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Prevent Or Treat Diabetes To Avoid Erectile Dysfunction
Saturday Jun 20, 2009
Men need to know two vital facts related to erectile dysfunction. The first is that over 11% of all men age 20 and older have diabetes, with one-third of them not knowing it. Second, Erectile Dysfunction is a common complication of diabetes. Diabetes is an inability of the body to store and use glucose (sugar) properly. When you can't store the glucose properly, it circulates in your blood. This raises your blood pressure. The rise in blood pressure damages small blood vessels that can't take the higher blood pressure. Organs like the kidneys, the eyes, and the penis are made up of millions of these small blood vessels.
Damage to the small blood vessels in your penis can cause ED which leads to the inability to hold the blood to maintain an erection.
Sure, you could try to treat ED with drugs like Cialis, Levitra or Viagra. The problem is that men with diabetes may also have cardiac problems that make taking ED drugs not recommended. Other drugs used to treat the diabetes may delay or relieve the ED associated with diabetes. Yet nothing beats exercise to address both diabetes and ED. |
