Throwback Thursday to Days with a Smaller Prostate

Remember when as a little boy, you would break your bone or scrape your knee and recover soon after? Things get harder to manage as you get older, and that includes your prostate size. You see, the prostate goes through two stages of growth. The first is during puberty, and the second happens after around the age of 25 and the prostate grows larger throughout a man's lifetime.

The older the man gets, the more highly probable it is that he will get a diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is a non-cancerous condition of prostate enlargement, or if he never formally gets diagnosed, hey may or may not have the symptoms associated with BPH such as frequent urination and weak urinary flow. 

On Throwback Thursdays you'll share a picture of your younger self and reflect on the good old days. Being able to sleep for hours as a kid over the weekend versus not getting enough sleep when you're older due to those nightly bathroom trips; being able to get in and get out of the bathroom quickly versus taking longer to push or dribble out the urine, and then feeling like you need to go even though you just went not too long ago. These things can lower quality of life and make you long for those days of the past. 

Just know that getting older doesn't mean it's all downhill from here. Although there's currently no way to tell your prostate to stop growing and interfering with your life, a healthy diet, physical activity, pelvic floor exercises, and consulting with your doctor and support groups is a great way to enjoy your Throwback Thursdays and your present day ones, too!