Men's Health Cases

Don’t wait for backache, fatigue, or decreased function before you rush to find kidney-tonifying remedies. The root cause of 90% of men’s health problems you encounter is not “deficiency”, but a “chronic disease warning” caused by long-term bad habits. Indiscriminate supplementation may increase the metabolic burden, and the more supplements you take, the worse it will be.

The 32-year-old Internet backend Xiao Zhang is a case I came into contact with last year. He is a typical sedentary person. It is normal for him to sit in front of the code for 12 hours a day. He never leaves his hand with Coke, and he has to stay up late two or three times a week to play black and white games with friends. In the second half of last year, he began to feel that something was wrong. He felt dizzy even when he stood up while squatting in the toilet. He was unable to do what he wanted when having sex, and even had less morning erections. After reading the Little Red Book for two days, he concluded that it was "kidney yang deficiency". He secretly bought more than 3,000 imported kidney-tonifying pills and took them for two months. However, the function did not improve. Instead, he had nosebleeds every now and then. He even had oral ulcers that could not go away.

Later, he went for a physical examination, and the indicators given by Western medicine were very clear: blood uric acid exceeded the standard by 20%, mild prostate hyperplasia, pelvic floor muscles were long-term compression and congestion, and testosterone levels were 15% lower than normal. The problem was not related to "deficiency" at all, but a metabolic disorder and poor local blood supply. The plan he was given was simple: stop all supplements, stand at work for an hour every day, briskly walk for 40 minutes twice a week, prescribed some medicine to regulate metabolism, and sent him back. He was worried and went to see an old Chinese medicine doctor. The doctor judged that it was due to dampness and heat. The supplements he had taken before were all hot and dry things, which blocked the meridians. He was told to boil water with adzuki beans and poria to drink every day, and avoid cold beer and spicy hot pot. I followed him for 3 months, and he followed both plans. Last week, the recheck indicators all returned to the normal range. Not to mention his status, he also complained to me that the kidney-tonifying IQ tax he paid before was enough for him to buy a new graphics card.

Another person who made the same misunderstanding as Xiao Zhang was Lao Li, a 41-year-old building materials salesman. He has always been a bartender and his belly is as big as a rubber ball. In the past six months, he has always felt tired. He even feels sleepy when driving on the highway. His morning erection has almost disappeared. His memory is also ridiculously bad. He can't find the keys he just put away when he turns around. At first, he thought that drinking too much had damaged his liver. When he went for a liver function test, he did find a slight increase in transaminases. However, the endocrinologist pointed out the core problem: his body fat rate had reached 32%, and his visceral fat was seriously excessive. Fat will convert androgens into estrogen. This was the root cause of his overall condition. No supplements were of any use. The first thing to do was to stop drinking and lose weight. A friend of mine who does sports rehabilitation also gave another idea: He drinks all the year round, which causes rapid loss of core muscles and long-term high abdominal pressure, which also compresses the pelvic blood supply. There is no need to go to the gym to train heavy weights. Just spend 10 minutes a day doing abdominal breathing and plank support. Now Lao Li Liquor Shop can do it as much as possible. I walk around the community for 40 minutes every night. I have lost 12 pounds in two months. The last time I met and handed me a cigarette, he smiled and said that I feel five years younger. Now I can climb the fifth floor without gasping.

Oh, by the way, not only middle-aged men, but also many young men in their twenties are prone to fall into this "preconceived" trap. 28-year-old Xiao Wang had just been married for half a year and was preparing to have a baby. He went for a pre-pregnancy check-up and found that his sperm motility was only 30%, and he always suffered from premature ejaculation. He was particularly stressed. He always felt that he was "losing" because of too many penises during his adolescence. The more posts he read on the Internet, the more anxious he became, and his sexual intercourse was also affected. The doctor from the reproductive department gave a very straightforward judgment: 70% of his problems were psychological factors, and the remaining 30% were caused by sitting for a long time and wearing tight jeans all year round. The scrotal temperature was more than 1 degree higher than normal, and the sperm motility naturally failed to increase. The plan he gave was very down-to-earth: wear loose sports pants, flush the scrotum with slightly cold water for 1 minute when taking a shower every day, ejaculate regularly, and don't always talk about "I can't do it." He later found a sexual psychology teacher, who said that he had put too many negative labels on himself, forming a conditioned reflex. He suggested that the couple go through three counseling sessions together and not regard intercourse and pregnancy preparation as tasks to be completed. In the first half of this year, he also sent me wedding candies, and my wife was already pregnant for more than two months.

To be honest, I followed my friend for a while and took Internet celebrity supplements such as oyster tablets and Maca. To be honest, I didn’t feel anything except a pain in my wallet. Later, I adjusted my schedule and played basketball with my friends for an hour two days a week. Within a month, I felt that my overall condition had obviously returned. Of course, I’m not saying that supplements are completely useless. If you have done a comprehensive examination and are diagnosed with insufficient testosterone secretion or a deficiency syndrome based on TCM syndrome differentiation, then you should take supplements, but the premise is that you have to find the root cause and don’t blindly make mistakes based on the symptoms on the Internet.

Finally, a reminder, if you really feel that something is wrong with your health, go to a regular hospital for a check-up first. The money you save on buying folk remedies and Internet celebrity supplements can be used to apply for a fitness card and buy two more pounds of fresh beef and mutton. It is better than anything else. After all, most of your body's problems have already been foreshadowed when you sit for 10 hours a day, stay up until three o'clock to go to bed, and drink cold beer every now and then.