{"id":30204,"date":"2025-03-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=30204"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:51:14","slug":"is-enlarged-prostate-caused-by-belly-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2025\/03\/15\/is-enlarged-prostate-caused-by-belly-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Enlarged Prostate Caused by Belly Type?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Enlarged-Prostate-348477841.jpg\" alt=\"Is Enlarged Prostate Caused by Belly Type?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>Frequent bathroom trips? Prostate getting bigger?<\/p>\n<p>Part of aging, right?<\/p>\n<p>Nope\u2014it\u2019s your belly type, says a new study in <em>BMC Urology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? You can fix this.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed 5,735 men aged 45+, comparing those with and without prostate problems.<\/p>\n<p>They tested eight different health markers to find the strongest predictor of urinary symptoms and prostate enlargement.<\/p>\n<p>And the biggest culprit? Visceral fat.<\/p>\n<p>This deep belly fat\u2014stored around your internal organs\u2014was the strongest risk factor for prostate problems.<\/p>\n<p>What did they find?<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n&#8226; Men with prostate issues had higher visceral fat levels across all measurements.<br \/>\n&#8226; Even small increases in visceral fat raised the risk.<br \/>\n&#8226; Diabetic men were also 31% more likely to have prostate issues.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>So, here\u2019s yet another reason to lose belly fat with a good diet and exercise.<\/p>\n<p>But if you already have an enlarged prostate, just losing belly fat won\u2019t shrink it back down.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/the-prostate-protocol-sl-bhhn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of men have, however, shrunk their enlarged prostate naturally using the simple steps explained here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent bathroom trips? Prostate getting bigger? Part of aging, right? Nope\u2014it\u2019s your belly type, says a new study in BMC Urology. The good news? You can fix this. Researchers analyzed 5,735 men aged 45+, comparing those with and without prostate problems. They tested eight different health markers to find the strongest predictor of urinary symptoms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-prostate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Enlarged-Prostate-348477841.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30313,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204\/revisions\/30313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}