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Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by persedes »

emrevarol wrote: post #42
yosito wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend gets my heart rate into mid 160s sometimes. I never get there by walking.

I don't trust my garmins heart rate for anything beyond running. On my rowing machine it barely goes beyond 90 too, meanwhile I'm drenched in sweat. Must be something with the movement/positioning of the watch.

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

hashimotonomora wrote: post #69
yosito wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

You are extremely trained or she deserves much harder.

Or he's bragging that she "does all the work".

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by penjelly »

WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #33
ratsforhorses wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So does masturbation.... could it be the exchange of molecules, a touch of human warmth or that feeling of contentment/happiness which is more important?

Not really, unless you both pile down on one another like logs and wait for an earthquake. Good sex with a person is quite a workout in comparison, maybe you should reevaluate your practices.

what? all the parent said is masturbation increases heart rate as well, which is fact. He didnt say it increases heart rate to the same level as intercourse does. Personal attacks are also unnecessary, come on.

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by vidarh »

johmue wrote: post #65

It's the third option: I guess we all know it's not the viagra, but I would suggest it's also not the sex but rather what is associated with a lifestyle that includes the potential for sex: a lifestyle with connection, a partner and possibly friends. A bigger social group is pretty tightly related to better health outcomes

We don't know any such things. Viagra has effects that could provide a plausible mechanism for a direct causal link. The article in particular points out that it directly interacts with amyloid and tau proteins, that are frequently implicated in Alzheimer's, and that they've explored it's effect on tau in vitro.

That of course is not proof of a causal link, but it's enough to justify follow up research.

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by penjelly »

persedes wrote: post #81
emrevarol wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend gets my heart rate into mid 160s sometimes. I never get there by walking.

I don't trust my garmins heart rate for anything beyond running. On my rowing machine it barely goes beyond 90 too, meanwhile I'm drenched in sweat. Must be something with the movement/positioning of the watch.

yeah, if you get the chance to be hooked up to a proper hr monitor while the watch is on youll notice its typically wrong. Still like having the tracking tho

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by vidarh »

pennaMan wrote: post #60
yosito wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

>sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s Either you're an elite athlete with a low resting heart rate or your girlfriends heart rate gets signifincally higher than yours :)

Or it's simply different ideas about what sex should be like. My hear rate certainly goes far higher than 90s, but people like different speed and vigour...

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by Terry_Roll »

pas wrote: post #51
oliwarner wrote: post #37

Correlation not [necessarily] causation! Lots of people suggesting having sex might be a prophylactic but also consider that a lower "sex drive" might also be a factor here. We don't know because we're looking at insurance claim data. You only see links. And only in people with insurance! You have to go much further to show causation.

do people who use viagra have a lower sex drive or simply erectile disfunction? after all they go and buy viagra and then do have sex. it's not like they pop viagra to have the urge to have sex, right?

When is erectile disfunction the result of too much low level body wide disease aka aging, and the histamines are being used by the white blood cells to move through tissue OR not enough histidine in your diet, one of the quickest amino acids into your muscles (it goes straight through the portal shunt) that happens to be a precursor for histamine, and 60mg of histamine will give you a spontaneous erection! Ergo take copious amounts of histidine and get spontaneous erections that you cant control, as if you were going through puberty.

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by dotancohen »

yosito wrote: post #38
yellow_lead wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it does get your heart rate up

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

  > According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my
  > heart rate into the mid 90s
You might want to try emrevarol's girlfriend. His Garmin watch reports she's good for the 160s.

Re: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

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Post by kevincox »

pas wrote: post #51
oliwarner wrote: post #37

Correlation not [necessarily] causation! Lots of people suggesting having sex might be a prophylactic but also consider that a lower "sex drive" might also be a factor here. We don't know because we're looking at insurance claim data. You only see links. And only in people with insurance! You have to go much further to show causation.

do people who use viagra have a lower sex drive or simply erectile disfunction? after all they go and buy viagra and then do have sex. it's not like they pop viagra to have the urge to have sex, right?

No, but people with a lower sex drive are probably taking less Viagra. The main users of Viagra are likely those with both a sex drive and ED.
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