Erectile Dysfunction, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Nitric Oxide

I’ve been asked what part vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements might play in restoring erectile function and perpetuating a healthy sex life.

The erectile process is complex. There are many things that can go wrong in a man’s body to cause erectile dysfunction, so there’s no silver bullet. However, inasmuch as both of the most popular ED drugs, Viagra and Cialis, operate in the same fashion – though from different angles – I’ll take aim at their target as well.

Arguably, the most important activator of erectile function is Nitric Oxide. This is not the same as nitrous oxide, laughing gas, as used by your dentist. Nitric oxide is produced throughout the body. It relaxes the walls of blood vessels, dilating them, and allows increased blood flow. You can see where this is going, right?

Nitric oxide cannot be taken as a pill or liquid supplement. It’s a gas, and a very unstable gas at that. Each molecule – which consists of a single nitrogen atom bound to a single oxygen atom – breaks down in the body about a second after it is produced. Biological processes occur very rapidly, so that’s not a problem; in that second, nitric oxide does its job. In a healthy individual, nitric oxide is being produced in sufficient quantity in a steady stream, so there’s plenty to do what it’s gotta do.

As we age – this is true for women as well as men – less nitric oxide is produced. In our thirties and forties, the decline in the concentration of nitric oxide has reduced markedly, and continues as we get older. It’s a natural process.

There are a few substances that can increase the concentration of nitric oxide in our tissues.

• L-arginine. 

The body breaks down this amino acid and produces nitric oxide through an intermediary, citrulline, which can also be taken as a supplement. 
 

The body produces some arginine, but not enough to sustain you. Academic sources cite that the body does produce enough, but they’re likely presuming that most people eat a healthy diet – one that promotes the production of the full complement of amino acids naturally. We all know that’s just not true.

Supplement your diet with L-arginine, preferably through food sources. It is available from a variety of animals and plants. The ones I’d like to recommend include: chicken and white turkey, halibut, lobster, salmon, and shrimp among the animal donors. Plus, wheat germ, buckwheat, oatmeal, peanuts, pecans, cashews, walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, chick peas, and seeds, including pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower are good sources.

• Folic acid (vitamin B9)

Leafy vegetables are the best food source.

• Anti-oxidants: garlic and green tea are excellent sources.

The importance of anti-oxidants is less about producing nitric oxide and more about preventing its destruction. Oxidants burn up nitric oxide and drop the level in the blood.

• Exercise

A daily routine of physical exercise – sex does not count toward your quota – will increase nitric oxide production throughout the body. Increased blood flow demands that vessels be dilated. The body responds by producing more nitric oxide and the increased production increases the body’s ability to produce more even when you’re not exercising.

L-arginine, folic acid and anti-oxidants can also be taken as supplements. They must be taken every day, not just on occasion, or when you’re feeling “down.” And seek out a high-quality supplement. Not all off-the-shelf brands are the same.

Bonus: if you increase the ambient level of nitric oxide in your body, it will reduce your susceptibility to heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke. More about that another time.

As always, for more about maintaining your erectile muse, and men’s health in general, pick up my book:

2nd Edition updated May 2012 is "NOT just for those with Erectile Dysfunction"

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is for all men who want to keep functioning well  throughout their life. This concise and powerful men’s health guide provides a protocol for how to do everything right.

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

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Nexride “Noseless” Bike Seat Review Gets 4-1/2 Stars

In this blog, I deal with many issues concerning men’s health, with an emphasis on eliminating or preventing Erectile Dysfunction. Back in April, 2011, I posted a discussion warning men how a bad-fitting bicycle seat can injure vessels and nerves essential to erectile function. I pointed out that the nerves that lead to a woman’s most important erogenous organ – her clitoris – also run between the legs and these, too, can be damaged by sliding forward on a conventional bike seat. So, this issue is universal.

I ride about twenty miles, five or six days a week. I’m not a power rider. I spend about an hour and a half road-cycling the treacherous streets of Palm Beach County, Florida. About half my usual route is on the street proper, the other half along broad, well-paved pedestrian paths. Yesterday, I saw a 6-foot alligator in one of the canals. It’s a beautiful ride.

