When it comes to erectile dysfunction, all too often men just want to treat the problem and hope it goes away. This is a condition that is awkward and uncomfortable, and men seek the first available treatment without educating themselves adequately, hoping it will go away fast. The problem with this is that it is so easy to get consumed with a problem that is effecting you both physically and emotionally, that you forget to take the necessary precautions you would normally take to maintain your overall health. A recent study just found that men in America over the age of 40 that are taking medication for erectile dysfunction are being diagnosed with STD’s at a rate two times higher than American men over the age of 40 that are not taking medication for erectile dysfunction. What does this tell you? ED medication is in fact so effective at treating ED, that it is leading to a more sexually active lifestyle, but not necessarily sexually healthy. Read here to find out how you can stay healthy overall, and still have the active sex life that you enjoy.
It all boils down to remembering what it was like to enjoy the heat of the moment. Men over forty that are enjoying a renewed sense of spirit on ED medication are simply forgetting the basics. If you are a man that has experienced ED, you know just how debilitating that can be emotionally. It is easy to feel emasculated, worthless, and down on yourself when you are faced with such an uncomfortable situation. You may even feel like you will never experience the euphoria of intimacy again. With effective treatment of ED medication, all of those feelings vanish, and you feel like the king of the world again. And you should. But you also must remember, maintaining your common sense in the heat of the moment is just as critical to your health now, as it was when you were 18.
The study discussed above was found in The Annals of Internal Medicine journal, and this study found that younger men in America were still getting STD’s faster than their older male counterparts. Even so, the rate of STD’s in men taking ED medication is more than twice as high as the rates in those not taking ED medication. This study went on further to discuss how men over fifty are six times less likely to use a condom than men in their twenties. In order to determine if ED medication had an effect on STD rates, researchers for this study further examined insurance records for over 1.5 American males over forty. This examination led to a discovery of high rates of STD’s, in conjunction with a 14% rate of men using ED medication. Since many men do not use insurance to pay for ED medication, researchers concluded the rate of men on ED medication with a medical history of STD’s would be even higher than the indicated 14%.
This study is validated by statistics found at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC conducted their own statistical analysis to find that between the years of 1996 and 2008, STD rates in the over forty male crowd rose more than 75%. more…
In a world that is driven with cures being as simple as a pop of a pill, whenever there is a medical condition that becomes more and more common, quick fixes become all of the rage. It almost seems like the more awkward and uncomfortable your problem is, the more apt you are to be inundated with a miracle solution that will sap your wallet, and your faith. When it comes to a problem as uncomfortable as erectile dysfunction, the last thing you want to deal with is one solution after another that won’t work. You want relief and you want it fast, and you want to go back to living the healthy active lifestyle you enjoy. Every time there appears to be a quick fix, men of every age line up to jump start their sex life with the latest miracle cure. The fact is, many of these quick fixes are not even approved by the FDA, and they could even lead to more debilitating side effects than the impotence itself. Read this article to find out why going with the tried and true methods of ED treatment will be much cheaper and more effective for you in the long run.
One of the myths surrounding erectile dysfunction medication is that the problem with ED begins with your desire levels, and that prescription ED medication does not target those centers. While it is true you need the desire centers in your brain to be activated in order to sustain an erection, it is not true that lack of sexual satisfaction is a trigger for your impotence. It also is not true that impotence medication will not help you you’re your desire triggers.
Many over the counter “reliefs” will count on the fact that all you need is to experience desire again, but they do not target the medical bases of impotence in the same way that ED medication will. You may be able to take something that “guarantees” longer lasting erections, and all night performances, but these quick fixes may cause you more problem than they are worth, and may even last a lot longer than you want them to. Be wary of anything that tells you you will last all night. Consider that reality and be sure that is something you really want, ever hear the expression “be careful what you wish for”? more…
It’s never a happy thought, but we are all getting older. Those of us boomers are into our sixties now with the rest of the pack starting to catch up. This is the time when things really start going wrong with our bodies. Most of us have been lucky up to now. But despite the best efforts of medical science, there’s no pill to slow down the years. Worse, the most likely first symptom of age is going to be erectile dysfunction. All those high cholesterol meals we crammed away will come back to bite us as layers of platelets build up on the walls of our blood vessels. Some call this arteriosclerosis, others artherosclerosis. Whichever name, the result is the same. The muscles in the walls of the arteries needed to dilate start to fail. Without the dilation, there can be no erection. It’s an unhappy thought, but loss of sexual power can be the first symptom of a lifestyle with too much fat and too little exercise. When someone invents a time machine, we can go back and give ourselves good advice. Until then, we have to make the best of our golden years.
