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Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Erectile Dysfunction: Treating the Mind and Body #EDmyths #top5EDmyths #debunkedEDmyths #shorts

17 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Anne Truong MD explains that erectile dysfunction involves your brain, emotions, hormones, nerves, and blood vessels, not just your penis. Viagra and Cialis work by relaxing smooth muscle to increase blood flow, but medication isn't the only treatment option.

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It increases availability of cyclic GMP, which relaxes the penile smooth muscle and allows increased blood flow into the penis.

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Myth number four, Only medication can treat ed. While medications like Viagra Cialis are commonly prescribed, they are not the only option. Because we know that ED is a complex process that starts from the brain that goes to your emotion, goes to your hormone, to your nerve, to your blood vessels, and to the penis muscle. So it goes from here down to your sexual organ. It's not just the sexual organ alone. When you take Viagra, Viagra only relaxes the muscles of the penis by a mechanism called cyclic gmp because it makes that chemical more available, and therefore the smooth muscle of the penis relaxes. And therefore, when it relaxes, more blood flow flows into the penis.