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You can’t see how many sperm your body is producing, but research shows it has an effect on your state of mind and your sexual health. And studies also show sperm volume, on average, has decreased in recent decades.
The average sperm count is about 50 million cells per ejaculation – down from about 100 million 25 years ago.
Taking herbal supplements is one way to increase your sperm volume. The following have been shown to have positive effects: Arginine, Coenzyme Q10, flaxseed oil, L-carnitine, Selenium and vitamins B-12, C, E and Zinc.
Try these methods as well, to boost your sperm count:
* Keep your testicles and body temperature down.
* Exercise at least 20 minutes a day.
* Detoxify by drinking lots of water and eating fruits and vegetables.
* Eat natural, organic food.
* Meditate to relieve stress.
* Stop smoking.
* Avoid alcohol.
* Get 8 hours of sleep a night.
If you have further sexual health questions, it also never hurts to contact the Boston Medical Group.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
The essence of medicine and medical education
I'm ready to rejoin the blogosphere and Twitterverse. I've spent the last week driving my physician and surgical assistant students toward their final anatomy examination. I have spent about every waking moment in the lab running through the anatomy, putting together Powerpoint slide reviews, and giving those Powerpoint reviews. The exam is tomorrow afternoon.
When I signed up to teach anatomy as my fourth-year "basic science" elective, I never imagined it could and would absorb so much of my time. In some ways. I have worked harder during this rotation than I did during my general surgery clerkship. (To put this into perspective, the current president of the American College of Surgeons is the department chair at my school.)
The exam covers the anatomy of the pelvis through plantar foot. There is a lot of complicated anatomy and clinical correlations in the bottom-half of the body. The PAs and SAs cover everything I did as a medical student, but they do it in about a month less time. From the outside, it's a seemingly impossible task. Just understanding the three-dimensional spacing of the pelvis has taken me hours upon hours during my medical school career.
But two very cool things happened in the last three days that prove to me a select few of them--the ones with whom I had spent several hours during the previous week--are ready for the test.
Saturday afternoon was the first time I realized some of the students really understand the anatomy. I was four-hours deep into an essentially seamless (read: one, short break) lecture of clinical correlations of the pelvis and lower limb. The lecture was supposed to be a "review," but this was the first time we had solely focused on the implications of the anatomy we had been learning (rather than just the anatomy alone). With about twenty slides to go, I began crumbling. I was forgetting core principles. I was ignoring basic test-taking strategy when we examined a series of practice questions. Worst, I was misspeaking (calling a nerve an artery, and vice versa) nearly every sentence (so they say). I was just exhausted.
My students didn't miss a beat. They could see my brain was fried, and they took over. They finished the lecture for each other. I clicked through the Powerpoint slides, and they talked themselves through it. I left the auditorium that evening like a proud father who had watched his child perform in a school play.
Then a brief second tonight convinced me that my students are going score well. I was leaving the lab when I overhead one of my sharpest students teaching a smaller group around a cadaver. She was running through the compartments of the leg, quizzing the other students on the neurovascular supply, and encouraging students to name the structures between her hands. I stopped just shy of the door that leaves the lab and watched. I watched her look into the eyes of the other students, reading their expressions for signs of understanding. I listened to her reword and focus their questions so she could fully address their misunderstandings. Here we were on the eve of a final anatomy exam, and this student was teaching her classmates. Amazing.
Tonight, that student perfectly illustrated my favorite code of the Hippocratic Oath:
"I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow." (The "modern version" written in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna)
The essence of online pharmacy is sharing our human gains of knowledge with the rest of society. I can't begin to guess how many people, both students and physicians, I have met in the past four years who never learned this or ignore it all together.
Medical knowledge is not a personal property. It belongs to the cadavers who donate their most precious life savings. It belongs to the state citizens who pay the taxes to support public medical schools. It belongs to the security guards who guarded my library so I could study. It belongs to the physician and surgical assistant students who will one day share an operating room with me.
Whether you are a medical student, a physician assistant, or a practicing physician, do not leave your years of accrued knowledge and experience unshared. Though we can leave money and possessions to people after our death, knowledge and experience dies with the brain. Recall the oath of Hippocrates. Give your knowledge and experiences to others--you never know who or how it may help.
When I signed up to teach anatomy as my fourth-year "basic science" elective, I never imagined it could and would absorb so much of my time. In some ways. I have worked harder during this rotation than I did during my general surgery clerkship. (To put this into perspective, the current president of the American College of Surgeons is the department chair at my school.)
The exam covers the anatomy of the pelvis through plantar foot. There is a lot of complicated anatomy and clinical correlations in the bottom-half of the body. The PAs and SAs cover everything I did as a medical student, but they do it in about a month less time. From the outside, it's a seemingly impossible task. Just understanding the three-dimensional spacing of the pelvis has taken me hours upon hours during my medical school career.
But two very cool things happened in the last three days that prove to me a select few of them--the ones with whom I had spent several hours during the previous week--are ready for the test.
