Osteoporosis is usually thought of as a “woman’s disease” but according to an article in USA Today approximately one in five men are affected by it, too (Your Health).
Osteoporosis is another name for bone density loss. It is estimated that one half of all women will suffer bone loss of the period of a life time. While osteoporosis can be deadly in women it is also dangerous for men.
“Six percent of all men over 50 are destined to break a hip, says the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. And studies show that when they do, they are more likely than women to die or require long-term care.” (Ibid.)
What Causes Osteoporosis?
The causes of osteoporosis are believed to be lowered hormones of estrogen and testosterone in both women and men, along with nutritional and dietary factors.
According to the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements, “Some evidence suggests that magnesium deficiency may be an additional risk factor for postmenopausal osteoporosis. This may be due to the fact that magnesium alters calcium metabolism and the hormones that regulate calcium. Several human studies have suggested that magnesium supplementation may improve bone mineral density to a greater degree than a lower magnesium intake. Diets that provide recommended levels of magnesium are beneficial for bone health (Kelly’s World Famous).”
As Americans, our diets are insufficient. Our soil has been depleted by modern farming methods and so, even the best diet does not supply all the nutrients we need and the necessary trace minerals from the soil.
What are the costs of Osteoporosis?
The total annual medical bill for fractures due to osteoporosis is around “$30 billion” (Ibid.). This figure does not account for the costs of care for those who are permanently incapacitated. And, it is not possible to put a monetary figure on the cost of death caused as a result of osteoporosis.
What Should You Do?
To protect the health of the bones and health, in general, it is wise to avoid excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and the drinking of sodas. Pharmaceutical medications can damage the bones, as well.
Get plenty of exercise. Stronger muscles help support the bones and overall health.
Supplement your diet with a balance of magnesium, calcium and Vitamin D like Peter Gillham’s Osteo Calm. Magnesium is required for over 300 of the body’s biochemical processes. Without Magnesium, your body cannot convert Calcium and Vitamin D into bone tissue.
Reference:
“Your Health: Should Men Also Be Screened for Osteoporosis?” by Kim Painter, USA Today. July 26, 2010. Retrieved on August 11, 2010/ http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/painter/2010-07-26-yourhealth26_ST_N.htm
Kelly’s World Famous. http://www.allnaturalpainrelief.com. Retrieved on August 11, 2010. http://www.allnaturalpainrelief.com/product51.html
Watch the video related to men health
Introduction – Vox-pops from the case studies. Dr. Ivan Walton, a Geriatrician and Consultant at Charing Cross Hospital, Medicine for the Elderly Department, describes what Osteoporosis is, what the symptoms are and, using X-rays, what an osteoporotic fracture looks like. Within the programme as a whole Dr. Walton also gives advice on how to prevent osteoporosis developing. Case Study 1 – Mavis had already developed osteoporosis when she suffered a terrible fall, crushing three vertebrae in her spine. Case Study 2 – Our second case study, Joanna, has also already developed Osteoporosis but is strengthening her muscles as much as possible. Case Study 3 – Suzannah Olivier is a nutritionist who works a lot with osteoporosis and preventative health. Case Study 4 – The fourth programme item also focuses on the importance of nutrition.
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Treatment of urethral warts is aimed at inducing a wart-free state and reducing the amount of infectious virus present.
Medical treatment is useful for urethral warts located at accessible sites. Podophyllin resin, an antimitotic plant compound (10-25% solution in ethanol or tincture of benzoin), is applied with a cotton-tipped swab, allowed to dry, and washed off completely after 1-4 hours. Applications may be administered once or twice weekly for as many as 6 weeks. Do not treat pregnant patients with podophyllin.
Podofilox 0.5% solution or gel (purified from podophyllin resin) has a stable shelf life, need not be washed off after use, and is less likely to cause systemic toxicity. Podofilox has not been approved for urethral, rectal, perianal, vaginal, or cervical warts.
Imiquimod 5% cream stimulates the production of interferon and other cytokines and is topically applied 3 times a week for as many as 16 weeks. The treated area is washed 6-10 hours after application of the cream. Imiquimod has not been approved for urethral, rectal, perianal, vaginal, or cervical warts.
