What is the knowledge about men’s preventive health care?

The core of men's preventive health care is actually comprehensive lifestyle adjustment and targeted regular screening. It is really not something that can be solved by focusing on kidney tonifying and taking health supplements as rumored.

Last week, I met a 32-year-old Internet programmer at a community health clinic. He couldn't straighten his waist when he sat at the clinic table. He said that he had been urinating frequently recently and had abdominal distension. After looking at the physical examination report, he found prostate calcification and critical blood pressure. After asking, he found out that he started sitting for 12 hours a day. After get off work, he would lie on the sofa and play games. He always had cold beer as a late-night snack. You said this is a typical misconception about men's health care. When you sit for a long time, the prostate is pressed hard by the pelvic cavity, like a bulging hot water bottle under your buttocks. It is so stuffy that blood circulation is not smooth. No matter how many supplements you take, it will not be enough if you stand up to get a glass of water and take two steps every 40 minutes of sitting.

When many people mention male health care, they first think about reproductive function. In fact, early prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is what middle-aged men should pay most attention to. The 36-year-old salesman who received the diagnosis in the past two months usually drinks liquor every time he socializes, and his belly is as full as a watermelon. He secretly bought several imported kidney-tonifying pills to eat. But last week, he had a gout attack and came here on a crutch. When he checked, his uric acid level was almost 700, and his blood lipids were twice as high as normal. He said he always felt dizzy but didn't take it seriously. If it wasn't for the pain that he couldn't walk, he would have carried it.

As for the most frequently asked question, whether to check the prostate specific antigen (PSA) every year, there are indeed different opinions in the industry. If you have no family history of prostate cancer and do not have frequent urination, urgency or nocturia more than twice, you don’t need to check it every year before the age of 45. Over-screening can easily cause unnecessary anxiety.； But if you have related symptoms or family history, it is necessary to check up once a year after the age of 40. Don’t be embarrassed to go to the urology department. Finding problems early is better than anything else.

There are also many men who always think that emotional problems are not illnesses. Last time I met a 42-year-old middle-level employee of a state-owned enterprise. He couldn't sleep for more than three months in a row. He always felt tight in his chest. After a round of heart tests, he found no problems. After careful questioning, he found out that the department was under heavy pressure from layoffs recently. He didn't dare to tell his family when he went home. He kept it all to himself. The idea I gave him later was to spend two nights a week, not caring about any work, and inviting old colleagues to play basketball for half an hour, sweating and chatting. After more than a month, he came back for a follow-up check and said that his insomnia was almost gone and his blood pressure had dropped. You see, men's emotional relief is really not a pretense. It is a particularly important part of health care. If you insist on it, it will easily lead to organic problems.

There is nothing mysterious about it. Stay up less late at night, smoke less, move more when you sit for a long time, and don’t take it hard when you are stressed. It is much more effective than the various health care products you spend thousands to buy.