What proportion of ED does the speaker attribute to physical versus psychological causes?

Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

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31 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Anne Truong MD advising that erectile dysfunction (ED) should be managed by treating underlying causes rather than only symptoms. The speaker cites R. Kaplan to argue that, except for medical conditions that restrict blood flow, blood flow to the penis will decrease with age or disease and clinicians should identify causes such as poor vascular flow, performance anxiety, or depression. The speaker asserts that ~90% of ED is physical and ~10% psychological.

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Approximately 90% physical and 10% psychological.

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What R. Kaplan said that I really like is that if you do not have a medical condition that restrict blood flow, it's still going to go down to your penis regardless. So you don't need a medication to bring blood flow to your penis, but you should really take a step backward and look at what condition is causing the decreased blood flow. So treat the disease instead of the symptoms. The symptoms of erectile dysfunction. The disease is perhaps poor blood flow or maybe performance anxiety or depression. As I said before my podcast, 90% of ED is physical and 10% is due to psychological reasoning.