Cialis, erectile dysfunction and heart disease
When you are young, it’s difficult to keep everything in proportion. Emotions run fast and hot. One minute you can be feeling great, the next it’s despair. In fact, it’s remarkable how often you hear a teen suffering some embarrassment or humiliation voice the thought, “I wish I was dead!” Fortunately, very few act on the wish. We all come through these torrid times, hopefully calmer if not wiser. Yet, there are some humiliations men of all ages find it difficult to confront without fear. Erectile dysfunction is one of the more severe tests of calmness. For better or worse, Western culture is strongly “male”. Yes, feminism assumed some importance and equality laws have followed, but the mainstream of behavior still expects the man to be dominant, not just in business but also in the bedroom. If something goes wrong with the ability to deliver erections when they are expected, this undermines a key plank in the structure holding up male self-confidence. Suddenly the man is not quite so macho. He is somehow less than a man.
For some time, the volume of evidence has been growing to prove a link between erectile dysfunction and heart disease. Indeed, the medical profession now view all men presenting with erectile dysfunction as potential heart patients until the contrary is proved. Read more…