The supplement aisle at any pharmacy in Grande Prairie carries a row of products aimed squarely at men: testosterone support, male vitality, energy and drive formulas, prostate blends. The packaging is confident, the ingredient lists…
The liver is unusually stoic. It can sustain significant damage over many years and give almost no indication that anything is wrong, which is why chronic hepatitis is so often discovered by accident — on…
It usually starts as one trip, somewhere around three in the morning. Then it is two trips, then three, and eventually a man realises he has not slept more than ninety minutes at a stretch…
There is a version of this conversation that goes nowhere. A man is using something, someone tells him to stop, he is not ready to stop, and the exchange ends there — usually with him…
The hardest part is rarely the day it is decided. It is the ordinary Tuesday six weeks later, in a rented place with almost nothing in it, on an evening that used to involve making…
Type 2 diabetes rarely arrives as an event. It develops over years, and by the time a man notices anything, the process has usually been underway for a long time. The early signs are the…
HIV prevention changed substantially over the past decade, and a fair number of men in northern Alberta have not caught up with it — not through carelessness, but because the information tends to circulate in…
The appointment where a man is told his prostate cancer has been treated successfully is supposed to be the end of the story. For a lot of men it is the start of a different…
The decision usually arrives quietly. A man looks at how many nights of the week involve drinking, or notices that the first one of the evening has stopped being optional, and decides that Monday is…
It usually starts at a predictable time. The truck is quiet on the drive home, or the lights are off and sleep is not coming, and the mind goes back to the same thing it…
