In this episode of the Sexual Health for Men podcast, Dr. Anne Truong (MD) and a co‑host discuss erectile dysfunction (ED) with a focus on a pervasive vitamin D deficiency. She claims that 99 % of men with ED are low in vitamin D and explains how to test for it (25‑hydroxyvitamin D, or 25‑D) without a doctor’s order, what the normal range looks like, and how to interpret results. Dr. Truong outlines three delivery methods—oral (≈2,000 IU daily), sublingual, and high‑dose weekly injections (≈50,000 IU)—and stresses the importance of re‑testing after six weeks. She then presents a minimal daily supplement stack: a quality multivitamin (providing zinc), vitamin D3, a nitric‑oxide source (arugula), and a testosterone‑support product called Libido Plus, with optional magnesium for sleep or cramps. The conversation shifts to broader lifestyle changes: adopting a Mediterranean diet, regular exercise, mindset coaching, and using devices such as a penis pump and Kegel trainer. A detailed case study of a 57‑year‑old member (named “Robert”) who had a stroke, uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c 11.8), and severe ED illustrates how following the program lowered his HbA1c to 7, reduced weight, restored morning erections, and improved overall vitality. Dr. Truong also mentions a premium “Get Hard” in‑office protocol (stem cells, shockwave, Botox, hormones) priced around $16 k for high‑income men, and promotes the Modern Man Club community, her online stores (NoEDMan.com, ednomore.com), and free resources (book, podcast). The episode ends with a call to action to subscribe, share, and claim a free guide.
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Did you know that 99% of men struggling with ED share the exact same vitamin deficiency? The crazy part is most guys are wasting money on random pills without ever getting the one simple blood test that uncovers the problem. Today I am going to show you the specific vitamin your erections are starving for, how to get tested without a doctor's order, and the only 4 daily supplements You actually need to fix your blood flow.
This podcast is for you, the modern man. I'm Dr. Anne Truong, your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and bestselling author of the book Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get started and be sure to visit my website at sexualhealthformenpodcast.com For more information and resources from the show. See you on the inside.
First of all, you can get blood work that will show you whether you're low in vitamin D or not. So 99% of us are low in vitamin D. Vitamin D comes from vegetables. I'm low in vitamin D. And so I don't eat enough vegetables. You need to eat 5 servings of vegetables a day. I don't eat enough vegetables as well. If you're going to take a supplement, make sure you get blood work done.
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Blood work done is called D25 or D3, which is the blood work called D25. So get your blood work measured. You should be around 50. The range is between 30 to 60. It should be around 45, 50. And if you're below 40, I recommend that you take vitamin D3, D like a dog and number 3. All right. Vitamin D3, at least about 2,000 units, international units, 2,000 IU a day. So if you take that and in about 6 weeks, get your blood work measured and you can see it go up or not at all. Because when you take it orally, your stomach has to absorb it, and then your body has to absorb it as well. It depends on the lining of your stomach. What if everything you've been told about fixing performance issues, it's backwards? No pills, no surgery, just a medically proven path to getting your confidence and edge back for good. Discover what thousands of men are doing inside the private brotherhood of the Modern Man Club. Go to noedmed.com. I'll see you there. Some of my patients need injections of vitamin D3 once a week, and we give 50,000 units of vitamin D3 injection once a week for that. And if you're near an office that gives you injection, you can take vitamin D3 as sublingual, where you put it underneath your tongue and let it melt so that way it bypasses the stomach. So that one you can get as injection. Injection also bypass the stomach. But if you're going to take orally through the mouth and you take about 2,000 units first, get your blood work measured and see where is it. You don't need a doctor's order to get your blood work measured. You can just walk to the lab yourself. You don't need blood work order. All right. You can go to LabCorp, you go to Quest, you go to Anytime Lab and get your blood work done. You can even self-pay for that. In fact, self-pay for it is probably even cheaper than going through insurance. So I do have a video talk about vitamin D3 and ED. Quick note before we go any further, if you're a high-income man, usually the age between 45 to 85, and you're ready to invest to fix your ED without relying on pills or surgery, I have the Get Hard Protocol in-office program where we treat you in Virginia. We combine stem cells, shockwave, Botox, hormones, and lifestyle to help restore natural erection. It's not for everyone. You must be able to travel to Virginia and be comfortable investing around $16,000 for your health. If that's you, pause this video for a moment, click the link down below in the description that says Get ED Breakthrough with Dr. Anne and complete the application. If you're not in that position yet, no problem. Keep enjoying this video and check out our Modern Man Club at NoEDMan.com. Interestingly, 99% of men that have ED have low vitamin D3. 