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you know there’s a lot of people that

have problems with erectile dysfunction

and they try different medications like

viagra i think there’s about four more

that they might try and

sometimes it will help them sometimes it

doesn’t and sometimes you can give them

side effects and of course the ideal

situation would be to find the root

cause and correct that or at the very

minimum

take something that doesn’t give you all

these other side effects because there’s

quite a few side effects not to mention

the small ones like headache low blood

pressure dizziness

but also heart attacks so there are

dangerous side effects to taking any

medication

of course with this video i’m not

telling you not to take any medications

check with your doctor before

implementing what i’m going to recommend

now if you research this problem you’re

going to find

you know they’ll say it’s complex

there’s a lot of unknowns there’s a

combination between

hormonal imbalances neurological

problems and a vascular

problem with risk factors being aging

smoking drinking obesity diabetes stress

heart disease and inflammation well

that’s all fine but what’s really at the

heart of this problem that’s what i want

to know

i always get clues by studying the

mechanism of how medications work so if

we look at viagra for example

it works by inhibiting a certain enzyme

in fact most medications either inhibit

an enzyme or stimulate an enzyme enzymes

in the body are proteins and they do

certain functions in the body and so

with the case of viagra

it inhibits this pde5

which is involved with smooth muscle

of someone’s penis now

to make this really simple there’s a

whole cascade of effects that occur

when you take this enzyme inhibitor okay

with the end result being enhanced

nitric oxide which affects the nerves

and the arteries

which gives you a prolonged erection

because the smooth muscle is now relaxed

allowing blood flow into the penis

without the venous flow coming out so

basically it keeps the blood flow from

leaving okay and so that is how

this medication works

and of course the question i have is is

there a natural pde5 inhibitor and the

answer is yes there is and there’s some

other solutions

this mechanism works indirectly there

are other treatments that work directly

by increasing nitric oxide which

again does this thing i just mentioned

right here

like for example there’s a nitroglycerin

cream

which has

less side effects it has a direct effect

it works quicker but it does have side

effects and you have to go to the doctor

and they have to adjust the dosage some

people also use something called

l-arginine which is an amino acid which

actually there’s some studies that shows

that it works so that’s another option

that you have

i’ve done videos in the past about zinc

well zinc will increase testosterone and

it will increase sperm count but

apparently there’s no real studies that

i could find that it will help someone

with erectile dysfunction but these are

the

four things that i’m going to focus on

today number one

fasting

yeah and i’m going to put these studies

down below fasting can actually increase

nitric oxide and there’s been a lot of

success stories that i’ve heard over the

years where people start to improve

erectile dysfunction once they start

fasting

of course that’s probably because

they have blood sugar issues either

they’re overweight or they have diabetes

or insulin resistance

so of course fasting is going to correct

that there’s also herbal versions of

this enzyme inhibitor okay horny goat

weed

forskolin

as well as black

ginger

so a lot of people get results

with these and they have

much less side effects

also exercise specifically weight

training and or intense exercise with

good recovery because if there’s too

much stress and not enough sleep

that’s going to nullify the results but

this is another one that is

credible and there’s some great studies

on that and number four which i want to

talk about which is an interesting

uh modality it’s called low intensity

shock wave therapy now

this term shockwave kind of scares

people but it’s low intensity shockwave

okay apparently they use this therapy

for a lot of different things with

different intensity of waves they can

use it to break up kidney stones they

use it for

bursitis tendinitis

because if you lower the intensity of a

wave you can create an anti-inflammatory

effect but with these devices which they

have like centers that you can go to to

get this procedure done

and they also have do-it-yourself

devices

what it does is it creates a micro

trauma okay a very small trauma just

like exercise which then results in

increased

blood vessels called

neovascularization as well as breaking

up plaquing if there’s plaquing in the

penis so apparently it’s a great rehab

with some pretty hardcore

placebo-controlled uh clinical trials

with some studies that show up to 70

results the thing i like about this is

there’s very minimal

side effects so something to research

i’ve given you four things right here

and there’s just one last point i want

to emphasize

and that is

stress okay if someone is stressed out

they’re not going to be sleeping so if

they’re not sleeping

okay

they’re going to be on the sympathetic

or fly to fight dominant mode they’re

going to have

low amounts of parasympathetic as far as

the underlying cause we have a situation

where the person is usually sympathetic

dominant they’re usually not sleeping

that great they’re usually stressed out

they have a low parasympathetic reserve

so it’s going to be very difficult to

maintain an erection

so another really important point that

goes beyond diet is really handling this

recovery

stress sleep situation and for that data

you should probably watch this video

right here

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