by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 19, 2013 | Men's Health
If you are a man who finds it difficult to start your stream, check with your doctor to see if you have an infection or a benign or cancerous enlargement of your prostate. Your doctor usually examines your prostate for potentially cancerous nodules, orders a PSA blood...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 19, 2013 | Men's Health
As men age from 50 to 70, their testosterone levels drop more than 40 percent, causing them to become fatter, and less sexual, muscular and assertive and have smaller, weaker bones (7,11). Twenty percent of men aged 60-80 years have testosterone levels below the lower...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 31, 2013 | Men's Health
Will a vasectomy increase risk of prostate cancer? Whether the husband gets a vasectomy or the wife gets a tubal ligation is usually decided by who has the strongest will. Vasectomies and tubal ligations are safe surgeries, but the operation on a man is a simple...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 16, 2013 | Men's Health
Many doctors recommend that every man over 40 get a blood test called Prostate Specific Antigen to check for prostate cancer. However, PSA levels can be raised abnormally high by: • prostate infections, • a benign enlarged prostate, • riding a bicycle, • making love,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 16, 2013 | Men's Health
Several papers show that having to urinate frequently at night is often caused by low levels of antidiuretic hormone (1,2) and that taking that hormone can control this condition (3). During the day, your kidneys clean your body by producing large amounts of urine....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 16, 2013 | Men's Health
A series of articles in Human Reproduction Update showed that infection is the most common cause of male infertility and that standard tests for infertility often do not find the infection. When evaluating a male for infertility, doctors check sperm count and sperm...