99%, almost everyone. But the good part is you can supplement it, and you can get D3 from oysters. You can get D3 from vegetables as well. And you need the sun to get your vitamin D3. So that's why we're deficient. We're not out in the sun. You need to be out in the sun for at least 20 minutes to turn into D3. But you don't have to stand in the sun. You can drive with the moonroof open. You get the sun rays. You can drive, or you can put your arm out. Like this, as long as your arm is exposed to the sun. You're in your house, you can put your arm out through the window. You don't have to put your whole entire body out. Okay? But you need the sun for at least 20 minutes for your body to convert to D3. Now, there's also a prescription-strength pill that is called calcitriol, which is D2, that you can take. It's a prescription. You take it once a week. And when you take D2, your body has to convert it to D3. And that's another step. So I'm not a big fan of that, but if you need to, you can take the D2. But I would suggest to buy over-the-counter vitamin D3. We have vitamin D3 in our store at ednomore.com. So check it out at ednomore.com. It's our store. We do have vitamin D3 for you all. And that's in 2,000 units. All right. But get your blood work to know where you're at because you don't know where you're at if you take the supplement. You don't know whether it's going to be effective or not because when you take the supplement orally, your stomach has to dissolve it. And sometimes you have too much acid in your stomach. Sometimes you have too low acid in your stomach. You may not dissolve everything. And your intestine has to absorb it also. So you're depending upon your stomach, your intestine to try to absorb that. So sometimes it may not be 100% effective. Okay? My best suggestion is to get Measured. And zinc, you can take about 200 milligrams. Honestly, if you take a multivitamin and it has enough zinc in there for you to take daily, you don't need to take it separately. So you take a good multivitamin, it has zinc in there, that's all you need. Again, we have multivitamin in our store at ednomore.com. It has everything you need in there. You don't need to take a separate zinc. So what are the essential? Let's go over this. What are the essential vitamins that you need to take, guys? Because I hear this all the time. I'm getting asked questions. Do I need to take this XYZ vitamins? So The essential vitamin that for a man, especially you guys with ED, is take a good multivitamin. Check out our store for that. Vitamin D3, which we have. You take nitric oxide that is from arugula, and then Libido Plus, which are the component that will help raise up your testosterone. Those are the 4 that you need. That is all you need on a daily basis. You don't need anything else. You don't need to take additional zinc. You don't need to take anything else. Those are the 4 things that you need. Now, sometimes you may need a little magnesium. To sleep better and so forth, but you don't need magnesium unless you have difficulty with sleep or muscle cramps. But you just need those four to start out with. Okay, really those four to start out with at this point, and you don't need anything else. Again, we have it at ED No More store and check it out. Now that I talk about, we should bundle that together. Check it out. Go to ED No More. We're going to bundle that together and put that together for you all. You don't need anything else. Trust me, it's all you need. Right? The four essential. vitamins that you need for men with ED. I hear questions about this and that and that all the time. You really don't need anything else. You just give your body what it needs to heal. And I'm going to reiterate again, no one supplement is going to fix your ED. It will not. All right. It takes multiple systems because ED involves multiple systems. And ED is the breakdown of blood flow. It's a breakdown of blood vessels. It's the breakdown of hormones, the breakdown of nerve. It's the breakdown of what you're doing in your lifestyle that is affecting it. So in order to fix it, it takes a whole system, multi-step ways for you to fix it. But you can fix it. That's where we dive deep in the Modern Man Club to give you the roadmap to get there. All right. I assure you, if you follow step by step, In 90 days, you