An Overview of Factors Affecting Men's Health and Sub-health (Part 1)

**Factors Affecting Men's Health**

Health is the holistic unity of the body's internal and external environments. Anything that can affect the body's internal and external environments...

Environmental changes will all have some impact on health. Factors affecting men's health include...

In terms of external environment, there are internal and external factors; in terms of innate and acquired factors, there are innate endowment factors and acquired conditioning factors.

The factors differ; based on their nature, they can be further divided into psychological factors, biological factors, as well as external injuries and sexual exhaustion.

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Innate factors. The parents' constitution largely determines the newborn's health and even their lifelong well-being.

Health level. Generally speaking, if the parents are healthy, their children will have abundant endowments and strong bodies; if the parents are weak...

If a woman is frequently ill or has given birth at an older age, her children may have insufficient endowment, weak constitution, and be prone to illness, even hereditary diseases.

Congenital diseases. In addition, parental fatigue, weakness, or sexual activity while ill can also negatively impact male health.

Negative factors.

Social factors. Intense social competition leads to work stress and heavy mental burdens for men, resulting in mental...

There has been a significant increase in men suffering from various illnesses, including cardiovascular diseases, impotence, nocturnal emission, and low libido. This is largely due to men working away from home.

They have more opportunities, but often engage in high-risk work, thus becoming more likely to be victims of unfortunate events such as car accidents.

Animals. The AIDS epidemic, which now poses a serious threat globally, is also a clear example of how social factors affect men's health.

Emotional factors. Men often suffer from internal organ damage due to uncontrolled emotions, leading to hypertension, coronary heart disease, ulcers, and nervous disorders.

Hypoactive diseases, migraines, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, and cancer, among others. Modern medical research has found that...

When a man's cerebral cortex is functioning normally, his overall nervous and endocrine functions are stable, and his testes...

Their spermatogenesis and sexual function are normal; however, if they are in a state of prolonged depression, pessimism, or worry, their sperm production and sexual function will be significantly affected.

This can lead to dysfunction of the cerebral cortex and the entire nervous and endocrine systems, as well as impaired spermatogenesis and sexual function.

If problems occur, the likelihood of infertility may increase.

Climate factors. The six pathogenic factors (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire) and epidemic pathogens can all invade the body and cause illness.

Illnesses. For example, windy springs often cause rheumatism; hot summers often cause fever and heatstroke. In fact, certain geographical environments...

Environment can lead to certain climate changes; for example, the northwest is windy and cold, while the coastal areas of southern China are hot and humid.

The effects on health vary.

Dietary factors. After leaving the mother's body, the fetus relies on food to sustain life. The *Huangdi Neijing* states, "Those who obtain grains prosper."

The saying "Those who lose their grains perish" clearly illustrates that diet is a crucial guarantee for life and health. Dietary factors have a significant impact on men's health.

The effects are mainly manifested in the following aspects: ① Irregular eating habits, such as overeating and hunger, especially binge eating; ②

Dietary preferences can negatively impact health, especially excessive smoking and drinking; ③ Food preferences are not consistent with one's constitution.

It is advisable for some people to eat indiscriminately without understanding whether the properties of food are beneficial to them, leading to Yang deficiency.

People with low libido often consume cold or cooling foods, or those with low libido mistakenly consume foods that are detrimental to sexual function.

Lifestyle factors. Irregular sleep patterns, overwork, and excessive leisure can all have a significant impact on health.

Sleep is crucial for health, but many men spend their nights in karaoke bars, dance halls, and bowling, failing to ensure adequate sleep.

Sufficient sleep time, especially for those who like to "stay up all night" or "sleep in late," over time disrupts the body's biological balance.

The circadian rhythm of the clock affects health. Therefore, for the sake of your health, you must develop good lifestyle habits.

Sexual activity factors. Sexual activity is neither necessary nor excessive. Repression of sexual activity can negatively impact health.

Mental health is compromised when physiological and psychological imbalances occur, leading to illness; while excessive and unrestrained sexual activity can further damage mental health.

It will inevitably damage kidney essence, deplete qi, and harm the spirit. Modern immunology also believes that frequent sexual intercourse and repeated, intense systemic arousal...

Exertion inevitably leads to high energy consumption, weakens the adaptability of organ functions, and consequently impairs the body's immune system.

Decreased regulatory function. Clinically, men with kidney deficiency due to excessive sexual activity often experience slow thinking and other symptoms.

Symptoms include dull eyes, lower back and knee pain, dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, fatigue, impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, and susceptibility to colds. (Only...)

Moderate sexual activity is beneficial to physical and mental health.

**Sub-health**

**I. What is Sub-health?**

As living standards improve, people are paying more and more attention to their health. Facing increasingly fierce competition...

The social environment is changing; people's pace of life is accelerating, interpersonal relationships are becoming more complex, and psychological pressure is increasing.

Sub-health is undoubtedly a dark cloud hanging over modern people, especially urban dwellers, and more and more people are experiencing it.

Medical experts believe that sub-health is becoming a "disease of the century" threatening the world. More precisely, sub-health is a condition that...

A state of impaired physiological function that lies between health and disease. As early as the mid-1980s, abroad...

Numerous experts and later scholars have fully affirmed the existence of this state through extensive research.

The medical community refers to this as the third state, also known as the gray state. According to recent statistics from the WHO, the overall...

