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you know if you have erectile

dysfunction and you start doing research

on

potential solutions

man you’re going to be totally confused

and the biggest strategies for this

condition is all about just managing

this condition but what about fixing it

they don’t really talk about that

there’s just a lot of data on viagra

different solutions but what we’re going

to do is focus more on the problem the

pathophysiology the mechanism of how

this condition could occur

to try to understand the root cause of

this so you can resolve this condition

so many people assume that it’s just low

testosterone and they just need to focus

on that but there are people with normal

testosterone that have erectile

dysfunction and there are people with

abnormal testosterone or low

testosterone and don’t have erectile

dysfunction so why is that testosterone

is part of the answer but there’s

there’s more data that i want to share

with you one of the most important

molecules involved in erectile

dysfunction is this thing called nitric

oxide okay nitric oxide n-o our bodies

can make it we can get it from food but

apparently nitric oxide

decreases as you get older it’s at a

level of 50

when you reach age 40. and nitric oxide

is a major player in erections in fact

viagra uses

certain nitric oxide pathways and so the

most likely reason for someone with

erectile dysfunction has to do with a

deficiency of this molecule nitric oxide

and what i’m going to be talking about

today is all the things that align with

this theory okay because the more data

you have to back up this theory the more

it’s probably true so nitric oxide

is made by your endothelial cells that’s

the cells and the inside of the artery

and so nitric oxide it has everything to

do with

helping the arteries

vasodilate

in fact it’s involved in something

called endothelium derived relaxing

factor

edrf

so nitric oxide helps relax your

arteries and it increases blood flow not

just with erections but also your

cardiovascular system and other systems

in the body and so if you have low

nitric oxide

you could have asthma for example

so it’s intimately involved with the

tone

of the vascular system that relates to

vasoconstriction and vasodilation nitric

oxide increases

oxygen release in your blood and so if

you don’t have enough nitric oxide

you’re going to have a hard time

breathing the 79 of people with sleep

apnea

have erectile dysfunction

and so that’s one connection another

link would be the relationship between

nitric oxide and cortisol it helps to

regulate

cortisol which is a stress hormone and

it’s a proven fact that the more anxiety

someone has the more cortisol someone

has the more stress they have the more

they’re going to experience erectile

dysfunction in fact someone cannot get

an erection when they’re sympathetic

dominant where there’s a lot of stress

erections occur when you’re more

parasympathetic dominant when you have

low amounts of stress when you’re calm

this is why men might get an erection

while they’re sleeping because they’re

more parasympathetic dominant now here’s

another connection that’s interesting

nitric oxide

has a profound effect

over testicular steroids this means that

it helps you make testosterone so

there’s your connection between nitric

oxide and testosterone if you’re low in

nitric oxide you’re probably not going

to make as much testosterone nitric

oxide is also involved in luteinizing

hormone that’s the hormone produced by

the pituitary gland that controls the

testicles and the amount of testosterone

you’re going to make nitric oxide also

is intimately involved in the sleep

cycles including rem sleep this could be

also why if someone has sleeping

problems insomnia or definitely sleep

apnea that they have

a greater risk of erectile dysfunction

nitric oxide also increases insulin

sensitivity

this also explains why a diabetic who

always has insulin resistance usually

also has erectile dysfunction i mean if

you think about it what does high sugar

do to the inside of your arteries it

destroys the endothelial level and

thereby decreasing the amount of nitric

oxide produced people that are on statin

drugs usually have either lower

testosterone or they’re at greater risk

for erectile dysfunction and this could

be because statin drugs block

cholesterol which is a precursor for

making testosterone so the big question

now is how do you

increase nitric oxide is there a way to

do it naturally

and the answer is yes number one you can

start doing what’s called nasal

breathing start breathing through your

nose

not your mouth apparently when you do

that you increase nitric oxide and you

can also increase the release of oxygen

in your blood by 20 percent by breathing

through your nose because there’s more

resistance there’s actually 50 percent

more resistance

with breathing through your nose than

your mouth and apparently that increases

nitric oxide to your lungs and the rest

of your body and it also helps you

release oxygen you would think you’re

not going to breathe as much but you

actually release more oxygen when you

breathe through your nose

now if you combine that with number two

regular exercise so let’s say for

example you’re going to do a mild

exercise where you’re doing some type of

exercise where you’re not breathing

intensively if you can breathe through

your nose you will then increase nitric

oxide and exercise improves

your endothelial cells in your vascular

system which will then improve

nitric oxide now you can also increase

nitrates from foods to improve nitric

oxide okay the foods that are high in

nitrates would be

beets okay

spinach

kale

any of the leafy greens those are all

high in nitrates and will help you

increase

nitric oxide now of course on the flip

side you would want to avoid sugar

because that destroys the inside of the

arteries you would want to avoid alcohol

too because that also decreases nitric

oxide you’d also want to try to keep

your stress low because stress can

inhibit nitric oxide as well and number

five

do things to improve your sleep okay

that’s going to help increase your

nitric oxide so these are five natural

things you can do to overcome

the decrease of nitric oxide

which comes from aging now there’s

another video if you have not seen this

video

it’s about a breathing technique that

relates to

nasal breathing

but it gives you a little more data it’s

actually very very important especially

if you want to reduce

cortisol

stress levels and even a panic attack so

check this out i put it right here