This treatment is very common and popular among doctors — are you taking it?
Story-At-a-Glance
A lot of men turn 40 or 50 and notice their prostate is enlarged…
Or they start suffering from annoying pee problems.
And doctors love to recommend this one treatment — but is it safe?
This new study shines a light on the hidden risks of treating your prostate this way and may even save a life.
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Beware this treatment for prostate enlargement – causes dementia
Prostate enlargement is very common these days.
It can cause loss of bladder control, inability to urinate, urinary tract infections, bladder stones, and kidney problems.
It is also strongly linked to conditions like Type II diabetes and erections problems.
I’ve looked at the reasons for these links in my newsletters.
These are solvable problems — but many men don’t know this may end up taking treatments for the symptoms.
The treatments may be effective for the symptoms in the short term — but they cause side effects which can have long-term consequences.
For example, one common treatment used to treat prostate enlargement is linked to significantly increased rates of dementia.
The human research was carried out at the University of Connecticut Health Center. The paper was published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
A number of different types of treatments are used to suppress the symptoms of enlarged prostate.
Some of these treatments like tamsulosin work by blocking receptors called “α1-adrenoceptors.”
These treatments were developed because these receptors are very active in and around the prostate.
But these receptors are also present in other parts of the body — including inside the brain.
The treatments were put out for use before the implications of them on other parts of the body were properly tested.
“Because α1-adrenoceptors are also present in the brain, the potential exists for adverse effects on cognitive functions. We explored the association between tamsulosin use and dementia risk.”
This study set out to look at the relationship between the use of these treatments and the risk of developing dementia in future.
The analysts used data from medical records collected in the United States between 2006 and 2012.
Researchers had access to over 400,000 medical records.
They looked at 250,000 men who had taken the prostate treatment tamsulosin and compared them with over 180,000 men who had not taken that treatment.
The average follow-up period was about 1.5 years.
Men who had taken this prostate treatment were 17% more likely to be diagnosed with dementia.
“The risk of dementia was significantly higher in the tamsulosin cohort.”
The researchers then compared the risk of dementia in men taking this treatment and other prostate treatments.
Tamsulosin was associated with higher rates of dementia than was the case with other prostate treatments.
For example, men who took tamsulosin were 26% more likely to develop dementia than men who had taken dutasteride.
That’s not to say that dutasteride is without risk — it’s also a risky treatment…
But it doesn’t cause the same increase in dementia that seems to happen with tamsulosin.
Some other common side effects of tamsulosin include dizziness, headaches, sleeplessness, nausea, blurry vision, and erections problems.
It doesn’t really help with the root cause of enlarged prostate either — it simply relaxes the prostate gland and suppresses symptoms for a while.
“Clinicians use tamsulosin, an α1-adrenoceptor antagonist, to manage symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).”
This treatment which suppresses prostate symptoms may significantly increase the risk of dementia.
“Tamsulosin may increase the risk of dementia in older men with BPH.”
Suppressing symptoms isn’t always a bad thing.
It can offer relief — and if you don’t know what causes a disease this might be your best option.
But we now have lots of research showing the causes of prostate problems.
Things like high estrogen and serotonin are well proven to cause prostate problems.
Bacteria is also a major cause of prostate problems.
These are the root causes of prostate problems and they can be addressed – not only suppressing symptoms but actually improving the health of the prostate.
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Can this stop prostate problems from turning into cancer?
Trouble urinating, overactive bladder, visible swelling, waking up multiple times a night to pee…
My findings are that prostate problems are caused by too much estrogen and prolactin in the male body.
So I’ve found old, trusted, safe treatments — that when used in this unique way — lower estrogen and prolactin levels in men.
They’re cheap, old remedies most doctors have forgotten about, but they do amazing things for men’s prostates when used in this particular way.
For many men, it stops prostate problems from getting any worse — and who knows, maybe it will prevent prostate problems from turning into cancer?
Give it a try tonight — Matt Cook’s incredible prostate shrinking machine
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Tamsulosin and the risk of dementia in older men with benign prostatic hyperplasia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29316005/