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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, dwells on the topic of what diet will be good for the growth of a healthy prostate for men.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Hello there, happy new year, happy 2025 and welcome to the brand new episode of

00:06putting Dr. G on the spot in the new year. And for the whole month we're

00:10focusing on various new year resolutions. I know some of you are starting with a

00:15healthy lifestyle of lots of exercises, others are making sure that they are

00:20well hydrated and some of you are paying particular attention to diet.

00:31And today we're going to talk about what diet will you need to focus on if you

00:36want to prevent aging prostate. So the prostate itself is a walnut size

00:41structure that lies between the bladder and the penis itself. So when the prostate

00:47enlarges it will cause obstruction and that obstruction can sometimes result in

00:52slowness of urination. How do you prevent this? In fact there are quite a few diet

00:58can be changed in order to improve that. One of the most well-known one is

01:03tomatoes. Tomato contains something called lycopene to predominantly lies

01:08outside the skin itself. An excess amount of lycopene is well known to reduce the

01:15progressions of aging process of prostate. In fact there are some study

01:20even show that it reduces the risk of cancer. So tomato is number one. Number

01:27two is cruciferous vegetables like cabbages, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and

01:34also cauliflowers. And all these vegetable contains cruciferous component

01:40that is antioxidant. That itself will stop the progressions of prostate by

01:47reducing the dihydrotestosterone which is the active form of testosterone that

01:52makes prostate enlarge. Apart from that one thing that is really important is

01:58soya beans and also nuts and peanuts. They contains a lot of zinc and also

02:03contains something called phytoestrogen. Phyto means plant. Estrogen is a natural

02:09component of a female hormone and that definitely can have an impact in

02:14suppressing the progressions of prostate. However apart from focusing on food that

02:21will be good for prostate, you should also think about food that's not so good

02:25for prostate. These are food that contains animal fat. So we're looking at

02:29lard and also butter. Perhaps think of alternative such as margarine which is

02:36vegetable oil. And the other things that's not so good for prostate is

02:41shellfish and also red meat. Red meat such as beef and lamb perhaps to reduce

02:48a little bit in the new year. And other things to cut down on will be spicy food

02:54which contains capsaicin. Might stimulate the prostate. For next week we're

02:59focusing more on diet and how the diet can change your sperm quality. Stay tuned

03:05for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

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