Shannon Brownlee
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 Calling it erectile dysfunction, or ED, reduced the stigma of impotence, which was a good thing. The term became a password, as Parry puts it, allowing doctors and patients to open up a potentially embarrassing conversation. It also allowed a sober fellow like Bob Dole and a he-man like Mike Ditka to serve as spokesmen for Viagra and marketers to spread the word in ads that impotence was a real disease, not something to hide in the closet. The choice of the word "dysfunction," writes Parry, "refocused the condition from being associated with a lack of potency (i.e. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Male Problems (Impotence, Prostate, Hair loss)
Typical "male" problems like prostate inflammations and disorders, impotence, and Hair loss had a relatively prominent role in the treatments observed. Twenty-four applications (0.96%) with 23 species (4.5%) used involved prostate inflammations and problems in urinating. "Hair loss" was mentioned in 20 applications (0.8%), with 17 species (3.3%) used for treatment. Finally, 18 applications (0.72%) of 12 species (2.3%) focused on the treatment of male impotence, on the improvement of potency, or the plants were simply used as aphrodisiacs. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| It was advertised as the answer to "erectile dysfunction," a problem hitherto known as impotence and not much discussed, even between sufferers and their doctors. Calling it erectile dysfunction, or ED, reduced the stigma of impotence, which was a good thing. The term became a password, as Parry puts it, allowing doctors and patients to open up a potentially embarrassing conversation. |
Mark Sircus
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 Nerve damage caused by diabetes can also lead to problems with internal organs such as the digestive tract, heart, and sexual organs, causing indigestion, diarrhea or constipation, dizziness, bladder infections, and impotence.33 Diabetic neuropathy is a major cause of impotence in diabetic men.34 Autonomic neuropathies are believed to be implicated in "silent heart attacks" of diabetes, where the full symptoms of myocardial infarction are not felt by the person.
In some cases, neuropathy can flare up suddenly, causing weakness and weight loss. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Its principal sexual manifestation is marked by the impotence Delpech had already reported in his first descriptions of the disease seven years earlier.
These sexual manifestations were not limited to males. Delpech was also able to include a number of females in his new series. Among them was Madame D., Case XIX, in whom carbon disulfide induced "aphrodisiacal excitation" and, as a clear indication of feminine susceptibility to this type of toxic effect, abnormal menstrual bleeding. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In addition, they may produce severe side effects including headaches, lethargy, nausea, sleepiness and impotence. Anti-hypertensive drugs are popular because patients believe that swallowing a pill a day can prevent a possible heart attack. Research published in 1997 by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that drugs for high blood pressure may be overprescribed, especially if blood pressure measurements are taken by the doctor instead of by the portable device used for ambulatory monitoring. |
| Other published side effects of Prozac include the following: anxiety, significant weight loss, cardiac arrhythmia, visual disturbances, tremors, nausea, diarrhea, asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, stomach bleeding, loss of sex drive and impotence.
And it gets worse. On January 2, 2005, CNN reported that an internal document purportedly from Eli Lilly and Co. revealed that the drug maker had data more than 15 years ago showing that patients on its antidepressant, Prozac, were far more likely to attempt suicide and show hostility than were patients on other antidepressants. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Impotence has multiple causes. If you're not turned on by your partner, if you're depressed, or if you've got a ton of things on your mind, you may not be in the mood for love. It's unlikely that horny goat weed, even with maca and L-arginine, are going to make you suddenly fall in lust with Miss Anderson in accounting, particularly if you can't stand her to begin with. But if circulation or blood flow is an issue, this "natural cure" may indeed give your sex life a boost. |
Bill Sardi
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 International Journal impotence Research, Nov. 10, 2005]
Doctors at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, West Smithfield, England, say there has been no conclusive evidence so far, despite numerous studies, that levels of circulating testosterone in individuals with prostate cancer are higher than in controls. In fact, prostate cancers arising in men with low serum testosterone levels are generally more malignant and frequently nonre-sponsive to hormones. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Ironically, it is merely a variant of one of the oldest yet new vocational health issues of all time: Hippocrates argued that horseback riding was associated with impotence and sterility, whereas Aristotle held that it augmented sex dtive.7
The Consumer Product Safety Commission seems to be striving for new benchmarks for ineffectiveness and then congratulating itself on reaching them. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Other side effects included impotence, increase of angina pain, stomach upset, eye pains, muscle weakness, depression, and nightmares.
