men's health

Men's health is a comprehensive and complete state of physical, psychological and social adaptability covering all ages. It has no absolute relationship with whether you are "heroic". In essence, it means whether your body and emotions can meet all the demands in daily work, family and social life, and you will not always be held back by minor problems, nor will serious illnesses break out without warning.

I met a 32-year-old Internet back-end programmer a while ago. He worked on a project for two months last year. After that, he always felt weak and weak in his back. He came across a lot of marketing "Men must take supplements when they are 30 years old" while browsing short videos. He couldn't help but eat three handfuls of wolfberry and four steamed oysters every day, and he also bought hundreds of oyster slices to eat. After taking it for less than two months, one day in the middle of the night my feet hurt and I rolled out of bed. I went to the emergency room to find out that the uric acid level was 590 μmol/L, indicating an acute gout attack. At first, he thought he had taken supplements, but the doctor said that his backache and weakness were not "deficiency" at all, but the muscle tension in the lower back caused by staying up late and sitting for long periods of time, plus the fatigue caused by lack of sleep.

Interestingly, whether it is modern medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, there is actually a consensus on the matter that "men's health cannot only look at a certain indicator." In the evaluation system of Western medicine, the four dimensions of metabolic level (blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar, uric acid, and body fat rate), reproductive system function, musculoskeletal endurance, and emotional and cognitive status are evaluated together. Even if your sexual function is completely normal, but your blood pressure is critical all year round and you are short of breath after climbing three floors, you are still in a state of red health. Traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to the overall "qi and blood harmony." For example, if you always feel tired, lose a lot of hair, and are easily irritable, it will not directly determine that there is a problem with one of your organs, but will make comprehensive adjustments based on your work and rest, diet, and stress state. Although the two logics are different, they both oppose equating male health with "improving virility."

You must have had similar experiences, right? Last week, I accompanied my brother to take his son to climb Yuelu Mountain near my home. My brother is only 35 years old. He usually sits in the office and hardly moves. Halfway up the mountain, he held on to a tree until he was speechless and his face turned pale. Finally, I led my nephew to the top of the mountain. He sat on the mountainside for two hours waiting for us. After I got home, my waist and legs hurt for three days, and I insisted that "it's like this when you get older." In fact, it is not a matter of age. The last time he exercised was at the fun sports meeting organized by the company last year. He ran for 50 meters and then stopped running. Every day when he got home from get off work, he would sit on the sofa and check his mobile phone and drink cold beer. His body fat rate was almost 30. It would be strange if he was not tired.

The most heated debate on the Internet right now is "Should men take supplements?" The two sides have completely opposite views: Many scholars in the field of nutrition insist that as long as you can do more than 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week (that is, running, playing ball, the kind that can make your heart rate reach 1 20 and above), the daily diet consists of vegetables, meat, eggs and milk, and there is no need to take any additional supplements. More than 90% of the maca, oyster slices, and various kidney-tonifying health products sold on the market are IQ tax, which is useless if eaten. Many of them also add banned ingredients, which will harm the body. However, many clinicians hold different opinions: now more than 70% of domestic working men sit for long periods of time, stay up late, and eat takeaways. The intake of trace elements such as vitamin D, B vitamins, and zinc generally does not meet the recommended standards. Appropriate supplementation of compliant dietary supplements can indeed improve fatigue and inattention problems in a short period of time, and it does not count as paying IQ tax. In fact, both statements are correct. The core depends on your own living conditions. If you eat takeout every day and have no time to exercise, there is nothing wrong with taking some regular multivitamins. If you have a regular schedule and exercise every day, there is really no need to spend that wasted money.

Oh, by the way, many people will deliberately ignore men's mental health. According to the Chinese Mental Health Survey data, the detection rate of anxiety and depression among men aged 35-44 is the highest among all adult age groups. However, most of them are bound by the concept of "men have to shoulder the responsibility" and "cannot be pretentious". They hold back their emotions, or smoke and drink to vent them. In the end, insomnia, high blood pressure, and chronic gastroenteritis come to their doorstep. They think it is a physical problem, but in fact the root cause is their emotions. My friend from the Department of Urology told me that he received a 42-year-old patient last month who said he had erectile dysfunction and that he had been taking kidney-tonifying medicine for half a year to no avail. Finally, after talking for a long time, he found out that he owed 800,000 yuan because of a failed investment last year.

If you really need to care about your own health, don’t always read marketing content that creates anxiety, and don’t always dwell on “will it work” or not? Feel your pulse when you wake up in the morning to see if your resting heart rate is below 80. Did you take time to sweat out last week? Did you talk to your wife or friends when something bad happened to you? Can you fall asleep within 15 minutes when you lie down at night? Doing these little things well is more effective than any number of supplements you take. After all, being physically comfortable, emotionally happy, and able to accompany your family on a longer journey is more important than any "man's dignity."