Hello everyone and welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, your resident connoisseur of curious observations and famously dry remarks.

Today we're shining a light on prostate health and that ever elusive metabolic puzzle that seems to go hand in hand with aging.

But maybe it doesn't have to.

And I'm Alara Sky, the one who merges comedic commentary with deep health insights, because let's be

honest, if we don't laugh about these things, we'd be stuck pondering them in the middle of the

night. Speaking of nights, we'll be discussing those frequent bathroom visits that many men might

wrongly chalk up to father time. Indeed, because if there's one thing that's worse than having

to check all the locks before you go to bed, it's having to check all the locks again and then still wake up at 3 a.m.

Because your bladder insists on an encore.

Well, I guess the plus side is that you get to admire your slippers multiple times each night.

But jokes aside, we're going to dig into the topic of benign prostatic hyperplasia,

or BPH, and explore whether it's truly the unstoppable force of aging that many have

assumed, or if metabolic syndrome, with all its inflammatory hijinks, is calling the shots.

Right, because we've all heard the story. As men get older, the prostate just packs on pounds

like its Thanksgiving dinner every day. But newer research suggests otherwise. It's not only a matter

of birthdays, but of metabolic health.

And metabolic health can be influenced by everything from what you eat to how stressed you get sitting in traffic every morning.

It's like the body is one big interconnected system. Who would have thought?

Sarcasm noted, Ilara. Let's start with the fundamentals. BPH is so common that many men in their 60s and 70s assume it's just life's little

tax.

The prostate grows, the urinary tract gets squeezed, and the nighttime bathroom visits multiply.

But as we'll discuss, the real culprit behind this creeping prostate inflation may be

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