Why the same hormone that enlarges the prostate may also calm its inflammation — and what that means for how we treat men By Kelly Schwemmer, MD Most men with an enlarging prostate are told a simple story: the prostate grows with age because of testosterone, so treatment means lowering the hormone that feeds it. That story is not wrong. However, it is incomplete — and the part it leaves out has become one of the more interesting unresolved questions in men's health. Over the past fifteen...