thanks, so are we just sitting ducks waiting for the genes to kick in or are there any nutritional, dietary or lifestyle changes a man can make. What role does DHT play or is that just for the BPH condition.
DHT or any androgen doesn't seem favorable for prostate CA. Enter DHT and prostate cancer into PubMed. I'd start with review articles.
Palmetto?
I think that as time goes by, and genetic research increases in sophistication, we are going to discover that a surprising proportion of "who we are" is "in the genes".
In some ways, we _are_ little more than "sitting ducks" till our genetic programming "kicks in". Witness the women who come from families with near-certainty of breast cancer. I recall reading an article about one woman who had both breasts removed BEFORE she came down with cancer, because the odds of contracting the disease in her family were near 100%.
Of particular interest is that part of the article that describes how certain genetic traits are determined NOT by the coding individual genes themselves, but by certain combinations that lie "outside" genetic coding. I would further speculate that - in time - a similar pattern (with no specific genetic "marker") will be discovered that provides a basic underpinning for sexual orientation, a "programming of the sexual compass", if you will.
There is a saying among the Amish, "in der blut": "in the blood". I suspect that far much more of who we are is in der blut than we know, as of yet. Time will tell.
- John