Despite taking these drugs regularly, he was advised to undergo a bypass operation since several of his heart arteries were almost completely blocked. A few years after the operation, at age 62, his "new" coronary arteries also showed strong signs of damage, causing chest pain and severe tiredness. His heart was no longer able to perform sufficiently well and he was informed that, as a last resort, only a heart replacement could prolong his life. |
| In addition to these symptoms, impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic Candida, poor wound healing, peripheral neuropathy, etc., have since been turned into separate diseases, requiring specialized treatments and specialists to administer them. Although this may greatly serve the medical and pharmaceutical industries, it causes untold suffering and costs many lives.
Diabetes afflicts over 8 percent of the American population. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Beaugrand confirmed much of the symptom complex described by Delpech, including a passing remark on the adolescent boy's ongoing sexual impotence.
By 1863, Delpech was able to turn out a 116-page scientific paper in which he detailed twenty-four clinical case histories of carbon disulfide toxicity.22 For this project, Delpech focused on a single subset of cold-vulcanization workshops, the "inflated rubber industry." The nature of this particular trade involved mechanical distension of rubber up to a desired thinness and elongation. |
| Nonetheless, Delpech specifically highlighted that Delacroix's impotence did not remit.17
Delpech was ideally suited to take on the case of carbon disulfide. He had already been made professor of medicine at the University of Paris, having completed a dissertation on paralysis.18 He was of an age and in a place where the biological model of medicine first became preeminenr. Moreover, toxicological science was providing many of the key building blocks for that model. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 As a result of these prototypes and their systemic effects, the parasympath may tend toward impotence; the sympath may have a problem with premature ejaculation. (Six males that we studied with testosterone levels of more than 600 nanograms per deciliter had a decline of between 15 and 35 percent after 26 weeks of therapy. Those with low starting levels showed a 20 to 35 percent increase.) All of this stemming from chemical set-points that may have had their start way back in infancy or before. The personality and hormones proceed apace, they accompany one another. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Further on in this book you will learn why it is a potentially dangerous practice, in most cases, to treat merely the symptoms of disease using such common medical protocol as giving blood transfusions to people with low hemoglobin levels, treating the testicles for impotence, or cutting out ulcers and tumors. The use of prescription drugs, which contain nothing to remove the toxins in the blood, lymph, and tissues, may even kill a patient. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Dialectically, the further we regress, the more we can predict future problems, whether of anxiety, drug addiction, or sexual impotence. There exists a relationship, for example, of anoxia at birth and later suicidal tendencies. The more we explore the birth trauma, the more we understand about uncontrolled addictions. We can foretell sexual frigidity decades later. We will learn about all of this in the following chapters.
The Big Bang that began our universe some 14 billion years ago has a corollary in the internal universe. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Natural Prescription for impotence (Libido)
Horny goat weed, standardized to
10 percent icarlin: 2-4 500 mg capsules
Maca: 1,800-2,500 mg
L-arginine: 1,000-2,000 mg
Zinc: 25 mg
Note: All dosages are daily dosages and come in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted.
Regardless of the science, the proof is in the pudding. Kilham, investigating maca in Peru on one of his frequent "Medicine Hunter" expeditions, asked a number of people why they used maca. "One woman stands out in my mind," he says. "She smiled at my question and replied, 'Well, for the sex, of course.' |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| They can be productive again, sleep well, perform sexually rather than suffer frigidity or impotence. They are not afraid of new experiences and seek challenges willingly. Above all, they are often no longer anxious or depressed. We have good luck with these patients because we know how deep the pain is and have the techniques to go there—gently, methodically, but inevitably.
There are few Primal therapists because there is a very long training period, and mental health professionals that have already spent years in graduate work generally have no desire to start over again. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It fights fatigue for both sexes, diminishes white spots in fingernails, reduces brittle hair and nails, and it can help with menstrual problems, impotence, and painful knee and hip joints. And whether you're a man or a woman, if strengthening your immune system is high on your list of priorities, zinc needs to be an important part of your diet (or supplement program).
