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Impaired Blood Flow and Erectile Dysfunction #shorts #hypertension #highbloodpressure #viralshorts

26 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Anne Truong MD explaining how high blood pressure damages the endothelium (the blood-vessel lining), reducing nitric oxide production, which impairs blood flow. The clip links this impaired blood flow to difficulty achieving erections because more blood flow is required for penile tumescence.

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How high blood pressure affect the blood vessel. Remember I keep been telling you the endothelium. The endothelium? The lining of the blood vessels. Well, when you have blood pressure that is high, it damages the endothelium or the endothelial lining of the blood vessel. When this happens, you produce less nitric oxide. When you produce less nitric oxide, therefore you have impair blood flow and you need more blood flow to the penis to have an erection.