Men's Health Resources

Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Men's Health Center is your go-to resource for men’s health information. We believe in equipping our patients with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions and lead healthy lives

Featured Men’s Health Articles

Surviving Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancers can also be named colon cancer or rectal cancer, depending on where they start. Colon cancer and rectal cancer are often grouped together because they have many features in common.

You Can’t Outrun Your Genetics

Just recently, three of my friends died suddenly. Two of them were doctors, and one was an attorney. Each of them was about my age. I’ve felt every emotion from mad, sad, frustrated and now determined to do something constructive.


More Men’s Health Articles

What Men Should Know About Concierge Medicine

When Should You Worry About Your Prostate

Is It Harder to Lose Weight as You Age

Healthy and Flavorful Grilling Tips

8 Questions Our Men's Health Physicians Hear Most

Men’s Medical Minute

Medications for ED with Dr. Curtis Chastain

There are more ways than you might know to treat ED. In today’s Men’s Medical Minute, presented by OLOL Physician Group, Dr. Curtis Chastain details some of the medications, uses, and impacts on ED in men.

The Men’s Health Suggested Reading List

From the bookshelf of Dr. Chastain, this selection includes information that offers ways you can achieve a better balance between work and family life and advice regarding diet and exercise.

  • The Noticer: Sometimes all a person needs is a little perspective (Andrews, 2009)

  • Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond (Crowley & Lodge, 2005)

  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kushner)

  • Outliers: The Story of Success (Gladwell, 2008)

  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell, 2005)

  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Gladwell, 2000)

  • Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives (Swenson, 2004)

  • The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal (Loehr & Schwartz, 2003)

  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (Brown, 2010)

  • Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul (Eldredge, 2002)

  • How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness (Kushner, 1996)

  • Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family (Farrar, 1990)

  • The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss (Argatston)

  • The Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success (Andrews, 2014)

  • Holly Clegg’s trim & TERRIFIC Guy’s Guide to Eating Well: A Man’s cookbook for Health and Wellness (Clegg & Chastain, 2018)

  • Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (Mauborgne, 2015)

  • Now, Discover Your Strengths (Buckingham, 2001)

  • Testosterone for Life: Recharge Your Vitality, Sex Drive, Muscle Mass, and Overall Health (Morgentaler, 2008)

  • The Kill Artist (Silva, 2000)

  • Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller (Flynn, 2012)