Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The Vascular Link between Diabetes and ED #diabetes #ed #diabetesanded #viral #shorts #menshealth

16 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Short explanatory segment describing how diabetes-related vascular dysfunction leads to erectile dysfunction: impaired endothelium reduces nitric oxide production, preventing blood vessels from relaxing and limiting blood flow into the penis, resulting in weak or lost erections. The speaker uses a hose/hole analogy to illustrate reduced blood flow.

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As you know ed it means less blood flow or decreased blood flow. That means that the blood vessel is not expanding to allow more blood flow into the penis. And that's why you have ED and that's why when you get an erection, you lose it. Or that's why when you're not getting a firm erection, it's because the blood vessel here cannot open up and to allow increasing blood flow. Imagine, like, you have a hole this big. You get more water output, right? You have a hose that's small. You have less water output, but endothelium become impaired, and that's what's causing less nitrous oxide. The blood vessels not relaxed, and therefore you're not getting enough blood in. So that's the vascular portion of why diabetes or high blood sugar cause the blood lining to be dysfunctional.