Hair Loss News

A recent report by UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center offered numerous tips for men to keep their prostates healthy.  For people who don’t yet know, enlarged prostates are caused by DHT, the same hormone that causes hair loss.   This is why the drug Finasteride is used to treat both hair loss and an enlarged prostate.

Whether you are suffering with hair loss, or want to protect your prostate, these health tips should prove beneficial.

• Maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly.

• Eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Tomatoes, watermelons, pink grapefruits, guava and papaya contain lycopene, a powerful antioxidant, and have been touted as prostate healthy. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy and kale also are good choices.

• Limit your intake of red meat, especially high-fat or processed meats, and limit your intake of high-fat dairy products.

• Include more soy in your diet from sources such as tofu, soy nuts or soy flour or powders.

• Avoid tobacco and alcohol.

• Include in your diet selenium-rich foods such as wheat germ, tuna, herring and other seafood and shellfish, beef liver, kidney, eggs, sunflower and sesame seeds, cashews, mushrooms, garlic and onions. Selenium reduces risk of prostate cancer.