Category: Men’s Health

What’s not to love about fun facts? Most of the time they’re composed of trivia, but unlike the supposedly memorable dates you learned in high school history, fun facts tend to stick. For instance, here’s one about food: a single fast-food burger may have meat from 100 different cows! You might never have reason to keep reading

The prostate gland, tucked away in its pelvic bed, is a small organ distant from the large, complex one called the brain. Similarly, our prostate blogs are far removed from brain-related topics. However, I recently came across a new study about old-age brain health that reveals common ground between these two organs: they both need keep reading

Did you ever play “Guess How Many Jellybeans in This Jar”? Here’s a guessing game that affects every person: If you live to age 70, guess how many heartbeats you’ve had since you were born. Want to estimate? Is it: a) 13.8 million times b) 247 million times c) 2.5 billion times d) More than keep reading

Mental health among men has been called a silent crisis. The myth that men don’t suffer psychologically traces back to Freudian stereotypes of women as fragile and prone to nervous breakdowns, neurosis and hysteria. According to this worldview, men are the stronger of the two sexes—as if they have always been invulnerable to mental and keep reading

I had a grammar school buddy whose elderly Grandma Bess lived with his family. She was spry and alert, and always interested in the latest appliances, gadgets, etc. Her word for them was newfangled. “My, my,” she would wonder, “What won’t they think of next?” When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Grandma Bess would keep reading

It’s estimated that 52%, or 18 million American men aged 40 –70 years, are affected with some degree of erectile dysfunction (ED). The incidence of both diabetes and ED increases as men age, especially over age 45. ED itself is a common complication of type 2 diabetes due to a combination of several factors including... keep reading

This blog title might sound like I’m daring you to get prostate cancer. But no. What I’m really asking is, do you have the gut microbiome that may be connected with getting prostate cancer? Put another way, are the bacteria in your gut raising your chances of developing this disease? keep reading

Have you ever had a moment of alarm over a pain in your chest or left shoulder, and wondered if it could be your heart? How about getting a rapid heartbeat for no apparent reason? Or you walk up a flight of stairs and find yourself a little winded? In such moments, you may indeed wonder about the health of your heart or lungs, but I bet that the last thing on your mind is your prostate... keep reading

The latest update on HPV (human papillomavirus or genital warts) concerns HPV as a potential cause of prostate cancer (PCa) based on detecting the DNA of the virus in blood samples. The authors of a 2023 paper detected the presence of the HPV virus in some men with prostate cancer (PCa) vs. a control group without PCa. keep reading

If the Battle of the Sexes was over how long a person lives, women come out the winners. Around the globe, women have an average lifespan longer than men. This raises the question: which has greater influence over longevity, genetics or lifestyle? The origin of the nature vs. nurture debate is attributed to a 19th keep reading