Your Prostate Gland- how much trouble can it give you?- by Harold Gunatillake         www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Your prostate gland is about the size of an areconut seed or walnut seed situated at the bottom of your bladder in front of your back passage. The urine outlet from the bladder called the urethra runs through it. The main function of the gland is to secrete fluid along that nourishes and protects sperm, manufactured in your testicles. In most people the gland gives no problems, but in some it can get inflamed, like any other gland in your body. This, inflammation caused by bacteria is referred to as acute prostatitis. As you age the prostate naturally gets bigger and in most people such enlargement gives no problems.  It is referred to as ‘Benign Prostatic hypertrophy.   ...

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Exercise may prevent, and treatment made easier with Cancer – Good advice by Harold Gunatillake Cancer is a dreaded disease on the increase globally, a disease we do not want to have, even our enemies. Did you know that one in three people in Denmark develop cancer? In 2014, around 267,500 Danes lived with cancer diagnosis. The WHO age standardized incidence of breast cancer in Sri Lanka was observed to have increased from 9.2 per 100,000 in 2001 In a population of 20 million people, 23,530 new cases of breast cancer, and 14,013 cases have died, in a survey done in 2018. The incidence of cancer seems to be high in Sri Lanka due to the poor lifestyles, consuming processed foods much cheaper and tastier on the taste buds, than un-processed foods, and having no time for exercise. The incidence of colorectal and prostatic cancer among males, seems to be ...

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