Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

So, let's discuss what's behind in a large prostate that can potentially affect your

urination.

Now, it's true that when men age, their prostate actually does enlarge and take a look

at where the prostate is located.

It's a gland that wraps around this little tube that's coming from your urinary bladder.

So as you increase the size of that prostate, it's going to shut down that tube and it's

going to affect your ability to urinate.

And so, the doctor puts you on a certain medication like FlowMax, an antibiotic, and maybe

you'll do some blood tests, and then I'll see you in six months.

But my question is, what is causing the enlarged prostate?

If you take a look at all of your hormones, they can be classified really in two different

categories.

One category is called anabolic, and the other category would be catabolic.

Now, anabolic has everything to do with building something up, and catabolic is breaking

something down.

So when you eat food, you have this catabolic effect, all these enzymes that break down

food into their basic building blocks, amino acids, fatty acids, glucose, etc.

And then you have all the anabolic hormones that kick in and take these building blocks

and make body tissue out of them.

And so when the prostate enlarges, it's obvious that you have this anabolic thing going

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