Finally, we need zinc to help decode the instructions in our DNA, the genetic version of a user's guide for how to keep our body functioning. |
Anne Harrington
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 His conflicted attitude had manifested itself in periodic impotence during the masturbatory sessions with his wife that had now replaced intercourse. When this happened, the wife was forced, much to her distaste, to assist her husband by rubbing his penis. To do so, she had to use "the thumb and index finger of her right hand"—the same digits that were now so disabled by injury and pain.
Groddeck did not stop the analysis here. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Amid widespread political impotence and regulatory incompetence, the prospect of a disappearing Fed will only add to a far-reaching crisis of confidence. Growing numbers of Americans will worry profusely about how they will cope and whether their dwindling resources will be accessible. As economic, financial, and political pressures build, so too will feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, and betrayal. This will feed an expansive search to uncover the truth and an aggressive hunt to track down those who are in any way responsible. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease. Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that profound lifestyle change with plant-based nutrition offers the optimal opportunity to avoid heart disease—and to restore erectile capacity. |
| And recent research confirms a strong connection between impotence and cardiovascular disease. In December 2005, researchers reported on a study that followed 3,816 men with erectile dysfunction and 4,247 without over seven years.7 It turned out that the men who were impotent before the study began or who developed it during the study were 45 percent more likely to experience a cardiovascular event than
Age
Figure 20. Survival curves, 1840-1980, reveal that our life expectancy has greatly increased but our life span has remain unchanged. |
| One patient confided that the impotence that had long bothered him had been cured in the course of the study.
The results have lasted over the years. Don Felton, who could barely manage the walk to my office when he first came to see me, is now in his seventies—fit and active. "When I first started, I was down," he says. "Now, I've been eating this way for so long I don't think about it anymore." Mackie still makes him gravy, but she makes it with fat-free broth, and he pours it over mashed potatoes. And Don still goes deer-hunting every year. But there are a few differences from the old days. |
| You gain protection from a host of other ailments that have been linked to dietary factors, including impotence and cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus, and ovaries. And if you are eating for good health in this way, here's a side benefit you might not have expected: for the rest of your life, you will never again have to count calories or worry about your weight.
An increasing number of doctors are aware that diet plays a crucial role in health, and that nutritional changes such as those I recommend can have dramatic effects on the development and progression of disease. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Giovanni Bianchi of Rimini, after listing a number of recipes to cure impotence, including such materia medica as stag's horn, ivory shavings, and sassafras root, admonishes the sufferer to "take chocolate often with a good dose of vanilla and aromatics."5
The French Huguenot physician Daniel Duncan (born in Montauban in 1649, died in London in 1735) wrote an extensive treatise on drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic; first published in France in 1703, and subsequently in London in 1706, it was widely quoted as an authority throughout the century. |
Michael J. Panzner
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| As one crisis after another unfolds in rapid succession, most will likely be met with impotence and indecisiveness, buck passing, and a Pollyannaish refusal to recognize the realities of the situation, at least in the beginning. Calls for strong leadership and an aggressive course of action will come into constant conflict with a steady clamor for handouts, bailouts, extra benefits, and special treatment.
Paradoxically, perhaps, American attitudes toward authority will become increasingly polarized, mirroring a broader societal split. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 The most requested drugs were those for treating impotence.12 But antianxiety and antidepressant drugs were requested almost as often as those for impotence, and the mind drugs together were requested even more often. And mind drugs were sought more than twice as much as any other drug type including drugs for arthritis, allergies, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.13 Yet the DTC ads, now a regular part of television viewing, account for only 15% of total drug promotion spending. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| While no cure for impotence, L-arginine has a documented role in the body as a vasodilator, benefiting circulation and helping with endothelial dysfunction, a dysfunction of cells that line the inner surface of blood vessels. (Endothelial dysfunction is often a predictor of later vascular events like heart attacks and strokes.) What's the connection to sexual performance? Simple: circulation.
"I've almost never seen a case of erectile dysfunction that didn't also have a component of the other ED—endothelial dysfunction," says Mark Houston, M.D. "They frequently go together."
Let's be clear. |
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