How Everyday Products Lower Nitric Oxide and Impact Erection Quality
11 Jul 2025 · 12 min
Dr. Anne Truong explains how fluoride in toothpaste, antacid medications, and certain dietary habits lower nitric oxide levels and harm erectile function. She recommends the Mediterranean diet and intermittent fasting to restore nitric oxide production and sexual performance.
This podcast is for you. The modern man. I'm Dr. Anne Truong, 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.
Do you know there are three things that you are doing that will sabotage your erection. Stop doing it or consider lessening it. Let's dive into this. I'm Dr. Anne Truong. I'm a sexual health specialist. I've treated over 7,000 men with ED. What's the first one, the one that you use every day that you don't even know about that is really maybe killing your erection? First thing is fluoride mouthwash, mouthwash that has fluoride in it. What it does is that when it has fluoride in your mouthwash, it kills the bacteria in your mouth, which you need because the bacteria in your mouth will help you make nitrate. Nitrate then become nitric oxide in your bloodstream. And nitric oxide help open up blood vessels for more blood flow and blood flow everywhere, particularly down where you need it the most, in your penis to help you with your erection. But if you use the mouthwash here, that will decrease the nitric oxide content and therefore bad blood flow. So number two is your everyday toothpaste. The toothpaste that you use every day. If it has fluoride in it, it is gonna decrease your nitric oxide content. Again, fluoride does the same thing that the mouthwash does. If the fluoride toothpaste does the same thing as the mouthwash is that it kills the bacteria in your mouth. And you guys know we need bacteria in our body in order for us to digest our food, for us to make necessary vitamins in our body. So therefore, when you use fluoride toothpaste, you're gonna decrease your nitric oxide content, which then decrease blood flow, which is not good for the erection. Then what the heck is number four? Well, number four, that's what I'm using too. I have, and my husband have an ulcer. So we have to take a medicine like an antacid medicine here, which is omeprazole, which decreases the production of the acid in our stomach. So that way it doesn't irritate the ulcer. But when you decrease the acid in your stomach, you make less nitric oxide because you need the acid in your stomach to convert it to nitric oxide. And when I'm going to be finished with this in about a few weeks, and then I'll stop taking and I'll start replenishing my nitric oxide. So let's say you go, well, I need that medicine. I have an ulcer, I have reflux. Well, oftentimes if you have an ulcer or reflux, then it's because of stress or it's also diet related as well. So you're like, okay, Dr. Ann, all right. I you talk about not taking fluoride mouthwash. You can get a non fluoride mouthwash. You can check the link down here below. The products I recommend that doesn't have no fluoride mouthwash and you can get that on Amazon. And then number two, you can buy non fluoride toothpaste as well. I myself use non fluoride toothpaste. Check the link down below. I use that every day as well as non fluoride mouthwash. Then you say, well, I need my antacid medicine or else I'm not going to feel good. Whereas there are things that you can do to help heal those symptoms of either reflux or ulcer is to be on a Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet is a diet that focuses on more vegetables and lean meat. And when you eat vegetables and lean meat, it will actually decrease the acid production in your stomach. So that way you're not getting that reflux and so that will kind of help with acidity. And Mediterranean diet, it focuses on fruit as well, which then is not less irritating on the stomach lining. And Mediterranean diet is also anti inflammatory so it help with healing as well. And inflammation just not good for your healing and not good for your blood flow as well too. So it's also good for increasing blood flow. Okay, modern man, you are not alone and you don't have to suffer anymore. Ed can feel isolating, frustrating and even defeating. The endless guessing, the quiet shame, the weight of not feeling like yourself. It's exhausting. But here's the truth. You are not broken. You are not alone. You don't have to figure this out alone anymore. The Get Wood Now Boost program is your step by step path to sexual confidence and restoration. No more suffering in silence. No more trial and error. Just real solution, real result and the confidence you deserve. It's time to take back your power on your term. Let's get this journey started together. Check out the course@getwoodnow.com I'll see you there. Along with the Mediterranean diet, you can also add intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting means that you just stop eating for a certain length of hours at a time. Most of the time we recommend 12 hours. Meaning if you stop eating after 8pm and start eating at 8am when you wake up, what happens if you don't eat at night? Then your stomach not going to have any food in it and it's going to stop secreting acids. So it will help with the reflux symptoms at night as well too. You could certainly drink water. Just no food. Try to work up to 16 hours. But also when you do, intermittent fasting will also give your body the opportunity to kind of clean up the dead cells in the body and to heal and replenish yourself again. Another thing you can do is that all of this, you know, the reason why you can't use mouthwash or the fluoride mouthwash or the fluoride toothpaste or the antacids such as Omeprazole, Pepcid, Zantac and Nexium, is that it decreases nitric oxide. Well, you can kind of go around that by taking nitric oxide supplements like the one that we recommend here. Check out our store, Modelman Crib store here where you can get some nitric oxide. So you can actually take nitric oxide supplements. It was two a day that I recommend, which then will increase your nitric oxide in the body. In the next episode, we're going to talk about how you can measure your nitric oxide content as well. So you can supplement this, but also in your diet along with the Mediterranean diet. The vegetables that you eat, such as beet, such as spinach and lettuce and cabbage, all those are very good in nitric oxide as well. Fruits like watermelons are good in nitric oxide, which is great. So you can add that in your diet. Take the supplement. Decreased the use of fluoride mouthwash, decreased use of fluoride toothpaste, and by that time you probably don't need the antacid anymore. And therefore you can get off of this and then enjoy the benefit of taking one less medicine like myself. So just three things that you are doing probably every day that you are not even aware that you're sabotaging and kind of killing your erection. But guys, if you have ed, you need everything in your your favor to make sure that you're not sabotaging your erection, that you want to do everything you can to improve your erection. So most of the time it's doing simple Things like I just mentioned at this time and combine that with sleep, seven hours sleep at night and doing the breathing exercise. Check out my breathing video where I talk about five minutes of breathing would decrease your stress for the day. I'm not talking you doing woo woo things or things like that, just five minutes of breathing. Check out that video and just know there are simple things that you can do in everyday life that will go a long way towards getting your sex life back again. So it will mean the world to me if you subscribe to the channel, but let me know what your thoughts are, shared it with somebody that you think will benefit from from this information and just know you have ed. You do not have to suffer alone. You are not broken. You just need to know what you need to do. That's why we created the Modern Man Club. A discreet and safe space where men with ED gather with me and we all work together on how you can have ED Breakthrough. Go towards Sexual Confidence where I give you practical strategies and answer your question. Check it out here. Or you can go to noedman.com and just know that you are supported, that there are solutions and so I will see you in the next episode. Take care. Okay Modern Man. You are not alone and you don't have to suffer anymore. ED can feel isolating, frustrating and even defeating. The endless guessing, the quiet shame, the weight of not feeling like yourself. It's exhausting. But here's the truth. You are not broken. You are not alone. And you don't have to figure this out alone anymore. The Get Wood Now Bush program is your step by step path to sexual confidence and restoration. No more suffering in silence. No more trial and error. Just real solution, real result and the confidence you deserve. It's time to take back your power on your term. Let's get this journey started together. Check out the course@getwoodnow.com I'll see you there.
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