Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

clintb32 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:50:32 GMT

Hi, It is quite possible that an HPV is involved and the fathers with more children are involved with fewer other women...Clint

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

4Hand Healthy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:08:43 GMT

What a waste of time and research!

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

Jasked — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:32:01 GMT

It is well known that couples with children have less sex than couples without children and that frequent ejaculation leads to a decreased risk of prostate cancer, so it's only logical to expect that men with children will have an increased risk of prostate cancer since they have sex less frequently and therefore ejaculate less frequently.

An increased number of children likely shows a gradual reduction in prostate cancer risk as these men have sex more frequently.

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

New to Natural — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:05:39 GMT

One question: Was the amount of intercourse monitered or regulated through this study? Could it be that guys who have lots of children have intercourse more often then those who don't?

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

JL — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:02:29 GMT

The brain is more complex than we can imagine. Once it percieves that a man has finished having his offspring it concludes that the mans job is done on earth so it sends signals to start producing IGF (insulin like growth factor) thus accelerating aging, as we know insulin is a strong cause of prostate cancer or enlargement. It is simple evolution, it has nothing to do with how many times the act is performed but on the number of children a man has. I too was surprised when I read about this a few years back.

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

mmc88121 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:14:11 GMT

Although this does address cause and effect, it indirectly addresses the emotional component of the disease, but I am not sure how it works.

Mary

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

Islander — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:21:55 GMT

This is an epidemiological study and thus has no value in terms of cause-and-effect. Who knows? Maybe many children drive a man to drink, and the more children, the more beer, and beer has been found to kill cancer cells in the prostate. Or maybe single men go clubbing more, and drink a lot of beer, and beer has been found to kill cancer cells in the prostate. Make up your own conclusion.

Wonder how much grant money was burned to come to these opposing findings?

re: Fatherhood Linked to Prostate Cancer

samurai — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:24:35 GMT

This doesn't make any sense to me: if a man ejaculates and gets a woman pregnant or not, I don't see any correlation as to how this affects the man and his health or not.