--- "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> While I appreciate your input, I think most people
> would want to do 
> something about an undesirable condition.  

Unless the cure is worse than the disease.  Rates of
diagnosis of prostate cancer have been increasing due
to 2 factors - men are living longer and a blood test
has been developed - the PSA (prostate-specific
antigen).  Many of the men now being diagnosed with
prostate cancer would have died (of something else)
blissfully ignorant of their "disease".  Radiation
does not destroy the prostate, and in fact usually has
a better functional (urinary and sexual) outcome than
surgical removal of the prostate.  Many older men can
be treated with hormone manipulation or not treated at
all.
There are lots of herbal preparations for enlarged
prostates.  Remember that any of them that actually
work do so through some pharmacologic property, and
are therefore "drugs" - just ones that haven't been
tested for safety or efficacy, and aren't regulated.
Getting bee stings anywhere near the prostate is going
to require putting bees IN your rectum.  Good luck
getting any volunteers for that study.
Back to beekeeping, please.
-ALM



 
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