In January, I received an email from Karl Ulrich at Nexride. Keeping up with issues that relate to his business, he had come across my blog posting. He offered me a seat for evaluation. Always willing to take something for nothing, I sent him my address and received the saddle a few days later. Unsure as to whether I needed the new seat, it sat in my garage for a month until I finally installed it. It took me about 6 minutes with 1 tool. For the past week, I’ve been riding with my Nexride.

I was aware and always careful to keep myself up on my pelvic bones – the ischial tuberosities – which are designed by nature to support our weight. The area between genitals and anus – the perineum – is not. It is through this channel – adjacent to the pelvic arch – that the nerves and blood vessels travel from spine to penis/clitoris. Even mild pressure, including through padded biking shorts, can irritate nerves and reduce sensation (men and women), and in men, the irritation of the blood vessels can reduce blood flow and impact one’s potency.

I was aware, as I’ve said, but that doesn’t mean I was truly protecting myself. Five minutes out on my Nexride, I realized that, in spite of my best efforts, I had been terribly abusing my man machine. I said out loud, “Wow! I’m sold.”

Nexride is the bicycle equivalent of going Commando. It is liberating, allowing a level of comfort that I could not have imagined. The seat is not wide, but even for a large-boned guy like me, it supports at those pelvic protuberances perfectly.

Much of my ride is on well paved roads and paths, but some of it is not. There’s the occasional curb-cut, and poorly paved pothole. With Nexride, bumps are not transmitted through to my gonads – no more jolts to the jewels. It was at those moments that I understood that even though I tried not to slide forward on my conventional seat, to some degree I still was.

The Nexride seat swivels, so there is no interference with leg motion. Because I am not a professional rider – not expertly trained – I found myself spreading my legs wide around the “nose” of my conventional bike seat, losing power and increasing exertion.  Without the “nose” my legs face straight forward. I get more efficiency out of every stroke, and there is less strain on my aging hips and knees.

Reality check: Be prepared to adjust the seat several times on that first ride. Because the mount is a little different, you won’t be able to eyeball the positioning. Static sitting, or a quick circle around the driveway isn’t going to work either. Ride a mile or so, then stop, make the adjustment, and continue on. Once you find the “sweet spot” you shouldn’t have to do that again.

Also, it took me a couple of rides to get used to the pressure on those pelvic bones... another demonstration that I was not seated properly on my previous seat. And it just feels different. You must allow yourself two or three rides just to become accustomed to the feel of the seat. Once past the “getting used to it” stage, it’s the most natural ride in the world.

Bottom line: The overall experience is terrific, and I would be loath to go back to a conventional seat.

So, why only 4-1/2 stars (out of 5)? 

First, in reviewing Nexride’s web site, I had to read “Noseless” three times. I thought it said “Noiseless.” Didn’t make sense to me. I always called that thing a “Tongue.” Okay, that’s a bit of wishful thinking, but it cost them a quarter of a point. 

 

Second, I don’t give anything 5 stars, except for Monique G., a French-Canadian woman with whom  I spent a glorious week back about 1975 (yeah, I’m that old). Monique, if you’re out there...

Note: take a close look at the name. It’s  N  E  X  R  I  D  E. There's no “T” in there.

 

Rating: Nexride gets top marks and my highest recommendation. 

Visit http://www.Nexride.com for more info and to order. Today!

 

As always, for more about maintaining your erectile muse, and men’s health in general, pick up my book:

2nd Edition updated May 2012.

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is not just for those with ED, but for all men who want to keep functioning throughout their life. This concise and powerful men’s health guide provides a protocol for how to do everything right.

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

Also available in all eBook formats for immediate download: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65109.

Strong Women Need Strong Men

Ladies,

An overall men's health guide that will keep your man totally healthy -- in bed and out. The simple "cafeteria plan" of lifestyle modifications is not a one-size-fits-all. Help your guy choose those dietary and exercise habits that he'll find easiest to do... then introduce some others. 

He will become the man you deserve. This is not just about sex... it's about all the time you spend together. It's about improving his attitude toward you and all of life. It's about making him live longer and happier... so that you will, too.

 
2nd edition
May 2012 updated and enhanced.
  
 

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Andropause - Male Menopause

NOTE: I get a bit wordy in this posting. But you've arrived here seeking to overcome a challenge, so take the extra minute or two to read it through. You need all the information and understanding you can get.

Men and women are the same but different. Overall anatomy, physiology – the function of anatomy – and biochemistry are almost identical. An aspirin, antibiotic, or diabetes treatment in men will work basically the same and as well as in women.

