Lifestyle has a meaningful impact on a person’s health. A person with a bad lifestyle can create problems for himself like ED or PE. Here are five lifestyle changes to treat ED.
- Quit smoking immediately, and completely
Did you know that smoking is one of the biggest contributors to erectile dysfunction?
This applies to heavy smokers, but even those who consider themselves “mild smokers” still run the risk of getting themselves occasional erectile dysfunction as they continue to grow older.
Smoking is an addiction that serves no higher purpose whatsoever. Nothing good comes out of it, like, at all.
Various studies published on Wiley Online Library have indicated the impact of smoking on the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED). In a study conducted by Mirone et al. (2002) involving 2010 men, it was concluded that smoking influences the risk of developing ED, and the duration of smoking habit further increases this risk. Additionally, in a literature review encompassing 18 studies, Dorey (2001) observed a detrimental effect of smoking on erectile function, with smokers being 1.5 times more likely to experience ED compared to nonsmokers.
And if you worry about the possibility of erectile dysfunction, or if you already experience it from time to time, it is high time you quit it altogether.
Many experts have highlighted the withdrawal symptoms that come from the sudden suspension of smoking, so you will need to be prepared for that.
That will make you suffer for a few days (or weeks) but if you persist you will beat your addiction.
And you will be better off for a healthier life away from erectile dysfunction.
- Start taking more walks
One easy exercise you can practice daily is walking. Walking is actually an exercise!
It is a physical activity that uses all of your limbs so that you move all parts of your body. As such, walking itself is incorporated into a cardio exercise.
Walking for at least 30 minutes a day can help you maintain cardio health, which has a lot to do with erectile health. Blood circulation can also benefit from regular cardio exercises.
If you are the type of person that has a lot of energy, you can even upgrade your walking exercises to a power walk exercise.
But if you are a person who has spent a long time being a potato couch, 30 minutes of the walk may be too much to handle right away from the beginning.
A piece of good advice for you: you can start by taking a walk for 10 minutes daily for a week.
After you get used to more physical activity like this, you can increase the amount of time to 20 minutes daily for the second week. And so on.
- Reduce red meat and heavy fat foods
Red meats are known to contain a heavy amount of fats. These fats are very unhealthy and can create blockages in your arteries and blood vessels.
After so many years of consumption of this type of meat, your arteries and vessels can become so blocked that they even get damaged.
This is why a lot of men above the age of 50 report increasing issues with erectile dysfunction.
And then, because their physicality has become so bad, they have not many choices to revert the situation.
So, they will need to depend on prescription erectile dysfunction drugs for a very long time.
According to Nao Medical, consuming red meat, which is high in saturated fat, can potentially elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease, ultimately increasing the likelihood of developing erectile dysfunction (ED). A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine revealed that men with a higher intake of red meat were more susceptible to experiencing ED in comparison to those who consumed less.
If you want to avoid this kind of scenario from happening in your life, you had better take care of what you eat daily.
Eating beef of any kind and steaks occasionally will not kill you, but try to balance how much you eat heavy fat foods.
Also, don’t forget to balance the intake itself by consuming more detoxing foods and juices.
- Reduce daily garlic consumption
Garlic is one bulb plant that is highly cultivated across the world and is heavily used in a lot of cooking no matter where you are in the world. It makes food taste and smells so much better.
Actually, garlic is also a healthy food source to have as it can reduce mucous in the body and have a plethora of antibacterial properties.
But, new suggestions from teachers of holistic living are saying the opposite.
It seems like garlic is actually a super potent medicine that you shouldn’t eat it too much on the regular.
Other such teachers are saying that excess consumption of garlic will create even more mucous in the body that it will make you sick in the long term.
You know mucous doesn’t go well with having healthy erections. With that said, it may be a good idea to start reducing your garlic intake, just in case.
- Eat more dark green vegetables
In order to reduce inflammation in the body, which could lead to a lot of internal sickness leading to erectile dysfunction, it would be a good idea to start eating more greens. Specifically, dark green veggies.
Dark green veggies vary, but many of them contain essential minerals and vitamins that can improve the immune system, as well as maintain a man’s sexual functions.
Aside from that, veggies that have some antioxidants can fight off external pollutants and diminish inflammation of the cells.
Some dark green veggies that are highly beneficial for a man’s sexual health include spinach, baby spinach, bok choy, broccoli (for protein), and kale.
Other lighter green veggies that are as beneficial include celery, asparagus, and all kinds of lettuce.
Studies published in the National Library of Medicine indicate that the consumption of green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, kale, collards, and lettuce, is strongly associated with the prevention of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men. Additionally, research published in PLOS highlights that green leafy vegetables, including parsley, spinach, and beet leaves, have a high concentration of nitrates and are rich in folic acid, which can provide additional advantages for erectile health.
It would be better not to overcook your veggies and eat them as raw as possible. Salads are a great option. If you can’t have raw veggies as a meal, you can juice them instead for easy digestion.
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- Do Kegels
Kegels exercise is a proven method of treating erectile dysfunction. Your erection and arousal are dependent on your pelvis muscles.
With time, as you age, these muscles are lax. Maybe, you are still young but prone to a sedentary lifestyle. Too much sitting renders muscles weak since they aren’t stimulated well enough.
As such, these disused muscles weaken to the extent that they can’t even supply blood to the penis. When this happens, you register ED signs.
But you can fire these veins back into action through Kegels exercises. Besides, these exercises are easy and discreet.
You can do them anywhere and don’t interfere with your normal routine. They flex your PC muscles when seated, standing, or laying down.
The exercise targets the bulbocavernosus muscles. These are vessels responsible for regulating urination, ejaculation, and erection.
And as these veins strengthen through Kegels, you register a marked improvement in your erection and ejaculation.
- Have more sex
The only way to keep your erection is by using it. Meaning that the more you stimulate your penile muscles, the better they become, thus preventing erectile dysfunction.
Incidentally, the greater your intercourse frequency, the better your sex experience. And this situation has been clinically studied.
According to data published by the Finish National Institute of Health, men who engage in sex less than once a week were as twice likely to suffer from ED as their more active counterparts.
So, to starve away ED, keep having frequent sex. Sex is a great exercise that engages the penile muscles and the more you have it, the better stimulated these muscles become.
Penetrative sex seems to protect the penile chambers from scaring and blocking. Besides, sex also protects the erectile nerves and blood vessels from slackening.
Constant stimulation via sexual activity, therefore, keeps your pelvis muscles fit and prepped, preventing the onset of ED.
