It's men's health month.
It's about a month long.
It's about men and health.
It's also about encouraging your
male friends, your brothers,
your father's boyfriends,
about caring for their bodies.
Sometimes it seems simple,
but it helps to give people
reminders to get things like regular
checkups to eat right and exercise.
Sorry, nine health expert Doctor Pyle
Coley is here with some advice for men.
Thank you. Tom Father's Day.
Gonna give him a little mess.
Not it. Yeah, cause what.
I don't know what it is about men.
I think there's a lot of things,
but men are not as eager to
get into the doctor's office
or make those appointments.
What would you say to
them, Kim? You're right, I mean,
science has shown that men are more
LAX about their health and what it
translates into is that men, on average,
die five years earlier than women.
So it actually can affect life
expectancy because they're not as
good at getting their act together.
So I would say this is really a
time to empower to educate and to
make some healthy positive changes.
And and I'm joking about Father's Day,
but I, I think for every father in our life,
this would be a great gift to really
remind them to get their screenings
for those who may not go to the doctor.
To get their check up,
what do you tell them?
Or there are three things?
Five things, a couple of things
that are just basics. Do this.
Do less of that. More of this
so I would say the biggest I think you
just mentioned is what we put into
our bodies is extremely important.
I always like to say food
is the first best medicines.
You shouldn't eat medicine if
you're eating the right thing.
So really, be mindful of your diet.
Cut the calories as you get older because
we're really supposed to do that by
about 10% for every decade of our lives.
So don't keep eating the
same things you're eating,
move, get out of that chair.
And be active because that's
what our bodies were designed.
We evolved to be active,
and then the third piece is
get those screenings.
Yeah, because preventing disease
is much better than curing it.
And we know that 80% of heart
attacks and strokes are preventable.
Well, let's talk about men over 65.
Yeah, the older Pacific what?
What are the screenings that
you say you have to have?
I would say 3 categories so one is
cancer so you wanna make sure you
do a prostate cancer screening.
That's a blood test called PSA colon cancer.
We've talked about colonoscopies
before and then skin cancers.
When we sometimes forget about yes
and then second is nutritional.
So as we get older we don't absorb
vitamins in quite the same way.
So you want to check your vitamin B12,
your calcium and your vitamin D and
then the third which is close to my
heart is vascular screening your blood
vessels as you get older they get stiffer.
They get aged so you have to make
sure you check those blood tests.
Check a test called a calcium score which
tells you if you have blockages or not,
and then if you've ever smoked you need
an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening.
Wow and so that that.
There's a lot for those men 65 and older.
Really hoping my dad's taking
some of this in right now,
but also younger and all ages.
Testicular, cancer, prostate cancer.
These are the tests that they don't
know one wants to talk about, but boy,
we hear about it all the time.
You know, I'm so glad you brought that up,
because between age 15 and age 40 is the
peak incidence of testicular cancer,
which means that all the men in our
lives to in that age group should
be doing self testicular exams
once a month after the shower,
which many of them you know especially.
Teenagers and our kids don't really
even know that they're supposed to do.
And then as we turn 40,
if we have risk factors,
we should start looking for prostate cancer.
And for the average risk person,
we can wait till 50.
Now the shame is always the idea that you
will discover these things only in regret,
as opposed to being proactive and and
as we always talk about and we bring it
up every year and we talk about this,
men may not be able to do it
themselves without that push without
that little push from someone.
So this message is not just for the men
in the audience, it's for everyone,
whoever. Is that's important to you
in your life? Yeah, it says want
you. And maybe it's a
motivation and not a push.
So maybe you do it together.
You know you do.
Your pap smears and your mammograms
and your significant other.
The man in your life.
Does his cancer screening,
but whatever it is,
every single one of us,
the women and the men have to really
wake up and try to change the course
of disease for men because we know
that men die of heart disease,
and we know that heart
disease is preventable.
Check. Check those boxes. Doctor Paul
Coley always good to see you, thanks.