Trichloroacetic acid or bichloracetic acid in 80% or 90% solution may be used to treat small moist lesions. The solution is carefully applied to the lesion, avoiding normal tissue, and should be thoroughly washed off in 1-2 hours. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) may be applied to the uninvolved surrounding epithelium to remove excess acid.
Cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen and solid carbon dioxide may be suitable for superficial lesions. For each treatment, 1-6 freeze-thaw cycles per wart may be needed. Intraurethral lesions may be difficult to treat.
Applied weekly for 3 weeks, 5-fluorouracil may eradicate urethral lesions. The cream must be worked down into the urethra, avoiding exposure to the scrotal skin. A scrotal support or zinc oxide cream may be useful in this regard. Used as a solution (500 mg in 50 mL normal saline), 5- fluorouracil has also been effective in treating advanced urethral lesions.
Intralesional interferon alfa-2b has some activity against condyloma and may be used for extensive and recalcitrant lesions.
Reports have shown greater efficacy with combination therapies, using intralesional interferon alfa or topical 5-fluorouracil in conjunction with ablative carbon dioxide or Nd:YAG laser therapy. This reduces the rate of recurrence and is effective in treating recalcitrant lesions.
The recent trend toward cost-effective therapies has resulted in a general move toward patient-applied therapies after initial assessment and screening.15 Compared to provider-applied treatments, which include all of the above, there are currently patient-applied therapy options available: podophyllotoxin and imiquimod. Podophyllotoxin has better efficacy (clearance rates of 68-88% and recurrence rates of 16-34%) than imiquimod (clearance of 40-77% and recurrence of 13-19%). A recent study comparing these home-based treatments seemed to show similar costs.
For warts at the meatus or fossa navicularis, topical 5-ALA photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT) has been recently shown to be effective, with a complete response rate of 95% after a follow-up of 6-24 months.16 ALA-PDT also appears to compare favorably to carbon dioxide laser treatments for topical therapy, with lower recurrence.
Surgery:
Circumcision serves to remove preputial lesions and provides exposure for treatment of urethral meatal warts and subsequent monitoring.
Surgical laser therapy with both carbon dioxide and Nd:YAG lasers has been successful in treating condylomata. An Nd:YAG laser at 15 W power can be applied to the lesion, and a circumferential area of 0.5-1 cm provides excellent control and better tissue penetration than the carbon dioxide laser set at 5 W. Careful follow-up care is required because of the risk of recurrence. For intraurethral lesions, the Nd:YAG laser can be transmitted through a cystoscope, while the carbon dioxide laser is unsuitable because it is directed along a system of mirrors and cannot be used in a liquid medium, precluding its use with a cystoscope.
Better identification of intraurethral lesions with prior application of 5-ALA and subsequent fluorescent diagnostics improves treatment efficacy by appropriately directed Nd:YAG laser therapy, thus reducing the incidence of recurrences.
Transurethral resection of lesions using electrocautery loops (as used for prostatic resections) can be performed for lesions in the prostatic urethra or for solitary lesions in the wider regions of the anterior urethra. The risk of urethral stricture precludes this method in widespread disease of the urethra. The use of a plastic quill as a shield during diathermy destruction of meatal warts minimizes the risk of circumferential thermal injuries and resultant strictures.
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Good work!
Around 85%+ have been exposed to HPV, males and females. So, obviously it doesn't automatically lead to cancer. It's VERY common and it RARELY leads to cancer, if at all. The old myth of anti perspirants causing breast cancer, years ago, because the majority of women with breast cancer were found to have the ingredient (don't know tech term), in their lymph nodes, or whatever…has been disproved. So, years from now, this HPV thing may end up the same way. Of course, most people with certain cancers have tested positive for the virus, because MOST of us have the virus and the other cancers…well, they've not been tested for HPV.. The vaccine can't prevent it from happening if it's "caused" by some other factor…
Neither was the aluminum in the anti perspirant and breast cancer…most women wear it, so the one's who got breast cancer tested positive. Most people, BOTH sexes, have HPV exposure and so on…
I'm not flipping around here.. I have 2 daughters and never would have given cancer a thought if I hadn't ended up with cancer myself. After all my searching, I advised them to not get the vaccine and always get their annual pap. Even brain cancer is rumored to be caused by CMV, but I guess you know that also. But since brain cancer isn't as prevalent has some other cancers, it doesn't seem important enough to test further. As almost 100% of people have also been exposed to CMV, wouldn't it just seem to be a given that they would test positive for it if they had brain cancer and they had bothered testing further?? I had brain cancer and at my year recheck, it was casually mentioned to me by a dr other than my neurosurgeon. He didn't even acknowledge what she said to me.
