If you are a man who is over 40, there's a good chance you've been told by your doctor or urologist that it is time for you to get a prostate PSA test to check for indications of cancer.
If you have not done that yet, it is important you do.
That's not to say a PSA test is going to be the best or only indicator of your prostate health one way or the other.
Truth is, it is just one way of testing for prostate cancer, and definitely not the only one (or even the most accurate one).
But, what if you find your prostate PSA levels are unusually high? What can cause it to go high? And, what can you do to bring those levels back down? A lot of things can cause your levels to skyrocket.
It could be genetics (not much you can do about that, obviously).
Or it could be other factors, too.
Like, for example, if you bicycle a lot.
This can be really hard on your prostate.
There was one man I knew of who always had great PSA levels whenever he went in to get checked.
Then, he started riding his bike several miles per day.
The next time he went in for a check up (about 6 months after he started regularly riding his bike long distances) his PSA was through the roof! And, he had started experiencing prostate symptoms, too.
Coincidence? I don't think so -- especially when you realize where your prostate is, and how sitting on a hard seat like that can be stressful for it.
Anyway, here's the point: A lot of things can cause your prostate PSA levels to rise -- but it does not always mean you have cancer, necessarily.