Dealing with the Prostate: Effect of sitting on prostate health for Men of West African ancestry

The prostate can be a worrying little gland. It is prone to painful infections and inflammation (prostatitis), enlargement that interferes with urination (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH), and cancer.

Prevention is the best medicine, something exercise can help with. Exercise has also been shown to help treat various prostate-related conditions. Sooner or later, most men of West African ancestry will have a rendezvous with the prostate gland.

Sitting for lengthy periods of time is actually not good for your health, but perhaps does not cause prostate conditions in men. Lengthy periods of sitting actually may contribute to hemorrhoids and, more significantly, to poor heart health. So in case your job entails you to sit for long times, it is suggested that you get up and walk around occasionally.

But a long hour on a chair is not what your body is ready to carefully endure and the results are: increased pressure on the prostate gland, reduced blood movement in the same area and around it (perineum).

Every 6th man in the western world and 1 in 4 black men get prostate cancer in his lifetime and the mortality rate is high in the black communities. Huge majority of men (over 90 %) have enlarged prostates at the age of 60 and also large number of men uses medication that prevents prostate enlargement.

Almost all older men have slower urination because the prostate has grown. The urethra goes through the prostate. When the prostate grows, the passage gets smaller and the urinating slows down. Men are worried about this occurrence.

Black men have 60% chances of getting prostate cancer and twice likely to die of prostate cancer than white men. This means Black men must be more proactive when it comes to health issues.

Black men have significantly higher rates of prostate cancer.

Black men have lower rates of screening for prostate cancer.

Black men have, on average, more advanced and harder to cure prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis.

Black men have a higher chance of dying from their prostate cancer.

The American Cancer Society notes that prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality in the United States, second only to lung cancer, and are the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men. In 2013, it accounted for more than 29,000 deaths. In the UK closed to 41000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer yearly and closed to 10000 men died of the disease yearly.

So far there has not been any convincing evidence, or rational explanation or theory, about why the prostate grows, has poor health and kills a lot of men.

In composition the connections are surely very complex. Many factors have various effects and their precise communication usually remains a mystery even to the best of intellectuals.

But now there is a new encouraging theory about what peeves the prostate: traditional sitting! This is very reasonable and commonsense because when sitting on traditional chairs the weight of the upper body, which can be significant, presses the pelvis. Likewise men of West African ancestry sit for lengthier periods of time, and are also weightier than previously.

The development goes like this according to Veli-Jussi Jalkanen Sitting and health specialist: Impact of sitting on prostate health. Www. carmichaelthrone.com/impact-of-sitting-on-prostate-health/: Man is sitting down, the sit bones (ischial tuberosities) sink in the padding, the padding presses soft tissues (skin, fat, muscles) between the sit bones trough the pelvic opening into the lower pelvic area.

Pressure field builds up in the lower pelvic area and the pressure spreads out in internal organs which include much more liquid than the body in average (67 %). We know that the pressure spreads out evenly in liquid.

Increased pressure disturbs normal metabolism (lots of classic examples of this in different organs) which, in time, cause dysfunctions and illnesses.

The rational and indirect proofs for the theory that sitting increases prostate problems:

Men who stand more and whose work is physical have 23 % less prostate cancer than office workers, and about half the amount of colorectal cancers.

About 49 % of all cancers of men in Europe concentrate in the region between the sacrum, pubic bone and sit bones (in an area the capacity of which is about one litre) where men have the prostate, bladder, urethra, anus, rectum and part of the colon. As much as 70 % of all those cancers occur in the prostate.

Men who have prostate infection feel pain on all seats, but considerably less on a divided saddle seat where the gap prevents pressure from building up inside the pelvis.

There is a growing number of men, whose already enlarged prostates have shrunk back, even down to 10–11 g level, after they have used a divided saddle chair with about 40 mm wide gap under the pelvic opening.

A volunteer who had a test history of 1998–2013 had prostate sizes of 11 g (1998), 18 g (2002), 16 g (2009) and 10 g (2013). The last was verified in two separate measurements with manual and Doppler ultrasound methods. Also the urinary organs were proven to be quite healthy without any indication of malfunction.

The prostate, however, showed signs of earlier overgrowth on one side. During 2010–2013 the person sat on a saddle chair with a wider gap (40 mm) than ordinary saddle chairs. Also the count of live semen in his sperm was particularly high (291 million /mm³ of sperm) while the average was 48 million among 19-year-old men in 2013.

The prostate is very close to the skin, just round the edge of the pubic bone, and thus gets a lot of sitting pressure.

Many risk factors have been found, or alleged, to increase prostate cancer.

Sitting is a very encouraging candidate to be the main risk. Before the studies show the right order of the risk factors, it is smart of all men to try to avoid them all and thus decrease the probability of this very unpleasant illness.

For men of West African descent, start screening as early as possible from 40 years as black men are more prone to prostate cancer.

Yours in Healthy Prostate!

Raphael Nyarkotey Obu : ND, MSc
Tel: 0541090045
E. mail: oburalph30@yahoo.co.uk