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Because the effect of erectile dysfunction is so emotionally devastating to the men it affects, most focus on restoring natural service without stopping to ask why the erections have failed. While this is understandable, it’s not sensible. There are a number of potentially serious physical conditions that can produce erectile dysfunction as a symptom. If you have a full check-up and these conditions are diagnosed early, preventative treatment can keep you alive for many extra years. The price of ignoring the risks and hoping for the best may be an increasingly severe health problem and life cut short. Why is this?

The actual cause of erectile dysfunction is the failure of the walls in the penile artery to dilate when expected. Or, if the erection forms, the early contraction of the artery which cuts off the erection. Ask a doctor about arteries and the most common word you will hear in the answer is artherosclerosis. This is a slow build-up of platelets on the walls of blood vessels. It most often happens when you have an excess of fats in the bloodstream. Over time, these platelets harden. There are two results. First, the muscles cannot dilate and contract the blood vessels. Second, it produces a slow but steady increase in blood pressure as the deposits block the vessels. Now a simple proportion sum. The penile artery is about one-quarter the size of the arteries passing through the lungs into the heart. So, what you see first in the penile artery is what you are likely to see in the heart in the future. How far ahead?

The statistics show clearly that if the erectile dysfunction affects you under the age of 40 years, you have about three years before you will show symptoms of heart disease and five years before you can expect a heart attack. So, to quote from a famous movie, “. . .you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya?”

To some extent, the decision has been taken out of your hands. If you do go consult your regular doctor or some other primary care physician, and admit erectile dysfunction, the expected response is to treat you as a potential victim of heart disease. Without you having to ask, your doctor should perform all the usual tests to detect any possible problems in your blood vessels. With preventative treatment cheap and trouble free, this should protect your health. More importantly, with a proper diagnosis, the treatment for the erectile dysfunction can also be far better targeted. If all you do is order Cialis online, hoping that will cure your problems, this may work for a few months. But this drug is not treating the artherosclerosis and, no matter how many pills you take, the blockage in your penile artery is going to accelerate. Six to twelve months after you start taking the Cialis, it will stop working and, by then, it may be too late to produce an overall cure for the problem. Although there are some experimental procedures to insert a stent into the penis, once the damage is done to the arterial walls, it is too late.

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Even in the original caves, you could find stress. Can’t hunt down that last mammoth. The wife and kids complaining about the water running down the back wall of the cave. It’s the same today. Under pressure at work with no other jobs to go to if you lose this one, and the home under threat from the bank if you’re short on one more payment on the mortgage. It’s enough to give any man problems in bed. Why do some men under stress find sex difficult? Most of the things we do are under the control of the brain. We know what we want and the body moves to get those things done. This is effective almost all the time for voluntary movements like picking something up or walking. But there are a host of other things that are not voluntary. We get gooseflesh when we’re cold, some blush when they’re embarrassed. Most of the time, both voluntary and involuntary work reasonably well together – even though some young men do find themselves embarrassed by a sudden erection as a response to a very attractive woman. But, when it comes to sex, it’s easy for the simple to become complicated.

To produce an erection, men have to find the situation sexually stimulating. This involves the brain sending messages to the walls of the penile artery telling them to dilate and let more blood into the penis. This should trigger a rise in the heart rate, faster breathing and then arousal. If the situation progresses, blood pressure rises, major plumbing switching to get semen lined up instead of urine. It’s a wonder we ever manage to get to the exciting ejaculation at the end without something going wrong. Except things do go wrong quite often. If men are already stressed, they may just not find the initial situation that sexually exciting. This may be mood or general levels of anxiety. Or having got into the mood, the men then find themselves distracted by the idea of foreclosure and being thrown out on to the streets. This puts a damper on all that surging adrenaline and the erection fails. The National Institutes of Health estimates that about 5% of adult men have this problem with anxiety-related problems more common among older men.

So here comes the pitch for this article. Cialis does not give you an erection. All it does is allow an erection to form naturally if you find the situation sexually arousing. If your mood is dark and your interest in sex is low, no pill is going to change that. Well, that’s not strictly true. Antidepressants or anti-anxiety drugs will gradually improve your attitude to life in general and sex in particular. Once these drugs has worked their magic, your interest in sex will return and Cialis will be effective again. So the message here is that loss of libido is not solved by erectile dysfunction drugs. No matter what the ads may promise, the reality is that you first have to get your head in the game. This means busting the stress and calming the anxieties. Relaxation techniques may sound an odd choice, but often they are the best solution to these sex problems.

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Men are always concerned about their intimate abilities and the way they perform in bed. However, when there are problems in this domain, the vast majority of men tend to conceal them because it is considered unmanly to have problems with erection. Sure, this sounds quite silly these days as men still tend to discuss these matters with their doctors, but in the earlier days it was quite a problem since impotence could lead to loss of social status (like a throne in a kingdom). Too bad they didn’t have Viagra spam back in that time. Or did they?

People believed in magical spells and potions before the advent of modern medicine, and you will be surprised to learn that a large part of these spells and preparations were aimed at eliminating impotence and improving current sexual abilities of the ritual’s subject. Of course, these rituals were secret and performed under the veil of secrecy. But it doesn’t change the fact that even kings and emperors were fascinated with these practices as they were looking for effective ways to improve their sexual abilities or prevent impotence. And you can imagine how many crooks and fake specialists have roamed the roads between kingdoms, providing something that you get in your spam folder every time you check the email.

Sure, we are more open to discussing our health problems than people of the past, but still when it comes to intimate problems not all of us will admit that a little help is needed. That’s why there are so many people becoming victims of Viagra spam these days. Sure you have observed the titles in the typical spam letters: if they aren’t about the money you have supposedly won then it’s about getting a bigger penis or buying Viagra at a very low price. And the fact that it’s convenient and anonymous to get drugs through the Internet, this form of spam doesn’t fade out even after years it has been jamming the mailboxes all over the world.

Most of the spam mails about the Blue Pill are nothing but a scam. These are the so-called phishing emails that provide specific links to sites where “the prices are really low” but when you enter your personal and credit information you simply get robbed and do not get any products in exchange. Such sites can also carry viruses and other malicious software that will damage your computer and steal your personal data – a typical kit for cyber criminals. As you see, despite the fact that technologies have changed, we are dealing with the same crooks that promise us things and simply rob us using our trust.

Still there are a lot of sites selling drugs that aren’t linked to spam. Do not confuse legal online stores and the links you get in your mail box marked as spam. The main reason for this form of cyber criminal activity is that Viagra is the most popular drug sold online and criminals are taking advantage of it. The only solution to this is to ignore any spam you get and buy your drugs from verified online vendors. Even if the spam mail promises a price twice as low as the official – it’s the main tool for attracting your attention and getting you to click on the link in the email.

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