Men's Health: How to Keep What You've Got

Do men — more so than women — dream of a solar-powered belly blaster that'll give them six-pack abs, or a holographic aerobi-chair that'll produce squared pecs, a tight butt and Lance Armstrong's VO2 max.+ without leaving their living room?

A close friend of mine, also a physician, called late one day a few months ago and quickly got to the point. He wanted me to take over care of his father-in-law.

Little more than a decade ago, men afflicted with enlarged prostate glands — which can block urine's flow and lead to dangerous infections — had essentially one treatment option: surgery. Now, drugs can often be used to reverse benign prostate enlargement. These so-called prostate pills are available thanks in no small part to a Caribbean population of pseudo-hermaphrodites.