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Will Taking Supplements Improve Your Prostate Health?

If you’re looking for clear-cut proof that supplements can nudge you toward a clean bill of health for your prostate … well, it’s not exactly there. In fact, in some instances taking prostate health supplements may even lead to prostate problems.

Bottom line? Don’t expect to find a magic pill for prostate health. “If a proven supplement existed, we’d all be taking it,” says Dr. Gill. “But the evidence is fairly weak or lacking when it comes to supplements and prostate health.”

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Is there some sort of magic pill or supplement that we can take that might help things? I wish there was. I would be on it. So, it's a very interesting question that you bring up. A lot of the research that's been done with supplements and with dietary studies, vitamins, those type of things, is all based upon recall. So, we'll ask patients to fill out surveys and say, “On average, for the last 10 years, how many days a week have you eaten red meat? Or how many days a week have you had fish? Or have you used vitamin E supplements?” Or things like that. So, those type of research studies that come out, there's a lot of limitations to the data and the conclusions we can draw from it.

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