Men's Health & Prostate Coaching

Let's talk about it

The conversation men aren't having.

Most men don't talk about their prostate until something goes properly wrong. By then, it's a crisis conversation with a doctor, not a quiet conversation with a coach. I'd like to change that.

This page covers the three areas I focus on: prostatitis, prostate cancer prevention, and prostate cancer recovery. I'm not a doctor, and nothing here replaces medical advice. What I do is help you build the lifestyle scaffolding around whatever your medical team is doing.

Prostatitis — the one nobody mentions

Prostatitis means inflammation of the prostate. It's far more common than prostate cancer, and it ruins men's lives in ways the statistics don't capture: pelvic pain, urinary urgency, sexual dysfunction, the constant low-grade dread of a flare-up.

It comes in a few flavours — acute bacterial, chronic bacterial, and chronic pelvic pain syndrome being the most common — and the chronic forms are notoriously hard to treat with medication alone. Antibiotics help with bacterial cases. They often don't help with the chronic non-bacterial kind, which is what most of us have.

I was told, more than once, that I'd just have to live with it. The thing that nobody mentioned was that how I lived with it could change everything.

What's actually moved the needle for me, and the men I work with:

• Whole-food plant-based eating — reducing the dietary triggers that drive systemic inflammation
• Pelvic floor work — chronic prostatitis is often a pelvic floor problem dressed up as a prostate problem
• Breathwork & nervous system regulation — flares are tightly correlated with stress; sorting the nervous system is huge
• Hydration, sleep, alcohol — the boring stuff that decides whether the rest works

Prostate cancer — prevention

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men globally. The lifestyle research is consistent: diets heavy in plant foods, low in processed and high-fat animal products, alongside regular movement, are associated with reduced incidence and progression in observational and intervention studies.

I don't claim food prevents cancer. I do claim that the lifestyle changes the research backs are worth taking seriously, especially if you have family history or you're over fifty.

What I work on with clients in the prevention bucket:

• Building a sustainable, satisfying plant-based eating pattern they can actually live with for the next thirty years
• Reducing the foods most associated with prostate cancer risk in the literature
• Weekly movement, including resistance training and walking
• Stress, sleep, and the under-rated role of regular health screening with their GP

Prostate cancer — recovery

If you've been diagnosed, treated, or are in active treatment — first, please make your medical team your primary team. I work alongside, never instead of.

What I can help with: the lifestyle side. Eating well during and after treatment. Rebuilding strength and mobility. Pelvic floor recovery after surgery (which is brutally common and brutally under-discussed). Supporting partners and families. Reducing the modifiable risk factors associated with recurrence.

The men who do best after treatment, from what I've seen, are the ones who treat recovery like a project — not just something that happens to them.

Why a man, not a doctor, for this work

You probably already have a doctor. What most men don't have is someone who's lived this, will talk about it openly, and can sit alongside you through the day-to-day work of changing how you eat, move, breathe and rest.

That's the gap I sit in.