What are the aspects of male preventive health care

In fact, men’s daily preventive health care is not as complicated as everyone thinks. The core is to avoid the cognitive misunderstanding of “supplements, nourishment, and secret recipes”, and do basic physical care, emotional relief, and risk screening, which is much more effective than taking various supplements indiscriminately.

A while ago, I met a 32-year-old Internet backend in the clinic. He said that he had been suffering from backache and weakness for more than half a year. He defaulted to "kidney deficiency". He spent less than 20,000 yuan on kidney-tonifying health products and aphrodisiac ointments. After eating, he got sores on his mouth and tongue and nosebleeds. His symptoms were not good at all. When he came to check, he found that he was oppressing the prostate and lumbar muscle strain due to sitting for a long time. , without even prescribing medication, he gave me two suggestions: get up and drink water for 2 minutes after sitting for 40 minutes, wash the private parts thoroughly when taking a shower at home, and take a sitz bath with warm water for 10 minutes every day before going to bed. I came for a follow-up visit in two months, and the symptoms were 80% gone. He also said that the wasted money he spent before was enough to replace him with a better ergonomic chair. Many people always think that private parts care is a matter for women. In fact, men have strong secretion of sebaceous glands. If they always wear tight pants, sweat, and the foreskin is too long and not cleaned properly, it is easy for bacteria to breed, which can cause balanitis and urinary tract infection in mild cases. In severe cases, it can also increase the risk of gynecological inflammation in your partner. It is really not a trivial matter.

Compared with the physical care that can directly correspond to symptoms, what is more invisible and easier to ignore is the emotional care. We have been taught since we were young that "men don't shed tears easily". When we are stressed, we always hold it in, and if we really can't bear it, we smoke and drink. Last year, there was a 40-year-old man who was in the building materials business. He suffered from chest tightness and insomnia for three consecutive months. He went to several cardiac examinations and there was no problem with his heart. Finally, he sat there and chatted for half an hour before he told the truth that his business had not been doing well in the past two years. He owed RMB 1.8 million in payment for goods. He did not dare to tell his wife and children. He had to sit in the underground garage for half an hour every day after get off work and smoked half a pack of cigarettes before he dared to go upstairs. His whole body was so tense that he almost broke. In fact, there are so many things that "must be carried". It is much better to go fishing and play ball with my old friends on the weekend, or even to go home and chat with my wife about the difficulties and let out my emotions, than to hold back high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.

Different age groups have different health care priorities. Young men in their twenties should not always rely on their health to stay up late and have barbecues and cold beers. Gout is now occurring at younger and younger ages. Last month, I met a 21-year-old college student who stayed up late for a week watching football and ate crayfish and drank cold beers. He suffered a gout attack and his feet were so swollen that he couldn't wear shoes. His roommate carried him there. When you are over 40 years old, in addition to routine physical examinations, it is best to add prostate-specific antigen screening and low-dose lung CT every year. After all, men have a higher proportion of smokers, and the risk of lung cancer and prostate cancer is much higher than that of women. Most of the problems detected in early screening are easy to deal with. It is often troublesome to wait for obvious symptoms to be checked again.

As for the hotly debated issue on the Internet today, "Should men take extra folic acid and antioxidant supplements?", there is currently no unified conclusion in the industry. If you eat regularly and have vegetables, meat, and grains in every meal, there is no need to spend that wasted money. If you usually eat takeout and eat less vegetables and grains, you can also do a serum nutrition test first to make up for whatever you are missing. Don't follow the trend and buy a bunch of Internet celebrity supplements to eat indiscriminately, which will burden your liver and kidneys.

To put it bluntly, there is nothing mysterious about men’s preventive health care. It’s just like taking care of your car. Don’t wait for the engine to alarm before you think of repairing it. Do a small checkup regularly. Run when you need to. Don’t be bored and don’t take it hard. It’s more effective than any sky-high-priced tonic.