Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

30 minutes of walking a day can help reduce your risk of erectile dysfunction #youtubeshorts #shorts

16 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Short health advice video stating that 30 minutes of walking per day is linked to a substantially lower risk of erectile dysfunction (citing a Harvard study reporting a 41% reduction). It explains that moderate exercise—where speaking or counting becomes difficult—should be done about 20–30 minutes daily, and suggests HIIT (1 minute on/1 minute rest) for the same duration as an alternative, with free guidance available on YouTube.

Questions this video answers

30 minutes a day

41% (per the cited Harvard study)

Exercise during which it's hard to talk; counting 1,2,3 is difficult while exercising (the 'talk test').

About 20–30 minutes; HIIT example given as alternating 1 minute moderate, 1 minute rest for 20–30 minutes.

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Start walking. According to one Harvard study, just 30 minutes a day of walking is linked to a 41% drop in risk for ED. Other research also showed that moderate exercise can help restore sexual performance in men that are obese and with ed. Moderate exercise means that when you exercise, it's hard for you to talk as you're exercising. How can you measure that? Is that when you exercise, Try to count 1, 2, 3, and it's hard for you to count, Then you're in the moderate zone and you want to stay in that moderate zone for about 20 to 30 minutes. Or you can try to do high intensity interval exercise and that between 20 to 30 minutes as well, where you go one minute moderate, one minute rest, one minute moderate, one minute rest. And you can find that for free online on YouTube. So you don't even have to go to the gym for that.