@id0stuff o i see. well keep up the good work.
No there is no test or vaccine yet to detect/prevent HPV in men.
Most men are unaware they HPV because, like you said, most people don't show any sings or symptoms. Most men find out they have HPV by developing genital warts, but not everyone with HPV will develop genital warts. And, it can take several months and even years to develop them after a person has been infected. So, a man can go years or even a lifetime without realizing he has HPV and may have possibly spread it to others through sex.
There are study trials currently being done to see how effective the Gardasil might be for preventing HPV in men, but so far the vaccine is only approved for young woman.
Take care!
@id0stuff .. Ok then .. but get all the colthes and mess out the way when you film . maybe you should try outside or garage or something..lol
I am a woman who was diagnosed with hpv in 2005. In doing my research regarding it, I found out there is no way for doctors to detect hpv in men and that men are the primary carriers of hpv. It is easily transmittted from male to female and it can also lay dormant in the body for a while before being detected. The most common signs of hpv is warts in the genital area. When I was diagnosed the doctors pour a vinager solution on my skin to determine if i had it or not and i did. If you would like to research hpv the best place to look is http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/std-fact-hpv-and-men.htm#test. Good Luck.
Hey man, thanks for the link for the sound track and listing your workout. Good work. Keep it up.
why do you have a sledge hammer in the background?
HPV goes away on its own for most people. Their bodies are basically able to "fight it off". Some people however will have it their entire life because there is no cure.
Since there is currently no test for men to detect HPV, it's basically impossible for them to know if they have gotten rid of the virus or not. They might not show any signs or symptoms (that's VERY common with HPV), but they might still have the virus.
It's possible to get rid of genital warts caused by HPV by using medication or having them removed. But, just because the warts are gone, doesn't mean the virus necessarily is.
im going to try this out,
They don't know. It's just us women who have the burden of HPV.
My gynecologic oncologist told me she thought that at least 90% of men have it. She said practically everyone gets it just as soon as they start having sex.
There is no FDA approved testing for HPV in men. Often men with HPV don't have any symptoms and so diagnosing HPV in men is difficult. Since there is no treatment for asymptomatic HPV, most men are not treated. It is possible for men to think they have no symptoms when they actually do. Sometimes a doctor can see small warts that have gone unnoticed, particularly if they are right inside the opening of the penis. A vinegar wash is sometimes done, the vinegar solution causes infected areas to whiten, which makes them more visible. There is an vaccine for HPV that should be coming come out next year. While it cannot cure an infection, it can prevent people who have not previously been infected from getting the virus.
@Reignunlimited what are you talking about, it’s so clean here, it can get way worse as you can see in this video /watch?v=d2zZXSPG73Q
@iiMoNST3RHD i use it for cardio like tire hammering, or I use it as a replacement for a maceball
HPV testing is not available clinically. However in research settings (big medical research studies and so forth), they can test for HPV in men and do strain typing by obtaining "penile scrapings" (that's the term they use in medical literature) from genital skin.
Can *your* doctor do this? NO. HPV testing is too expensive and difficult and doesn't offer enough benefit to offer on a widespread scale.
Lastly, men are affected by HPV, too. It's not just risky because of cervical cancer. HPV causes genital warts in both geners. In men, HPV can cause penile and urethral cancers, and anorectal cancers in men who receive anal sex. Studies have also linked HPV to oral and pharyngeal cancers in people who perform oral sex.
Respect!
Are you going to a gym/ fitness studio? Or train you only at home?