Category: Men Health

Testosterone and Prostate Cancer: The Fear vs the Actual Evidence

There is a belief so deeply embedded in urology, primary care, and men’s health that millions of men have gone untreated for documented hypogonadism because of it: testosterone causes prostate cancer. It traces back to a 1941 study by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Charles Huggins, who demonstrated that castration removing testosterone production caused prostate cancer […]

What Is a Men’s Health Panel and What Should It Actually Include?

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: nearly 52% of men over 20 in the United States have high blood pressure and most of them don’t know it. Meanwhile, 15% of all adult men are in poor health, heart disease remains the number one killer of men, and conditions like low testosterone, insulin resistance, and thyroid dysfunction develop […]

Testosterone and Cardiovascular Health: What the Latest Research Shows

For almost a decade, a shadow hung over testosterone replacement therapy a fear, embedded in FDA black box warnings and cautionary headlines, that TRT raised the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Men who needed treatment hesitated. Physicians who might have prescribed held back. And countless men with documented hypogonadism went untreated, with real consequences […]

Low DHEA Levels: What They Mean and How to Raise Them

Here’s a fact that most standard physicals skip entirely: by the time you’re 70 years old, your DHEA levels will have dropped to just 10–20% of what they were at their peak. That’s not a minor hormonal footnote it’s a dramatic decline in one of the most abundant steroid hormones in the human body, and […]

Saw Palmetto for Prostate: What the Evidence Actually Shows in 2026

Saw palmetto is the best selling men’s health supplement in America. It generates hundreds of millions of dollars in sales each year. Men start taking it in their 40s, 50s, and 60s because they’ve heard it helps their prostate their urinary flow, their nighttime trips to the bathroom, their quality of life. And yet the […]

BPH Treatment Options Compared: Medication vs Procedures vs Lifestyle

Here’s a number worth sitting with: the annual cost burden of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the United States is estimated at $73.8 billion. Not because it’s a rare or particularly complex condition but because it’s extraordinarily common, chronically undertreated, and managed inconsistently across the healthcare system. BPH affects more than 50% of men over […]

Shockwave Therapy for ED: Does It Actually Work?

If you’ve been researching erectile dysfunction treatments and stumbled onto shockwave therapy also called low intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy (LiSWT or Li ESWT) you’ve probably found a confusing mix of enthusiastic clinic marketing, cautious medical disclaimers, and a genuinely interesting body of research caught somewhere in between. Here’s the honest version: shockwave therapy for ED […]

Erectile Dysfunction at 30: The Physical Causes Nobody’s Talking About

Let’s start with the number most men in their 30s haven’t seen: 1 in 4 new erectile dysfunction patients is under 40. That’s not a typo. And across multiple large scale studies, 11% of men aged 30–39 report measurable erectile dysfunction with some validated questionnaire data placing that number as high as 26% in young […]

Prostate Health After 50: What Every Man Should Be Testing

Here’s a number that should get your attention: 313,780 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2025 alone making it the most common cancer diagnosis among men in the U.S., accounting for 30% of all male cancers. It’s also the second leading cause of cancer death in men, behind only lung cancer. And […]

Ozempic and Kidney Disease: What You Need to Know Before Starting

Here’s a number that deserves your full attention: 37 million Americans are living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and most of them don’t know it. CKD often develops silently, with no dramatic symptoms, until function is already significantly compromised. And nearly 40% of people with type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease at some point […]