Men also need to maintain their health, which includes good living habits, reasonable diet, healthy psychological quality and appropriate physical exercise. It is the foundation for maintaining good health. Nowadays, some men have more or less problems in these aspects, which directly or indirectly affect their lives and health. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand the factors that affect men's health.
- Lifestyle Factors
These factors mainly manifest as irregular sleeping and waking hours, irregular lifestyles, overwork and excessive relaxation. Disorders in daily life, such as living by day as night and night as day, can disrupt the normal operation of Yin and Yang qi and blood in men, thus affecting their physical health.
Sleep is crucial for good health. Many men cannot ensure adequate sleep time. Some even like to "work at night" and over time, this disrupts the circadian rhythm of the human body, affecting their health. Long hours of work, lack of sleep, excessive stress, and limited exercise have become a common lifestyle for many middle-aged men. This leaves them in a state of excessive fatigue, both mentally and physically, significantly increasing their risk of developing diseases such as gastric disease, cervical spondylosis, osteoporosis, trace element deficiency, fatty liver, hypertension, and myocardial infarction. For men, moderate labor is not only a necessity for life, but also essential for maintaining the balance of Yin and Yang in the body. If one excessively pursues ease and comfort, lacks physical labor, sleeps in bed for a long time, and is a "morning lark," they often feel more tired after sleeping due to "prolonged lying causing damage to Qi." However, excessive fatigue can lead to "labor exhausting Qi," resulting in fatigue, poor spirit, and even illness.
- Diet and hobby factors
Improper diet and unpredictable hunger and fullness, especially overeating, are more common among men nowadays.
Regardless of preferences, having a preference for or dislike of certain foods can lead to an imbalance in the ratio of various nutrients in the body, which can easily lead to diseases such as excessive consumption of spicy, fried, and greasy foods, which can lead to endogenous dampness and heat, which can affect male sexual function or cause prostatitis.
Smoking and drinking have a significant impact on health. When "smoking and drinking", more than 70 kinds of harmful substances are inhaled unconsciously from cigarettes, which can cause serious damage to the nervous system, cardiovascular system, digestive system, etc. Long-term excessive drinking can lead to alcoholic cirrhosis, myocardial disease, encephalopathy, central nervous system damage, hematopoietic dysfunction, pancreatitis, gastritis and ulcer disease, etc., and the risk of laryngeal cancer and digestive tract cancer increases significantly.
- Mental and Psychological Factors
The pressure of fierce social competition has forced many middle-aged men to work hard and overwork for long periods of time, with their minds constantly in a state of tension, depression, pessimism, and anxiety. As a result, the cortex of the brain and the neural and endocrine functions of the entire body become imbalanced, leading to mental and psychological diseases. This can also affect the spermatogenesis and sexual function of the testicles, increasing the possibility of infertility and sexual dysfunction.
- Sexual factors
For men, sex life is not only necessary, but also not excessive. Research has found that regular sex life is not only beneficial to the harmony of the couple relationship, but also beneficial to the health of both men and women. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that excessive and unrestrained sexual life will inevitably consume kidney essence, exhaust qi and hurt spirit, often causing male symptoms such as slow thinking, lack of eyesight, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, forgetfulness and fatigue, and even symptoms such as impotence, premature ejaculation, semen emission, sperm discharge, and decreased sexual desire. Modern research believes that excessive sex life will lead to a large amount of energy consumption and weakening of organ function adaptability, thus reducing the regulatory function of the body's immune system.
- Lack of health awareness
Due to the role of androgens in the body, men often give people a strong feeling of physical appearance. They all feel very strong and have no health concerns in their mind. They believe that they have good resistance and that as long as they can eat, drink, and sleep, they are not sick. Even if they encounter some minor symptoms, they can still persist and get through it without paying attention to health care. This is a potential risk for future health. According to surveys, men visit the hospital less frequently than women after getting sick. A lack of awareness and knowledge of maintenance and methods is also one of the reasons affecting men's health.
- Environmental factors
The increasingly serious environmental pollution has greatly affected the health of modern humans. The discharge of large amounts of pollutants has greatly exceeded the concentration of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and copper in water and soil, and these heavy metals have reproductive toxicity, which can damage the quality of male sperm and cause a decline in fertility.
Food pollution, various additives, hormones, and residual pesticides in food can affect the balance of the human endocrine system, accumulate to a certain concentration, and damage the functions of internal organs.
The excessive discharge of harmful gases, factory emissions, and vehicle exhaust causes an increase in the concentration of harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, directly damaging the respiratory system.
Environmental factors such as electromagnetic radiation and noise also have different levels of impact on human physiological functions.
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