Even some of the sex organs are more similar than most people recognize. Women have as much erectile tissue as men, it’s just inside rather than exposed. The nerves that give that special sensation to the head of the penis are wired to the exact same place in a woman’s brain from her clitoris. The sensation of orgasm is the same in women as in men, though women do have a distinct advantage in the rapidity with which they can recharge for a second, third... you get the idea.

But when it comes to reproduction, men and women are distinct – almost to the point of being different creatures. If you’re old enough to be reading this, you understand the contribution men make to reproduction, and the greater contribution to the species – gestation – borne by women.

Newborn humans are the only animals brought into this world in a state of complete disorientation. All other animals can walk, cling to mothers, or feed independently from the moment of birth. Only human babies need to be nurtured for several years – a significant percentage of their lives – before achieving a state of independence sufficient to allow them to survive to also reproduce. With this reliance on maternal care – especially in pre-industrialized society where breast milk was the only food on which an infant could survive – one can clearly see that the survival of a child depended entirely on the survival of the mother.

In the 21st century, ninety year old women should not give birth as the likelihood of them living long enough to nurture their child to independence is small. But back when the biology of the mother-child relationship was being established, women over thirty should not have born children for the exact same reason.

Tens of thousands of years ago, when the life expectancy of humans was perhaps thirty-five years, nature learned to turn off the reproductive machinery in women above a certain age because the metabolic burden on a woman’s body of menstruation became too great for her aging body. She needed to live longer – but without new reproduction – to assist in the survival of her children to pubescence and the beginning of their own reproductive lives. The cessation of the monthly cycle has evolved to occur later in life, as life expectancy increased. Now, most women experience menopause near fifty years of age.

Men, on the other hand, can reproduce until their death. The number of people in a population is determined by the number of women – active uteri – not by the number of penises. It just doesn’t matter whether a man can or can’t reproduce. The biological burden of sperm production is negligible and has no downside.

So, why is there andropause? Within the medical community there is a debate as to whether andropause even exists. The promoters – those who consider it a distinct condition – point to reduced levels of testosterone and loss of activity in cells that produce a spectrum of male sexual hormones. The symptoms include loss of libido, depression, nervousness, inability to concentrate, fatigue and a few others. In this regard, symptomologically, andropause is a close parallel to menopause.

The opponents of considering andropause as a distinct condition cite most often the failure of andropause to shut down the male reproductive system as menopause does in women. A woman that is still producing eggs and menstruating at eighty will be elevated to a level of a very special oddity in the medical community. A man who sires a child at eighty, is just a very rich old man.

I side with those that do not accept andropause as a condition, and I take it one step further: Those symptoms that proponents would identify as male menopause are the exact same symptoms as are found in much younger men who are just not healthy.

Poor eating habits, a lifestyle devoid of physical activity, and the cumulative effects of taking prescription drugs to deal with other health issues take their toll. People take medication to address metabolic issues brought about by their terrible diets and lack of exercise. By themselves, testosterone levels will be reduced, adrenal glands – that direct almost all hormone production in the body – will be impacted, and brain chemistry is tilted out of balance causing the symptoms some wish to identify as andropause. The drugs taken to adjust cholesterol, blood sugar, heart rate, blood density and chemistry, all stress the adrenal glands and put the body further out of kilter.

And these all occur later in life, when men are at about the same age as women who experience menopause. Our egalitarian bent in the Western world is to make men and women equal. Men and women are the same but different. And this is one of those differences. Women have a biological, genetically defined cessation of reproductive ability to which medical science has applied the moniker "menopause." To try to twist the symptoms that men experience that are the result of entirely other causes – lifestyle not genetics – is scientifically wrong. Women have their menses. Men do not. No amount of political correctness or negotiation is going to change that.

But men still experience “andropause.” While women have an advantage in the orgasm department, we have an advantage when it comes to our libido. We don’t have to lose our desire or ability to enjoy sex. As an aside, women don’t have to either and they don’t need HRT; they just need to work a little more at it, but that’s a topic for someone else's blog.

I have written a manuscript describing what men can do to prolong their desire and ability to perform – and admirably at that – in the bedroom. It is a cafeteria plan of lifestyle alterations. Within that list, every man can find some small concessions that will stave off erectile dysfunction, or restore ability lost to diminished erectile function. I also suggest some simple exercises, just 10 minutes a day, which will promote erectile health.

