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Aloe Vera good for prostate?

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zcarenow@yahoo.com - 22 Jul 2006 00:43 GMT
I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
can't seem to find them at my local grocery store like HEB. Any places
to recommend? I live in Texas. Thanks.
Steve Jordan - 22 Jul 2006 00:50 GMT
> I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
> can't seem to find them at my local grocery store like HEB. Any places
> to recommend? I live in Texas. Thanks.
>  
Well, I use it and it certainly makes my complexion lovely.

Regards,

Steve J

"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
-- Euripides
zcarenow@yahoo.com - 22 Jul 2006 04:33 GMT
Good for you Ms. Jordan.

> > I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> > in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
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> "A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
> -- Euripides
glassman - 22 Jul 2006 00:53 GMT
>I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
> can't seem to find them at my local grocery store like HEB. Any places
> to recommend? I live in Texas. Thanks.

 Depends on who's doing rubbing it on?

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zcarenow@yahoo.com - 22 Jul 2006 04:41 GMT
Really? Keep rubbing it on your 'rod' then.
> >I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> > in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
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glassman - 23 Jul 2006 02:12 GMT
> Really? Keep rubbing it on your 'rod' then.

 Sorry no more prostate to rub. What a pleasure!

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I.P. Freely - 22 Jul 2006 02:49 GMT
> I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate?

No supplement or food or voodoo or Mexican hairless dog or acupuncture
or Mojo juice or kryptonite or prayer or urine cocktail or OTC pill or
sexual position has been proven effective in treating prostate cancer,
thus the only honest answers can be No, Maybe, or Who Knows?

If you're asking a more general prostate question unrelated to cancer,
the bigger question is this: what does your doctor say is wrong with
your prostate?

I.P.
zcarenow@yahoo.com - 22 Jul 2006 04:28 GMT
Well, my father has been told his prostate is larger. He will get
another exam in 5 months to see if it is enlarging again. He told me
that Aloe Vera helps, but this is the first i've heard of it for
prostate.

> > I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate?
>
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> I.P.
dave481 - 22 Jul 2006 17:02 GMT
I think rubbing it ON the prostate would be quite the challenge. I
guess you could use a BIG needle and sort of baste it on there.  It
might hurt, just a biopsy needle was uncomfortable for me. But as IP
said.....who knows?.....it might help.

David
> Well, my father has been told his prostate is larger. He will get
> another exam in 5 months to see if it is enlarging again. He told me
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> >
> > I.P.
c palmer - 22 Jul 2006 19:31 GMT
From: zcarenow@yahoo.com

Well, my father has been told his prostate is larger. He will get
another exam in 5 months to see if it is enlarging again. He told me
that Aloe Vera helps, but this is the first i've heard of it for
prostate.

=======>  hi zcarenow - while i can understand what your father said,
and the reason to ask this question here,  i would like to tell you
something about MY father.

he used DMSO - a cleaning solvent - and would rub it on his knees to
relieve the pain.  said it helps, but made his kidneys work.   DMSO is
known to be absorbed through the skin is not recommended by the medical
professionals, yet, my dad  would make claims by it.

when he had his hip replaced, he ask the surgeon about his knee pain.
the surgeon told him that his knee pain would go away when the hip is
replaced because it was the source of his his knee pain.  when the hip
was replaced,  his knee stopped hurting.

when he developed prostrate cancer,  he said, "cancer doesn't hurt" and
ended up for the last two years of his life in severe pain.   he was
always the "tough guy" in real life and now, he is whining and crying
like a baby and saying, "i was wrong - cancer does hurt"  

he died FROM prostate cancer.

as i went through his house after his death, i found various products
that had made claims to help or cure prostate cancer.  we are talking
about enough empty bottles that would fill a brown grocery bag.   i
would estimate that he spent 10's of thousands of dollars on this fake
stuff.

i've actively studied prostate cancer for about 15 years now.    there
are a ton of things out there that everyone claims to work..... but
don't.   it's sad to see men get hoodwinked for billions of dollars on
bogus products instead of getting a treatment that could have saved
their lives if they had only acted on it when it was in the curable
stage.

these people that are selling quack products ought to be held
accountable for what they are doing because it is not a vitcimless
crime.   their actions hurt families and kill people while they make
money off of the victim.

so with all of this said,  here's the bottom line.

1.  it is a KNOWN medical fact that the prostate grows twice in the male
body.  in the teenager years and continually after age 25.  so, yes,
your father's prostate is not going to get smaller, but will grow until
he passes on, but all of us are in the same boat that still have a
prostate.

2.  it is a KNOWN fact that as men age,  things go wrong with the
prostate gland.  the general rule of thumb is that whatever the age of
the male is the approximate % of the males having prostate problems.  so
a 60 year man has a 60% chance that he may have prostate problems.

3. Aloe Vera is not FDA approved.  my question back to you is how do you
put something into your body that is SO STRONG enough to cause a great
tissue altering change that goes against mother nature and not cause the
human body to go into shock and require medical treatment.  just look at
the young people who OD'ed on drugs........ and how many die because of
their actions.  yet, there are people out there who are willing, taking
stuff that quacks are selling, without any kind of supervision, and
think that it's not going to hurt....

well, i've been down that road before.

wish you the best,

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc
zcarenow@yahoo.com - 23 Jul 2006 20:29 GMT
Thanks Palmer. Very good informative insight into this. You're the kind
of person that i was hoping to respond with your personal experience
about prostate and knowledge. I had to question my father's info on why
he was told that Aloe Vera would help his prostate since i've never
heard anything on the news about its benefits for the prostate.
> From: zcarenow@yahoo.com
>
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> invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
> http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc
Alan Meyer - 22 Jul 2006 19:27 GMT
>I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
> can't seem to find them at my local grocery store like HEB. Any places
> to recommend? I live in Texas. Thanks.

I searched Pubmed, a comprehensive bibliographic database of
articles from all of the world's respected medical journals, for
"aloe vera".  There were 257 hits.

Then I added "prostate" to the search and got 0 hits.

It appears to me there is no published scientific study linking aloe
vera to any prostate treatment or research.  There weren't even
any animal or test tube studies that showed any benefit for prostate
problems of any kind, or any effect on prostate cells or prostate
tissue.

Searching on the web I found the usual shlock articles promoting
alternative cancer cures, including some pitching aloe vera.
However I also found this: http://psa-rising.com/medicalpike/aloe.htm
which claims that a doctor injected aloe vera and cesium into various
patients and three of them died, apparently as a result of the
injections.  One of the patients had prostate cancer.  The doctor
had his licensed revoked, though he had not, as of the time of the
above article, been charged with a crime.

I personally would not take aloe vera for prostate problems.

   Alan
zcarenow@yahoo.com - 23 Jul 2006 20:26 GMT
Thanks Alan for your info. This was new to me also. Never heard about
Aloe Vera helping prostate so when my father told me that, i had to
question where he got his info from.
> >I was told Aloe Vera is good for the prostate? I have some growing out
> > in the back yard, but would prefer a juice of some sort in the store. I
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>     Alan

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