This is a very interesting Swedish study, conducted over a more than 30 year period, which persuasively links adolescent obesity in young men with cardiovascular risk later.

The bottom line is that the possibility of early death in men from  heart problems, i.e. before 55 years of age, can be made more remote by controlling weight in the late school/early college years.

Unfortunately, that is precisely the age when they think they are immortal.

Body mass index in late adolescence and its association with coronary heart disease and stroke in middle age among Swedish men

This information hasn't yet received the same exposure as the Vioxx heart failure scandal, but more men should know about it before deciding to use the drug, which is an alpha blocker!

"This current study gives a probable mechanism for heart failure in those patients, and shows that alpha blockers could potentially be a direct cause," concludes Simpson, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Read the study here.

Read my article about Prostate Problems here

Read a report on the connection between Bisphenol A in Plastics and Prostate Cancer here.

Visit a selection of helpful supplements here

Another link in the chain that binds environmental pollutants to hormonal imbalances.

Think the lowering of male fertility

Think the rise of breast and prostate cancer

Not a cheerful picture.

Canadian Natives are Alarmed by a Shortage of Sons

I would love to be a fly on the wall when this loving wife explains to her other half just exactly what she is offering him for Christmas! No, dear, I didn't say "new Hymn".

Re-virgination

A 2005 study has found a direct causal link between Omega 6 fatty acids in corn oil and Prostate cancer.  The study author comments, that as the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 has changed from app. 1:2 in the '40s to 25:1 now, so has the rate of Prostate cancer risen. (My emphasis)

The advice?  One would expect it to be to change the fats in the diet.  Ha!  No, this research  is hailed as a new pathway target for a drug.

Fortunately, we know better!  Change your cooking oils to Olive or Macadamia, and add Fish and Fish Oil to your diet.

Beats waiting around for them to develop a drug!

There's been quite a bit in the news this week about reproductive woes, and I think it would not be an exaggeration to say it casts doubts on the future of humankind! 

The first that caught my attention was about the discrepancy in male:female birth rates.  No-one, say the experts, can figure out why this is happening - but anyone with half an eye to history knows that in nature, this is a defensive mechanism when a species is threatened.

Here is the report

Next came a report from England deploring the decline in fertility

Read about it here

So in the midst of all the doom-and-gloom, it's nice to have ONE positive report that duh!  Nutritional supplementation improves pregnancy rate .

It's even nicer to see the word "Dramatic" used in that context!!

Here is the report.

Addendum:  there is now a so-called "Study" suggesting that genistein can adversely affect sperm.  I wish I could direct you to the scathing critique of that study I just read,  but wonderful www.redflagsdaily.com is a subscription site - affordable, worthwhile (indispensible, actually!) - check it out!

Back to the genistein:  what the researcher did was add isolated genistein to sperm in a petri dish, and note that something happened.  As the reviewer said - something would undoubtedly also happen if you added pickled gherkins! 

I consider Viagra to be a very sad drug in many ways, shining, as it did, the brightest light we may ever experience on the extent of male insecurity; and making it all too clear where many of our values were askew.

However that may be, now it seens men may have to choose between seeing what they love, and loving what they see.

Read the article here. 

A new European study is very upbeat about the possibility that Lycopene can have a positive effect on inhibiting cancer tumours in the prostate.

Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better

You will note the charming European spelling of "tumour " - my spell check gets upset with me when I revert to my English ways!

June 28th