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Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You take it for this purpose or why?

It is prescribed for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH; an enlarged prostate) which include difficulty urinating—not just for ED

now you have my attention.

Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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Viagra increases the effect of nitric oxide, which is bad stuff when it gets into cytochrome complex iv in the mitochondria (IIRC). I would personally suspect based on that, that its effects on brain health would be negative in spite of blood flow.

Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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Wasn't this class of medication originally for cardiovascular issues, and the whole ED mitigation was a happy marketable accident?

I vaguely recall an anecdote about athletes using it for performance improvement, and getting a slightly different stat buff

Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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> The OxHARP trial was a meticulously designed double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 75 participants who had experienced a minor stroke and showed signs of mild to moderate small vessel disease. Each participant received sildenafil, a placebo, and cilostazol (a similar drug) over three-week periods in a randomised order.

I feel like dudes will know if they got Viagra or not? It doesn't seem like cilostazol has the same kind of effects on them, or does it? So is it really a placebo?

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