Football Season Is Ruining Your Sex Life
11 Nov 2025 · 14 min
This podcast episode, 'Football Season Is Ruining Your Sex Life' (recorded September 29, 2023) features Dr. Anne Truong discussing how typical foods consumed during football-watching (pizza, burgers, fries, processed foods, desserts, alcohol) can promote inflammation, damage endothelial cells, and reduce penile blood flow—contributing to erectile dysfunction. The episode outlines inflammatory culprits (sugar, refined flour, fried foods, corn oil, trans/saturated fats, processed meat, excessive alcohol) and recommends anti-inflammatory and nitric-oxide–supporting foods (olive oil, nuts, berries, leafy greens, fatty fish, turmeric, garlic) and lowering carbohydrate intake to improve blood sugar, A1C, testosterone, and morning erections. The host also offers practical tools: a 'morning wood' smoothie recipe, nitric oxide testing strips, and a 30-day free trial to the Modern Man Club. The tone is clinical, practical, and encouraging—positioning ED as reversible with diet and lifestyle changes and early vascular warning sign.
Questions this episode answers
September 29, 2023.
No more than one drink a day or less than 10 drinks a week (including beer and hard liquor).
About 67% chance.
Over 25 years.
Over 7,000 men.
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What does football have to do with your sex life? Well, stay tuned to find out.
This podcast is for you. The modern man. I'm Dr. Anne Truang, your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and best selling author of the book Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get started and be sure to visit my website@sexualhealthformenpodcast.com for more information and resources from the show. See you on the inside.
Well, it's football season and I know what that mean. On Sunday, Monday and Thursday night, you get together with friends and family and the guys and you start watching football. And guess what, you start eating food. So let's dive into this because my husband today is watching football with his friends and my son and they ordered a bunch of this food and then I look at him say, well, I'm going to do this episode because most.
Of the food are not what you.
Think is helping you with. You may have a good time eating it during Sunday, but every Sunday, every Monday and every Thursday may not be too good. So let's dive in on football and its food. So according to Google, the top 10 food that men eat in the US especially during football season are pizza, burgers, fried chicken, hot dog, french fries, steak tacos, barbecue ribbon, pasta and ice cream. You probably are eating this right now and my husband, I know is eating half of this right now watching football. And you know what? These are the food that actually cause inflammation. And in my last episode I talked about why inflammation is bad. Inflammation is like your body recognizes your normal healthy cells as being abnormal and it start to fight against it. Your immunity start to fight against your normal cell, especially the cells that line the blood vessels. Those are called endothelial cells and those cells are the one that protect the blood vessels. So that way you get the blood going to the organ. But the endothelial cell when it being attacked by your immune system start to leak so it can't bring in the blood flow to the organ and therefore the organ get less blood flow than normal. And when the penis doesn't get good blood flow from the heart, that's when you get erectile dysfunction. So let's talk about food and football. I name all those foods, however food cause inflammation. Food is what it floats in your blood. After you eat six to eight hours, it goes into your blood and it floats in your blood. And that's what is float in the blood vessels is Food, you are what you eat and probably your sex life is what you eat as well. And let's go over the list of food that cause inflammation. Sugar. We all know that. I love sugar too, but I try to limit it because it cause inflammation. Fried flour, like anything that's fried, that is dipped in flour. Corn oil is inflammatory. Cooking in corn oil or refined flour, like white flour, anything that is like bread or pastry or breaded meat. Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and saccharin. Stevia is okay. Artificial additive, those are chemicals, they harm your body. Saturated fat and trans fat. And I'll tell you exactly what that is later on. Saturated fat are actually the food that we shouldn't be eating. So if you see in this picture, saturated fat or butter, cheese, red meat, pork, baked foods, milk and coconut oil, those are saturated fat. And then the trans fat, which are the bad fat, are fast food, frozen pizza, vegetable oil, margarine, again, baked food, processed food and bread. So let's go back. So those are saturated fat and trans fat. Interestingly, according to a study, grain fed meat. Grain fed meat, like I see that in the store a lot. And you would think, oh, grain fed meat, that's healthy. Not necessarily because the grain fed meat, they're grown in a farm, but they're fed with grain. So they're filled with antibiotics and hormones to make the chicken or the cow grow faster so they can be made into the meat that we eat. They look at chickens and cows and pigs in 2023 compared to 19. They're a lot bigger now than they were in the 50s because they're being fed with antibiotics and hormones to make them grow quicker. Animals usually don't eat grain. They eat in the wild, vegetables and protein from other animals. Then processed meat. Processed meat are like the salami, the bologna, those are the processed meat. And then too much alcohol is another one. How much alcohol? Probably no more than a drink a day or less than 10 drinks a week. That's including beer and heart hard liquor. Interestingly, champagne is the least of sugar. And then the next least is white wine and the next one is red wine. And then next is beer. And then the most sugar are the liquor, like the vodka and the gin and tequila, but the least one is champagne. So something to consider. And then of course, fast food. McDonald's, Burger King, taco Bell. Why is that? Because they have a lot of saturated fat and trans fat, like I talk about right here. That's why they taste so good. But the good fat is the unsaturated fat, unsaturated fat mean that you can tell because it's not greasy when you hold onto it or eat it. And they're healthy. So what are saturated fat? Avocado, flax meal, walnut, sea vegetables, hemp seed, chia seed and olive. Like a Mediterranean salad. I ate a Mediterranean salad yesterday. It was delicious. And it had all those components. And I added grilled salmon on top of that as well too. And talk about the food that fight inflammation. So these are good food that you should be eating is tomatoes, nuts, olive oil, berries, cherries, oranges, leafy greens or lettuce, fatty fish like salmon, avocado, turmeric, ginger, hot spices and garlic. And you can make any recipe with those ingredients on there. It's really from treating thousands of men, I can tell you this, it's all about the carb. Not so much the fat, but it's all about the carb. Because guys, when you eat carb, say you eat that pastry, that donut in the morning, it spike up your blood sugar and then you keep continuously, let's say you eat chips and then french fry and then a hamburger and spike up your blood sugar, your insulin gets released, but then it stop working out as well. And then the carbohydrate become the fat in your love handles or your chest, and those become inflammatory. When it becomes inflammatory, that's when it reduces your blood flow. And what I find out in working with thousands of men is at the moment they decrease their carbohydrate intake of just reducing sodas and bread and pasta and pastries and dessert, their blood sugar drop, their hemoglobin A1C drop, which is a measure of your blood sugar drop. And then their testosterone increases and they actually lose weight, but they have more energy and guess what? Their morning would return. And they find that they are firmer with their erection. If you really want to have better erection, then decrease the carb rather than the fat content of your food. Because I think it's all about the carb is what's contributing to an elevated high blood sugar, sugar, insulin resistance, and also the carbohydrate can also drive up your bad cholesterol, which is your VLDL and the LDL at this point, and I wanted to add this on here, the reason why the carbohydrate is bad is because when you eat it, it spike your blood sugar. And what are the one that are not so good? The white bread, the sodas, ice cream and french fries and the dessert pasta. It's because it spike up your blood sugar and then you have a drop in your blood sugar and then you get hungry and then you want to eat it again versus eating like beans and nuts and avocado. It doesn't spike up your blood sugar as high and it keep your blood sugar steady so that way you don't get as hungry as quickly and you don't have that drop in your blood sugar and therefore your pancreas don't have to secrete so much insulin and so it's not stressing out your pancreas. So having said that, guys, it's all about the sugar. If you have to cut down, one thing is the sugar. I will guarantee you start doing that in a few weeks. You're going to start seeing a morning wood, start seeing a change in your cholesterol will decrease, your blood sugar decrease. So try to do that and let me know how you do. I would really appreciate if you find this content valuable to like and subscribe. Subscribe and let me know you have any questions. And just know that sexual longevity is possible. That you can live more, love more, and be happy.
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