will see results. You can go to NoEDMan.com to check it out. We have a member. He is 57. He had a stroke. He's paralyzed on one side. He has a horrible diet. He's diabetic. He has high blood pressure. He has high cholesterol. And his hemoglobin A1C is 11.8. Now, hemoglobin A1C, you're diabetic, it shouldn't be more than 7. Anytime you're in the range between 6.2 or above, you're a diabetic. You're pre-diabetic when you're at 5.7, 5.8 to 6.2, but you are diagnosed a diabetic if you're anywhere above 6.2 hemoglobin A1c. He is at 11, and he's been a long-time diabetic. He already had a stroke. So I already know that he has endothelial dysfunction. He had blood vessel problem pretty severe. He'd been in our Modern Man Club. He'd been following the roadmap that we give him for 90 days. He started the Mediterranean diet. He attends every session with our nutrition coach. He attended the exercise session and the mindset session. He's had ED for at least 10 years, had not had any intimacy in at least 5 years. This is a guy that had hemoglobin A1C of 11, cholesterol 250 on statins, and he had a stroke. He joined the program. He was committed to changing his life because he's still fairly a young man. He's late 50s. And he's single. He wants to date again. Well, guess what? He's been following the program. His hemoglobin A1C went from 11.8 now to 7, which is remarkable for him. He's never been at 7 because he changed his diet and he started walking again for 30 minutes every day. He changed his diet, his hemoglobin A1C came down, and he has more energy. He looks younger. He's happier. He also lost about 10 pounds. He's also waking up now with morning wood.
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He's waking up with morning wood now that he'd never had before. Of course, he's also doing the penis pump and he takes all 4 supplements that I just talked about and he does his homework with the penis pump and the Kegel machine. So you have the equipment to take your penis to the gym. And now I'm giving you the roadmap also in the Modern Man Club to get there. Now, this is a man that already had a stroke. That means that he has severe blood flow problems because when you have the stroke up here, that means you already have heart problems and you definitely have ED. Because it's all blood vessel problem, he reverses his blood sugar status from 11 down to 7. And those of you that are diabetic, know what I mean when I say hemoglobin A1c. Because if you have diabetes, you go see the doctor, the doctor is going to get on your case about hemoglobin A1c, right? Because hemoglobin A1c represents your blood sugar within the last 90 days. So that's why it's an important blood test to measure, and it tells the doctor what your blood sugar has been versus just the fasting glucose. That's just a 1-day measure in time when you're fasting. So the point I'm trying to make here is that one of the members, let's just call him Robert, one of the members came in with severe ED and a stroke, and now he's able to slowly reverse that by bringing down his blood sugar by following the program. And now he's starting to have morning wood. When it starts to have morning wood, that tells me that the plumbing, the connection is awakening and that it's going to start working. Plumbing is working. That means that the engine is still there. It's still working. It's not dead. The engine is there. We just need to polish it. We need to take out the parts and clean it up, but the engine is still there. When you have morning wood, it tells me that the plumbing is still there. It just needs to be polished. So if Robert can get boarding wood again after having a stroke, after having ED for 10 years, after having a hemoglobin A1C of 11.8, well, if he can do it, you can do it as well. And all he did was he made a choice that he isn't going to live with ED. He joined the Modern Man Club and he attends every meeting. He does everything that we recommend. And guess where he's at? He's happier now. I saw him last week. He looked like he aged 10 years. It's amazing what just changing your diet will do for you. And this is a real story, guys.
This is real.
Robert is real. Well, I changed his name, but he is real. And he is a member of our Modern Man Club at NoEDMan.com. Okay, modern man, if you're struggling with weak erection, low energy, the food you eat could be the big part of the problem. One of the best research-backed ways to boost circulation, support healthy testosterone, and improve sexual performance is the Mediterranean diet. It's packed with foods that open up your blood vessels, lower inflammation, and fuel your hormones naturally. I've seen men notice real improvements in both energy and erections within weeks when they shift to this style of eating. So, Check out this Mediterranean diet link right here below and get that as soon as you can. Stronger testosterone and better erection.
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