I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ED EXISTED
My first encounter with erectile dysfunction was simply miserable. It was a complete shock. It felt like a betrayal. It inundated me with confusion. It turned my world upside down. From being brilliant and close to perfect, my life took a sharp turn downhill.
I had graduated from university a couple of years ago, was working at a prestigious (at least as far as I was concerned) financial firm in NYC, worked hard, made a good living, had good friends, and was very upbeat about life and the future. It was one of the first summer days of the year and the city was teaming with life. It was like a happy story from..
MY CONFIDENCE WAS SHATTERED
Here I was, in my 20’s and not able to function sexually. I had a problem. A big problem. And I had zero self-confidence at this point. I was lost. My bright outlook on life was shattered to pieces. I didn't want this. And it was not only erectile dysfunction that had hit me..
ALL MY EFFORTS HAD FAILED
The pharmaceutical drugs had been working wonders for a long time. They enabled me to have sex. And given that I had no success in finding an actual solution to my problems, I was reluctantly OK popping a pill before having sex. But it had made me complacent about solving erectile dysfunction..
IT WAS A DECADE-LONG JOURNEY
Probably the most important thing I learned from my 10-year long battle with sexual problems is that my body is a very, very complex and sophisticated system of countless number of parts. It is extremely delicate and sensitive, and it needs constant care, attention and maintenance..
Approximately half of the US population is not sleeping enough. And chances are this is also the case for the rest of the world.
Poor or inadequate sleep has several negative health consequences, but one key potential effect is reduced sexual function. Meaning a decreased..
The answer seems to be ‘yes’..
James Cameron’s documentary ‘The Game Changers’ (released in January 2018) gave us a good indication. In one of the scenes, we learn about three college athletes who changed their diet from being regular to a strict plant-based diet..
A Dutch research study running since 2015, aimed at assessing the safety and effectiveness of Sildenafil (Viagra) on unborn babies who had severe fetal growth restriction, and who faced significant risk of being stillborn or dying after birth.
183 mothers participated..
You have probably noticed this yourself: You get hornier during the summer – you think more about sex and you simply want more sex.
Even Google searches related to sex increase in the summer.
Why..
A research study (published in the Current Medicine Research and Practice) that was done on 275 men aged 18 to 65 has confirmed what we already know: That ED is very common in men with diabetes.
The study found that of the men with diabetes type 2, 79% had some..
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain, have found that men with the disease called gum disease, (also called as chronic periodontisis) are more than twice as likely (2.17 times) to suffer from erectile dysfunction than men without this disease.
The study was done on 158 men aged between..
At least partly..
A new study has found that men’s level of testosterone is substantially impacted by their environment during childhood.
The study found that boys who grew up in challenging and harsher conditions, where..
Although this is not news, I still wanted to post about this because yet another study has confirmed this:
If you have erectile dysfunction, you are significantly more likely to also get a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular problems..
Researchers from Sapienza Universita di Roma have published a study that reports that lack of vitamin B6 (folic acid) is highly correlated with erectile dysfunction.
The research study proposed that folic acid is essential for what is called endothelial..