Men’s health

Male, over 40 and not sleeping well? Trouble urinating? Reduced libido?

Is this normal for your age or something more?

Before you reached 30 your body was generating news cells and developing all the time. From 30-40 this process slowed down and your body maintained its level of health. From 40 onwards your body has started to deplete.

Sex hormones play a major role in preserving a man's youthful feel and good mental and physical health.

Sleep disturbances

Do you find that you have problems falling asleep or staying asleep? A reduction in your testosterone levels could be the cause.

Sex hormones are closely related to all the other hormones in the body. When these decrease a domino effect occurs and levels of other important hormones become imbalanced. A reduction in sex hormones lowers levels of serotonin released in the brain and this has a direct negative effect on your sleep patterns.

Now that you are over 40 you may have many factors incorporated into your life; demanding career, children, mortgage etc. and these alone can create stress that hinders your sleep. So couple this with a declining level in hormones and you may now have a sleep condition manifesting.

Case Study - Chronic poor sleep

One of my patients referred her husband to me because she was concerned about his sleep. When I saw him he said that he thought there was nothing unusual about his sleep pattern and assumed it was normal for all men his age, he was 48.

He explained that every night it took him a while to fall asleep and that he woke up many times, sometimes needing to urinate. When we talked some more I realized that he also had much stress in his life and this was now being reflected in his physical health and having a detrimental affect on his hormones.

I treated him with Ayurvedic medicines and within one month he was sleeping well again.

Urination problems

Waking in the night to urinate? Feeling as if your bladder isn't completely empty? Dribbling after urination? Your prostate gland function could be being compromised.

Being over 40 with reducing sex hormone levels your body is most likely to be laying down more fat cells as well. These fat cells can accumulate around the prostate gland and urethra causing pressure on both and consequent difficulties with urination.

Ayurvedic medicine treats all of these symptoms by cleansing the bladder and urethra, enabling the body to metabolise the accumulated fat cells and by increasing testosterone levels. This combination then helps to balance other hormones in the body and restore an improved sensation of general well being.

Low libido

Is your sex drive not what it used to be? Have you put on weight around your abdomen?

Believe it or not but these two things are related.

Excess abdominal fat has a negative impact on your entire system leading to erectile problems, low libido and hernias.

I noticed that my male patients in India that were over 40 and had fat around their midriff all complained of having poor erectile function. I then realized that the fat cells from their abdomen had also accumulated around the base of the penis and were compromising the function of the muscle fibres there. These fat cells were drawing nutrients from the penis fibres and starving them of the essences they needed to function well.

This can all be treated with Ayurvedic medicine by breaking down and metabolizing the fat cells and enhancing erectile function.

Enlargement of prostate gland and prostritis

In Ayurveda this is called Asthila vriddhi and this generally happens after a man has reached 40 years. This is due to a reduction in the level of sex hormones. I have had much success treating problems of the prostate gland with herbal preparations that work on balancing the sex hormones. Prostritis is the inflammation of the prostate gland. Symptoms of enlargement of the prostate gland and prostritis are: frequent urination, dribbling of urine after urination has finished, feeling that the bladder is always full, the bladder never feels completely empty even after urination, lack of urination control, burning sensation during urination. These symptoms are present in chronic cases of enlargement of the prostate.

The treatment for the prostate gland takes time but the benefits can be seen instantly.