Men’s preventive health knowledge content

The core logic of men's daily preventive health care is very simple - avoid high-frequency bad habits that harm the body in the long term, and then make up for shortcomings based on one's own basic condition. There is no need to pursue expensive supplements or complicated health care processes. If you do the little things every day right, you can avoid more than 80% of common health risks.

I have met too many men in clinic who have misunderstandings about health care. I always feel that this is something that only needs to be considered in the 40s and 50s. Youth is capital. Staying up late, drinking ice wine, and sitting still for seven or eight hours are not a big deal. Last year, I met a 28-year-old back-end development engineer. He stayed up until two or three o'clock every day for half a year, drinking functional drinks as water. His body test showed that uric acid was 580 and his blood pressure was borderline. He smiled and told me that he had no symptoms anyway and didn't need to worry about it. As a result, I had a gout attack in the spring of this year. My feet were so swollen that I couldn't wear shoes. I also felt dizzy from time to time, so I came to register in a panic.

From the perspective of prevention in modern medicine, men will show signs of chronic underlying diseases 5-8 years earlier on average than women. After the age of 30, no matter whether you feel uncomfortable or not, you can pay attention to three more indicators during your annual physical examination: blood uric acid, blood lipids, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA). If you have smoked for more than 10 years, a low-dose lung CT is enough. Don’t wait until you feel pain or faint before going to the hospital. Problems such as high blood pressure and high uric acid have no early symptoms at all. By the time you feel them, your organs have often been damaged.

There are also many people who believe in the maintenance methods of traditional Chinese medicine. This is okay, but don’t just make supplements blindly. I have seen too many people stocking up on ginseng, deer antler, and sea dog pills at home when they feel sore and weak in their backs. After taking them for half a month, they get nosebleeds and mouth ulcers, which makes them even more uncomfortable. In fact, the vast majority of men's discomforts are caused by insufficient Qi caused by long-term sitting, staying up late, and eating too oily and salty foods. There is no need to supplement them at all. Usually soak some astragalus water, stand up and move for 3 minutes after sitting for an hour, which is more effective than any supplement. There was an old patient who had been driving a taxi for 12 years. He suffered from backache and frequent urination every day, and took all kinds of supplements. He stuck to these two habits and came back for a follow-up checkup in half a year. The symptoms were basically gone.

There is still no unified conclusion regarding the hotly debated question on the Internet: "Whether abstinence is good for the body?" Both sides of the argument are supported by actual cases: Western medicine generally believes that as long as there are no obvious symptoms of fatigue or backache afterwards, regular ejaculation can actually reduce the risk of prostate calcification and inflammation.； The traditional Chinese medicine school of maintenance believes that ejaculation will consume kidney qi. For men who are inherently deficient and weak all year round, appropriately reducing the frequency can indeed reduce physical consumption. There is really no need to stick to the standard of "being healthy X times a week". They are all compiled by traffic numbers to attract attention. The core depends on how your body feels. If you feel refreshed and refreshed the next day after finishing work, it will be no problem. If your back is sore, your legs are weak and you feel sleepy after you get up, then you have to adjust it no matter how low the frequency is.

Many people always think that health care is only for middle-aged people, but this is not true. Not long ago, I met a 22-year-old college student who stayed up late every day playing games and drank two or three bottles of iced Coke a day. His physical examination revealed gout. His toes were so swollen that he couldn't wear shoes and he was crying in pain. There are also many men who are used to holding back their urine. When driving or playing games, they hold it until they can’t help but go to the toilet. This habit can really damage the bladder and prostate, so don’t take it seriously. These small problems usually make no sound, just like ants gnawing on the river bank. After three to five years, once they occur, it is you who suffers.

To be honest, after doing health science popularization for so many years, my biggest feeling is that men’s health care really doesn’t have that many bells and whistles. Smoking less cigarettes, drinking less alcohol, not staying up until midnight, and taking a few more steps when you have time will be much more useful than spending thousands or tens of thousands to buy health products. Your body is your own, don’t wait until something goes wrong to fix it, it will be too late by then.