When men are young, they often neglect maintenance. As they enter middle age, they are more likely to develop kidney deficiency, making them feel lethargic and powerless, with noticeably reduced “combat power” at night. Particularly, these three “sucking yang” bad habits have the biggest impact on men’s health. Let’s take a look together and see if you have any of them.
1. Staying up late often
Due to high life stress, many men have dinner engagements at night, engage in recreational activities, and sometimes work overtime, leading to inevitable late nights. Occasional late nights have little impact on the body, but frequent late nights can disrupt the biological clock, cause hormonal imbalances, and over time, reduce testosterone levels. This can deplete the body’s yang energy, leading to kidney deficiency, manifested as soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, physical fatigue, insomnia, night sweats, and other discomforts.
2. Seeking cold
Many men can’t stand the heat in summer and enjoy eating ice cream, drinking cold beverages, and chilled beer excessively every day, which also makes it easy for the body’s yang energy to be “absorbed.” According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the gastrointestinal tract in our bodies requires yang energy support. Regular consumption of cold foods can damage the spleen and stomach, leading to symptoms like diarrhea, stomach pain, fatigue, which are common signs of weakened yang energy in men.
3. Prolonged sitting
Many men spend long hours sitting in offices, sometimes glued to the computer screen all day. Prolonged sitting poses significant health risks, slowing down blood circulation in the lower body, leading to prolonged ischemia or congestion in the prostate. This can cause prostate issues, affecting male physiological functions, damaging the kidneys, and leading to kidney deficiency. Therefore, from this perspective, prolonged sitting is also a bad habit of “sucking yang.”
These are the three bad habits of men “sucking yang.” If you have any of them, it’s advisable to change them sooner rather than later. Lastly, I’d like to share a “golden water” recipe for men, which, when consumed regularly, greatly benefits kidney tonification and yang enhancement.
This “golden water” is Du Zhong male flower tea. It is made by steeping the male flowers of Du Zhong in water, then used as a tea. Du Zhong male flower tea has the effects of tonifying the kidneys, enhancing kidney function, improving lowered physiological functions caused by kidney deficiency, reducing the risk of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia, and boosting immunity. Therefore, men with kidney deficiency and insufficient yang energy can often drink some Du Zhong male flower tea.
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