For Eric Dunlap, the diagnosis began with a throbbing pain in his upper chest during an intense home workout. It was 2000, and Dunlap, then 34, was beginning to settle into the American Dream just outside of Atlanta. He was a few years into a marriage with his college sweetheart, and was the father of...
Scientists have found that moderate beer drinking is associated with a number of very positive health outcomes. But the key word here is moderate, which we’re defining as one or two beers per day for men and one for women. Much more than that and you’ll increase your risk of developing the same conditions that...Continue reading
Most of us know that heart disease and cancer are among the biggest killers in the United States. They’re actually numbers one and two, having caused 614,000 and 591,000 deaths, respectively, in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But the third leading killer, which takes the lives of about 250,000...
There has been a rise in the flourishing and enthusiastic trend of experimenting with fermentation to enhance flavors and create healthier and more sustainable foods. Of course, fermentation is by no means a recent technique. It is ancient and there is evidence from the Neolithic period that suggests that there was intentional fermentation of fruit,...Continue reading
Osteoporosis – a disease which causes bones to become weak and brittle – causes more than 8.9 million fractures annually. That’s an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds. Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women worldwide – approximately one-tenth of women aged 60, one-fifth of women aged 70, two-fifths of women aged 80 and two-thirds of women aged 90....
In continuing recognition of May as Melanoma Skin Cancer Awareness Month, here’s another excerpt from David Stanley’s new book, Melanoma: It Started with a Freckle. From Chapter 5 I was not ready for the scene I saw when Cath and I got off the elevator for the Multidisciplinary Melanoma Clinic in Ann Arbor. These people...Continue reading
Melanoma stands alone among the six most common cancers. It is the only cancer whose incidence, since the turn of the century, is on the rise. In the US alone, someone dies from melanoma every 52 minutes. The likelihood that one of those deaths will be a man? About 65%. In David L. Stanley’s new...Continue reading
Let’s talk for a moment about life cycles. Companies have them, markets have them, and products have them. The trajectories for many product life cycles generally progress through well-defined stages: Introduction, growth, maturity and decline. I dare say that as boys become men, their health care shows a remarkably similar curve. Men’s Health Lifecycle Don’t...Continue reading
People have been searching for a miracle drug–a single compound that could cure all that ails us–for hundreds of years. And the search hasn’t been terribly successful. But over the past decade or so, science may have gotten as close as it ever has to that ever-elusive miracle drug. Best of all, it’s either free...Continue reading
There are five key symptoms men need to stay vigilant for as they live their day-to-day lives. In some cases, they could be signs of cancer. Catching and treating the signs early might be critical for your long-term health outlook.