Post Date December, 02 2023
Men often care about their prostate health, and all kinds of male health media also publicize that men should love their prostate. Indeed, the importance of prostate to men is self-evident. In recent years, with the increase of men's living habits, the incidence rate of prostate diseases has increased year by year. But men, do you know the characteristics of prostate at different ages? Let's take a look at the life evolution of the prostate.
Happy "childhood"
In early childhood, the prostate gland of the human body is "sleeping" in addition to "eating and drinking", and the human body does not assign any work to it. In childhood, with the development of human testicles, the synthetic androgens are continuously supplied to the prostate, making the prostate grow year by year. When the human body reaches puberty, the prostate also grows into an "adult" physique, weighing up to 20 grams and 3 centimeters tall. If you lack androgen nutrition in adolescence, the prostate will be in a childish stage for life.
In early childhood, the prostate rarely causes disease. When the love affair begins, diseases will come to you. Young people with long prepuce often suffer from prepuce balanitis, urethritis, etc. The bacteria infected in these parts will invade the prostate from the open ejaculatory duct, causing prostatitis. According to the statistics of male experts, the minimum age for prostatitis is 12 years old. Of course, the effective way to prevent juvenile prostatitis is to remove the redundant foreskin as soon as possible.
Hard working "youth"
The prostate is industrious and busy during the "youth" period. At this time, the prostate began to "test run", producing a small amount of prostate fluid to provide sperm with exercise energy. When people get married, the work of the prostate appears to be busy. Prostate fluid is produced day and night to ensure the continuous delivery of sperm.
This period is a "troubled autumn" for the prostate. At this time, if the human body's sexual activity is too frequent, the prostate will be in overload operation for a long time, and the physical and mental fatigue and resistance will be reduced, which will easily lead to bacterial injury. Because the prostate is connected with the urethra of the human body through the ejaculatory tube, the ejaculatory tube is often open due to the frequent sexual activity, and the pathogenic bacteria in the urethra can retrograde, invade the prostate and grow and multiply, causing prostatitis. If a person has a "history of travel", the prostate will also suffer from gonococcus, chlamydia, mycoplasma and other sexually transmitted diseases, causing sexually transmitted prostatitis; Tuberculosis bacteria in other parts of the body will also take the opportunity to visit the prostate, causing tuberculous prostatitis. Occasionally, pinworms will parasitize the prostate and cause pinworm prostatitis. After the inflammation and destruction of the current columnar gland, it can first lead to the decline of semen quality, fertility and even infertility in some people. At the same time, chronic inflammation often causes abnormalities in human sexual function, such as impotence and premature ejaculation.
Sick "old age"
After the age of 50-60, the prostate is "senile" and gradually "fat". After aging, sexual activity gradually decreased, the workload of the prostate gradually reduced, and its functional cells began to atrophy. Due to the disorder of hormone levels in the elderly, the non-functional cells at the edge of the prostate will have abnormal hyperplasia, which will increase the volume of the prostate, compress the urethra, and cause frequent urination, urgency of urination, increased frequency of urination at night, thinner urinary line, and difficulty in urination. In medicine, this abnormally enlarged prostate is called benign prostatic hyperplasia. The enlarged prostate is like a mountain, blocking the outflow of urine, which can cause urinary retention, hydronephrosis, even kidney failure, uremia and endanger life.
