Dr John Spencer Ellis Sexual Dysfunction and Health Coaching - How it all is Connected
Erectile Dysfunction Is the First Symptom of High Blood Pressure Most Men Ever Notice High blood pressure is called the silent killer for a reason. It produces no headache, no chest pain, no fatigue. A man can carry stage II hypertension for a decade and feel nothing. Except that isn't quite true. For a large number of men, hypertension does produce a symptom — one they notice immediately, and one they will do almost anything to avoid discussing. The vascular system doesn't distinguish between the two An erection is a haemodynamic event. It depends on nitric oxide released by the vascular endothelium, which relaxes smooth muscle in the penile arteries and allows blood to fill and be trapped. Hypertension attacks that endothelium directly. The negative effect of high blood pressure on erectile function operates through endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis and vascular pathology — and as the duration of hypertension increases, the incidence of erectile dysfunction ris...