Tom Richardson

Running ProstateFlow Guide from Tampa, FL

About

I'm a 57-year-old semi-retired IT consultant. For close to two years I told myself the 3 AM bathroom trips were a hydration thing. Cut water after 7pm. Obviously that's all this is. At some point the trips were averaging three times a night and the explanation was getting harder to maintain than the actual problem.

My doctor confirmed benign prostate enlargement: common, not alarming, but not going to resolve without some deliberate changes. He outlined the clinical options. On top of that I started a supplement research layer, because logging variables and comparing results to a baseline is what the IT brain does with any problem that has measurable outputs. The setup at the desk in the home office reflects that: two monitors, the right one permanently open to the supplement tracking spreadsheet, a whiteboard on the wall with cycle start and stop dates marked in green and red dry-erase. A shelf behind the chair holds the current and recently retired supplement bottles, sorted by trial cycle. My wife finds the whole arrangement excessive. She is right. It exists anyway.

Since 2023, I've gone through more than a dozen supplements. Some produced numbers that moved in ways that felt meaningful across the logged data. Some registered nothing detectable after four weeks. One caused enough bloating in the first ten days that the review covers the timeline in detail, because that's real information that would have mattered to me before I tried it. The reviews on this site come from that log, not from the marketing copy on the product page.

How I test

Minimum four weeks per supplement, with a two-week baseline established first: same routine, no new variable, tracking the reference metrics before anything changes. One product at a time during each trial period, nothing else introduced. What gets logged: nightly bathroom trip count, sleep continuity score (1-10), afternoon energy (1-10), and any side effects with timing and severity noted. Where my numbers diverge from manufacturer claims, the review shows both sets of numbers and explains the test conditions that produced them.

I'm n=1: one man, 57, one specific health history, one subtropical Florida climate that affects hydration patterns in ways I try to flag where they're relevant. My data is my data. I note where my situation probably differs from a reader's in ways that might affect how applicable the results are to them.

What this site isn't

A substitute for a doctor. Prostate symptoms cover a range of conditions, some of them serious, and the scope here is what happened when I tracked what happened to me. Talk to a urologist or GP who knows your actual history before acting on anything you read here. That's not a formality. It's what I'd say to anyone who asked me directly.

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