Take a moment and consider this logic: Fat-free foods are healthy. Poppins are fat-free. Therefore, poppins are healthy. Make sense? Of course not. But it’s exactly the type of reasoning that food manufacturers want you to use. You see, in our example, we started with a false premise. That’s because the term “fatfree” is often [...]
Life provides men with an endless supply of things to get angry about. There’s the sullen waitress who refuses to look in your direction while you wave desperately for the check. There’s the oaf who drifts across the road without ever using his blinker. There’s the dropped call, the tepid shower, the gum on the [...]
Statin therapy prescribed to lower cholesterol also appears to lower testosterone, according to a new study that evaluated nearly 3,500 men who had erectile dysfunction or ED. ”Current statin therapy is associated with a twofold increased prevalence of hypogonadism,” a condition in which men don’t produce enough testosterone, study author Giovanni Corona, MD, PHD, a [...]
Andropause is a condition that is associated with the decrease in the male hormone testosterone. As men grow older not only do their bodies produce less testosterone but the levels of another hormone called sex binding hormone globulin (SHBG), which pulls usable testosterone from the blood, begins to increase. Testosterone that is not bound to [...]
Erectile dysfunction, commonly referred to as ED, is the inability to achieve and sustain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse. This condition is not considered normal at any age and is different from other problems that interfere with sexual intercourse, such as lack of sexual desire and problems with ejaculation and orgasm. How Common Is [...]
The process of achieving an erection is complex and problems may occur for a variety of reasons. These problems can be psychological, physical, or a combination of the two. Physical causes of ED are related to a breakdown or damage to the sequence of events that lead to an erection. This sequence involves nerve impulses [...]
Acute or chronic bacterial prostatitis If you have prostatitis caused by a bacterial infection (acute or chronic bacterial prostatitis), contact a health professional about your symptoms, especially if you have a fever. Antibiotics and other medications will be prescribed as needed. However, there are some things you can do at home that may help you [...]
It may seem a peculiar American vanity that men have in-boxes full of hair loss treatment offers and spend billions of dollars on hair loss treatments each year. Not so. As Gersh Kuntzman illustrates in his book Hair! Mankind’s Historic Quest to End Baldness, chrome-dome anxiety has tormented us for ages. Caesar’s laurel wreaths? Classic [...]
What is it? Premature ejaculation (PE) means coming too quickly, and it’s one of the commonest of all sexual problems. In our survey of several thousand British males, approximately 10 per cent of them said that they often or sometimes had this trouble. We found that it’s commoner in younger men – which is not [...]
The prostate is part of a man’s sex organs. It’s about the size of a walnut and surrounds the tube called the urethra, located just below the bladder. The urethra has two jobs: to carry urine from the bladder when you urinate and to carry semen during a sexual climax, or ejaculation. Semen is a [...]
