Prostate Health Tablets

Prostate health tablets, which are legal and compliant and have clear ingredients, belong to the category of ordinary dietary supplements or blue hat health products. They can only help improve mild to moderate prostate discomfort. They are neither an IQ tax nor a substitute for regular drug treatment, nor do they have the effect of "radical cure of prostate disease".

I met Lao Zhou who came for consultation a while ago. He has been an online ride-hailing driver for ten years. He has been sitting for a long time and has been getting up late at night. He has to go to the toilet two or three times a night. He buys an imported prostate health tablet while watching a live broadcast. After taking it for half a month, he said that his nocturia was reduced to once. He asked a buddy in the same team to buy it with him. However, the guy took it for two months and there was no movement at all. He also said that he was cheated. In fact, this situation is too common. Whether prostate health tablets are useful or not is never a one-size-fits-all matter.

The Western urology circle’s judgment logic for such products is very simple: look at the active ingredients. Common saw palmetto, lycopene, selenium, and pumpkin seed extracts in current compliant products are supported by corresponding clinical data. For example, standard extracted saw palmetto can regulate dihydrotestosterone levels and reduce continuous stimulation of the prostate. Public data shows that the improvement rate for nocturia and waiting to urinate caused by mild to moderate benign prostatic hyperplasia is about 60%. The effect is close to that of low-dose similar prescription drugs, and the side effects are smaller. Of course, some studies have reached the opposite conclusion, believing that the effect of saw palmetto is not statistically different from placebo. This is the core reason why this category has always been controversial: the difference in individual tolerance is sometimes greater than the difference between people and species.

Unlike Western medicine, which looks at ingredients, Chinese medicine has a completely different approach to judging this type of health care products. An old Chinese medicine doctor I know said that he never looks at the "effectiveness" of product promotions, but only looks at the patient's constitution: If you usually like spicy food, drink alcohol, or suffer from frequent urination and abdominal distension caused by dampness and heat in the lower body, you can often feel relief by choosing products with dandelion and rape pollen. ； If you have a constitution of kidney yang deficiency, your hands and feet are usually cold and you are afraid of the cold, and you buy health tablets with cold and cooling ingredients, taking them will actually aggravate the problem of frequent urination. Not long ago, a 20-year-old college student came to me and said that he had prostatitis from playing games and sitting for a long time. He bought a middle-aged and elderly health tablet with epimedium in it. After taking it for three days, he had two nosebleeds, which is a typical symptom.

I have been helping out in the urology clinic for half a year, and I have seen too many scammers: Some people believed in the "three-day radical cure of prostate" pills sold by WeChat, and became panicked and blushed after taking it. Later, it was found out that it contains illegal ingredients that dilate blood vessels.； Someone found out that PSA (prostate-specific antigen, the core indicator for screening for prostate cancer) exceeded the standard, and they still took health pills as a life-saving elixir. They delayed getting checked for half a year, and they were already in the middle stage of prostate cancer. ； There are also people who have no problems themselves, but after hearing others say that taking this product can "tonify" them, after taking it for three months, they were found to have mild prostate edema.

To be honest, the applicable boundaries of prostate health tablets are actually very narrow: either those over 40 years old who have mild prostatic hyperplasia during physical examination and whose symptoms are not serious and do not want to take prescription drugs for the time being, or those who are in their 20s and 30s who have aseptic prostatitis caused by sitting for a long time and cannot change the bad habit of sitting for a long time and whose symptoms are very mild. It is also best to ask a doctor or nutritionist for advice before buying. Don't listen to the live broadcast anchor's talk about "eating to return to 18 years old", which is pure nonsense. And when choosing, be sure to check whether there is a blue hat logo, or whether it is a formally registered dietary supplement. Don't buy those three-no products that don't even dare to write out the complete ingredient list. It's a trivial matter to waste your money, but it's really a loss to your body if you eat it bad.

Oh, by the way, there is another point that is easily overlooked: if you are eating health tablets while staying up late every day, eating spicy food and drinking, and sitting for 12 hours at a time, then no tablets can really save you. The prostate is a very delicate organ. Three points depend on supplements and seven points depend on nourishment. Health tablets are at most the icing on the cake. If you really experience pain during urination, blood in urine, or persistent pain in the lower abdomen, don’t hesitate to go directly to the hospital and carry on with health supplements. In the end, it is you who will suffer.

In a word, this thing is not as awesome as it is boasted on the Internet, nor is it as useless as others criticize it. If you use it correctly, it is a worry-free aid. If you use it wrongly, it will be a waste of IQ tax. In the end, you have to understand your own situation first, and then decide whether to take it.