Groin pain and swelling could be a red flag for men and potentially indicate many different conditions. It is important to know what these conditions are since they can range from kidney stones to cancers, and to be able to identify when something is wrong. Not only can this be worrisome to any man experiencing...Continue reading
Category: Stress
Effects of Stress on Your Health
You’ve heard the adage before: “manage your stress or your stress will manage you.” As it turns out, this is no wives tale; there is more truth behind this saying than you might realize. Perhaps the most shocking fact about stress is that it affects your body systemically, not just in one area. This stress...Continue reading
You Woman, Me Man
It happened again today. A delighted couple called to say that they just conceived their miracle baby. “What, an immaculate conception?” you ask. No, but close. After 3 failed rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), they threw in the towel, went home and…bang, got pregnant the next month in the privacy of their own sofa...Continue reading
Put Down The Kettlebell, Pick Up A Dirt Bike
The list of high-intensity activities that some men subjugate themselves to in order to burn off calories reads like a list from the Spanish Inquisition. Spinning, rowing, and Pilates all may help you to lose weight, but if you’re going to these gym sessions after eating raw kale and beet juice, you may be wondering...Continue reading
How The Economy Impacts Our Health
Stress can damage your immune system, making your more susceptible to getting sick. It increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. And it can make people abuse drugs and alcohol, which in turn does all sorts of damage to the body—not to mention the damage that’s done to others when stressed out people cause...Continue reading
Psoriasis Linked to Diabetes: Risk is Highest with Severe Psoriasis; Men Need to Be Screened for Diabetes
November is National Diabetes Month and the roughly 3.75 million men in the U.S. with psoriasis—the most common autoimmune disease in the country, affecting roughly 7.5 million Americans—are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Living with Prostate Cancer: It’s Complicated
I guess it’s part of the male provider-protector thing: A recent survey found that men with advanced prostate cancer worry more about burdening their family and friends than about dying. That’s only one surprising fact from a fascinating and sometimes puzzling survey called The Advanced Prostate Cancer Patient and Caregiver Burden of Illness Study.Continue reading
5 Unhealthy Ways Men Deal with Rejection
Rejections are the emotional cuts and scrapes of daily life. We get turned down by romantic partners, our colleagues get together without inviting us, our spouses rebuff our sexual advances, our neighbors don’t invite us to their holiday parties, and our friends ignore our posts and Tweets on social media platforms.
Be a Dad First, Then a Friend
MHN advisor and syndicated columnist, Armin Brott, recently heard from a single dad who’s having some trouble with his relationship with his 13-year-old daughter. The problem is that the dad’s relationship with his daughter has been more as friends than as father-daughter. He feels guilty about the long hours he works and about not providing...Continue reading
It’s All in Your Mind. Well, at Least Some of It
Those of us who work in the health field have long been aware of the connection between mind and body and that your mental health can have a big influence on your physical heath. But there’s been very little research has explored the degree to which mental health issues affect men and women differently. A...Continue reading