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Prostate Anatomy
Anatomy of the prostate gland
Imagine a little bucket sitting inside your belly -- that's your bladder. In front of this bucket is a small organ that looks like a tiny chestnut -- that's your prostate. A tube runs from the bottom of the bucket right through the middle of the chestnut, top to bottom. That tube is your urethra.
Urine continually collects in your bladder (bucket). Every so often the muscles at the bottom of your bladder relax, while the muscles surrounding the bladder contract, squirting the urine into the urethra (tube) which runs through the prostate (chestnut) and continues through the penis, all the way to the tip and out of the body.
The chestnut-shaped prostate sits right in front of and below the bladder and is wrapped around the urethra, but it has nothing to do with a man's urinary apparatus. The prostate happens to be where it is because it is needed for ejaculation, and the ejaculate passes through the same urethra as the urine does.
That's why prostate problems interfere with a man's ability to urinate and to have sex.
Situated under the bladder, and wrapped around the urethra, the prostate gland's primary job is to add special fluid to the sperm before it is ejaculated out from the penis. Sperm is produced in the testicles. From the testicles it moves up into the epididymis, where it matures, then into the two small, muscular tubes called the vas deferens, which coil up and around the bladder to the seminal vesicles.
Finally, the sperm moves into the prostate. This is its last stop before being shot out of the body by the fierce muscular contractions in the testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and the base of the penis.
Main duties of the prostate gland
One of the prostate's main duties is to create the seminal fluid which mixes with and carries sperm out of the penis upon ejaculation. The prostate also helps to pump the semen and sperm with sufficient power out of a man's body on its way to fertilizing a woman's egg. The prostate functions as a gland and contains muscle fibers which contract and relax.
What can go wrong with the prostate gland?
Three main types of problems -- infection, enlargement, and cancer -- can afflict the prostate. Prostate infections, called prostatitis, are fairly common in men from the teen years on.
Prostate Infections
Prostate infections can be brief or long-lasting, mild or severe, easy or difficult to treat. Symptoms of prostatitis can include frequent and/or painful urination, other urinary difficulties, or pain during ejaculation.
Enlarged prostate
Prostate enlargement, called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate and actually occurs as part of the normal aging process of the prostate. Although men in their twenties can suffer from BPH, it usually surfaces later in life. It's estimated that half of all men have BPH by the age of 60, and 90% will suffer from it by age 85.
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the number-two cancer killer in men. But prostate cancer ordinarily grows slowly and does not, by itself, cause death -- if it stays in the prostate. Unfortunately, once the cells that make up prostate cancer have grown inside the prostate for a long enough time to reach a critical mass in size and number of cells, the cancer can spread outside of the prostate gland to other parts of the body. Like boiling water in a pot bubbling over, prostate cancer "pours" out of the prostate gland into the surrounding tissue. Once free of the prostate, the cancer cells can find new homes in the bones, liver, brain, lungs, spinal cord, or elsewhere. When that happens, the cancer that was simply annoying becomes deadly. And it often becomes deadly long before anyone knows it exists, for more than 20% of all prostate cancers in the U.S. have moved beyond the prostate gland before they are detected.
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Saw palmetto extract is of course included because of its favorable effects in helping to maintain healthy prostate function. Saw palmetto also acts as an alpha-adrenergic receptor inhibitor, reducing urinary urgency and inflammatory actions in the prostate gland.
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Pygeum enhances healthy prostaglandin function, which helps keep the prostate gland healthy and alleviates prostate discomfort.
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