The prostate gland goes through two main stages of growth during a man’s life. The first sees fairly rapid growth during the early years of puberty with the prostate roughly doubling in size. The second stage of growth starts in a man’s mid-twenties and this is a much slower phase of growth which then continues throughout life.
For the vast majority of men this second phase of growth does not cause any problems at all until they are well into their sixties or seventies whe…