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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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Would be interesting to see what the effect with tadalafil is. Sildenafil is rather short acting while tadalafil is much longer acting. Tadalafil is also used in smaller but daily doses as a treatment for benign prostrate hyperplasia, so there should be more data on longer durations of use and effect. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30901259/

I've been taking 5mg tadalafil/day for years. Super common in longevity/bbuilder circles. Lots of positive effects beyond dong gains.

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If you want it to go up to 180 go have a sex with neighbors wife. Jokes aside, isn't 90s is good enough? What's your normal one and high one after exercise? I honestly never measure.

Men Who Cheat On Their Wives Are More Likely To Die Of Cardiac Arrest During Sex https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/29/men-wh...

Doesn't seem to be controlled for the fact that more of their hours are spent having sex than their non-cheating counterparts.

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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.

Or look at men who have a similar amount of sex without taking viagra.

Well, yeah, but those men could be really healthy if at an advanced age they don't need viagra?

My grandpa whom I've never caught lying, told me that in WW2 Romania, as a very young conscript, he was given a medical examination... consisting of the nurse fondling his junk. Apparently they decided very fast he was healthy and the same for every other conscript, except for the only son of an aristocrat(most were tough peasants such as my grandpa) who would not get an errection.

A couple of weeks later, that young man who did not pass the "physical exam" got really ill and only my grandpa took pitty enough to carry him on his back to a hospital, where they guy died a couple of days later.

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

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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

Stop with the we all know. All we know for sure is that people are extremely ignorant. If they cared about the topic they would quickly discover that sildenafil is a potent and long lasting superoxide dismutase prodrug that e.g almost totally prevent MDMA neurotoxicity hence no surprise it's a potent neuroprotectant.

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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…

Histidine also plays a part in remyelinating the nervous system, so erections could be viewed as security service type metadata for health of the brain and nervous system and red and white blood cells amongst other things. It can also help keep cataracts at bay.

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yeah, if you get the chance to be hooked up to a proper hr monitor while the watch is on youll notice its typically wrong. Still like having the tracking tho

Probably depends on the watch and the fit.

for what it's worth, my reading at my Drs office were in line with what my watch said and it's pretty good at tracking changes in intensity levels during a run workout.

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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.

Perhaps nobody is joking about women being objects to be passed around. Perhaps we're no longer restrained by conventional ideas of institutionalized marriage and religion.

What? Respecting people's wives is a religious thing? Her point is valid, it is crass. Some people may like crass jokes, but I don't understand when some people refuse to admit they're crass

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6036338/ Viagra increases testosterone? I wonder if this relates to other things that increase late-life testosterone like red meat (unprocessed)? https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/does-ea... I've always thought about how big of a role testosterone plays in later-life health and I wonder why doctors don't prescribe it to restore testosterone levels to a…

Exogenous testosterone inevitably leads to your natural production going down. Same reason it's a bad idea to even dose a small amount of testosterone in order to help gain muscle quick.

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

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Probably depends on the watch and the fit.

for what it's worth, my reading at my Drs office were in line with what my watch said and it's pretty good at tracking changes in intensity levels during a run workout.

i had the exact opposite experience at the doctors office. HR -20 from what the watch stated. but i use it everyday anyway
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