NATURAL MEN’S HEALTH: BRAIN – MEDITATION

WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS IN AIDS?

EXAMINE YOUR LIFE AND REACH BOTH YOUR WEIGHT-LOSS AND LIFELONG GOALS: DO YOU FOCUS ON YOUR WEAKNESSES OR YOUR STRENGTHS ?

If you are like most people, you focus on your weaknesses. One of the best ways to learn to focus on your strengths is to challenge yourself. Only through challenge are people forced to use those strengths that they may forget about from time to time. If you train for a marathon, for example, and push yourself to go out in bad weather as well as good because you know you have to run each and every day if you’re going to be able to do twenty-six miles, you are not only enhancing your physical strength but honing your mental discipline and endurance. By challenging yourself in this way, you are building strengths you didn’t know you had.
The next time someone asks you what your strengths are, rather than drawing a blank, call to mind your response to your most recent challenge. Don’t be shy about your accomplishments—be proud of them, embrace them as a part of who you are, and incorporate them into your everyday life.
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THE LAZY MAN’S EXERCISE TRICK

If your husband has no interest in sports, if you can’t get him onto that stationary bike, if all your nagging, pleading, social scheduling, and clever ideas have not gotten him out of his arm chair in front of the television set, I have one last ace up my sleeve. Walking.
Most men do not consider walking a sport, so you can trick them into it. To develop and maintain a healthy body, the average person (man or woman) should walk a brisk 3V2 miles per hour. This is not browsing-around-the-mall pace, nor is it running the four-minute mile. You need to walk for at least half an hour; forty or fifty minutes is better. You will burn calories if you walk at a brisk pace (slower doesn’t count), and you will give your heart and lungs the aerobic exercise they need. Furthermore, it’s a good partner sport for a husband and wife (or the whole family) and gives you some time together. Even if you can’t talk while you’re walking that fast (you can, but it hurts), you can be together, commune with nature, and hold hands.
Some other ways to get a little walking in:
Park the car far from the market or the shopping center and walk to the stores. Yes, he’ll make a rude comment to you, but he’ll walk.
Go for an after-dinner stroll, be it around your neighborhood, around the high school track, or at a shopping mall. This need not be at 3V2 mph; slower will aid digestion and give you some peaceful time together. Remember, this is no longer an aerobic sport, but it’s nice nonetheless.
Encourage him to use the stairs rather than the elevator in his office building. When you go places together, challenge him to take the stairs.
Don’t push walking as a sport or health-enhancing maneuver. Merely put on your sensible shoes; then go out and do it. Set up errands that can be walked rather than driven to. Take the time to force yourself—and him with you—to walk a mile or two, hopefully at a nice brisk pace. A brisk walk will keep you from spending and help trim the hips. Be sure to breathe properly if you are planning on talking and walking, otherwise you’ll find yourself out of breath quickly or slowing your pace to a crawl. Without getting into race-walking, a popular new sport, use your feet to get you someplace. One mile of brisk walking five or six nights a week (preferably after dinner) will improve both your marriage and your life span.
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SEXUAL AROUSAL AND RESPONSE IN THE MALE: INHIBITORY FACTORS – DEFICIENCY OF MALE HORMONES AND LACK OF DESIRE

DEFICIENCY OF MALE HORMONES: Psychologists and sexologists have led us to believe that erection is in the head, and not in the penis, and that impotency is psychological in most cases. But endocrinologist Richard Spark of Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that in as many as 35 per cent of cases, the impotency is not mental but due to deficiency of the hormone, testosterone. Dr. Spark’s study is based on 105 impotent men between the ages of 18 to 75 years. Using modern radio immunoassay techniques which can detect even very minute quantities of deficiency, he also found that over-active thyroids produce an endocrine imbalance and impotency. By administering the male hormone and correcting the over-activity of the thyroid gland, the potency of these experimental subjects was soon restored.
LACK OF DESIRE is one of the commonest causes of sexual impairment and is due to loss of interest resulting from lack of variety of sex with one’s partner, or having too many partners.
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BE THE PERSON YOU WERE MEANT TO BE: ANTIDOTES TO TOXIC RELATING -NOURISHING AND TOXIC COMPROMISE – THE EFFECT OF PRESSURE

Any pressure (intrusion), even in a loving relationship, creates feelings of resentment. These do not necessarily affect the relationship significantly. Irritation, annoyance, and other resentments are inevitable. However, they are increasingly apt to become toxic when one person’s pattern of relating has a continually annoying effect on the other.
HUSBAND: Hurry up, honey—we’ll be late for dinner at Mother’s.
WIFE: I’m doing the best I can. The children are still dressing.
HUSBAND: Well, hurry them up. WIFE: They are hurrying. Janet just got home from her piano lesson.
H: Can’t she have her lesson earlier?
W: (Getting annoyed) She’s in school earlier—remember? Your daughter does go to school, you know I
H: Mother gets upset when we’re late. W: Your nagging every time we go to your mother’s spoils the whole evening for me. If she won’t set the time later, she’ll just have to wait. H: Okay, I agree. Let me know if there is anything
I can do to help the kids get ready. In this example, the husband becomes aware that he is relating to his wife in a toxic manner. He is pushing her on the basis of his own anxiety and ignoring the effect on her of his need to hurry. Toward the end of the dialogue, he becomes aware of her feelings and his attitude is less toxic and more nourishing.
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WHAT IS BOREDOM IN MIDDLE AGE?

