Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Knowledge Is Power: Uncovering the Causes of ED Before Starting Meds

1 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A short clinician-led YouTube segment (by Anne Truong MD) advising patients to investigate physical causes of erectile dysfunction (ED) before starting ED medications. The speaker lists common physical contributors—high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, poor sleep, smoking, excess alcohol, inactivity, and poor diet—and recommends modifying these (stop smoking, moderate alcohol, sleep ~7 hours/night, adopt a Mediterranean diet, and do high-intensity interval exercise ~3 hours/week) to improve blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar and potentially avoid ED and related medications.

Questions this video answers

High-intensity interval exercise, three hours a week.

Drinking more than two alcoholic drinks a day.

About seven hours of sleep per night.

Chapters

Before you take ED medication, you should look at why you're having ed. And if you have the physical cause of ed, it's usually from high blood pressure, usually from diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity. You're not exercising, you're eating a poor diet, you're not sleeping seven hours at night, or you're smoking, or you're drinking more than two alcohol drinks a day. And if you work on modifying those factors, such as sleeping better, stop smoking, moderate your alcohol, and eating a Mediterranean diet and exercise, do high intensity interval exercise, three hours a week. You're actually probably going to lower your blood pressure, lower your cholesterol, and probably improve your blood sugar. You don't even need to be on diabetes medication, high blood pressure medicine, or high cholesterol medicine, and therefore, you don't even need to take ED medication.