Read the book and avoid the pitfalls of a make-believe disease, andropause, which can lead to complete erectile dysfunction.

2nd Edition updated May 2012 is "NOT just for those with Erectile Dysfunction"

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is for all men who want to keep functioning well  throughout their life. This concise and powerful men’s health guide provides a protocol for how to do everything right.

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

Also available in iBooks, Kobo, Sony and all eBook formats for immediate download:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65109.

Erectile Dysfunction: Do you lose it before you can use it?

One of the most common forms of erectile dysfunction is what I call the Transitory Stiffy, TS. Your woman arouses you by touch – or by just her very presence – and you engage and penetrate. Then you lose your erection while making love. Sometimes you just soften a bit, other times you lose it all the way to involuntary withdrawal. You feel like you’re trying to shoot pool with a rope.

It's the most embarrassing type of ED. Your woman has high hopes for the thrill and you punk out after she's gotten aroused.

There’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news, of course, is that you can’t keep an erection. The good news is that because you were able to get hard for a while to begin with, your basic erectile mechanism is intact and there’s still hope for you. First, let’s take a very brief look at the biology of boners.

Your penis is a big sponge wrapped in a closed tube. There’s a valve that allows blood into the sponge to fill it up and make it grow. There’s another valve that closes the outlet from the tube so that the blood is trapped inside. That makes it hard. All this is controlled by nerves that connect to your spine and carry messages up to and back from your brain. Even in the absence of her touching you, you can go from fully at rest to erect in moments:

“... your woman exits the shower, that single drop of water dangling from a nipple made erect by the cool air conditioned breeze wafting across her wet breasts... the image induces a cascade of thoughts in your brain and without any physical contact...”

Your brain sends a message to your penis that open the inflow, close the outflow, and in moments you’re on your way to a full woody.

The biochemistry is complex and far beyond our discussion here, but one of the most important compounds that regulates your erection is a very simple molecule called Nitric Oxide. NO – one nitrogen atom attached to one oxygen atom – it is not the same as nitrous oxide (NO2) which your dentist uses, so don’t expect to get a boner while in her chair unless, of course, she worked her way through dental school as a dancer. But I digress.

Viagra does its magic by increasing the concentration of NO in your lower body. The problem with depending on erectile dysfunction drugs is that at some point in your later life, you’re likely to need to take other life-prolonging  medications that will prohibit you from taking boner pills – Viagra, Cialis or any of the others – so you want to eliminate your problem without the need for them now, so there's no conflict later on.

Reducing and ultimately eliminating inflammation in your body is the key. You know what inflammation is. That’s the irritation, the redness and soreness around a pimple or boil, a cut, abrasion or even a sunburn. If you have TS or any other symptoms of ED, then you undoubtedly have sub-clinical inflammation in your body. The walls of your veins and arteries are likely inflamed, and the walls of these vessels produce a large amount of the NO in your body. They become irritated and they stop generating the life giving NO that your pecker so desperately needs.

How to deflame? There are some big offenders that directly irritate the walls of blood vessels and other organs. Caffeine, alcohol, refined sugar, foreign chemicals such as food dyes, carbonated beverages, artificial sweeteners, and chlorine and fluorine in drinking water all assault the tissues of your body. Eliminate them and your body will rapidly move toward a greater state of health... that is... just in time for you to kill yourself because life itself will be rendered unlivable.

Bad news and good news. Bad news: I can’t explain how you can comfortably adopt a lifestyle that will detoxify your body and return erectile function without the use of drugs in a blog posting. Good news: I’ve written it all down in a concise, easy to read manual.

I present a cafeteria plan of options to wean you off of the greatest offenders, reducing your intake without eliminating it altogether. You can still enjoy the things that currently make life interesting AND get back your ability to retain an erection during sex. But you’ve gotta read the book. It’s an eBook and if you don’t have a reader, you can get a free app that will allow you to read it on your computer, tablet or smart phone. It’s just a few bucks and may save your life including the most enjoyable parts of it.

Do it now!

2nd Edition updated May 2012.

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is not just for those with ED, but for all men who want to keep functioning throughout their life. This concise and powerful men’s health guide provides a protocol for how to do everything right.

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

Also available in all eBook formats for immediate download: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65109.

