Men’s Health Blog

One unspoken truth about terminating human life in the womb is that not only does an abortion (or pill) kill a living person and physically and/or psychologically hurt the mother, the death often affects the would-be father’s in negative ways.  Here’s some info found at the Abortion Recovery CARE Directory.

In an online study of post-abortion men, we have found that men may be so traumatized by the abortion that they experience symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These symptoms include those of hyper-arousal, re-experiencing the traumatic event, and avoidance of reminders of the abortion.

Little research has been published concerning the effects of abortion on men but there are some common findings among those studies. These commonalities are as follows:

• Men tend to suppress their own emotions when they learn that their partners are unexpectedly pregnant, when the abortion decision is being made, and after the abortion is performed.1,2,3
• Men have stated that they believe this is what they should do in order to support their partners. While this may seem to be the right thing to do at the time, negative feelings will eventually have to be dealt with one way or another.
• Relationships are stressed by abortion. Reports of relationship failure following abortion have varied from 25% to 70%.5
• Some men will withdraw from relationships, particularly intimate relationships with women. Others may become promiscuous and still others may experience sexual problems such as impotence.6
• Many relationships will suffer from a decrease in healthy communication.7
• Sadly, many couples never discuss the abortion.

• Another finding is that many men want counseling. 8,9,10
• Post-abortion men do not perceive abortion as an easy experience and, in fact, 72 to 75% of men disagreed that men involved with abortion have an easy time of it and that they have few “lingering or disturbing thoughts” about the abortion. 11,12
• Still another common finding among the studies referred to here is that, after abortion, men may experience intense and painful emotions including grief, anxiety, guilt, helplessness, and anger. Their psychological pain may be acted out in substance abuse or other risk-taking behaviors. Negative emotions may progress to clinical depression, angry outbursts, or severe anxiety that impairs concentration. Men may also experience delayed grief reactions and be at risk for unresolved or complicated grief. 13

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Milking the prostate is a technique used for the prostate for sexual pleasure or massage medical treatment. If the prostate is stimulated, lead to a high level of sexual pleasure and orgasms powerful. In this article you learn how to properly enlarge prostate milking orgasm intensity and size of the problem of erection.

Getting Started

It is strongly recommended to involve your partner to help milking the prostate for maximum pleasure. Before the massage,empty bladder, urinary avoid later date. If your partner who has long nails that she trim. Alternatively, you can use a latex glove to serve as a barrier to prevent complaints on the prostate. Next, see an adult film together and make you feel relaxed and excited.

Outdoor milking prostate

Your prostate is stimulated externally and internally. Prostate milking involves stimulating the external perineum. The dam is a small diamond-like on the ground betweenSensitive testicles and anus with nerve dysfunction.

Here's how milking outside: Tell your partner massage the buttocks with lubricants warming. Then gently rub the perineum moving slow and steady.

Internal milking the prostate

Have your partner move with your fingers in your anus. When you exhale, slide your finger to see the prostate. This is a bean, as a knot of about 2 inches from the base of the penis, which is yourProstate. Then, you remove the prostate with fingers gently curved, reaching orgasm.

Tip: if you do your work, try to squeeze the PC muscle as if you were to do Kegel exercises. It increases exponentially the feeling.

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PROSTABLOG NZ: The ideological debate about prostate cancer screening hasn’t moved along much in New Zealand over the past few years.

I’m judging this from an anecdote a guest speaker at my journalism course told students this week.

An experienced journalist, she said a few years ago she was writing a piece for NZ Listener magazine about PSA screening, and the Ministry of Health would speak to her only on the condition they got to see the resulting article prior to publication.

That usually causes journalists to feel apprehensive, and in this case her fears were realised.

The Ministry people hit the roof over what she wrote (basically, that all men over 50 should be urged to get PSA tests), and made this plain to her editor.

Judging by what I heard from the Ministry team at the Health Select Committee hearing into prostate cancer screening late last year, the official view is still the same: PSA bad.

Speaking of which – I wonder when we’re going to hear anything further from the committee?

Chairman Paul Hutchison made the MOH people promise to deliver their final views last November.

Did they?

Are there more hearings?

When will we see the results?

