SHRINK Your Enlarged Prostate (Men Over 40 NEED to Watch This)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Prostate enlargement has become increasingly common in men over 50. In this video, I’ll share the best diet for prostate health and the foods you should avoid to prevent or reverse an enlarged prostate.
A healthy prostate should be the size of a walnut, but an enlarged prostate can grow to the size of an orange!
An enlarged prostate pushes against the bladder, reducing its capacity, which is why one of the most common symptoms of an enlarged prostate is frequent urination at night.
One of the most common contributors to an enlarged prostate is insulin resistance. Too much insulin can trigger the hormone IGF-1, which can increase the size of the prostate. Insulin is triggered by the consumption of carbohydrates and frequent eating.
The prostate has a lot of vitamin D receptors. Vitamin D regulates the growth of the prostate and helps prevent excessive growth. To increase your vitamin D, get more sun exposure or take at least 20,000 IU of vitamin D daily along with 350 mg of magnesium glycinate.
As testosterone decreases, that can sometimes leave you with too much estrogen. DIM is an excellent remedy for hormonal imbalances related to estrogen.
One of the most common contributors to an enlarged prostate is insulin resistance. Too much insulin can trigger the hormone IGF-1, which can increase the size of the prostate. Insulin is triggered by the consumption of carbohydrates and frequent eating.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about the leaven foods that can help shrink your prostate naturally. |
| 0:06.0 | When a man reaches the age of 50, over 50% of those men have an enlarged prostate. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, that's bizarre to me. |
| 0:14.0 | Why would the prostate start enlarging as we get older? |
| 0:18.0 | The prostate should be the size of a walnut, but it can grow to be the size of an |
| 0:23.1 | orange, okay? And then that prostate, when it gets bigger, pushes up into the bladder, and then |
| 0:27.6 | it reduces the capacity of that bladder to hold urine. The biggest symptom with an enlarged |
| 0:32.5 | prostate is this frequency of urination at night, sometimes even more than during the day. When I was in |
| 0:40.4 | practice, I've had men come in and tell me that they had to get up literally 10 times a night to |
| 0:47.2 | urinate. If you're waking up that often, you literally are destroying your sleep. During the day, |
| 0:52.2 | you're going to be so tired, stress goes up, your |
| 0:56.0 | mood goes down, affects your cognitive control. |
| 1:00.1 | It can lead to so many other issues. |
| 1:02.5 | So this is a very important problem to fix. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm going to show you how to fix it with foods. |
| 1:07.7 | And then I'm also going to talk about the foods that you need to completely stay away from if we want to fix this problem. And you can fix this issue. But I want to differentiate two things. |
| 1:16.5 | Because if you're having this frequent urination at night, yes, it could come from this prostate |
| 1:22.6 | enlargement, but it can also come from another problem, which basically is called polyurea, which means you're just |
| 1:29.0 | urinating frequently. And that condition might occur without even having an enlarged prostate. |
| 1:34.4 | What makes your body produce excessive urine? Type 2 diabetes. But even conditions that are pre-diabatic, |
| 1:42.8 | if you're eating a lot of carbs and you're just getting a lot of sugar through |
| 1:46.2 | the body, that tends to push out a lot of fluid because your body has to get rid of this sugar. |
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