Impotence Causes

Sex is not complete though unless you have a strong sex drive and many men who take prescription drugs end up frustrated because they cannot get a hard erection without manual stimulation and this leads to an incomplete sexual experience but the good news is - herbs will increase your sexual desire, as well as getting you a hard erection.

Everything in one way shape or form is bad for us it seems, or creates problems in other areas of our life. Smoking is one of those things. It is listed as one of the worst things to be doing if you want a full sexual life. But why is that? For one thing smoking is known to increase the chance of impotence by 50% in men in their 30's and 40's. Man that is a lot of chance to become impotent!

The key to sex drive is lot's of energy and that means high levels of testosterone, to boost sex drive and staying power and two great herbs to take to increase levels fast are the legendary Chinese herbs - Tongkat Ali and Tribulus. These herbs also contain powerful nutrients which enable you to enjoy prolonged and more satisfying orgasms.

When you are aroused, your brain gets a message to do certain things, one of them is the blood vessel wall lining releases nitric oxide. This is very important as it will tell the arteries and smooth muscles in your penis to relax and let the blood in. Without this the penis will not become erect. To add insult to injury the ADA says that 70% of diabetics also have hypertension or high blood pressure. Are on blood pressure lowering agents. This combination is deadly to an erection.

Then you add that most people with diabetes will also have high cholesterol which puts fatty deposits in artery walls and you have even less blood flow. You can see that the scenario for a diabetic man looks quite alarming, and if you add in smoking and alcohol then it is like a never ending problem. But let me say this, you can turn it all around. Choose to live a healthy lifestyle, eat right, exercise, quit the bad things that you really do not need and start a good program with your doctor.

Erections happen because a large amount of blood rushes into the penis through the arteries and gets trapped there because of the increased pressure on the veins that usually allow the blood to leave the penis. If you smoke this function will be impaired to some degree and will get worse the longer you smoke.

Less blood will flow into the penis because those arteries that are suppose to be nice and smooth and clean of debris are being slowly blocked by fatty deposits that have been building up over time. This process has a name and it is arteriosclerosis, and unfortunately besides having bad cholesterol smoking is a major cause.