Diabetes Can Ruin A Perfectly Good love life

Any man can experience erectile dysfunction (ED) ongoing trouble getting or keeping an erection that’s firm enough for intercourse. But, men with diabetes are especially at risk. In fact, between 35 percent and 50 percent of them have ED. They also develop the condition about 10 to 15 years earlier than those without diabetes.

The good news is that ED is treatable. So, if it’s cause for concern, talk with your doctor.

There are chambers filled with spongy tissue, smooth muscle, veins and arteries. Nerves help control whether blood flows in or out of these chambers. An erection occurs when the spongy tissue fills with blood, making it expand and harden.Diabetes can interfere with sex in at least two ways:

Nerve damage: Which can stop signals that help trigger an erection.

Blood vessel injury: Also caused by diabetes may slow blood flow to the penis.

But, you can help lower the risk of ED and other diabetes complications. Here’s how:

If you smoke try to stop: Like diabetes, tobacco smoke also injures blood vessels.

Be proactive in keeping your blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control.

Start up an exercise program, but make sure to talk with your doctor before increasing your physical activity big time.

Get to and then maintain a healthy weight. Excess weight makes it harder to control diabetes. It also increases the risk of high blood pressure, which can damage blood vessels.

If you think you might have ED, your doctor or a urologist can diagnose it. If you are not already diabetic or have heart disease, ask about your risks of having these diseases, too. There may be links between all three conditions.Prescription medicines in pill form are among the many treatments for ED. Discuss options with your doctor. Sildenafil, vardenafil or tadalafil, for example, can help men have an erection when taken an hour before sexual activity.

These days there are a number of herbal supplements on the market similar to Viagra, Levitra, or Cialis that promise the same results for less cost. You can Search for them online.One last thing to consider is that men with heart conditions should talk with a doctor before using an ED drug. Taking ED medicines with heart medicines like nitrates could cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure.

Natural Herb Alternative To Viagra

There are literally thousands of sexual stimulants on the market for both men and women. They aren’t all good products. Some of them just don’t work well and others have side effects that you certainly don’t want any part of.

Based on some independent research there here is an example of a natural herb that has been tested successfully to be a first rate lower cost solution to Viagra.

There was a recent study done in Italy on a Chinese herbal remedy that could offer an alternative to men suffering from erectile dysfunction.

The herb known as horny Goat Weed has a reputation as a natural aphrodisiac. The lab experiments were conducted at the University of Milan.

Erectile dysfunction is a common condition worldwide, and drugs like Pfizer Inc's Viagra, Eli Lilly and Co's Cialis or tadalafil, and Bayer AG's Levitra or vardenafil, work by increasing blood flow to the genitals. However the side effects range from headaches, upset stomach and visual problems including blindness.

The Italian team looked for alternatives by studying a number of plants reputed to boost sexual performance.

After deciding to focus on horny goat weed, the researchers modified a compound in the plant called icariin and found it blocked the erection-inhibiting enzyme as well as Viagra did.

Because the compound targets the enzyme more precisely, it may have fewer side effects than Viagra Mario Dell'Agli, a researcher at the University of Milan, who led the study said.

Further tests in animals and humans are needed but the extract from the herb represents a potential new erectile dysfunction treatment with fewer side effects, Dell'Agli said.

"The compound icariin is present in the horny goat weed in large amounts and its activity against (the enzyme) is lower compared to Viagra," he said. "But the new molecule we synthesized from icariin is as good as Viagra against (the enzyme)."

Worried About ED? Go Easy On The Frosties.

Some recent survey data from Australia shed some interesting observations on the effects of alcohol on Erectile Dysfunction. What was interesting was the findings that if you drink alcohol it increases the rate of ED in men. Actually light or moderate use of alcohol may increase sexual performance. Heavy drinkers however had high rates of ED.

The rates of erectile dysfunction were about 30% lower among men who drank within NHMRC guidelines, (which is no more than four standard drinks per day over a five day period) and even among binge drinkers as compared to ex-drinkers. So if you have ED, it’s not necessary to give up or cut back usage of alcohol if you are a casual drinker. If you are not a drinker at all it also isn’t necessary to start because for some it is not a good choice at all.

If you are among the group who likes to have a cocktail or an occasional frosty, it’s all good. Other studies have also shown that a little alcohol is good for your heart and may help to lower the risk of erectile dysfunction.

From other data gathered in this study on cigarette smoking, smokers and former smokers were shown to have significantly higher odds of ED than people who never smoked.

If you have other factors like diabetes, that doesn’t get you off the hook for eating a healthy diet, losing weight and exercising though. But if you are into a weight loss program, here is an idea that we all might be able to put into practice.

With Super Bowl Sunday just around the corner, do you know about one of the best alcoholic drinks for those on a diet? Bacardi Rum and Diet Coke has only 10 calories. If a lite-beer is 90 calories the Bacardi and Diet Coke saves you 80 calories per drink. The next time you want to party or go out on the town you don't have to wreck your diet in the process.