Curiously, the world is growing old with us. When we were young and living through the fifties, the television was a novelty. Replacing the radio and its world of advertiser-sponsored programs came the future with moving images and all the new ads. They were simple sales pitches, very naive by modern standards. But they got the message across. And what were those messages? Well, for the most part, housewives were told what food to put on our plates, what drinks to offer us. Then came the things to make the household run smoothly and the latest model vehicle to get us from A to B. In between were sometimes disturbing news reports which grew worse as we came into the sixties and the Russians took over Cuba as a missile base on our doorstep. In some senses, it’s actually more relaxing to have the modern coverage of world events. For the most part, our media have forgotten the need to tell us what’s happening outside our shores. It’s more important to package our local politics as the news and give us the messages most important to those controlling the content. The ads have changed as well. The networks have decided the silver-haired crowd has the buying power. We boomers hold what’s left of the purse strings. So we need to know about the adhesive to keep our dentures in place, heat wraps to keep the arthritis pain under control and the latest pills to keep Alzheimer’s away. Oh, and the pills to keep our sex lives going. more…
Ways to prevent erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a health condition that affects almost all men at a different stage of their lives. And while developing it in a senior age is not seen as something dramatic, earlier cases of ED give men some hard times and much stress. The ability to perform sexually is a milestone of male psychology and you can imagine what happens from the emotional and psychological point of view when impotence takes its force. Stress and depression are the most common issues arising from erectile dysfunction and these factors alone can significantly worsen one’s quality of life.
Of course there are effective treatments for erectile dysfunction these days and even the most severe cases are known to be treated by drugs such as Viagra. But why taking the situation to the point when you need drugs to sustain your sexual abilities when you can effectively prevent erectile dysfunction and prolong your period of activity in a completely natural fashion? Yes, it’s really possible and doesn’t require costly medical procedures or herbal treatments that cost a fortune. Simple lifestyle changes can have much deeper and more beneficial impact on the quality of your erection than pricey medication when the problem is already here. The following tips are complex goals you have to set in order to prevent erectile problems at an early stage:
Pay attention to what you eat and drink
Employ a healthy diet rich with vitamins and free of fats and fried products. Eat more fruits and vegetables, switch to poultry and fish rather than red meat. This is all important for the state of your blood vessels that can otherwise be damaged by conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension and many others arising from an unhealthy diet. And we all know how having good blood circulation is important for good erections. more…
Although there are some signs the recession may be coming to an end, this does not change the long-term damage to the lives of millions of people. When writing about the housing bubble and the behavior of bankers, it’s customary only to talk about the money and leave the rest of the bad news as numbers. We give the national unemployment rate as a percentage. We give the rate of foreclosures state-by-state. But we do not personalize it by talking about whether the official unemployment numbers count how many have no work, or say how many people now have nowhere to live. That would mean talking about real people who have not been able to find work for more than six months and are living in a rented room. Included in this national blindness is the medical profession. They have been very slow to talk about the effects of the recession on mental health. All we get are the after-the-event number of prescriptions written. Even this is misleading because it ignores all those who buy online without a prescription.
Let’s be clear about the theme of this article. Other than those who are insulated from the real world by their wealth and status, there are very high levels of stress among the rest of the community. Fear about whether there will be work and where to live dominate millions of lives, particularly among the young. Vast numbers of our children are leaving college or university knowing they may not find any work for months. This shows in the sudden increase in the number of antidepressants prescribed to those aged less than thirty. Stress and erectile dysfunction are related. The greater the damage to self-confidence, the more likely it is that sexual performance will suffer. This runs alongside the rise in sleeping disorders and obesity as people without work lose their natural habits of sleep and lead couch-potato lives. In a perfect world, men facing this combination of health problems would be referred to counseling. Unfortunately, the majority have no individual health insurance and cannot afford the expense of therapy. more…
