CunningLinguist
16-08-2013, 10:51 AM
From this article: click here (http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2013/08/13/3824571.htm#.Ug1nMxqtpSQ)
Some quotes:
There are often some pretty clear clues as to whether the problem is psychological; one is they still get their early morning or overnight erections.
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Most men over 80 have erectile dysfunction. If you look at a man who's 80, his facial skin is sagging and wrinkly and his muscles have lost tone. Well, the same thing is happening in the penis. That's an ageing process.
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But as men move through their 40s, 50s, 60s, there's also an increase in the prevalence of ED and in a big portion of this group it's frequently a vascular [blood vessel] problem.
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It's not so much that there's necessarily heart disease at that point, but the factors that lead onto causing heart disease are now starting to show up in the penis. In a sense, the penis is a barometer because to get an erection and maintain it, you need to increase the blood flow by about 10 or even 15 times. There's no other organ in the body like that. So if you've got minor things affecting the vascular system, it will show up in the penis.
A lot of men like to go through channels where they can be anonymous but we discourage that. You can buy drugs on the internet without having a medical check-up. But there are quite a lot of inactive fakes. There have also been deaths from fakes contaminated with toxic substances.
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Men can also go to some of these clinics where you can do a telephone consultation but really the process is all about selling medications, rather than medical assessment.
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An erection has a value in that it's oxygenating and stretching out the penis and [this] allows it to work at its best.
Some quotes:
There are often some pretty clear clues as to whether the problem is psychological; one is they still get their early morning or overnight erections.
...
Most men over 80 have erectile dysfunction. If you look at a man who's 80, his facial skin is sagging and wrinkly and his muscles have lost tone. Well, the same thing is happening in the penis. That's an ageing process.
...
But as men move through their 40s, 50s, 60s, there's also an increase in the prevalence of ED and in a big portion of this group it's frequently a vascular [blood vessel] problem.
...
It's not so much that there's necessarily heart disease at that point, but the factors that lead onto causing heart disease are now starting to show up in the penis. In a sense, the penis is a barometer because to get an erection and maintain it, you need to increase the blood flow by about 10 or even 15 times. There's no other organ in the body like that. So if you've got minor things affecting the vascular system, it will show up in the penis.
A lot of men like to go through channels where they can be anonymous but we discourage that. You can buy drugs on the internet without having a medical check-up. But there are quite a lot of inactive fakes. There have also been deaths from fakes contaminated with toxic substances.
...
Men can also go to some of these clinics where you can do a telephone consultation but really the process is all about selling medications, rather than medical assessment.
...
An erection has a value in that it's oxygenating and stretching out the penis and [this] allows it to work at its best.