What are the frequently asked questions about men’s health?

Men’s health issues that everyone often asks about go far beyond the mythical issues related to sexual function. Metabolic abnormalities, genitourinary system lesions, and emotional and hormonal disorders are currently the most common and most easily ignored health risks for men of all ages.

Not long ago, when I was helping a friend get a report from the Department of Urology, I met a 28-year-old e-commerce operator who stayed up until two or three o'clock every day to package and ship goods. He sat down for seven or eight hours without getting up. This time, he came to register because he had frequent and urgent urination and couldn't stand it. He was diagnosed with chronic prostatitis, and a blood test also found that the uric acid level had spiked to 570. He was still confused. He said that he always felt that backache and weakness were due to tiredness, but he recovered after sleeping for two more days, and did not think about the illness at all.

Don’t think that young people only encounter these “minor problems.” Now, nearly 60% of men aged around 40 have at least one abnormal metabolic index. High blood pressure, fatty liver, and high uric acid are the hardest hit areas. Many people think that if they don’t have symptoms, they don’t need to worry about it, and they don’t panic until it affects other body functions. Last month, Brother Liu, who was working as an engineer in the community, stayed at every wine shop and BBQed red meat as a daily meal. The last time his wife took him for a physical examination, he discovered that his blood lipids were so high that there were soft plaques in his carotid arteries. He felt that he was unable to do what he wanted during sex in the past six months. , secretly bought several kinds of kidney-tonifying medicines that were said to be "imported with special effects", but spent a small amount of 20,000 to no avail. After a final check, he found out that the blood supply blood vessels of the corpus cavernosum were blocked due to high blood lipids, which had nothing to do with the "kidney deficiency" he thought.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that there has always been a lot of controversy about "whether kidney tonifying can improve male function." Both opinions have basis: kidney deficiency in the context of traditional Chinese medicine is an overall syndrome covering multiple dimensions such as energy, reproduction, and urology. Symptomatic conditioning can indeed improve the condition, but Western medicine There is no concept of "kidney deficiency" in the medical system. Most of the problems of decreased sexual function and low back pain are caused by hormone fluctuations, vascular disease, muscle strain, and inflammation. If you don't take warm and dry health care products for the right reasons, it will easily increase the metabolic burden on the body, and the more supplements you take, the worse it will be.

In addition to these tangible physical problems, what many men tend to overlook are the linked changes in emotions and hormones. Especially after the age of 35, men's testosterone levels will naturally decline at a rate of 1% to 2% per year. If things like car loans and house payments, children's education, and elderly people seeing a doctor are piled together, and they are anxious for a long time and cannot sleep well, the hormones will drop faster. I have met a 38-year-old university teacher before. He spent more than half a year in order to evaluate his professional title. Not only did his hairline recede a lot, but he also had no energy and no interest in anything. He didn't even want to go to the basketball that he used to play every week. When he went to check, his testosterone was nearly 30% lower than the normal reference value. He always laughed at others for being "midlife crisis pretentious", but he didn't expect to hit him first.

In fact, many men's health problems are essentially "endured". They are always bound by the concept of "men have to bear the burden of things". If they feel uncomfortable, they will hold it in and carry it. They are too embarrassed to check it out. They will only regret it when the minor problems turn into chronic diseases. If you really feel uncomfortable, don’t scare yourself by looking at search engines, and don’t buy random folk remedies of unknown origin. Go to a regular hospital to check it out, it’s more reliable than anything else.