Daily Archives: January 24, 2012

Stop Fretting, You Are Going to Screw Up Your Work-Out

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Got a lot on your mind? Your overloaded brain could compromise your workout, found a new study in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. So, this should apply to those guys standing around the gym with the phone stuck to the side of their heads at the gym. Unless you are an on-call doctor, give your phone a rest while at the gym, detach for just this short time, and have your time working out be just about you and what your are currently engaged in.

Researchers asked volunteers to do an isometric shoulder exercise until they had to quit because of fatigue. The kicker? They had to perform the move while doing mental arithmetic. When calculating the math, the subjects reached fatigue and lost strength faster than when they only concentrated on the exercise. Continue reading →

Artificial Testicle, World’s First To Make Sperm, Under Development By California Scientists

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There ain’t nuttin’ funny about this. Can you imagine what men must go through psychologically after loosing a ball to cancer?

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer
Published: 01/18/2012 05:20 PM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily

Researchers in California hope to become the first in the world to build an artificial testicle that produces human sperm. Such a device could allow infertile men to conceive children.

While recent studies have shown it’s possible to treat infertile male mice by producing sperm using stem cells from the mouse, the same has not been done for humans, said researcher Dr. Paul Turek, director of the Turek Clinic, a men’s health medical practice in San Francisco. Continue reading →

Narcissism May Be Bad News for Men’s Health

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Narcissism may not just be bad for your social life; it may also hamper your health.

A new study suggests that individuals with certain narcissistic personality traits may have elevated levels of cortisol — the primary stress hormone — putting them at greater risk for longterm health problems, particularly cardiovascular events.

And that is especially true for men.

In the new study, published Monday evening in the journal PLoS One, researchers analyzed 106 college undergraduates, assessing their narcissism levels using a 40-question inventory. Students were asked to agree or disagree with statements demonstrating “healthier” narcissistic tendencies (i.e., “I will be a success”) and unhealthy ones (“I find it easy to manipulate people.”)

The researchers also took saliva samples to assess the undergrads’ cortisol levels. Continue reading →