Saturday afternoon was the first time I realized some of the students really understand the anatomy. I was four-hours deep into an essentially seamless (read: one, short break) lecture of clinical correlations of the pelvis and lower limb. The lecture was supposed to be a "review," but this was the first time we had solely focused on the implications of the anatomy we had been learning (rather than just the anatomy alone). With about twenty slides to go, I began crumbling. I was forgetting core principles. I was ignoring basic test-taking strategy when we examined a series of practice questions. Worst, I was misspeaking (calling a nerve an artery, and vice versa) nearly every sentence (so they say). I was just exhausted.
My students didn't miss a beat. They could see my brain was fried, and they took over. They finished the lecture for each other. I clicked through the Powerpoint slides, and they talked themselves through it. I left the auditorium that evening like a proud father who had watched his child perform in a school play.
Then a brief second tonight convinced me that my students are going score well. I was leaving the lab when I overhead one of my sharpest students teaching a smaller group around a cadaver. She was running through the compartments of the leg, quizzing the other students on the neurovascular supply, and encouraging students to name the structures between her hands. I stopped just shy of the door that leaves the lab and watched. I watched her look into the eyes of the other students, reading their expressions for signs of understanding. I listened to her reword and focus their questions so she could fully address their misunderstandings. Here we were on the eve of a final anatomy exam, and this student was teaching her classmates. Amazing.
Tonight, that student perfectly illustrated my favorite code of the Hippocratic Oath:
"I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow." (The "modern version" written in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna)
The essence of online pharmacy is sharing our human gains of knowledge with the rest of society. I can't begin to guess how many people, both students and physicians, I have met in the past four years who never learned this or ignore it all together.
Medical knowledge is not a personal property. It belongs to the cadavers who donate their most precious life savings. It belongs to the state citizens who pay the taxes to support public medical schools. It belongs to the security guards who guarded my library so I could study. It belongs to the physician and surgical assistant students who will one day share an operating room with me.
Whether you are a medical student, a physician assistant, or a practicing physician, do not leave your years of accrued knowledge and experience unshared. Though we can leave money and possessions to people after our death, knowledge and experience dies with the brain. Recall the oath of Hippocrates. Give your knowledge and experiences to others--you never know who or how it may help.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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If you have kids, and you’ve watched pro football with them, then you probably have something in common with President Obama.
In his book The Audacity of Hope, he wrote, “…I wasn’t too happy with ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs popping up every 15 minutes whenever I watched a football game with my daughters in the room.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I have parental controls on my cable TV that filter out adult-rated movies and shows. When I watch the NFL with my kids, I wish I had the same controls for the ads. Ironically enough, Fox is the biggest offender, with previews for shows like House, 24, Dollhouse and Prison Break, mixing soft core porn and hard core violence in short yet offensive bursts.
If you think I’m overly sensitive, ask Common Sense Media. In their recently released study on the content of ads shown during NFL broadcasts, they concluded that "it was impossible to watch a single game without coming up against sex, violence, or order cialis." One in six of the ads shown during the broadcasts features content that's wildly inappropriate for kids. That's every other commercial break.
Common Sense Media's report found that 40% of the games included ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs and 44.7% of the violent or sexual advertisements were promotions by the networks for their own programs. And over 10% of the ads overall involved significant levels of sexuality, including scenes about prostitution and strippers.
The amazing thing is that professional leagues go to great lengths to project a squeaky clean, family friendly appearance. The NFL is especially good at protecting their image; the league office does everything they can to be America’s League (especially since they can’t stop their players from literally shooting themselves in the foot), policing their sidelines, their sponsors, and their affiliations.
They should do a better job of policing their airwaves.
If you have kids, and you’ve watched pro football with them, then you probably have something in common with President Obama.
In his book The Audacity of Hope, he wrote, “…I wasn’t too happy with ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs popping up every 15 minutes whenever I watched a football game with my daughters in the room.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I have parental controls on my cable TV that filter out adult-rated movies and shows. When I watch the NFL with my kids, I wish I had the same controls for the ads. Ironically enough, Fox is the biggest offender, with previews for shows like House, 24, Dollhouse and Prison Break, mixing soft core porn and hard core violence in short yet offensive bursts.
If you think I’m overly sensitive, ask Common Sense Media. In their recently released study on the content of ads shown during NFL broadcasts, they concluded that "it was impossible to watch a single game without coming up against sex, violence, or order cialis." One in six of the ads shown during the broadcasts features content that's wildly inappropriate for kids. That's every other commercial break.
Common Sense Media's report found that 40% of the games included ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs and 44.7% of the violent or sexual advertisements were promotions by the networks for their own programs. And over 10% of the ads overall involved significant levels of sexuality, including scenes about prostitution and strippers.
The amazing thing is that professional leagues go to great lengths to project a squeaky clean, family friendly appearance. The NFL is especially good at protecting their image; the league office does everything they can to be America’s League (especially since they can’t stop their players from literally shooting themselves in the foot), policing their sidelines, their sponsors, and their affiliations.
They should do a better job of policing their airwaves.
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