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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 dotancohen »

ethbr0 wrote: post #10
slavik81 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has a set of recommendations: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

God bless those socially liberal Canadians! > * Choose sexual positions that limit face-to-face contact. > * Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact.

Another gem of a tip from that fine article:

  > during sex ... consider keeping contact information for your partner(s) so that
  > you can reach them if one of you develops symptoms.

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

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Post by detaro »

ethbr0 wrote: post #10
slavik81 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has a set of recommendations: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

God bless those socially liberal Canadians! > * Choose sexual positions that limit face-to-face contact. > * Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact.

And as Berlins Corona regulation puts it:

> When supplying fee-based sexual services, practices carried out close to the face are not permitted. (and a bunch more rules)

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

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Post by watwut »

jinpa_zangpo wrote: post #58
amelius wrote: post #52

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More T is not necessarily a good thing as it might mean that the body has more trouble converting it and make it do its job.

A generation of steroid using bodybuilders shows that the body has no trouble utilizing even very large amounts of testosterone.

Erm, if anything they show that both utilizing it and stopping to take it has all kind of unfortunate side effects.

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

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Post by raducu »

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

That could be very easy to prove right or wrong: if it's the sex, then the wives of men taking viagra should be less likely to develop alzheimer's themselves.

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

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Post by elliekelly »

dotancohen wrote: post #89
yosito wrote: post #38

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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.

When will we stop making “jokes” about women being objects to be passed around? Perhaps 2022 will be the year we grow up. I am hopeful.

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

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Post by raducu »

Terry_Roll wrote: post #88
pas wrote: post #51

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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…

I'd love/hate getting erections that I cannot control.

Sex/touch just felt incredible as a teenager, when I could not control neither erections nor orgasm. I remember dancing with this girl in 8th grade, she had a green silk dress cut in the middle and she put her leg between mine, to this day I remember how that felt; once I was able to control erections/orgasm, it felt like I severed 80% of naughty tough sensations somewhere in in my brain.

I guess once you can control something, some magic is lost.

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

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Post by q1w2 »

vidarh wrote: post #84
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.

Viagra use indicates that the person has a partner(s) at an advanced age. This alone implies MANY lifestyle changes.

What would be interesting would be a comparison again Cialis (the competitor to Viagra).

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