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Does stress cause prostate cancer?

Extreme stress can have an accumulative effect on the body's physiology, allowing prostate cancer to take root and grow. Staying positive and controlling your overall mental health, through diet, exercise, and maintaining a positive outlook is important in helping to prevent and control your disease.

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The physiology of your body has a lot to do with cancer

As Suzanne Conzen, MD (University of Chicago) knows, there isn’t any question that there is an interaction between the physiology of the human body – that is the state of your mental and physical health – and cancer. Extreme stress can have an accumulative effect on the body’s physiology, allowing prostate cancer to take root and grow. Staying positive and controlling your overall mental health, through diet, exercise, and maintaining a positive outlook is important in helping to prevent and control your disease. We’ve even written that prostate cancer loves a couch potato. Studies have shown that vigorous exercise significantly reduces the risk for prostate cancer recurrence and eating well and exercising has a positive effect on inflammation and stress on the body, which is a key to prostate cancer prevention. PCF has written many times about the need for a good diet and exercise, and we have created some of the best, well-received patient guides on healthy living in the prostate cancer area, which you can download at our website.

There are many reasons to reduce stress on the body:

Hormones made while under stress make it easier for the tumor to grow and the cancer to spread.

Stresscan also affect your immune system.

Studies show that stress interferes with the way certain cells in your immune system work. In particular, it affects cells that find and kill emerging cancer

To alleviate stress on the body, there are steps you can take:

Train in relaxation, including meditation

Seek counseling, including therapy and group social support

Take up as vigorous exercise as possible

Remember, the physical toll on your body whether physical or mental stress, can be unhealthy and should be limited as much as possible. So, take care of yourself and be healthy!

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GREECE (CBS Local) - A new study on sexual health may have a lot of men running to their favorite Italian restaurant tonight. According to scientists in Greece, olive oil may be better than Viagra when it comes to boosting sexual performance. The study, published by the University of Athens, examined over 600 men and found that an olive oil-rich diet cut the risk of erectile dysfunction by up to 40 percent. The men, who had an average age of 67, switched to a Mediterranean-style diet which focused on eating fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, and replaced all butter with olive oil. Patients also reduced the amount of processed meats they usually ate. "This is a drug free solution that allows men to keep their sexual function. But also a long-term answer to protecting a man's ability to perform in the bedroom," Dr. Christina Chrysohoou said, via Medical Daily. "Viagra does not improve something long-term, it can only give some short effect in order to have sexual capacity." Researchers noted that the olive oil heavy diet created healthier blood vessels in men, which supports better circulation, including during sex. The Mediterranean diet has also been credited with reportedly reducing the risk of metabolic syndromes like diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.

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