The best way to protect your prostate is to keep it far away from doctors who want to screen it — and even further from the surgeons who make a living off prostate cancer procedures.

Not long ago, this was considered a rogue approach.

Today, it’s mainstream science — and another study confirms again that all the screenings in the world don’t save lives.

Simply put, the government-funded study of 76,000 men who were tracked for 13 years finds that annual PSA tests don’t make a bit of difference in determining who lives and who dies.

It’s not hard to see why: PSA tests can’t sort the rare, aggressive and deadly tumors from the ones you don’t need to worry about — and even when they do detect high-risk cancers, it’s too late.

As a result, men in both groups — those who were screened every year, and those who were not — died of the disease at the same rate, according to the study results published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

But don’t be fooled by the scare tactics: Most men who have prostate cancer live with it for years or even decades, and eventually die of something else entirely.

And until screenings came along, most of these men never even knew they had prostate cancer.

Ignorance was truly bliss.

Today, when men find out they have the disease, they panic and get treated for it — but if it doesn’t reduce the death rate, why bother even finding out in the first place?

That’s the bottom line here, and if you’re thinking “better safe than sorry,” think again. Prostate surgery won’t keep you safe… and it’ll almost certainly leave you sorry — sorry you ever agreed to surgery.

The procedure that’s been proven NOT to save your life can ruin it more than your doctors will ever let on. Men who wake up after prostate surgery often find they’ve lost all control “down there” and face long battles with incontinence and impotence.

Plenty of men never recover.

When you consider the decades you can live after a prostate cancer diagnosis — with or without surgery — that could add up to a quarter of your life or more, in diapers and unable to have sex.

Of course, you’ve probably heard commercials and seen ads for newer “robot” procedures that make it sound like they have fewer of these risks — but that’s just not reality.

Keep reading for the truth behind robot-assisted prostate surgeries.

I know more than a few balding men who’d make a deal with the devil if it meant getting their hair back.

Well, the devil is here… and he’s ready to collect.

All he wants in exchange for those luxurious locks is your sex life–because new studies confirm what many men have already discovered the hard way: A common hair loss drug can lead to erectile dysfunction, impotence, and libido problems.

And that means men who think a full head of hair will boost their sex lives are in for the shock of their lives instead.

The med is finasteride, but you may know it better as the hair growth drug Propecia or the prostate med Proscar (that’s right–different names… different conditions… same drug).

In one study, researchers interviewed 71 men between the ages of 21 and 46 years old who got slammed with sexual problems after taking the drug–despite the fact that none of them had any issues “down there” beforehand.

Some of them began having problems in the first month of taking the med.

Those problems covered just about everything a man has nightmares about: Researchers said 92 percent suffered from erectile dysfunction, 94 percent experienced low desire, 92 percent suffered a loss of arousal, and 69 percent had orgasm problems such as reduced ejaculation and semen volume, according to the study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Ready for the worst part? The problems lingered long after the men stopped taking the med… and in some cases, they were still experiencing erectile dysfunction and other issues five or even 10 years later, with no sign of letting up.

A second study in the same journal, an analysis of side effects reported in other studies, confirmed the link.

Researchers behind that one say 8 percent of men who try the drug report erectile dysfunction, while 4.2 percent experience loss of libido–in both cases double the numbers of those who took a placebo.

That’s actually the “good” news.

The bad news is that researchers say just about any man who takes the med can expect a certain amount of sexual problems since it works by blocking androgen, a hormone essential for sexual functions such as arousal, erection, and ejaculation.

Maybe it’s time to look in the mirror and decide “bald is beautiful” after all–or least research one of the great nondrug alternatives that have helped men get their hair back without costing them their sex lives.

If you find that you’re happier when you have a drink or two, you’re not alone – and you’re not necessarily drunk, either.

There really is a connection between drinking and happiness.

I was enjoying my own glass of scotch on the rocks one evening as I thumbed through the pages of the journal Addiction when I came across a study that looked at the effects of drinking on mood.

And it found that people who drink moderate amounts regularly aren’t drunks. They’re not sad and lonely. And they’re not anxious or depressed, either.

In fact, researchers found that people who DON’T drink are the ones who are likely to have problems.

Now, there are still people out there who don’t want you to enjoy a few drinks, and they dismiss studies like these. In fact, they’ll usually try to tell you that the reason the teetotalers look worse off is because some of them are former alcoholics, and the same problems that led to the drinking are still present when they’re not drinking.

In other words, they still blame drinking for problems even when they show up in people who aren’t drinking.

But they’re wrong.

The researchers in the new study tracked some 38,000 people in Norway, and separated the former heavy boozers from those who simply don’t drink, and never did – and found that the non-drinkers are still at greater risk of anxiety and depression.

It’s hardly surprising. Drinking is beneficial on a number of levels, and a lower risk for depression is just one of them. Moderate drinkers on the whole tend to be healthier, live longer and even have high higher intelligence. Some research has shown that drinking can help fight impotence, too.

So unless you have a problem with the bottle that you know you can’t control, I can’t think of one good reason for you not to enjoy regular moderate drinking.

I suggest you begin by raising a toast to your favorite doctor.