men's health issues

90% of the problems that are ridiculed, ignored, and treated indiscriminately are essentially "two-way physical and mental wear and tear caused by the "hard-carrying culture" that has been disciplined for a long time." It is neither the "unified kidney deficiency" that everyone ridicules, nor is it an unspeakable "personal flaw." As long as the vast majority of problems are discovered and corrected early, there is no need to take supplements, go to the hospital, and there is no psychological burden.

I picked up a 32-year-old Internet programmer at the outpatient clinic last week. He hesitated for a long time after entering the door. He said that his waist has been hurting recently, he couldn't sleep well at night, and he was a little unable to do what he wanted to do with his lover. I watched some popular science through short videos, and bought three boxes of Liuwei Dihuang Pills and two boxes of Internet celebrity aphrodisiac and kidney tablets. After taking them for half a month, my waist was not healed. I also got angry and had nosebleeds every day. When I woke up in the morning, my mouth was so bitter that I could vomit bile. They took X-rays of his lumbar spine and checked his prostate fluid. There was nothing major. He just sat for 12 hours a day for 20 consecutive days to catch up on projects. His lumbar muscles were strained and his prostate was slightly congested. In addition, he stayed up late and drank iced coffee every day recently, which caused some endocrine disorders. I prescribed some topical analgesic plaster for him, and asked him to stand up and walk for 5 minutes every hour he sat. He drank warm milk instead of coffee at night. I came back for a follow-up visit in half a month, and nothing happened.

Don't tell me, I have encountered seven or eight people who blindly take supplements by themselves this month. Some people take kidney-tonifying medicine and their blood pressure soars to 160. There are also people who are allergic and swollen after applying the Sanwu external aphrodisiac cream and can't get out of bed. It's really annoying and funny.

Nowadays, whether online or in reality, there are actually two schools of thought regarding men's health that are completely at odds, and no one can convince the other. One is the traditional health-preserving school. Whether you have a headache, backache, lack of energy or lack of interest, it is all classified as "kidney deficiency". When you open your mouth, you need to replenish it. You have to eat black wolfberry, black sesame, and various animal whips. It seems that replenishing the kidneys will solve all problems. This statement is not entirely unreasonable. The "kidney" in traditional medicine originally covers the functions of multiple systems such as reproduction, metabolism, and immunity. The decline in your overall state caused by staying up late for a long time and being under great stress does correspond to the relevant syndrome differentiation. But the problem is that many people do not differentiate at all. Regardless of whether they are afraid of cold or heat, they just take tonics as soon as they are available. They have a constitution with a deficiency of yin and a strong fire, and they take big tonics to strengthen yang every day. It is strange that they do not get angry.

The other type is the purely modern evidence-based school, which thinks that all problems are caused by "your living habits are poor." If you have back pain because you sit for a long time, if you are lack of energy because you stay up late, if your function has declined, it means you are obese. Don't talk about anything else, just change your living habits. This is true, but it's a bit too "standing and talking without pain in the back" - you ask a middle-aged man who has to catch up on projects, pick up clients, pay off mortgages and raise a baby every day to spend 1 hour of exercise every day and go to bed before 10 o'clock. Is it realistic? Many times it's not that he doesn't want to change, but that he really doesn't have the conditions. At this time, if you force him to change his routine, it will increase his anxiety and make his condition worse. I have seen many people whose physical examination results show that all the indicators are normal, but they can't sleep well, have no appetite, and can't even play the football games they loved before. In fact, the cortisol level remains high due to long-term stress. To put it bluntly, the string is too tight. At this time, no supplements can be used. Taking a weekend to go fishing and hiking will work better than anything else.

To be honest, I have been doing clinical work for so many years. The biggest headache is not how complicated the patient's problems are. It is that many people dodge when men's health is mentioned, as if it is shameful to come to men's medicine. Last month, there was a 41-year-old middle school teacher who had pain in urination for three consecutive months and was still unable to urinate completely. He refused to come in because he was afraid that his colleagues would know the joke. He searched online for a long time and thought he had prostatitis. He bought a bunch of anti-inflammatory drugs and took them. The more he took, the worse it became. Finally, he came in because the pain was so severe that he couldn't stand. It was found that it was bladder stones. If he had come two weeks earlier, he could have passed them by taking some medicine, but in the end he had to do lithotripsy. He was still talking to me while lying on the diagnosis and treatment bed, saying that his parents had told him since he was a child, "Boys should be strong and bear with a little pain and it will pass." After work, he also felt that when he went to see this kind of disease, others would point fingers when they knew about it.

There is also a very common misunderstanding: when many people mention men's health, their first reaction is sexual function problems, as if this is the only criterion, but it is not at all. For example, many men begin to have high blood pressure and high blood lipids in their thirties and forties, and do not take it seriously. They wait until their erectile function has declined before rushing to check it. Instead, they miss the best intervention time for chronic diseases. To put it bluntly, sexual function is actually the "sun rain" of men's health. "Table", its problems are often not the problem itself, but your cardiovascular and endocrine problems first, and it is just alarming you. Instead of checking for underlying diseases, you buy aphrodisiacs and take them blindly. In essence, you smash the alarm and pretend that nothing is wrong. In the end, you are the one who gets into trouble.

The advice I usually give to patients is never stuck to a certain standard. If you feel comfortable drinking Chinese medicine, just find a doctor from a regular Chinese medicine hospital to diagnose and prescribe a prescription. Don’t blindly buy supplements from internet celebrities.； If you think the methods of modern medicine are reliable, just have regular physical examinations every year, keep a close eye on your blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood lipids, and take some spare time to move around. Even if you stand up to get a glass of water at work, or walk two more steps up the stairs, it is better than sitting for a long day. There is really no need to worry about which method is better. The method that can solve your problem is a good method.

After all, men's health is really not a topic that cannot be brought to the forefront, and there is no need to be led away by anxious marketing on the Internet. "Kidney supplements are necessary at the age of 30" and "if it doesn't work, it is a man's failure", they are all deceptive. Pay more attention to your body's little signals. Take a break if you feel pain. Don't push yourself when you are tired. If you feel really uncomfortable, go to the hospital for a checkup. Don't care what others say. Your body is the most important thing, right?