The Sudden Onset of Erectile Dysfunction

On August 1, 2007, Bridge 9340, an eight-lane, steel, truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, MN, collapsed during evening rush hour. Thirteen people were killed, and 145 others were injured. Previously, approximately 140,000 vehicles traversed that span each day. Every day.

That was a Wednesday. What held it up on Tuesday? And how about Monday? And what about the 14,000+ other days, back to the opening of the structure in 1967?

The safety board investigations found that there were some critical design errors inherent in the bridge. But it stood for 40 years! One investigator said, "In the case of these gusset plates at node U-10 [the part of the bridge that failed], there simply was no corrosion to identify in any areas associated with the fracture.” He was saying that they couldn’t “diagnose” any issue in advance of that tragic day that would cause it to fail.

So, a bridge that’s imperfect managed to withstand the load for 40 years, but through the repetitive assault of wheels, and truck vibrations, and dudes playing their radios too loudly, finally after four decades of performance said, “Enough is enough,” and without any outward sign that something was going drastically wrong... it fell limp.

Catastrophic failure can suddenly follow long term abuse. So common is the human experience that we have a cliché. When that last insult occurs, “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

That IS erectile dysfunction. Your ED is the end product of years of you pounding away at your liver and adrenal glands, and your blood vessels and lymphatic system, and to some extent your psyche as well. You do fine, coincidentally enough, for 40 or 50 years, then you fall limp.

What was the straw that broke your “back?” What was the last thing you did before the first time you couldn’t get it up? Well, that it’s not that easy to identify. You’re a biological system. You probably were experiencing some level of diminished performance before you lost the ability to effectively penetrate a vagina at all.

The wonderful thing is that as a biological system you can repair yourself. You can retrieve the function, perhaps not of your 20s, but certainly of any normal guy of 40... without drugs.

The drugs take their toll. I’ll be blogging about “side effects” later on, but for now, please understand that the sub-clinical effects of boner-pills are unknown. Viagra®, the first to hit the market, was introduced in 1998. That’s just over a dozen years. We really don’t know what the effect of regular use of these drugs is going to be on a guy of 50 who would like to live and perform into his eighties or beyond.

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My book is a cafeteria plan of actions you can perform to stave off and prevent sexual failure. You can do just little things to shore up and repair abuses of your body. The advice I provide will keep you healthy enough to have great sex, too!

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