What You Should Know About Age-Related Erectile Dysfunction

The healthier a man mentally and emotionally, the healthier he is physically. The male erectile dysfunction is closely connected with somatic diseases of 2-nd period of life.

Temporary therapy and prevention of sexual disorders can indirectly enhance the ability to prevent treatment of hypertension, and atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, chronic kidney disease and chronic renal failure.

According to American scientists, who made studies of the sexual activity of 1,000 men among 40-70 over a 16-year period, it was found that men who have sex twice a week are 45% less likely to have heart disease than those who do it less often - once per month. Sexual activity burns many calories; helps maintain the "right" rhythm of the heart, being an excellent form of cardiac exercise.

After sexual intercourse, the body produces endorphins - the "hormones of joy", which from the biological point of view confirms its analogy with active physical exercises. In addition, men who have regular sex are more often experience interpersonal relationships, which reduce stress and provide them some social support.

Problems with sexual activity can be considered as an indicator of potential heart disease. Studies have shown that regular intimate life not only improves overall health, but also strengthens immunity.

Sexual contact once or twice a week increases the level of IgA immunoglobulin, which can protect against colds and other infectious diseases. This is not a complete justification for the need to preserve sexual function for men of any age.

Most often the onset of male sexual disorders and, above all, erectile dysfunction (ED) coincides with the age of 35-40 years old, when it starts a gradual age-related decline in testosterone levels. According to the statistics, men over 45 years old already have sexual disorders in 40%.

Hidden Dangers

The problem is not only that men drink or smoke. All life processes in the male body are regulated by testosterone. Its normal level is from 13 to 33 conventional units. The peak of secretion is observed on the 30 years of life. Each year the level of testosterone on average decreases by one percent.

However, the problem is that some men of 30 years old have 33 units of testosterone, while others - 17 or 20, but it falls down, it works in the same way for everyone.

Therefore, it happens so that men in the age of 50 feel quite healthy, strong physical and moral, and some men already in forty years, feel bad and have problems in the genital area.

This is the fundamental difference in the physiology of men and women: in the weaker sex, the extinction of sexual function begins about 45 years and lasts up to 55. In men, this fading is directly related to testosterone levels and can begin in 50, and 40, and even in 30 years old.

Talking about the men's menopause is not a conjecture, but a scientifically proven fact. However, nowadays it is better to call the age-related androgen deficiency, and forty-year-old men more often complain about depression, irritability, and a breakdown.

Excess Weight

Very often, by the age of 40-50, the male stateness gradually turns into completeness. Nothing kills a man more than obesity. If he is full from his youth - by the age of 30 he comes with a "bad" testosterone.

And it is especially important to emphasize - not age completeness leads to a decrease in the hormone, but on the contrary: the age-related decline of testosterone causes completeness. That's why many patients complain: they follow a diet, and exhaust themselves in the gym, but weight does not decrease.

First of all it’s necessary to observe testosterone, and then look for ways of treatment. The decrease in testosterone is a serious male disease, the name is hypogonadism. This diagnosis was put before, but believed that hypogonadism can be either congenital, or complication after other diseases.

It was not seriously considered by medicine, and even more so it was not treated. That is why the first attempts to prove the decisive role of testosterone in the duration and quality men’s sexual life were accepted not too serious.

In case of treatment of age-related ED, it is necessary to abandon bad habits: stop drinking alcohol and smoking. It is also very important to lead an active lifestyle, eat healthy food, excluding fatty, fried, and spicy.

If possible, men should try to have regular sexual intercourses, avoiding interruptions for more than a month. Having an appropriate daily regime is important, which includes going to bed no later than a midnight and be less nervous as possible.

Remember that before treating age-related erectile dysfunction, it is worthwhile to go through an exhaustive diagnosis and determine the causes of this pathology. Only after this, an effective individual therapy can be considered.