This surprised me and, I think it will surprise a lot of you. A study published this year tracked over 363,000 men with BPH and compared them against a similar group without it. Men with BPH were 2.6 times more likely to develop kidney stones within five years. The risk showed up across every age group studied - 45, 50, 55, 60, 65. Consistent all the way through. Most men managing BPH are focused on the bathroom side of things. The medications. The night-time trips. The stream. Nobody is usually talking about the kidneys. The prostate sits in the middle of the body's plumbing. When it is not working properly, that obstruction has consequences further up the system. This study is one of the clearest signals I have seen that BPH is bigger than most men are told. When the prostate is blocked, things go wrong further up. Full report: https://www.renalandurologynews.com/news/benign-prostatic-bph-chronic-kidney-disease-ckd-kidney-stones-treatment-risk/ Has anyone here had kidney issues alongside their BPH? I would genuinely like to know if this connects with anyone's experience.

This one is specifically for members who have someone in treatment - or are in treatment themselves. Most of the conversation about PSA focuses on the test before diagnosis. And that makes sense - it is the number that starts everything. But a new study has confirmed something important: the PSA level your doctor sees during treatment - while you are in it - can be linked to overall survival. This is related to the PSA Nadir (the lowest level your PSA drops to after treatment). Studies show that a deep drop is highly favourable, a shallow drop signals risk. There is no direct link, as PSA can fluctuate and there are some highly aggressive low PSA cancers. But it is a genuine marker that you can discuss with your doctor. That shifts the conversation. It means every appointment where your PSA is measured is not just routine monitoring. It is active intelligence. The question I want to put to you as a community: are the people you know in treatment asking their doctors about their on-treatment PSA targets? Or is it a number that gets mentioned and not discussed? And if you are in treatment yourself - are you tracking it? What do you know about what your doctor is aiming for?

A study of 1,500 prostate cancer TikTok videos found 40% contained medical misinformation. I am going to put that out on social today with a clear message: do not stop using social media for health information, but know how to check it. The human stories are real. The personal experiences are real. The medical claims - especially around treatments and supplements - are the ones that need checking. I have been thinking about this community specifically. Most of you came here because you were looking for reliable information and found something commercial or confusing somewhere else first. That path - starting with a TikTok or a Facebook post and ending up somewhere more trustworthy - is how most health decisions actually happen now. What has been your experience? Did you come across misinformation early on that you believed for a while? And what made you question it?

I have seen this story everywhere this week and I wanted to address it properly here before it gets away from us. The headline: microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumour samples. The part being left out: the study looked at 10 patients. The lead researcher specifically said do not draw causal conclusions. Finding something in tumour tissue does not tell you it caused the tumour. It tells you it is there. That is worth knowing. It is worth investigating with much larger studies. But it is not a verdict. I have been doing this long enough to know how health stories travel. By next week parts of the internet will have this down as 'microplastics cause prostate cancer.' That leap has not been proven by the data. Watch this story. It is genuinely interesting early science. But do not let it drive fear that is ahead of what we actually know. What has your reaction been to seeing this shared? Are the men in your life worried about it?

I want to bring this to the community before it runs away on social media. It is not as bad as it sounds. The UK National Screening Committee announced this week it will not roll out prostate cancer screening to all men. First reaction: that sounds wrong. Men's Health Month starts tomorrow. But the reason they gave is one I have been talking about for years. For every man whose life is saved by mass PSA screening, around 10 men are treated for a cancer that was never going to hurt them. Never grow. Never spread. Never kill. And those 10 men go through surgery or radiation anyway. And they live with the side effects. This is not the committee being careless. This is them being honest about a genuinely difficult problem - we cannot reliably tell which cancers need treatment and which ones can be safely left alone. The answer is not 'ignore your prostate.' The answer is to know your personal risk. Family history. Genetic markers. A conversation with your doctor about whether testing makes sense for you specifically. Has anyone here been through this? A doctor who said 'wait and see' - or a test that led to treatment you look back on and question? I would genuinely like to hear your experience.