Most men over fifty will notice something change — getting up at night, a weaker stream, a result on a blood test that prompts a follow-up. Some of that belongs with your doctor. Some of it is diet, weight, inflammation and cardiovascular health — the prostate health work a naturopath can do — and that part is ours.
See your GP first. Getting up at night, a weaker stream, or a PSA result you have been asked to repeat all belong with a doctor or urologist before anyone else. Alongside that assessment, there is real work to do on the dietary, metabolic and inflammatory factors that influence prostate health — and that part is ours.
Getting up twice a night. Waiting longer than you used to. A stream that stops and starts. The feeling that you have not quite finished. For most men it arrives slowly enough that it is easy to accept as part of getting older, and awkward enough that it does not come up at the GP until something forces it.
Then there is the other version: a PSA result comes back higher than expected, a repeat test is ordered, and a few weeks of waiting begin. That is a genuinely unpleasant place to sit, and “just keep an eye on it” is not much comfort while you are in it.
You don’t have to “learn to live with it”, and you also should not be self-managing it. Those two things are both true, and the rest of this page is about where the line sits.
All of them. Prostate symptoms and PSA results are for your GP or a urologist to assess, and nothing we offer replaces that assessment. We want to be completely clear about this, because it matters more than anything else on this page. Book a medical appointment — not a naturopathic one — as your first step if you have any of the following:
We do not diagnose prostate conditions, we do not screen for prostate cancer, and nothing we offer is an alternative to that assessment. No diet, supplement or herbal medicine substitutes for a PSA test, an examination, imaging or a biopsy. If you are choosing between seeing us and seeing a doctor, see the doctor. Healthy Male’s prostate health guide explains what that assessment involves.
What we do is work alongside that care. Once your medical assessment is under way or complete, there is real work to be done on the dietary, metabolic and inflammatory factors that influence prostate health — and that is where we are useful.
The prostate is not a system on its own. The factors that influence it overlap almost entirely with the ones that influence cardiovascular and metabolic health, which is why our team takes a whole-body history rather than a prostate-specific one.
Our role sits next to your GP or urologist, never in place of them. With over 30 years’ combined clinical experience behind the clinic, we have seen how much better this works when everyone knows what everyone else is doing — so bring your results, and tell your doctor you are seeing us.
What we will not do is tell you a supplement will shrink anything, treat a diagnosed prostate condition, or suggest you delay a medical investigation while you try something natural first. There are things that can be done to help you feel better and lower your overall risk profile — but they sit beside your medical care, not instead of it. That is what going beyond a band-aid approach actually looks like.
We are open 6 days per week, by appointment only. Book an appointment online via our online booking link.
No. An enlarged prostate is a medical diagnosis and is managed by your GP or urologist. What a naturopath can do is work on the dietary, metabolic, inflammatory and bowel factors that influence prostate health day to day, alongside that medical care.
Speak to your GP, and follow whatever assessment they recommend. A raised PSA has several possible explanations and needs proper medical investigation. We are not an alternative to that, and we would not ask you to wait while trying anything else.
More than most men expect. Body weight and abdominal fat, blood sugar control, fibre intake, fat quality, alcohol, caffeine timing and sleep all influence prostate and urinary symptoms, and all of them are within reach. That is the work we do with you.
Not always. We prescribe when there is a reason to — a measured deficiency, or a specific goal — and we would rather change your diet than add a bottle you do not need. We name nothing here because what is appropriate depends entirely on you and on what else you are taking.
Yes, please do. It makes the care better and it lets everyone check for interactions. We will work with your GP or urologist, not around them.
If your medical assessment is in hand and you want to do something about the rest of it, that is exactly the point at which we are useful. Our naturopaths and nutritionists consult from Geelong CBD and Drysdale, in person or by telehealth, six days a week. Bring your results and we will start by listening.
We are open 6 days per week, by appointment only. Book an appointment online via our online booking link.
