Men should be encouraged to love their health, love their families, stay physically active, eat right and take a walk; Men may find themselves with increased responsibilities with their careers and families. Men should begin to pay attention to their nutritional intake. Healthcare professionals encourage men to take control of their health across all ages and stages, but this takes on greater significance after 35. It is important for men to make prevention, early detection and management of chronic disease a priority. For men in their mid-30s, it is important to stay physically active. Men decrease their muscle mass after the age of 35, so they have a decrease in testosterone. Doctors note the importance of testing for and monitoring diabetes, which over the past several years has become a widespread problem for people of all ages. If you are overweight, you should have your blood sugar and blood cholesterol checked to make sure they are in a good range. Sexual health can be compromised by diabetes. “After a few years, you may have nerve or circulation damage and can become impotent. Once a man reaches 60, it is advised he get a bone mineral density test — so steps can be taken to keep bones strong and healthy for later years. For men who smoke, there’s just one recommendation: quit immediately. There’s a higher risk for health complications for smokers and if smoking-related diseases run in the family. Men with a family history of prostate cancer should have their prostate checked between age 40 and 50.
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. The cancer cells may metastasize (spread) from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause pain, difficulty in urinating, problems during sexual intercourse, or erectile dysfunction. Other symptoms can potentially develop during later stages of the disease. Prostate cancer tends to develop in men over the age of fifty and although it is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in men, many never have symptoms, undergo no therapy, and eventually die of other causes. This is because cancer of the prostate is, in most cases, slow-growing, symptom free and men with the condition often die of causes unrelated to the prostate cancer, such as heart/circulatory disease, pneumonia, other unconnected cancers, or old age.
Treatment options for prostate cancer with intent to cure are primarily surgery and radiation therapy. Other treatments such as hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, proton therapy, cryosurgery, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) also exist depending on the clinical scenario and desired outcome.
Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. With 655,000 deaths worldwide per year, it is the fourth most common form of cancer in the United States and the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world. The symptoms of colorectal cancer depend on the location of tumor in bowel and whether it has spread to elsewhere in the body (metastasis). Most of the symptoms may occur in other diseases as well, and hence none of the symptoms mentioned here is diagnostic of colorectal cancer. Symptoms and signs are divided into local, constitutional (affecting the whole body) and metastatic (caused by spread to other organs).Some important symptoms of colorectal cancer are:
- disorders in the function of colon(large intestines) with this result there is a constipation and diarrhea without any indication
When you think of heart disease in men, usually people think of coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries leading to the heart), but coronary artery disease is just one type of heart disease.Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men in the United States. Nine out of 10 heart disease patients have at least one risk factor. Several medical conditions and lifestyle choices can put men at a higher risk for heart disease, including:
High cholesterol
High blood pressure
Diabetes
Cigarette smoking
Overweight and obesity
Poor diet
Physical inactivity
Alcohol use
Cardiovascular disease includes a number of conditions affecting the structures or function of the heart. They can include:
Coronary artery disease
Heart valve disease
Abnormal heart rhythms or arrythmias
heart failure
Congenital heart disease
Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy)
Pericardial disease
Aorta disease and Marfan syndrome
Vascular disease (blood vessel disease)
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD): Coronary artery disease (CAD) is atherosclerosis, or hardening, of the arteries that provide vital oxygen and nutrients to the heart.
Arrythmias:The heart is an amazing organ. It beats in a steady, even rhythm, about 60 to 100 times each minute (that's about 100,000 times each day!). But, sometimes your heart gets out of rhythm. An irregular or abnormal heartbeat is called an arrhythmia. An arrhythmia (also called a dysrhythmia) can involve a change in the rhythm, producing an uneven heartbeat, or a change in the rate, causing a very slow or very fast heartbeat.
Heart Failure : The term "heart failure" can be frightening. It does not mean the heart has "failed" or stopped working. It means the heart does not pump as well as it should. Heart failure is a major health problem in the U.S., affecting nearly 5 million Americans. About 550,000 people are diagnosed with heart failure each year. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65.
Heart Valve Disease : Your heart valves lie at the exit of each of your four heart chambers and maintain one-way blood-flow through your heart. Examples of heart valve disease include mitral valve prolapse, aortic stenosis, and mitral valve insufficiency.
Congenital Heart Disease : Congenital heart disease is a type of defect in one or more structures of the heart or blood vessels that occur before birth. It affects about 8 out of every 1,000 children. Congenital heart defects may produce symptoms at birth, during childhood, and sometimes not until adulthood. In most cases scientists don't know why they occur. Heredity may play a role as well as exposure to the fetus during pregnancy to certain viral infections, alcohol, or drugs.
Cardiomyopathy or Enlarged Heart: Cardiomyopathies, also called an enlarged heart, are diseases of the heart muscle itself. People with cardiomyopathies have hearts that are abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened. As a result, the heart's ability to pump blood is weakened. Without treatment, cardiomyopathies worsen over time and often lead to heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.
New life begins when an ovum from a woman is fertilized by sperm from a man. Around 20 million sperm per milliliter (ml) need to be present in the ejaculate, with enough mobility and strength to swim the journey to the fallopian tube, where conception normally takes place. The odds of a young fertile couple conceiving by having sexual intercourse around the time of ovulation are approximately one in five every month. A couple isn’t suspected of fertility problems until they have tried, and failed, to conceive for one year. Approximately 20 per cent of couples experience difficulties. In most cases, the couple can be helped with assisted reproductive technologies. Around 40 per cent of fertility problems originate in the man. Male fertility problems include poor quality sperm or blockages in the tubes of the reproductive system.
Joint and bone health issues are also common problems for men in which past sports injuries and wear and tear can lead to osteoarthritis. As we age, our connective tissue is not able to repair itself as efficiently as when we were younger. Additional nutrition is often necessary to promote cartilage healing and prevent further breakdown of joint tissue associated with osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis affects over 12 percent of the U.S. population (over 16 million Americans) and is the second-leading cause of work-related disability in men over 50 years of age.
Although many men do not think about osteoporosis, it, too, is a major concern for men as they age. Although women have bone health risks related to changes in hormone levels, as many as one-sixth of all men will fracture a hip during their lifetime. Adequate intake of bone health promoting minerals such as calcium (minimum 1,000 mg/day), magnesium (minimum 500 mg/day), and manganese in combination with vitamins D and K are effective in maintaining optimal bone health.
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