Well, guys, it is a fact of life that as we age, the prostate gland enlarges, resulting in urinary difficulties. Not exactly cheery news. The most common symptoms are “hesitant” and weak urinary fl ow, urgency or leaking, and more frequent trips to the john, especially at night. So much for a good night’s sleep!

This condition is known as Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH), which affects over half of men in their sixties. That figure grows to almost 90% for men in their seventies and eighties.(1) Clearly, a long life means you’ll probably be dealing with the annoyance of BPH.

A Natural Helper

Now, most people know that saw palmetto is a BIG help. But – they don’t know WHY.

Let me give you some insight.

The fruit of the plant was traditionally used by Native Americans as both a staple food and a medicine.(2, 3) Saw Palmetto is named for its sharp, saw-like leaves and it grows as a dense ground cover in pine forests from South Carolina down to Florida and across the southeast coastal plain to Louisiana.

The medicinal herbal extract is actually taken from the dried ripe berry of the saw palmetto plant. In fact, saw palmetto is now being grown commercially due to the popularity of using it for treatment for BPH in Europe. It is the number one initial treatment for BPH in Germany and Austria.(4) It is also used about 50% of the time for treatment in Italy.(5) No wonder thousands of tons of saw palmetto berries get shipped to Europe for use in herbal supplements.

And the Research Shows…

Sadly, Europe is way ahead of us in saw palmetto studies. One review of 18 placebo-controlled trials, involving 2,939 men, evaluated four types of urinary difficulty. Results showed the group using saw palmetto extract experienced the following improvements over the placebo group: 28% reduction in hesitancy, 25% reduction in nighttime urination, 28% improvement of urinary fl ow and 43% less urine remaining in the bladder after voiding.(6)

Another large, double-blind study (where neither doctor or patient knows what is being administered) of 1069 men compared saw palmetto against a prescription medication for six months. Symptom scores were very close. There was a 37% improvement in urinary symptoms with the saw palmetto and 39% with the drug. Quality of life scores were even better: 69% improvement with saw palmetto and 73% with the drug.(7)

So — How Does It Work?

The exact mechanism of how saw palmetto relieves BPH symptoms is still a matter of speculation. Research indicates that saw palmetto may block the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a more powerful form. Since it is known that men who do not produce DHT do not develop BPH, that may be a key factor. Saw palmetto may also have an anti-infl ammatory effect that relieves pressure on the urethra.(8, 9)

Is Saw Palmetto For You?

My focus continues to be on preventive medicine and natural treatments whenever possible, so I find the studies on saw palmetto to be fascinating and informative. With BPH affecting almost all men as they grow older, a natural, inexpensive herb that can improve uncomfortable urinary symptoms really adds value to everyday life.

That’s why, by popular demand, I’ve recently brought ProstaBlast back to our product line at Chesapeake Nutraceuticals. ProstaBlast contains a WHOPPING 1000 mg of saw palmetto in a soft gel tablet.

Of course you need to contact your health care provider before making any change to your diet, exercise or supplement program.

I’ll be back soon with more health news.
Source:

1. “Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia”, National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, NIH Publication No. 07–3012, June 2006
2. “Saw Palmetto”, National Institutes of Health, NCCAM Publication No. D275
3. “Saw Palmetto”, University of Maryland Medical Center
4. “Saw Palmetto, Herb Treatment for Benign Enlargement of the Prostate Gland (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy)”, MedicineNet.com
5. Gordon Andrea E, M.D, Shaunessy, Alan F, PHARM.D., “Saw Palmetto for Prostate Disorders”, American Family Physician, March 15, 2003
6. “Saw Palmetto, Herb Treatment for Benign Enlargement of the Prostate Gland (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy)”, MedicineNet.com
7. “Saw Palmetto, Herb Treatment for Benign Enlargement of the Prostate Gland (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy)”, MedicineNet.com
8. “Saw Palmetto, Herb Treatment for Benign Enlargement of the Prostate Gland (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy)”, MedicineNet.com
9. “Prostate Enlargement: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia”, National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, NIH Publication No.
   07–3012, June 2006

