A Different Version of You
I never thought of myself as athletic growing up. I wasn’t particularly good at team sports. I swam competitively in a summer club, kept swimming into adulthood, and then, at…
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The Condom Conversation Changes With Age
One of the more surprising trends in men’s health isn’t about testosterone or prostate cancer. It’s sexually transmitted infections. While rates have fallen in many younger age groups, they’ve been…
The Same Drug. A Different Conversation.
For most of my career, finasteride wasn’t a hair loss medication. It was a prostate medication. We’ve prescribed it for decades to men with enlarged prostates, and it’s one of…
A Number Isn’t a Diagnosis
On the surface, that sounds like a good idea. There’s been recent discussion about screening military personnel for low testosterone. If a young man truly has testosterone deficiency, identifying it…
The Retirement Blind Spot
I spent some time recently reading the research on retirement and men’s health. I expected the answer to be simple. Retirement is either good for you or bad for you.…
Can You Stretch the Penis?
Men have been trying to answer that question for centuries. Weights. Homemade devices. Surgery. Exercises like jelqing, which I’ll mention only to tell you not to do it. Repeatedly forcing…