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How do you know if your ED is due to stress? In the last

episode, I talked about performance anxiety, and what

you need to do with performance anxiety. Which is using CBT,

which is cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as low dose

Cialis, and also box breathing. But now it's like, well, you

have ED. How do you know if it's stress induced? Because it's due

to stress due to worry, which is a little bit separate than

anxiety and depression. So let's cover a little bit about that

and why you need to know. Stay all the way to the end, because

you're going to be surprised at what you can do to actually

control the stress that is inhibiting your erection.

First, what is the characteristic of a stress

induced ED. It's typically present with a distinct pattern

that help differentiate from physical causes of ED. So if

somebody is stressed and it's causing erection problem, they

may still find they're waking up with erection in the morning and

having even nighttime wood but having difficulty with erection

when they normally have sex. So the ability to have morning

erection indicate that you have intact blood flow and nerve

system working, but the problem is related to the autonomic

imbalance during awakened or conscious sexual activity. So

what I'm trying to say is that chronic stress create a

destructive cycle in your erection, because stress can

trigger sexual dysfunction and make ED worse over time.

What is chronic stress? Chronic stress is having stress that's

over than three months. Most of us have stress, stress from

work, relationship, money problem and just a lot of input

nowadays that we didn't have before. So the symptoms of

chronic stress shows up as lack of sleep, high blood pressure,

emotional fatigue, or just overall physical health problem

that just keep coming back and all which can affect your

erection. The psychological component become reinforcing,

because your stress lead to ED, and then ED make you more self

conscious, which then causes more stress, which then causes

performance anxiety as well. So this is recognized as the

vicious sex stress cycle that can perpetuate ED even if the

original stressor is removed. We talked about CBT, cognitive

behavioral therapy, at the last episode, but today I want to

kind of focus on a stress induced and how it really affect

your erection. So just very briefly, I'm not going to dive

deep into it, though it's one of the things I love to talk about,

because I love to talk about complex hormone system. But

Now, if you're waking up with morning erection, then and most

likely that you may have stress induced ED. And also, if this

let's talk about how chronic stress decreases your erection.

correlate with some life stressors like the timing of

your ED often correlate with some type of chronic stress,

such as work pressure, relationship issue, financial

When you are stressed, it activates the sympathetic

concern. But the good part is, this is where you they all the

way to the end here. The good part is that you can address

nervous system, which override the parasympathetic nervous

stress. I know I keep saying, Well, okay, well, doing therapy

like I did last time, but you can address stress by your

lifestyle. What can you do to decrease stress that will

system. The sympathetic nervous system is a fight or flight, and

promote more the parasympathetic activity? That's through

breathing technique that I talked about, that's through

exercise, that's through medication. That's how you kind

of reverse the parasympathetic to the sympathetic, so you can

parasympathetic system is the breathe and relax. So

relax the mind, relax the body. You can literally do this on

your own. So when you actually do this, you can actually also

parasympathetic erection, once the parasympathetic nervous

increase your testosterone as well. So you need to know that

you can break the cycle of chronic stress inducing ED to

"Okay. I'm going to break the cycle. I am going to activate my

system is turned on, is erection. Sympathetic a nervous

parasympathetic nervous system, decrease the sympathetic nervous

system through stress reduction such as exercise, sleep,

breathing and meditation." And meditation could be just using

system turn on, no erection because it worked through

your phone, putting the app on there so the apps called Calm

that you can use. It's totally free that will help you with

several mechanism is that when you are chronically stressed, it

slowing your mind down, and all you need to do is about five

minutes a day, along with box breathing for five minutes a

day, and then regular exercise, such as three times a week,

disrupt your hormone, decrease your testosterone, increase your

about 30 minutes of just walking or any activity, pickleball,

tennis, golf. So just know that you can lower your stress and

may not need to do therapy. But I do want you to give you

cortisol, which is your stress hormone. And cortisol, directly

information to differentiate between whether your ED is

stress induced or physical induced as well. And that if you

leave it too long, it's going to become performance anxiety, and

itself, also affect erection and also arousal as well. Make

you're going to have like two double whammy of stress induced

ED along with performance anxiety as well. So I can't tell

you the interplay with stress and ED and performance anxiety,

sense, if you're stressed, you're not going to be in the

and this will really worsen your erection and that you have the

power and the ability to break this vicious cycle through the

strategy that I discussed today.

