Experiences of male preventive health knowledge training

Men's health care is never a "post-hoc remedy" for taking supplements to treat serious illnesses, nor is it a "uniform template" that fits everyone. Instead, it is a long-term light intervention that combines one's own age, work and rest, and basic disease conditions, and takes into account the conclusions of evidence-based medicine and traditional nursing experience. The most taboo is the two extremes of either not caring or being overly anxious.

Originally, I went there with the mentality of collecting trade union training credits. Brother Zhang from the operation and maintenance department, who was sitting next to me, was carrying the just-released physical examination report, which showed that he had moderate fatty liver and uric acid exceeded the normal value of 120 μmol/L. He also stuffed in his pocket the liver protection tablets that the trustee had brought from abroad. He was complaining to me that after three months of taking it, the target had not dropped at all. Originally, the two of us were catching up on short videos together, but a set of data that the teacher dumped at the beginning directly drove us back to our seats: the overweight rate among domestic men aged 18-44 has exceeded 30%, the incidence of chronic prostatitis has reached 17%, and the incidence of late-onset hypogonadism in men over 40 years old is close to 20%. Among them, 80% of patients attributed their early fatigue, frequent urination, and poor sleep to "tiredness from work," and did not realize that it was a warning signal sent by the body.

To be honest, my previous understanding of "health care" was still based on the stereotype of middle-aged and elderly people soaking wolfberry and eating melatonin. I always felt that those of us in our thirties who are strong and healthy cannot do these things. The most interesting thing about this training is that the opinions of the two instructors collided, which also made me understand how unreliable those "unified health formulas" I read before were. Dr. Li, who has a background in Western medicine, made it clear that as long as you can eat 25 kinds of food every week, with a balanced mix of meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables, there is no need to take additional supplements. Like Zhang Ge's fatty liver, no matter how many liver-protecting tablets he takes, it is better to stop eating barbecue late-night snacks three times a week, drink two bottles of cold beer, and adjust the indicator for one month to drop it. Director Wang, who has a background in traditional Chinese medicine, did not completely deny the role of supplements. He only said that if you are a person who often travels on business and does not eat regularly and always feels tired, you can occasionally make some astragalus and Ophiopogon japonicus as tea. However, it is absolutely not recommended to take the unknown ingredients of Internet celebrity supplements that claim to "strengthen yang and nourish kidneys in 7 days." Last week, he just received a 29-year-old young man who took kidney-tonifying pills sold by WeChat merchants for half a year. He suffered drug-induced liver damage and even messed up his testosterone level.

I am 32 years old. I usually sit for five or six hours while writing a plan. I always thought that frequent urination and bloating in the lower abdomen were caused by drinking too much water, but I didn’t take it seriously. This time, there was a free prostate health screening on site. The doctor told me that I had a prostate. I have mild swelling, which is caused by sitting for a long time and holding in my urine. The advice given to me was ridiculously simple: stand up every 40 minutes to get a glass of water and walk two steps. Don’t wait until you feel urgent to hold your urine in before going to the toilet. If you insist on it for half a month, the symptoms will be relieved, and you don’t even need to prescribe medicine. Don't tell me, I turned on the sedentary reminder on my phone that day. I tried it in the past two days. The problem that I always felt when I got off work before was really relieved a lot.

I have argued with people online before about whether exercising every day can offset the harm caused by staying up late. This training also gave both sides of the argument, but I didn’t say which one was absolutely right. The teacher of exercise physiology said that regular exercise can indeed reduce the risk of metabolic abnormalities caused by staying up late. However, the endocrinology doctor directly dismissed the clinical data: even if people who stay up late for a week after 1 o'clock, even if they run 5 kilometers a day, their cortisol levels are still 30% higher and their testosterone levels are 15% lower than those of people who have a regular schedule. To put it bluntly, they are demolishing one thing to make up for the other. At most, they can reduce damage and cannot completely offset it. There are also statements like "men should eat more oysters to supplement zinc" and "ten thousand steps a day to live to ninety-nine". The teacher also said that they are all half-baked science. People with high uric acid will only make their indicators soar if they eat oysters. People with old knee injuries have to walk 10,000 steps because they are simply troubled by their own joints. There is no standard answer to health care, and the one that suits you is the right one.

There is another point that I had not thought of before: many men are unwilling to undergo andrology-related examinations because they always feel that it is a shame. The teacher said that more than half of the reproductive system problems in the clinic are delayed until the symptoms are serious before they come to see a doctor. It is a small problem that can be cured by adjusting the work and rest early and taking some medicine. In the end, surgery is completely unnecessary.

When the meeting ended, I walked with Brother Zhang, and he immediately returned the order for liver protection tablets that was waiting for delivery on his mobile phone, saying that he would try all the barbecue dinners next month. I also grabbed the men's health self-assessment form on the counter, filled it out when I got home, and found 5 "high-risk habits." Hi, I used to think it was a bit pretentious for grown men to talk about health care every day, but now I understand that our generation has seniors and juniors, and the body is the backbone of the family. Pay more attention to small habits and don't wait for the body to issue an "ultimatum" to react. This is not called cherishing life, but being responsible for yourself and your family.