According to "The Natural Prostate Cure" by Roger Mason, a book that comes
with Beta Sitosterol shipments, testosterone is your friend.  The enemy is
estrogen/estradiol.  He does say that one should do hormone testing and not
blindly take hormone supplements, which I do to some degree.  I take 25 mcg
DHEA, 50 mcg levothyroxine (doctor prescribed),  25 mcg melatonin (primarily
for sleep), and of course beta sitosterol.  Also, I rub on natural
progesterone creme daily (I think it combats bad dihydrotestosterone and
helps balance my hormonal levels).

Anyway, I think it reduces my BPH symptoms.

RM,

You raise an interesting point.  The real question to be answered is
what causes BPH before you can start to talk about a cure.  Since it
only seems to occur later in life, with frequency increasing with age,
then it may well be due to a decrease in the rate of apoptosis (the same
problem with prostate cancer).  Normal prostate cells are supposed to
die after ~500 days, and testosterone(T) binding to the membrane
androgen receptor(mAR) being what induces the proteins that cause
apoptosis (programmed cell death).  This apoptosis is prevented by DHT
binding to intracellular androgen receptor(iAR).  As the cells age and
iAR loses its functionality, then apoptosis is supposed to occur.  (A
separate mechanism kicks in when mAR loses its functionality.)  As you
age, your levels of T and therefore your ability to produce apoptotic
proteins from mAR keeps decreasing.

DHT inhibitors coupled with high levels of T should eliminate BPH.
However, it is very dangerous to administer high levels of T unless you
have a doctor who knows what he is doing.  E.g., it can result in high
levels of estradiol, which can lead to prostate cancer.  Also, you have
to optimize levels of DHEA, cortisol, etc. for overall health reasons -
in short you need a doctor who specializes in this.

If you want to know more about the theoretical basis of all of this, you
can check it out at:

http://www.tbiomed.com/content/2/1/10

Ed Friedman