostate Fitness Regimen

• The Link Between Exercise and Prostate Health
• Can Exercise Prevent Prostate Cancer?
• The Healthy Prostate Fitness Regimen
• Aerobics: A Key to Prostate Health
• Kegel Exercises (Pelvic Floor Exercises) for Men
• Exercise After Prostate Surgery

9. Sex and the Prostate

• The Prostate and Sexual Function
• Impotence (Erectile Dysfunction)
• Incontinence
• Infertility

10. Prostatitis: A Little Tenderness Goes a Long Way

• An Insufficiently Understood Disease
• The Three Faces of Prostatitis
• Which Kind Do I Have?
• Treatment Strategies for Bacterial Prostatitis
• Treatment Options for Chronic Nonbacterial Prostatitis (CNP)
• Diet and Lifestyle Changes
• Gay Men and Prostatitis
• Living with Prostatitis

11. When Size Matters: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

• What is BPH?
• Who Gets BPH?
• Symptoms of BPH
• When to See a Doctor
• Treatment Options
• Putting It All Together

12. Prostatodynia (Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome)

• Symptoms of Prostatodynia
• Diagnosis of Prostatodynia
• What Causes Prostatodynia?
• Drawing a New Diagnostic Map of Prostatitis-Type Disorders
• Treatment Options for Prostatodynia • Solving the Enigma of Prostatodynia

IV. Prostate Cancer

13. Guarding Against Prostate Cancer

• The Institute for Cancer Prevention on Prostate Cancer
• The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Prostate Cancer Prevention Program
• The PSA Test: Cutting Through the Controversy
• Grading Prostate Cancer
• Prostate Cancer Q&A: Things You Need to Know
• In the Wake of Prostate Cancer: Coping and Getting On with Your Life

14. Treating Prostate Cancer

• A Treatment Dilemma
• Determining the Right Treatment for Each Patient
• Expectant Therapy
• Radiation Therapy
• Hormone Therapy
• Chemotherapy
• On the Horizon: The Prostate Cancer Vaccine
• Biological Therapy
• Gene Therapy: The Future of Prostate Cancer Treatment?
• Surgery
• Cryotherapy • Treating the Complications of Prostate Cancer
• Relieving and Treating Pain
• The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Prostate Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Charts

15. African Americans and Prostate Cancer

• Stopping the Crisis
• Race and Age
• A More Aggressive Incidence of the Disease
• How Much Does Race Have to Do with It?
• Possible Causatives and Risk Factors Other than Race
• The Institute for Cancer Prevention's Ten-Step Plan to Prevent and Combat Prostate Cancer in African Americans
• Hispanic Men and Prostate Cancer: No Easy Answers

V. Alternatives

16. Alternative Treatments

• Outside the Realm
• What Is Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine?
• What Is Alternative Medicine?
• Types of Alternative Therapies
• The Placebo Effect
• Homeopathy: Something for Nothing?
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Chiropractic Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine
• Ayurveda: The Oldest Medicine?
• Back to Mother Nature: Herbs and the Prostate
• An Alternative Diet Therapy for the Prostate
• Physical Therapy (Bodywork)
• A Final Word on Alternative Therapies