Dr John Spencer Ellis Helps Men With Sexual Dysfunction with Health Optimization
The Two-to-Five Year Head Start Most Men Throw Away Some warning signs arrive too late to be useful. This one doesn't. Erectile dysfunction typically appears two to five years before the cardiovascular symptoms it precedes. That's not a footnote — it's a window. A man who investigates it properly gets a multi-year head start on a heart problem. A man who quietly fills a prescription and moves on gets the heart problem instead. The medical literature calls it a sentinel event : an early, visible sign of vascular, metabolic and hormonal processes already progressing where he can't see them. Why the smallest vessels fail first 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. When it stops working consistently, blood vessels aren't functioning properly — and they're the same blood vessels running through the rest of...