Erectile dysfunction is normal? Not so fast…
If you're dealing with erectile dysfunction, a new study is suggesting you just suck it up because it's a normal part of aging.
Not only is that outrageous—it's a knee-jerk interpretation of the study's results.
This particular study looked at age and any connection to urinary, bowel and sexual dysfunction in men. Participants in the study were age 58 and older, cancer-free, and divided into five age groups.
Although urinary function was poorer in the older age groups, the researchers didn't find the differences to be significant. Nor did they find significant differences in bowel function among the age groups. Instead, they zeroed in on the men with sexual dysfunction. They concluded that it was much more common in older men than urinary or bowel problems—and somehow that automatically makes it just a normal product of aging. It doesn't hurt that this conclusion helps sell pills. There's billions of dollars in advertising on the line, trying to convince older men they need to spend their hard-earned money on drugs to help fix their ED.
If that isn't a disservice to thousands of men, I don't know what is. Especially when you consider that many of these men may need nothing more than a bottle of zinc pills.
Yes, you read that right. The problem could be nothing more than a zinc deficiency — but you won't hear that mentioned in any of the ED ads that run all day long. It's a topic I covered in depth in the April issue of my newsletter, Health Revelations. (Subscribers can access this issue and all others atwww.healthrevelations.com.) Over half of all Americans aren't getting enough zinc in their diets, so it's a good bet this could be part of the problem. I recommend you give your body what it needs before you venture over into Drug Land.