Does Erectile Dysfunction Cause Erectile Dysfunction?

Okay, bear with me for a moment and I’ll explain what I mean. As background, you may want to watch the YouTube video, Airplane! Don’t Eat The Fish.

From my book, “HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life:”

   One cannot spend an evening watching broadcast television without being accosted by “those” commercials. First there’s the group of guys playing guitars and singing joyously about their flaccid dicks, and then you get to share the inane thoughts of some guy talking to his reflection in a store window about his limpy. A couple is painting a room that magically turns into some kind of sex garden, or so they imply, and they’re all trying to convince you that the only solution is the quick-fix; pop a pill.   

Then, there are the bathtubs. Will someone please explain the fucking bathtubs! 

Each of these audiovisual abominations multiplied my indignation. Every program break assaulted me with some guy looking out from the TV screen all but directing his comments to me by name, mocking me.

Their entire marketing strategy is to humiliate men into buying their damn drugs.

I had ED, and I rid myself of that blight. Now I don’t need pills or anything else to get hard except a woman that turns me on. I’m convinced that some portion of my problem was the time-bomb placed in my psyche by the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to having been out of the saddle for some time, with some added pounds at my middle, and a general knowing that I was out of shape, I was told every night that because I’m getting older, I’m going to have erectile dysfunction. Hell, if those great looking guys – each fit, vital, and athletic – have a problem, then a slug like me just has to have trouble getting it up, too, right?

Since “coming out” to friends about having had ED, and unabashedly hyping my book to them – well, not for them, of course, for but the benefit of guys they know with the problem – I’ve had men tell me that they also had erectile dysfunction problems when they got together with a woman for the first time after a long hiatus – the divorce is final and their attorney says it's okay for them to date again.

It seems that every man I know says he took “a pill” that someone gave them when they’ve loved a woman for the first time. Why? Because they were sure they’d have dysfunction even though they hadn’t had an experience of dysfunction. They were brainwashed by the commercials, predisposed to the problem. We all know about Performance Anxiety... so do the pharmaceutical firms that make Billions of dollars selling their drugs.

So, why the scene from Airplane!? As Leslie Nielsen enumerates the symptoms of food poisoning, Peter Graves exhibits the symptoms. Why do I pose the question as to whether erectile dysfunction causes ED? Because the fact that ED can happen is used as a ploy to convince you that it will happen. It’s psycho-terrorism promulgated by Big Pharm, and you start to show the signs of dysfunction as a result of their attack.

There are other causes of erectile dysfunction, not the least of which is a generalized state of bad health, internal, sub-clinical inflammation, and adrenal stress, all as a result of bad diet, lack of exercise and the pressures of life. My book provides a simple, “cafeteria plan” from which any guy can choose to help lessen the real causes of ED and provide you with a path to a solid healthy place from which to launch your sex life. My objective today is to let you know that you don’t have to have ED just because you’re getting older.

Follow this simple 4-step program:

• Eat a bit healthier by reading my book that will tell you how.
• Do exercises that specifically service your manhood, by reading my book that will tell you how.
• Read my book, it tells you how.
• ...and Ignore the commercials while reading my book that will tell you how.

(Hey, if it works for them, maybe it will work for me, too)

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is not just for those with ED, but for all men who want to keep functioning throughout their life. A concise and powerful men’s health guide, HARD! provides a protocol for how to do everything right. 

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

Also available in all eBook formats for immediate download: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65109.

Erectile Dysfunction and Unemployment

I’m going to go way out on a limb and make a statement so radical you may be tempted to close your browser window and go screaming out into the night never to be seen or heard from again. Ready?

Men and women are different.

I’m not talking about genitals – as much as I really like to. Breasts? Nope. I’m referring to psyches, minds, ways of perceiving the world, their families, and themselves. Most applicable to this discussion of erectile dysfunction is unemployment.

Just as women have a “maternal instinct,” men have an “instinct to provide.” When our ancient ancestors lived on the land, in caves and temporary shelters, division of labor was the only formula for survival. Women gestated, gave birth, and nurtured the children. Men protected their families from other tribes, predatory animals, and caught game for food and skins for clothing. Men who were better at these tasks kept their families alive to propagate. Over the millennia, the absolute need by men to provide food, shelter, and clothing for our women and children became as much of a desperate need as the drive to reproduce.

