significantly amongst aging men, not only seniors but men in middle-age, too. Why is ED shooting upwards? Mainly because of lifestyle choices so many men made when they were younger and which are now coming back to haunt their nether regions.
.....Thus, some of the major risk factors for ED include a history of smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, obesity, impaired glucose levels, high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels, and excess alcohol intake. Sound familiar? Of course it is because most of these are the same major factors we always mention when discussing higher risks for heart disease and strokes (as well as diabetes and increasingly, dementia, too). And there’s a very good reason for that link. Heart disease and strokes are highly preventable conditions caused in large part by damage to the arteries that supply those organs, and so is ED.
.....In other words, the heart, the brain and yes, the penis, too, are only as healthy as the blood flow those organs get (which brings up that old Robin Williams joke that God supplied man with both a brain and a penis but only enough blood to supply one at a time, a joke that is way more true than Robin meant it to be). So the bottom line is that anything that injures arteries will lead to a higher risk of heart disease, strokes, and ED at the same time, and the key point about that is that since the arteries that supply the penis are (considerably?) smaller than the blood vessels that supply the heart and brain (yes, they are, guys), ED should be considered to be the canary in the cardiovascular mine (interesting visual concept there, eh?), so that any aging man with ED should also be evaluated for his risk of having cardiovascular disease even if he has no evident symptoms of the latter.
.....This is not true in everyone, of course, because as we all know, there is a large psychological component to ED, especially in many younger men who constantly feel the need to perform to artificial standards hoisted on us by Hollywood about how real studs perform in romantic situations, but many of whom worry constantly, perhaps because of previous “disasters” fuelled by too much alcohol, that they won’t be able to measure up to par in subsequent similar situations, and who consequently come up short, so to speak, when called on. (It’s very much like the Little Engine that Couldn’t: “I think I can’t; I think I can’t; I think I can’t; See? I couldn’t”). That said, every man, no matter what age, who complains of progressive ED should be evaluated for the presence of hidden heart disease. |
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