I’d like to see how this effect from Sildenafil compares to increased NO levels from eating beets.
Also arginine and/or citrulline.
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
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe, but maybe not. If I told you I'm either giving you actual viagra or a placebo, you might get more aroused even if given placebo. Because psychologically you'll be thinking "There's at least a chance I took viagra right now"
the placebo effect does not work like that. You dont get physiological benefits just by thinking you have them.
Isn't that the exact definition of the placebo effect?
Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
#133> 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…
Viagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. I've taken it and then the sexual opportunity fell through, so I went back to coding or whatever, and I didn't notice anything different.
But it does frequently cause nasal congestion, unrelated to sexual simulation
Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
#134> 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…
Viagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. I've taken it and then the sexual opportunity fell through, so I went back to coding or whatever, and I didn't notice anything different.
I can (at the ripe old age of 78) confirm this completely. Without stimulation, nothing except facial flushing. With stimulation, and only with stimulation, a functioning erection.
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#135Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
#136Wasn't this class of medication originally for cardiovascular issues, and the whole ED mitigation was a happy marketable accident?
We don't know how many medications actually function. We put them inside of increasingly complex animals and study the results to see what they do (and hope they don't die). Botox was intended to treat muscle spasms. Powerful anti-depressants are regularly prescribed for pain from nerve damage in people with no mental health issues. And MDMA isn't prescribed for anything because the powers that be prematurely decided to ban it based on completely fabricated claims, which I assume is part of a massive hundred-year conspiracy to make sure people... keep dying from alcohol? Not totally sure about that last one, but it's hard to deny the facts.
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#137Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
#138Hmm I thought viagra improves blood flow in opposite place but 2 for price of 1 is great too
I think it just causes vasodilation anywhere in the body?
Yes, pretty much everywhere but the eye.
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#139you know what else would? walkable cities more time off from work more third spaces less air pollution less inequality of course none of that "increases productivity or GDP" so the ruling class won't consider it. of course when they start dying like Japan with low birth rates, their 'solution' is to have a government funded dating app instead of doing the obvious.
Given the opportunity, people will do anything else than have more than 2 children, which is the requirement to increase the population. There’s just better stuff to do than spend multiple years taking care of the baby. Any argument other than “for the greater good” won’t sound reasonable to educated population. Talking to my friends, especially women who already have a child, they keep mentioning the opportunity los…
Are people really saying they missed out on "personal growth" when they had kids?
Taking care of kids is not that hard or much of a sacrifice really. It would be super easy if things were even more communal. There's just really not that much great stuff that you are missing out on after like 35/40+. In truth most of the stuff geared to people in that age range is designed for people with kids. I think a lot of people would prefer to have more than 2 kids. The major issue is that SO much stuff is designed for the family of four. Yeah there's 3rd row seating, but it's annoying. Furniture that comes in 2 packs, theme parks, restaurant tables, vacation accommodations, etc. Because of modern life and the things we are accustomed to the logistical management burden of more than two children is very significant.
Re: Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's commonly used in bodybuilding competitions.
Now I cannot get that picture out of my head. A crowd full of bodybuilders in tight shorts and all on Viagra doing workouts. Each to his own I guess..
I'm pretty sure you don't just get random erections unless you're engaged in activity that you find sexually stimulating.
...so yes, probably.