In our modern culture, the separation of duties within the home has become blurred and in many cases obliterated. I contend that a woman’s need to provide is an offshoot of her maternal instinct; viscerally, her needs must be met, whether that's from someone else or through her own efforts. I do not demean, or in any way diminish that very real emotion, I just say that it comes from a different place than does the need by a man to provide for others.

When a man is unable to provide for his family he is stricken with a sense of being less than a man.  The best comparable emotion in a woman is that which is experienced when a woman is told she cannot bear children. Does it make her less than a person, in any way reduce her worth as a human being, a contributor to the community, a businesswoman, or a lover? No. But there is a profound sense of personal insufficiency. That is the emotion felt by men when they cannot earn a living.

Unemployment is rampant. So is erectile dysfunction.

The psychological toll of being out of work is far more profound than just the stress of paying the bills. Even if money can be found from other sources – his woman’s income, or a family benefactor – it is not the same as being the source of security. Certainly there are men who are born into wealth, and who do nothing to secure or perpetuate their stream of resources, but they play the mental “entitlement” game... they’re still the source of the money and all it provides to their families. To the working “Joe” who looks average, lives average, and has an average length penis, the only thing he’s got – or so he feels – to keep the adoration and admiration of his woman and children, is his ability to bring home the proverbial bacon. This is true even if he’s only bringing home half the bacon.

The deep feelings of helplessness that pervade the unemployed man’s every waking minute – and many of his dreams – is something that is cannot be completely removed from his consciousness even while watching his favorite team, or enjoying time with family, friends or his lover. It is there all the time. Like a missing child, it creates a hole in his stature as a man that manifests as a pressure in his gut that just doesn’t go away.

Some men – perhaps younger men with more options – may take this as a temporary setback. However, a man in his 40s, and certainly in his 50s or older, whose prospects for finding work are dim in this economy, will be affected to his core. Erectile dysfunction – so much a disease of poor nutrition and lack of exercise – is almost inevitable as the stressers multiply.

I won’t bog you down with the details of the biology and endocrinology of stress. But the distress of unemployment will cause a cascade of compounds to be formed in the body that can wreak havoc on the hormonal balance necessary for erectile function. With everything else that’s going wrong in your life, your woman comes to you, perhaps out of personal need, but also out of concern for your happiness and pleasure, and gives herself to you... and nothing happens. This leads to clinical,  or more often, subclinical depression. You know, you just feel like crap.

Oh, by the way, anti-depressants (Zoloft, Prozac, and other SSRIs) shut down your dick with the first pill. Medication induced erectile dysfunction may take months to reverse after you stop taking the drugs. So if you want to be happy and flaccid, be my guest.

On the other hand, there’s the irony that just when you think you need Viagra or Cialis the most, the cost of a doctor’s visit to get a prescription, and the price tag on those damn pills is just completely outside of your budget – because you don’t have a freaking job.

As hinted at earlier, the cause of ED is usually not just psychological. Stress exacerbates an underlying predisposition to erectile difficulties. That root cause is poor nutrition and lack of exercise. Here’s where there’s a good reverse correlation. The depressive state that unemployment causes can be lessened or eliminated through exercise and improved eating habits. Everything ties into everything else.

If you want to get back to work you have to make yourself more attractive to employers. If you want to get back into action between the sheets, you’ve got to whip yourself into better physical and psychological states. It all goes to becoming healthier. Conveniently, you have the time to improve your health while you’re not working. Take an hour a day to walk, run, bicycle, or work out at the gym. For the remaining “job hunting” hours of the day, you will be more effective in performing that chore, and more likely to land a position.

In my book, I provide you with a cafeteria plan of actions, foods, and strategies for getting yourself back into erectile shape. The precise protocol for regaining and retaining erectile potency will also make you potently attractive as a prospective employee. When you feel healthier, and sexier, you will project that level of confidence you had in your 20s – and all of life will improve.

Read the book. It’s the best freaking few dollars you’ll spend.

HARD! Maintaining Potency, Eliminating Erectile Dysfunction, and Enjoying Healthy Sex for Life is not just for those with ED, but for all men who want to keep functioning throughout their life. A concise and powerful men’s health guide, HARD! provides a protocol for how to do everything right. 

Available at BN.com/Nook, Apple, and Amazon/Kindle.

Also available in all eBook formats for immediate download: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65109.