Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The Interplay of Physical and Psychological Factors in Erectile Dysfunction #shorts #viral #nfl

22 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Anne Truong MD discussing how erectile dysfunction (ED) reflects both physical and psychological factors. The speaker frames ED as largely physical (~90% physical, ~10% psychological when isolating primary causes) but emphasizes that psychological responses (performance anxiety after an initial physical failure) can create a feedback loop that worsens or maintains ED — "the brain is a larger sexual organ." Examples of physical contributors mentioned include decreased blood flow from smoking and obesity.

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If you really want to break it down, it's really more 90% physical and 10% psychological. You're going to say a primary cause of the ed, but you can have a physical cause of ed, like decreased blood flow because you're smoking, because you're obese, and then you're not able to perform one time, and then that lead to a couple of times, and the next time you're thinking about it, it becomes psychological. Exactly. And then the division cycle that starts so it interrelate. But if you're going to say the primary cause of ed, you're going to remove the physical factors, then it's really 10% psychological. But we know that psychological play into the physical part because the brain is a larger sexual organ. That has always been my biggest idea.