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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.   ...