Approximately 70% of the world's population is in a sub-healthy state, which is most prevalent among middle-aged individuals.

The disease is also known as the "new century disease".

**II. Causes of Sub-health**

With the ever-accelerating pace of modern life and increasingly fierce competition, people are constantly in a state of...

Under excessive psychological pressure and overworked stress, coupled with smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise, and poor diet...

Unbalanced lifestyles and other unhealthy habits, along with environmental pollution such as noise and air pollution, are causing people to constantly overdraw their original resources.

Insufficient physical strength and energy lead to continuous damage to physical and mental health. In short, mental stress, lifestyle,

Environmental factors can all lead to sub-health. The main factors contributing to sub-health include psychological factors.

Each factor encompasses aspects such as psychology, society, environment, nutrition, labor, exercise, lifestyle and behavior, meteorology, and biology.

They all have specific content and are interconnected. In summary, there are the following specific reasons:

(1) Traffic congestion, housing shortage, and excessively small living and working spaces;

(2) Pollution from air, garbage, industry, noise and radiation seriously damages people's living environment;

(3) Overwork leads to physical and mental exhaustion, and one becomes a passive slave to money;

(4) People’s own shortcomings and regrets often become reasons for self-torture;

(5) Unhappy family life directly affects people's physical and mental health;

(6) In this era of rapid development, failing to keep up with the times, one has no choice but to...

They are under immense pressure and experience numerous internal conflicts.

(7) Interpersonal relationships become complicated due to various conflicts of interest, making it more difficult for everyone to establish and handle interpersonal relationships.

It has become more cautious and difficult;

(8) Mechanized and formalized life, work, and study occupy most of people's time, making people...

Emotional communication with others has relatively decreased;

(9) The increasing complexity and variability of social life have impacted the stability of people's love, marriage, and family life.

This brings more shocks, weakens people's emotional connections, and thus reduces their enthusiasm for emotional life.

confidence;

(10) The fragility of life diminishes people's passion for striving and progress at a deeper level; some even feel that...

Life is absurd and indifferent, and people don't cherish their health even more.

Sub-health is a transitional stage from health to disease; if it accumulates to a certain degree...

If the condition is not properly controlled, it may directly develop into a disease; conversely, if good prevention and control measures are taken in time at this stage...

Effective intervention and decisive action targeting the underlying causes of the disease, preventing it from occurring in the first place, will yield twice the result with half the effort.

Effective in preventing the occurrence of diseases.

**III. Manifestations of Sub-health**

In recent years, based on in-depth research into sub-health, relevant medical experts have defined this state as...

The main manifestations can be summarized into the following 30 types: mental tension, anxiety; loneliness, low self-esteem, worry and depression; and difficulty concentrating.

Distracted thinking; easily agitated; prone to unnecessary worries; declining memory; forgetting familiar faces; fading interests; sudden changes in desires.

Reduced energy; lethargy, low mood; feeling weak, eyes tired easily; decreased energy, sluggish movements; dizziness and headache.

Difficult to recover; dizziness and blurred vision after standing for a long time; weakness and lack of strength in the limbs; weight loss and physical weakness; difficult to recover.

Falling asleep is difficult, with vivid dreams and frequent awakenings; reluctance to get up in the morning and frequent daytime naps; localized numbness, cold hands and feet; excessive sweating in the palms and armpits, and dry mouth.

Dryness; low-grade fever, night sweats; intermittent lower back pain; white coating on the tongue, bad breath; mouth and tongue ulcers.

Recurrent episodes; loss of taste, poor appetite; acid reflux, belching, indigestion; loose stools or constipation, abdominal distension; easily...

Suffering from a cold, with cold sores on the lips; nasal congestion and runny nose, sore throat; shortness of breath and difficulty breathing; chest pain and tightness, and pressure in the heart area.

Symptoms include: palpitations, irregular heartbeat, tinnitus, hearing loss, and motion sickness.

Among the above 30 different clinical manifestations, after excluding diseases, it is generally believed that the presence of 6 of them indicates a diagnosis.

This can be preliminarily classified as a sub-healthy state.

Common sub-health conditions include: fatigue syndrome, depression syndrome, sleep disorder syndrome, and air conditioning syndrome.

Syndrome, high-rise building syndrome, metabolic disorder syndrome, bone loss syndrome, and head-down posture syndrome, etc. Fatigue syndrome.

Syndrome is a major cause of "death from overwork" and sudden death, and requires prompt treatment.

According to a global survey by the World Health Organization, only 5% of the world's population is truly healthy.

Only 20% of people are diagnosed with an illness by a doctor; the remaining 75% are in a transitional state between health and illness.

This sub-healthy state is actually a warning sign that if it is not taken seriously, diseases will follow.

By strengthening self-care and establishing a healthy lifestyle, one can recover from a sub-healthy state sooner.

The process of transitioning from sub-health to a healthy state is crucial. Research on sub-health will be an important part of life science research in this century.

It is a component.

Middle-aged people who bear heavy responsibilities for their careers and families should never underestimate sub-health conditions, otherwise they will soon...

Of these people, two-thirds will die from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, one-tenth will die from cancer, and one-fifth will die from smoking-related causes.

Only 1 in 10 people suffer from lung diseases, metabolic disorders such as diabetes, as well as overwork and accidents.

I hope he can enjoy his old age in peace.