Men's Health Dr. Comalin

90% of the "secret recipes for men's health" and "kidney-tonifying magic tools" you read online are all IQ taxes. What really affects your health are all the little habits you don't take seriously.

Xiao Zhang, a 28-year-old back-end developer who just received a doctor last week, came in with a paper bag half as tall as a person and poured out kidney-tonifying tea and oyster tablets with "Quick-acting Strengthening" and "Men's Exclusive" printed on them. He spent nearly 4,000 yuan in total. He said that in the past six months, he has been feeling heavy all over and can't get along with his partner. He is afraid that he will "die early." As a result, all hormones, prostate B-ultrasound, and urine routine were checked. Except that the testosterone was less than 10% lower than the reference value, there were no problems. After asking about his daily habits, we found out that he spends more than 12 hours at his desk every day, stays up until 2 a.m. to fix bugs at least three days a week, and drinks carbonated drinks mostly as water. The "prescription" I gave him didn't even prescribe medicine, but only three requirements: take 20 minutes a day to go downstairs and walk briskly, lie down as flat as possible before 11 o'clock, and replace Coke with warm water. Two months later, he came back for a reexamination, and all the indicators returned to the normal range. Those health care products that were not even opened were changed hands and thrown into the trash can in my clinic.

To be honest, my trash can is emptied of half a bucket of this kind of stuff every week. They are all brought by patients when they come for treatment, and some of them don't even have the ingredient list printed. Nowadays, there are too many misunderstandings about men's health. When someone feels a little uncomfortable, their first reaction is "I need to take some supplements." Few people first think about "Is there something wrong with my living habits?"

By the way, the industry has always had different ideas about male conditioning, and there is no absolutely correct "standard answer": the logic of our Western medicine school is always to check for organic problems first, eliminate inflammation if there is inflammation, distinguish whether low hormones are pathological or physiological, and adjust work and rest and diet first if it is physiological. If it is not possible, then consider external supplements.； The formal Chinese medicine conditioning approach pays more attention to syndrome differentiation. The same is a decline in function. Some people have kidney deficiency and need to be replenished, some people have damp-heat blockage and need to be relieved, and some people have long-term stress and stagnation of liver qi and need to regulate their emotions. There is no "magic medicine" that applies to everyone. I also treated a 34-year-old salesperson last month. I bought the so-called "ancestral aphrodisiac wine" online and drank it for half a year. The function was not good, and the transaminase was three times higher. Only after I sent it for a test did I find out that controlled psychotropic drugs were secretly added to it. It has a temporary effect, but the damage to the nerves is irreversible over time.

People usually argue fiercely about whether food supplements are IQ taxes or not. In fact, there is no need to argue about right or wrong. For example, the zinc content of the so-called oysters is indeed top-notch among common foods. The WHO also recommends that adult men consume 12.5 mg of zinc every day, which has a positive effect on maintaining sperm motility and hormone levels. If you rarely eat seafood or red meat and are deficient in zinc, eat 2-3 oysters two or three times a week, and you will really feel the changes in your status for a month or two. ； But if you eat a balanced diet, your zinc intake will already be enough. No matter how much you eat, it will be useless. On the contrary, excessive purine intake will easily lead to gout. The same is true for leeks. The content of sulfide and zinc is not outstanding. It is definitely unrealistic to expect immediate results after eating one plate. However, there is no harm in eating more fresh vegetables on a daily basis. There is no need to praise them as gods or beat them to death with a stick.

Last week, a young man who had just entered college came in wearing a hat and a mask. He sat there for ten minutes and his face turned red, and then he hesitated to ask whether there was something wrong with him. It took me a long time to figure out that he had misunderstood me after reading inappropriate content. In fact, he had never had sex at all. He was just scaring himself. I chatted with him about everyday things for half an hour, and learned about the normal threshold standards. The young man's waist was straight when he walked away. To be honest, after so many years of attending clinics, at least one-third of the patients are not considered "sick" at all. They are all frightened out of trouble by anxiety marketing and misinformation on the Internet.

Yesterday, an old patient sent me a message, saying that he had contacted several people pretending to be my account to sell health care products. Let me also say this by the way: I will never sell any products online, nor will I recommend general conditioning formulas to anyone. Men's health is really not as complicated as everyone thinks, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. If you really feel uncomfortable, going to a regular hospital to register for a consultation, which costs more than ten yuan, is 10,000 times better than just thinking about it and buying random things.