Health issues are those problems afflicting one’s overall health while lowering the quality of life. These factors differ between men and women, with men being more predisposed to specific ailments. Men tend to lead riskier lives, work in unhealthy conditions, and handle highly toxic materials. They also operate hazardous equipment. These situations expose them to specific ailments. Still, there are some issues affecting men’s health that are not well publicized. Here are five things you didn’t know about men’s health issues.
- Men, in general, have a shorter life span than women
Did you know that men, in general, die faster than women? That seems to be the case all around the world across all races, ethnicities, and cultures.
If we are talking about the general collective, men die an average of 5 years earlier than females. You may be thinking it is because men are more daring and so they get themselves into trouble more than women.
While that is also true, there has been concrete evidence that health itself plays a great role in determining this reality.
First off, the male immune system is less active than its female counterpart, making males highly vulnerable to dying from even common infections.
Meanwhile, there’s also a cultural thing in which men are required to act tough, so, they don’t easily nor quickly seek medical help when they are in pain.
When they finally get examined, often it’s already too late.
- Men are actually so self-conscious about their penis size
Yes, many men are preoccupied with thoughts circulating their penis size. How is this relating to health itself? Well, this is relating to health itself on the mental scale.
Sometimes, men get so caught up in worries about their penis size that they’d do anything in their power (and resources) to improve their penis size.
This could lead to behaviours that aren’t very healthy per se. Men could fall for male enhancement products whilst not having plenty of information about the correct products to buy, or even the correct ways of using such products.
That alone could lead to many health problems both internally and externally. Even a common product such as male enhancement pills carry health risks and there are traction tools that could simply injure the penis—permanently.
Worries about penis size could also lead to many mental health issues concerning stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem.
- Cardiovascular diseases are old men’s main enemy
When it comes to male vitality, cardiovascular diseases seem to be man’s mortal enemy as he enters into middle age.
Cardiovascular diseases involve many types of ailments that affect the heart, heartbeat, and are often linked to sexual performance as well.
Cardiovascular diseases are common in middle-aged men because of lifestyle habits that may have been developed when they were much younger.
Recent studies have linked sexual issues like erectile dysfunction with cardiovascular diseases that make men unable to get or maintain an erection.
This, in fact, is partly why erectile dysfunction is common in older men. It isn’t to say that erectile dysfunction itself will afflict a man once he’s old, but that his heart is failing his penis.
Beyond sexual functions, cardiovascular diseases can also lower the production of certain hormones and may even be life-threatening. Heart attack is still the world’s top men killer.
- Stress and anxiety contribute a lot to men’s health issues
If you think men’s health issues are only related to hormones and injuries, think again. Before hormonal imbalances wreak havoc in your system it is your moods that affect the way hormones are produced.
Mental struggles like daily stress, anxiety, and even depression all have an effect on how your body copes.
For instance, when you are naturally preoccupied with a lot of work and that causes you to be stressed out, your body also naturally produces more cortisol—a stress hormone—than testosterone.
This then also naturally reduces your ability to seek and enjoy sex. But cortisol is there in your body to help you quickly deal with whatever is causing you stress in the first place.
So, if you don’t deal with the stress and it remains part of you for a long time, this could have a bad effect on your health in the long term.
- Prostate cancer is a looming threat
Men have all heard about prostate cancer. Some men don’t really know what it is but just the name is scary enough. Well, the bad news is, prostate cancer is a looming threat for virtually all men.
Prostate cancer gets its name from the body part it attacks: the prostate gland. The prostate gland itself naturally grows in size as a man grows older and this is caused by cell multiplication that continually happens as you continue to live.
But this enlargement of the prostate gland is typically accelerated by an unhealthy lifestyle.
For example, excessive caffeine and alcohol intake can typically accelerate the increase of the prostate gland, as well as drinking too much water before going t bed.
With that said, certain good lifestyle habits can and do indeed prevent the fast enlargement of the prostate gland. Pelvic floor muscles exercises can also help in this case.
In conclusion, five things regarding men’s health and issues were discussed. We hope that these five things can increase your knowledge regarding men’s health and can lead you to make decisions for your improved health outcomes.
