How many of you have had a conversation with someone, anyone about the prostate? I am interested to know if anyone has realized that awareness and talking is the first step when it comes to the prostate. I never used to talk about my prostate, mostly because I did not know I had one. Now I will talk to anybody who will listen. It is unbelievable that grown men in professional careers are still dying of prostate cancer, when there is a 98% liklihood of surviving more than 10 years if you catch the cancer before it leaves the prostate. We have to do better. Please vote below and let me know your thoughts.

I saw a picture of an ostrich with its head in the sand this week and it made me think. We all know the image. The ostrich hides its head so it cannot see the danger. And we laugh, because the danger is obviously still there. The ostrich with its head in the sand still gets eaten. Then I remembered that is exactly what I did for years. I was getting up all night. My stream had slowed right down. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew something was going on, and I just... did not look at it. Head in the sand. If I did not think about it, it was not real. It took a friend in an airport telling me straight before I pulled my head up. I think a lot of us do this. Not because we are stupid. Because looking feels harder than not looking. So I am curious about this group. What is the thing you kept your head in the sand about - prostate or otherwise - until something or someone made you look? And what got you to finally look? https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

I have been thinking about why so many men book the check and then quietly cancel it. I do not think it is fear of the prostate. I think many men feel that they are healthy so why would they go and get their prostate checked. You do not go and get your stomach checked unless you havce a stomach ache - right? The problem lies in that the prostate can silently creap up on you and by the time it announces that it has a problem, it may be too late. When you strip it back, a prostate check is usually pretty ordinary. A few questions about how you are sleeping and how the flow is. A simple blood test, the PSA. Sometimes a short physical exam. Most men walk out saying "that was it?" If you really want to be prepared - check out the IPSS test in the Quick family guide. Answer those questions and take the test with you to the doctors. You will have everything you need. I remember how long I let my own signs slide, and a lot of it was just not knowing what I was walking into. So I want to ask you directly: for those of you who have been - what do you wish someone had told you before your first prostate check? Your answer might be the thing that gets another man in this group to finally book his. Awareness is key. https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

I read about a man in Utah, Steve Howlett, who lived with an enlarged prostate for ten years before he treated it. Ten years of broken sleep. Ten years of knowing where every toilet was. Ten years of "it is just my age." His family went through it with him. They know it was hard, and like him the silence around the prostate kept them from realizing there were solutions. Ten years - it is a long time. He finally had a laser procedure at University of Utah Health and got his quality of life back. And my first thought was not about the procedure. It was about the ten years he spent putting up with it. I did the same thing in my own way - I had no idea I had a prostate issue until someone else pointed it out. We are good at explaining away the slow stuff. It just feels like getting older, and sometimes it is. But if the prostate was ok to talk about then less people would have to wait 10 years. Because I guarantee Steve is not the only man out there who is suffering because they don't know. So let me ask you straight: what have you been quietly putting up with and calling normal? Getting up at night? A weaker stream? No judgement here - I had the same problem, until a friend helped me. Is there a man in your life who could use this information? Could you raise awareness?

A candid one for the community, because you ask me about this more than almost anything. Harvard put out a piece on prostate supplements this week. My honest take, for what it is worth: I take them, I think they have helped slow my enlarged prostate, but I cannot prove it - I also changed my diet and started moving more at the same time. Harvard says the same thing: the hard evidence is thin, beyond fixing real deficiencies like low vitamin D. There have been some studies done and you can see the evidence in the document on Supplements in the Classsroom above. But you need to make up your own mind. I am not a doctor and I will not tell you what to put in your body. But I will not pretend the pills are magic either. I do know some supplements have worked for friends of mine, but that is hardly a controlled study. So, honestly: who here takes something for their prostate? What, and do you actually feel a difference - or is it more faith than proof? No judgment. I am genuinely curious what this community has found.