Men’s preventive health knowledge content

Don’t ignore minor problems, don’t take supplements blindly, and focus on different priorities for different age groups. By doing these three things, you can avoid more than 80% of the health problems that are common in men.

I met a 29-year-old Internet operator at the general clinic last week. When he came in, he said that he had backache, fatigue, and sweating. He bought 3 boxes of Liuwei Dihuang Pills online and took them for almost two months. Not only did he not feel better, but he had diarrhea every day. After feeling the pulse and looking at the tongue coating, he found that he had a typical spleen deficiency and dampness, not kidney yin deficiency at all. He took the wrong medicine and of course the worse it got. Many people's understanding of men's health care is either stuck in the stereotype of "tonifying kidneys and strengthening yang", or they think that youth is capital and will wait until problems arise, or they go to the other extreme and put all kinds of supplements in their mouths. Protein powder, zinc tablets, and liver-protecting tablets are piled on the table. In fact, they are all taking the wrong path.

Take the most quarrelsome question of “should you take supplements?”, all three views actually make sense: Friends in the fitness circle will say that daily dietary intake is not enough and supplements are just needed. This is indeed true for people who train more than 4 times a week and are in the muscle-building period.； Traditional Chinese medicine mostly recommends that medicinal supplements are not as good as dietary supplements. If you can get enough nutrients through meals, avoid purified preparations. It is suitable for ordinary people with regular diet and no clear nutritional deficiencies. ； The nutritional guidelines of Western medicine are more direct: As long as you are not diagnosed with nutrient deficiencies, a normal diet can meet your needs. Most of the extra supplements will be excreted in the urine. Excessive supplements will increase the burden on the liver and kidneys. You really don’t have to be on any side, just choose according to your own living habits. Don’t listen to people’s deception and just pop any supplement into your mouth.

As a twenty-year-old boy, don't always think that your body is made of iron. Two months ago, I took in a 25-year-old young man. He went out with friends and drank two boxes of cold beer. He was rolling in pain in the middle of the night. When he checked, his uric acid level was 680, and he had an acute attack of gout. When I asked him, I found out that he had been drinking milk tea and eating late-night snacks every day since college. He had not taken it seriously for two years since his uric acid was high. The focus of health care at this age is really not to take supplements, but to not make things up: drink less high-sugar drinks as water, eat less seafood and beer every meal, don’t stay up for several days and nights playing games, sit for a long time and shake for two minutes every 40 minutes while playing ranked, it will be more effective than buying a gaming chair waist protector worth thousands of dollars. Oh, by the way, don’t take advantage of your youth to be unrestrained in your sexual life. It will be too late to regret it if something goes wrong.

When you are in your thirties and you are older and younger, the most common problem is "carrying on". When my back hurt, I put a plaster on it and continued to work overtime. Frequent urination and urgent urination thought it was a small problem and I was too embarrassed to go to the hospital. I didn't go to the hospital until I urinated blood and the pain made me unable to straighten my back. I found out that it was either kidney stones or prostatitis. The opinions about prostatitis on the Internet are very confusing nowadays. Some people say that it is a "man's cold" and it can be cured without treating yourself. Some people say that if it cannot be cured, it will affect fertility and require taking various special medicines. In fact, it is too absolute: if it is just aseptic prostatitis caused by sitting for a long time, you can get up and walk for two steps after sitting for an hour every day, avoid spicy food and drink less, and sit with warm water for 10 minutes every day, and it will be relieved in two weeks in most cases. ； But if it is bacterial and is accompanied by fever and painful urination, then you must follow the doctor's advice and take antibiotics. If you insist on it, it will only become chronic and make it more troublesome. Also, check your blood pressure, blood lipids, and uric acid every year at this age. Don’t wait until you have a stroke or gout attack to find out that your indicators have been high for several years.

For uncles over fifty years old, the easiest pitfall is various "kidney-tonifying folk remedies". I met a 56-year-old uncle last year. I heard from a friend that homemade deer blood wine can aphrodisiac. He brewed 10 pounds of it and drank it for less than half a month. His face turned as yellow as orange peel. He was sent to the hospital for a check-up for acute liver injury, and he was hospitalized for almost half a month. Traditional Chinese medicine does have conditioning plans for warming yang and tonifying kidneys, but they all require syndrome differentiation. If you are prone to internal heat and have high blood pressure, then drinking this kind of hot medicinal wine will not replenish the body but will cause trouble for yourself. For health care at this age, to be honest, nothing is worse than checking for PSA (prostate specific antigen) every year. This indicator is an important screening indicator for prostate cancer. If detected early, the cure rate is almost 100%. If it is delayed until the late stage, it will be too late to check anything.

In fact, after all is said and done, men’s health care really doesn’t have that many bells and whistles. I often say to my male friends, don’t always think about finding some magic pill. Drink more water at ordinary times. Don’t wait until you are so thirsty that your throat smokes before you drink. Drinking enough 1.5 liters of warm water every day is much more effective than drinking “men’s functional water” that costs tens of dollars a bottle. ； Don't hold back your urine. Whether you are playing games or having a long meeting, just go and urinate when you have it. It is common to hold back cystitis and prostatitis. ； And if you really feel uncomfortable, don't be embarrassed to go to a regular hospital. Urology and men's departments are regular departments. Don't go to the "old Chinese medicine doctor" on the telephone pole. It will cost you money and delay your condition.

Oh, by the way, there is another point that many people ignore. Emotions are also a part of health care. Don't bear all the pressure by yourself. Occasionally complaining to friends, going out to climb mountains and run for a few steps on weekends, it will be more effective than any liver-protecting tablets and kidney-tonifying medicine you take. After all, your body is yours, don’t wait until something goes wrong to remember to cherish it.