ESPN -What can you say about them? Besides the fact that they are a beast at reporting sports news. While they may be great at what they do, they still encounter some controversies. Erin Andrews and Hannah Storm to name a few. It has been said that ESPN has a Bat Phone… so when Brian Westbrook, formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles, was on the Bat Phone they jumped at the opportunity to interview him live on air. Since he was released on Tuesday from his 8 year run with the franchise it would have been an exclusive. BIG DEAL. HUGE DEAL. REPORTING GOLD!!! Then this happened…

Scott Van Pelt didn’t seem very happy. I have to say I think they handled themselves pretty well after realizing on air that the man on the other end of the phone was not Brian Westbrook, but someone from the Howard Stern camp.

(This is the first in a series of posts to give more context. In so doing, this one does review a few details from the first post; you don’t need to worry about that happening often. If you’re interested only in current posts, skip over any post with a title beginning with “Backstory x…”)

December 2003
My primary care physician includes a PSA in some otherwise routine bloodwork.

January 2004
He has me come in for a F2F consult on the results — unusual. Typically he mails out a copy. He says the PSA of 18 is unusual, especially since I’m only 47; routine PSA’s typically begin at age 50. He points out that it could be any number of things — and he wants me to see a urologist. Quickly.

February 2004
The urologist tells me that the high PSA and what he feels via physical exam could indicate a fairly common infection or some other relatively innocuous condition. Still, he wanted me to get a bone scan, CT scan, and eventually fMRI. When the assistant found the next regular opening late in March and yet pushed to schedule me for the next Monday, February 16, I realized he evidently didn’t consider this routine.

He couldn’t perform a biopsy that day because I’d had aspirin recently. We scheduled it for the next viable date, eleven days later.

As the associate doctor finishes up said biopsy, he matter-of-factly says (while facing the wall and writing) that the tumor has advanced into the pelvis. I have advanced prostate cancer, the single most common form of solid tumor among human beings.

Hmf. I don’t appreciate being dismissed as “common.” If I must have cancer, I’d prefer something a little more unique.

(Hint on bedside manner, doc: If you’re going to tell someone really unpleasant news, maybe it’s a good idea to stop writing, or at the very least, turn and face the patient.)

Statistically, from the moment I heard this, another American man heard the same diagnosis 2.6 minutes earlier; another man would hear the same diagnosis 2.6 minutes later. Every 13 minutes a man dies from this cancer—over 31,000 American men each year, and 190,000 will survive.

Here’s a rare case of where I set aside my nonconformist streak and hope to go with the majority.

Soon I meet with a medical oncologist. Given all circumstances, indications, and contraindications, we begin with a series of hormone treatments. On the first day of those, I email a friend: “Been an hour since the first pill and I don’t feel any differe&nb bs8 but I ws-0091*7~”[av90 ¡ @897 -aaarc zxcp*

The hormones do begin to tame the tumor. I asked point blank about the expected impact on my lifespan. I think I recall correctly that one doctor early on said that the unusual emergence of such an aggressive tumor at a relatively young age, already metastasized, will probably reduce my expected lifespan by maybe ten years or so. OK, no immediate crisis. But it must have been my medical oncologist who said more precisely and more likely, three to five years.

Not five to one, girl, one to five, but three to five, and still the rest of the verse rings true. I just happen to have a little bit more focused preview of my likely timetable. If I fall within the middle of the bell curve, as, by definition, most people DO, and if I continue surviving my daily commute of 13 miles, an hour or so each way, this will probably add me to the statistics somewhere in 2007, 2008, or, if I’m lucky, early 2009. Still nothing to justify maxing out my credit, but maybe I should re-evaluate the mortgage . . .

As I get on the the train to go home, I mull this over. (Well, duh, did I expect to focus on reading Dilbert?) I look around at all the people around me. No one in this car has any idea I’ve just heard my de facto death sentence; if they did know, I’d like to know why, but that’s another issue. I look just like anyone else, except with the usual less organized hair. So I wonder likewise: What’s that lady dealing with? What’s his worry? What has this person learned in the last week or two? What medical, emotional, or social disease has that person contracted without knowing it? Who’s on first? What’s on second? Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

This puts the world into a fresh perspective. One never knows what another may be facing.

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