The ubiquitous advertisements for Viagra and similar recreational drugs have always creeped me out, for a variety of reasons. As a great thinker once said “Man is more than a dildo.”
More importantly, I’ve always wondered: if the blood is having trouble getting to the corpora cavernosa, might it not also be having trouble getting to other places? Like, say, the heart muscle?
A German study published in Circulation confirms this. The authors tracked a group of high-risk male patients with cardiovascular disease. Patients who had experienced “erectile dysfunction” were approximately twice as likely to die of a heart attack.
These results shouldn’t surprise anyone. Instead of worrying about “firmer, stronger, fuller-feeling erections,” men ought to spend their time worrying about other things. Like staying alive. Impotence or erectile dysfunction or whatever the Hell they’re calling it this week is usually just nature’s way of saying, “Put down the remote, Tubbo, and go trot around the block.”
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Glad to make your aquaintance. Thanks for reading and commenting.
That's fine with me, as long as the taxpayers don't have to subsidize their recreational drug use.
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You are correct, I confused nitric oxide with nitrous oxide. Mea culpa. Thank you for calling attention to my error, and I look forward to seeing you muster the same outrage on behalf of the 200,000+ Americans killed every year by the medical profession.
The comment that set you off reads as follows:
"...since your body adapts to any kind of drug you take on a regular basis, what's going to happen when you DON'T [emphasis added] have Viagra in your veins, and you're running for the bus and your body needs that extra shot of nitrous oxide [sorry, I meant nitric oxide] and you don't get it?"
Since I was talking about what might to happen to people who get addicted to Viagra when they don't have that drug in their veins, your reply, "Viagra increases the levels of nitric oxide to open precapillary sphincters in blood vessels amongst other things... In fact the nitric oxide will dilate coronary arteries and might improve blood flow to the heart..." is a complete non-sequiter.
You might want to maintain at least some semblance of credibility and read other people comments more carefully before spouting off about them.
I've enjoyed reading your posts. Thanks for reading and commenting.
And on a less serious note, when a commercial for, say, Viagra, includes the warning, "If your erection lasts more than four hours, call a doctor," I think, "Hell, call me."