So I feel that sometimes it is easier to treat the physical

mood to do anything. You're not in the mood to do anything, then

component of ED and more challenging to address stress,

the performance anxiety, because oftentimes, it's not something

you're not going to get an erection. It also cause nerve

you see, it's something you feel. And oftentimes we don't

know that we're chronically stressed. But we now live in the

world of constant disruption of the phone and social media and

imbalances as well. And on top of that, it also affects your

multiple commitments that is unlike any other time at this

point. And more people are anxious now than before, and so

we're living kind of under kind of a chronic level of stress all

vascular system, because when you're stressed, you tend to

the time. And know that men, if you're having ED, and you're

noticing you're having morning erection, it's most likely

stress induced ED. So first of all, I will recommend, and

whether it's physical cause of ED or psychological cause of ED,

have vasoconstriction, which is constriction of the blood

if you have ED, go at least get some blood work first. Get some

blood work with your doctor, starting with like a CBC, a

chemistry 14, get your testosterone level check, total

vessels. And when you have constriction of the blood

and free, and get your prolactin level check, get your

cholesterol check, get your blood pressure measure, just

rule out that you're not a diabetic, you don't have high

blood pressure or high cholesterol, and also check your

vessel, then less blood flow to the penis. And because when

hormones level as well. These are all covered through

insurance as well that can be easily ordered, and then address

your stress with, okay, are you overweight? Like, how do you

you're stressed, the way that our body is programmed from the

know you're overweight? Well, step up the scale and calculate

your BMI. If you're overweight, then you probably need to work

on watching your diet, eating the Mediterranean diet, and also

combining that with 30 minutes of exercise three times a week,

dinosaur days. So when you're stressed, the blood flow will

and combining that with meditation. So you have the

tools to do that, and you don't have to guess, and you don't

have to resort to taking Viagra or Cialis first off. If you

tend to go towards your lung, your heart, and your legs and

start out early with these strategies here, you yourself

can reverse your ED, you start early, right? With anything like

your car. If you first hear the sound, your car doesn't sound

your arms. You can run away from danger, and it doesn't go to

right, or the engine lights start coming on, you want to

take it to the mechanic to get it fixed early, right? You don't

want to wait until the car die in the street and then take it

to the mechanic. Same thing with your ED, if you have ED, you

your penis, because you're trying to run away from danger,

know, start early, because the earlier you can start, the

easier it is to address, the more reversible it's going to

be, and you're going to get a lot more out of it. Because if

you continue to take ED medication for years on end, the

not gonna think about having time to have intercourse or

cause of why you have ED in the first place never been

addressed. It's like putting band aid in a bleeding wound.

The wound is still infected, still bleeding. You're just

covering it up with the band aid, and then years later you'll

procreate. So that makes sense. So it can also affect the

find out, Well, the medication isn't working, and by that time,

it's going to be a lot harder to overcome and treat your ED on

your own. So I'm telling you that you do have the power to do

endothelium, which is the lining of the blood vessels. Because

that, that's where I feel passionate about, is to give you

evidence based tools and strategy that you can start

right now if you have ED.

So I hope that you find this valuable mean the world to me,

stress causes inflammation. Inflammation cause the lining of

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there are alternative methods. Start early, and if you're

taking medication right now, should probably evaluate what

penis muscle need nitric oxide. So when you have less nitric

you need to do at this point. And I will see you in the next

episode.

Okay, Modern Man, you are not alone and you don't have to

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oxide, less blood flow, less hormone and less nerve

defeating. The endless guessing, the quiet shame, the weight of

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