Putting Men's Health First
The hotly contested debate about free will may have been raging in the philosophical community since before the days of Ancient Greece, but it’s made little headway in affecting the perspectives of modern society – we humans simply love to point fingers. And in a culture which is growing increasingly health obsessed, this proclivity often … Continued
With any luck we will all get “old”, some older than others, “oldest old” – 80 plus. Our physiological processes become increasingly ineffectual from our early fifties onwards. The speed of onset of senescence is notably variable: the fitter, the slower the decline, and that counts for both mind and matter. The old adage “use … Continued
Is male sperm in trouble? At first glance the statistics certainly seem alarming – sperm counts among men in the west have dropped by more than 50% in the past 40 years, and are currently declining at an average of 1.4% every year. [1] Could we be facing the twilight of the swimmers? … Continued
Simon Fraser Campbell (1941- ) was awarded a knighthood in the 2015 New Year’s Honours List for services to chemistry. Unless you happen to be a medicinal chemist, you might not have noticed, but this is the man who discovered the major breakthrough drugs Istin amlodipine and Cardura doxazosin for the treatment of … Continued
The BMI is one of the oldest and most pervasive measures of a healthy weight. Devised by a Belgian statistician back in the 1830s [1], it’s one of the methods the NHS uses to determine who qualifies for gastric band surgery [2], the guideline used by GPs to determine weight-related risk factors and a number … Continued
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – or so the saying goes. But could the same be true of masturbation? You may have seen the salacious headlines already. ‘Masturbation is good for you…preventing cancer and diabetes’, the Sun, rather prematurely, announced. ‘Men urged to masturbate 21 times a month to lower prostate cancer … Continued
‘A man who loves fully is prepared to die at any time,’ according to Mark Twain. But if, like us, you don’t plan on putting Twain’s sentiment into practice anytime soon, you’ll probably want to be aware of the most significant barriers between you and a ripe old age. The Wellman Clinic have dug into … Continued
When it comes to doing exercise, people fall into three main categories. There are the naturally sporty folk who leap out of bed at 5:30am, grabbing a light, healthy bite to eat before heading off for a morning jog, climbing wall adventure or similar wholesome activity, arriving at work fresh-faced and wet haired, 30 minutes … Continued
First there was Dry January, then Stoptober began setting its sights on drinking as well as smoking – it seems that these days there’s no end to the amount of inventive new buzzwords and trendy campaigns designed to make us think twice about the amount of alcohol we’re drinking. The UK’s alcohol consumption has in … Continued
With new fad diets popping up more regularly than work emails when you’re on holiday, it seems that everyone is watching their weight – and usually ours too, whether we asked them to or not. It can feel like we’re at risk of developing a killjoy obsession with the scales, but is this fixation justified? … Continued