After 10 to 15 years of married life the male may become tired of the same female partner and same sex. Hence it is advised that female should co-operate and variety of sex and sex positions should be practiced to maintain the interest in sex and promote vitality-Variety of sex act can be new and stimulating expression of love. The problem of male who is impotent with his wife but potent with other women is a clear cut evidence of boredom in sex with in the same routine.

Do drugs produce impotence?
Anti anxiety drugs like librium, valium and mepfobamate taken for a prolonged period depress sexuality and occasionally cause disturbance of orgasm.
Phenothiazines like largactil, eskazine frequently cause dry ejaculation due to non closure of internal vesical sphincter just prior to ejaculation resulting in discharge in urinary bladder. Oestrogen and cortisone produce impotence and lack of desire.

Can vasectomy operation lead to impotencv?

No. Such operation has no side effects, in fact many people report that after operation they have devloped erection. Erection depends on testosterone, a male hormone which is released into the blood stream. Testes also contribute very small quality of the ejaculated fluid so quantity will also not diminish substantially. Actually neurotic, psychotic or impotent male should not under go sterilisation.
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DIABETIC HEALTH: CONTROLLING DIABETES

Most physicians attempt to control diabetes with a variety of insulin-related drugs. Most of these drugs are taken orally, although self-administered hypodermic injections are prescribed when other treatments are inadequate. Recent breakthroughs in individual monitoring and the implanting of insulin monitors and insulin infusion pumps that regulate insulin intake “on demand” have provided many people with diabetes the opportunity to lead normal lives.
Newer forms of insulin that last longer in the body and have fewer side effects are now available. As we go to press, an insulin inhaler is being tested for possible widespread use. All of these treatments come at a price. On average, health care costs for diabetics are 10,000 to 20,000 dollars higher per year than for healthy patients. The direct cost of treating diabetes in the United States is 44 billion dollars per year. When indirect costs are added, the price soars to over 98 billion dollars.
Some people have found that they can help control their diabetes by eating foods that are rich in complex carbohydrates, low in sodium and high in fiber; by losing weight; and by getting regular exercise. Developing a routine for monitoring and controlling this disease can be stressful, particularly in the beginning. Some reports even suggest that diabetics may be at a greater-than-average risk for clinical depression. Attention to psychosocial needs is often an important aspect of diabetic health.
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AROUSAL IN THE MALE AND THE FEMALE DIFFER: WOMAN HAS TO INVEST MUCH MORE OF HER ENERGY AND TIME AS A RESULT OF SEX, THAN A MAN

Sex is the central game of life in both partners, yet a woman has to invest much more of her energy and time as a result of sex, than a man. She is like a core industry where she has to invest heavily, there is a long gestation period, and the returns are slow. She has to invest nine months of her precious time before her first dividend—the infant—is born, and has to spend additional time in nurturing it. In sharp contrast, the male has only to invest one sperm and fifteen to twenty minutes of his time in intercourse to procure dividends. Man is like a consumer industry—a small investment in terms of time, a large turnover and quick profits. As a result, he is more readily aroused than the female and is trigger-happy about sex. Like a butterfly he flits from the pursuit of love to the love of status symbols—position, power, wealth and worldly goods. The poet Byron has vividly described the difference between a man and a woman’s love:
‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence.’
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ISD AND THE MIND: IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF ISD- DEPRESSION

Depression often leads to a loss of sexual desire. Unlike the emotional depletion of stress, the emotional depletion of depression is a reflection of the overall slowing-down of your bodily functions and your general loss of interest in almost all of your usual activities and pastimes. In fact, the loss of interest in sex is one of the symptoms psychologists use to diagnose depression, along with:
• sleep disturbances such as insomnia or awakening early in the morning and being unable to go back to sleep
• low energy or chronic fatigue
• feelings of inadequacy
• decreased attention, concentration, or ability to think clearly
• decreased effectiveness or productivity at school, work, or home
• social withdrawal
• limited involvement in previously pleasurable activities
• feeling slowed down
• being less talkative than usual
• a pessimistic attitude about the future or brooding about past events or a general feeling of hopelessness
• tearfulness or crying
• increases or decreases in appetite or weight
• thoughts about suicide or death
If you suffer from ISD, some kind of depression is probably behind your diminished or absent sexual desire. In most instances, elevating a depressed mood also elevates sexual desire, so we recommend seeking treatment for depression, in the form of medication, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. You should seek psychiatric treatment immediately if you are having suicidal thoughts.
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