What are the preventive health products for men?

In fact, there are not many health care products that have been clearly confirmed by evidence-based medicine and are suitable for ordinary healthy men for daily prevention. In total, ordinary multivitamins, high-purity Omega-3 fish oil, lycopene, and zinc preparations are really useful. The remaining "men's exclusive supplements" that are highly touted on the market are all for earning IQ tax.

Last week, a 32-year-old programmer brother who usually sits opposite me came to me excitedly with a delivery box and asked me if the Internet celebrity "Men's Kidney Protection and Anti-Fatigue Pills" I bought for 688 can be eaten. I glanced at the ingredient list and there was no clear content.

Take the most common men's multivitamin, for example. Not everyone needs to take it, only those who eat takeout every day, have excessive amounts of oil and salt, and can't eat fresh fruits and vegetables three times a week. For example, office workers who run business every day to accompany wine, or eat two hamburgers a day when they are busy. Just take the ordinary version. It is enough to make up for the gap in the daily diet, but it is not necessary. Buy the special ones that are three to four times more expensive and labeled "high activity". The dosage of many vitamins exceeds daily requirements, which puts a burden on the liver and kidneys. In the past two years, academic research suggested that long-term excessive supplementation of vitamin E may actually increase the risk of prostate disease. This is still controversial. It is not true that more supplements are better.

Let’s talk about Omega-3 fish oil that many middle-aged men will buy. This is really useful, but the score is that if you can’t eat deep-sea fish once every half a month, and the blood lipids in the physical examination are a bit high, especially if there is a family history of high blood pressure and coronary heart disease at home, eating about 1g of high-purity fish oil every day can indeed help regulate blood lipids and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. There is a risk of disease, but if you can eat salmon and cod two or three times a week and your blood lipids are normal, there is really no need to join in the fun, let alone the nonsense that merchants say "eating fish oil can improve sexual function". It doesn't matter even half a cent. Don't touch the kind of low-purity fish oil that costs tens of dollars for a large bottle. Most of it is saturated fat, which is useless and easy to gain weight.

There is also lycopene, which is touted as the "Guardian of the Prostate". This also needs to be viewed dialectically. Current clinical studies have indeed shown that for middle-aged and elderly men who have benign prostatic hyperplasia and frequent frequent urination and urgency, appropriate supplementation can appropriately relieve symptoms. However, for healthy children in their twenties and thirties, Man, if you eat a tomato scrambled egg or a tomato mixed with sugar, you can get a lot of it. Spending extra money on supplements really doesn’t bring any extra benefits. I once had a 27-year-old friend who ate it every day to “prevent prostate cancer” and went for a physical examination for half a year. His indicators were no different from before. It was just a waste of money.

As for zinc preparations, they are only useful for two types of people. One is for those who usually do fitness and muscle building and do not eat enough protein. The other is for those who are found to have slightly low sperm motility during pregnancy preparation and usually eat less red meat and shellfish. Supplementing can really see improvement. The daily dietary intake of healthy men is basically enough. Supplementing too much will affect the absorption of copper, which is not worth the gain.

As for the supplements made from maca, oyster peptides, and various animal whips that are very popular on the Internet, there is currently not enough large-scale evidence-based evidence to prove that they have additional preventive and health-care effects on ordinary men. Most of those that are useful are psychological suggestions. If you buy the kind of supplements that are illegally added with Western medicine ingredients, eating them will cause irreversible damage to the cardiovascular, liver and kidneys.

To put it bluntly, if you really want to prevent diseases and maintain good health, no matter how many health supplements you take, it is not as effective as staying up less late at night, smoking two fewer cigarettes, and running for half an hour three or four days a week. There is a 42-year-old brother next to me. He used to have high blood lipids and fatty liver, and he tried expensive health supplements without any improvement. Later, he insisted on walking 3 kilometers after get off work every day, playing badminton on weekends, and went for a physical examination after two years. All the indicators returned to normal. This is more reliable than any supplement.