Men's Health Tips

The "universal recipe for men's health" that most people are looking for simply does not exist. The truly useful core logic is to "avoid daily invisible health losses + accurately compensate for the shortcomings of your own lifestyle." There is no need to take expensive supplements that often cost thousands, and there is no need to force yourself to squeeze out a few hours to go to the gym. The method that adapts to your own life rhythm is the most effective.

I just had dinner with a 32-year-old programmer friend last week. He doesn't look fat, and his belly isn't very protruding. The latest physical examination report came out. Not only did he have mild fatty liver, but his uric acid was almost 100 points higher than the normal value. He was confused. He said that he still runs 5 kilometers two nights a week. Why is he still suffering from all kinds of diseases? To put it bluntly, I only focus on the obvious exercise and do not avoid the daily invisible losses - sitting for 12 hours a day, eating high-fat takeaways when I am hungry, staying up until one or two o'clock before going to bed, even if I run twice a week, it cannot make up for the holes created throughout the week.

I can’t blame him for this. The health content on the Internet now either makes you eat kidney-tonifying health products or forces you to pump iron for 2 hours a day. It completely fails to take into account the huge differences in the pace of life of different people. Take the most common problem of "getting tired easily and having low energy" as an example. Traditional Chinese medicine generally believes that it is due to insufficient kidney qi. It usually recommends staying up less late, eating more warm beef and mutton, and eating yams, gorgon seeds and other ingredients that have the same origin as medicine and food. ； Modern clinical medicine will first check whether there is cortisol disorder, abnormal thyroid function or insufficient protein intake, and adjust the work, rest and diet structure accordingly. There is no right or wrong logic in the two logics, and they are suitable for different situations - if your hands and feet are cold all year round and you are prone to backache, you are right to try the conditioning ideas of traditional Chinese medicine. ； If you have been working overtime a lot recently and always feel unable to wake up, it would be safer to check your blood level first.

When it comes to supplements, testosterone supplements, which have been very popular in the fitness circle in the past two years, are the most controversial category. The fitness enthusiasts around me are divided into two groups. One group says that taking them will increase muscle gain and increase energy, while the other group says that taking them will suppress the secretion of testosterone, and they will collapse if they stop taking the medicine. In fact, this matter is not so black and white: I asked an endocrinologist at a tertiary hospital. For ordinary fitness enthusiasts and those under the age of 40, as long as they can do strength training 2-3 times a week, train enough large muscle groups such as legs, chest, and back each time, sleep for 7 hours a day, and eat 1.6-2g of protein per kilogram of body weight, their own testosterone secretion can fully meet their needs, and there is no need for additional supplements. ； If the sex hormone test shows low testosterone, you should supplement it under the guidance of a doctor. If you take Internet celebrity supplements by yourself, you may cause seborrheic alopecia and decreased sperm activity, which is not worth the gain.

In fact, most people's problems are not enough to be repaired, but are caused by daily small losses. Let’s take my salesman as a child. In the past few years, he went to the bar every day and drank until he vomited. At the age of 30, he was diagnosed with high blood pressure and fatty liver disease. He himself panicked and asked me if he wanted to buy several thousand yuan of liver-protecting tablets. I gave him two very simple ideas: one The first is to drink a box of iced whole-fat milk to cushion your stomach before going to a drinking party, which can reduce alcohol absorption by almost 30%. The second is not to hold on when you get cravings for cigarettes, try some sucrose-free mints, and you can suppress most of them by holding one in your mouth. He followed it for half a year. Last week he had a physical examination and found that the fatty liver had become mild, his blood pressure was stable within the normal range, and he also lost 8 pounds. It was more effective than any supplement he took.

Oh, by the way, there’s another bad habit that 90% of men don’t take seriously: holding in their urine. Especially programmers who sit for a long time and drivers who run long distances are so busy that they can't even go to the toilet. I chatted with a big brother who runs freight two years ago. He said that in order to run two more trips, he often didn't urinate for four or five hours. Now he is just 40 years old and has prostate problems. He has to run to the toilet to drink a little water. He suffers from the old sin in winter. Really, no matter how busy you are, go to urinate when you feel the urge to urinate. Don’t wait until you can’t hold it in before you move, and don’t urinate too quickly just to save time. Sticking to these two little habits will be more useful than how many skin care products you take.

I have been through a lot of pitfalls myself. A few years ago, I believed what the Internet said, "You need to drink 8 glasses of water a day to be healthy." In the winter, I held a thermos cup and drank it hard. As a result, I ran to the toilet more than ten times a day. Later, I went to see a friend in the nutrition department. They said there is no fixed amount. Just look at the color of your urine. If it is light lemon yellow, it is just right. In the past, when I got home from get off work, I would lie down on the sofa and scroll through my phone until 12 o'clock. It was called relaxation, but the more I scrolled, the more tired I became. Later, I changed a small habit. When I got home from get off work, I would stand and listen to storytelling for 20 minutes, or walk downstairs for 10 minutes with my house-breaking corgi, and then sit down to eat. My fatigue disappeared faster, and it was much easier to fall asleep at night.

After all, is there any health secret that is universally applicable? Don't always focus on other people's health recipes. People who sit in an office every day have different things to pay attention to than people who run outdoors and do physical work every day. Stay up less late at night than necessary, drink less alcohol that advises you to "don't drink, you won't give face", and pay more attention to the little signals your body gives you. This is more effective than health care products worth tens of thousands of dollars or fancy fitness programs. After all, your body is yours, and it will treat you as you treat it, right?