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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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Well. too sad I can't take it. It gives me terrible heartburn (an acute stomach pain, not a heart related condition) that only partially responds to anti-acids such as Alka Seltzer. Also, extremelly stuffy nose, to the point where basically I need to breath by the mouth. And the red eyes, eyes as red as if had just smoke the biggest and strongest joint ever. Yes, I tried to use it recreationally a few times. It is no…

Were you taking authentic or internet genetics from China/India? Ive gone through a decent amount of generics over the years, from several sources, and even though the label is the same, they almost all act differently on me. Some give me a flushed red face. Some cause a dull headache. Some don't cause anything negative thank God. They all work though. I think the Indian/Chinese ones are laced with garbage and what I…

The one time I used it over a few weeks was a generic brand. The on-label effect worked, but I had one disturbing side effect: terrible nightmares.

Unscientific conclusion, but the nights I took it when with my new gf at the time, nightmares followed. Binned the remaining pills, nightmares vanished. Possibly the generic additives factor, or maybe the drug itself. Who knows, never tried it again after that.

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

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Isn't that the exact definition of the placebo effect?

you dont get antibodies against viruses just by thinking you have them.

Even if this is obviously true, that does nothing to support the original statement. That's a whole different claim that you had to fall back to.

Which is a motte-and-bailey type of argument.

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

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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.

>Viagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. That's Cialis, Viagra should make you hard even when you're in the confession booth talking to a priest.

Viagra = standing at attention pretty much no matter what is going on. Cialis = you have to have the mind/stimulus.

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

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First NIH said it does: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/viagra-... Then it doesn't: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-dream-stud... Then it does: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-07-sildenafil-viagra-impro... Who knows what to believe.

That second study didn’t use as robust of methods as the first, and they each used observational data that benefit from advanced methods (propensity score analysis).

With an RCT, the evidence is substantially increased.

I’d conclude sildenafil reduces risk of age-associated cognitive decline

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

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Not OP, but their statement read as if that effect wears off after the body develops tolerance to the medication. So, yes they did for a while (it was annoying) but no they don't now (for a few months)

There is NO tolerance development, on the contrary, increasing vascular health by long term PDE5 treatment and increasing psychological confidence over time make the treatment more effective with time. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S205011611...

You're taking about slightly different things - you about ED, the other person about "boner all day". They are not the same thing.

Slightly off topic, but this is why I don't really trust these "no tolerance" claims. That claim is usually very specific, while people's understanding of "tolerance" is often quite a bit wider.

I take 3 medications which each make "no tolerance" claims based on scientific studies. But my subjective experience is that all of them do build tolerance in some way - the subjective effect does wear off with time and taking a break does reduce the tolerance. One possible cause is mistaking the intended effect (ED) with side-effects (boner all day).

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

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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…

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

#180

Well. too sad I can't take it. It gives me terrible heartburn (an acute stomach pain, not a heart related condition) that only partially responds to anti-acids such as Alka Seltzer. Also, extremelly stuffy nose, to the point where basically I need to breath by the mouth. And the red eyes, eyes as red as if had just smoke the biggest and strongest joint ever. Yes, I tried to use it recreationally a few times. It is no…

> Also, extremelly stuffy nose, to the point where basically I need to breath by the mouth. And the red eyes, eyes as red as if had just smoke the biggest and strongest joint ever.

Looks like an allergic reaction; it could be not so much in sildenafil itself, but what they use as filler for the pills.

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