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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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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..

Bodybuilders at competition time have very low body fat and are very dehidrated, it's never an "issue".

And really big hormonal issues caused by the low body fat.

Bodybuilders (in the months before competing, while cutting) can't get it up even if they wanted to.

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

#194
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All you need is regular exercise to improve blood flow

Simple solutions to hard problems seem to be falling out of favor.

Have done regular exercise to improve my Long COVID state for 6 months now. It has helped, but it has its limits too. If I overdo it, I get worse, but I can't always tell until later. And other health issues are limiting what forms of exercise I can do.

Hard problems rarely have one simple solution, or they wouldn't be hard, would they?

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)

Or they grew accustomed to the erections and no longer found them annoying, which is how I read it.

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

#196

All you need is regular exercise to improve blood flow

> 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.

I mean, I think if going for a walk were a magic bullet for stroke rehabilitation, someone would have noticed by now.

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.

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.

> nothing except facial flushing

What does this mean?

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

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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.

> nothing except facial flushing What does this mean?

Person takes pill, face gets a bit more rosy than usual. I guess it has an effect on small blood vessels everywhere.

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

#199
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It is prescribed for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH; an enlarged prostate) which include difficulty urinating—not just for ED

Just hijacking to add a public health warning about BPH. Like many men as they get older, I was getting up several times a night to pee. Thought I would just put up with it until it got worse. I went on a yacht for the weekend, drank quite a few beers and crashed to sleep. I awoke to find out I couldn't pee at all. I can't describe how painful things were by the time I staggered into the emergency department that eve…

why on a yacht, though? i have a similar problem. shy bladder plus tense pelvic base. maybe even somewhat increased prostate (i don't know). so peeing is always something i need a little privacy for. but everytime i'm scuba diving plus out with a boat it's like my prostate is locking up completely. extremely weird and uncomfortable feeling. on those small boats there is never a toilet but there are sneaky options that in theory should work but don't. so i'm wondering if the wavy motion might have something to do with this problem.

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

#200

Just a word to the wise, viagra can cause tinnitus by putting too much blood through tiny vessels in your ears. Be careful of high doses while hydrated and exercising

isn't, er, vigorous exercise part of what people expect when they take viagra?
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