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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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Post by blitzar »

yosito wrote: post #38
yellow_lead wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it does get your heart rate up

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

Depends if it is a quick 30 second lap of the block or a walking marathon around the block of manhattan.

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

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Post by emrevarol »

yosito wrote: post #38
yellow_lead wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it does get your heart rate up

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend gets my heart rate into mid 160s sometimes. I never get there by walking.

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

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Post by neoncontrails »

AltruisticGapHN wrote: post #39

My hunch is it has to do with the increased bloodflow to the brain -- and not really about sexual function.

Layperson, admittedly, but it wouldn't shock me that a smooth muscle vasodilator affects cognition. It's good to be skeptical of those claims, but I don't think Occam's Razor cleaves so closely to the alternative explanations.

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

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Post by phantom_oracle »

Every few days, articles like these keep cropping up with click-bait headlines about preventing all types of diseases in old age. The headlines almost always never match up to the content or even the reality of trying to treat or prevent these many diseases.

Another reality is that death, old age(and sickness with it) strikes such fear into people's hearts that they are willing to walk around with perpetual erections to prevent Alzheimer's disease(and the absurdity of my comment is linked to the absurdity of the click-bait title)

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

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Post by neoncontrails »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #45

Every few days, articles like these keep cropping up with click-bait headlines about preventing all types of diseases in old age. The headlines almost always never match up to the content or even the reality of trying to treat or prevent these many diseases. Another reality is that death, old age(and sickness with it) strikes such fear into people's hearts that they are willing to walk around with perpetual erections…

It's a smooth muscle vasodilator. Of course it will increase the blood flow of capillaries in the brain, the question is whether that's a good thing. It's plausible that it has some cognitive benefits — but also, entirely plausible that it might lead to oxidative damage. Without more research, it's impossible to say. Amid so many pseudoscientific headlines it's easy to be cynical, but this seems actually like a good research question to be asking.

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

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Post by techdragon »

danbmil99 wrote: post #40
yosito wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

Um, it probably depends on how you do it.

I think this is probably true for more than just heart rate.

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

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Post by quitit »

d--b wrote: post #19

Is it just me or is there a sub text here that says: “maybe it’s not the drug, maybe a good shag every now and then does it, and viagra consumption is a good proxy for knowing that”?

Correlate it against the female partner and check for the same.

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

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Post by yhvh »

raducu wrote: post #13
version_five wrote: post #2

This is very interesting. The article points out twice that there is no evidence it's causal, but does proposr some potential causal mechanisms, all told a pretty reasonable summary of the finding. I'm curious to know if there is any info related to alzheimers and sex drive. The 70% is based on chance developing alzheimers in the next six years, I wonder if there is any relation between a profile who would seek Viagr…

I have a funny/sad/gross anecode: my flat neighbor had alzheimer's and I helped his wife for a few years, but really nothing much/special -- just getting him out of bed or off the toilet when he wouldn't budge (I can only imagine what his wife went through). But very frequently when he was on the toilet he would play with his erm... sword and unsheathe it (Easter Europe, I'm cut, he wasn't) and his wife asked me why…

That's pretty special.

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

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Post by fendy3002 »

yosito wrote: post #38
yellow_lead wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it does get your heart rate up

According to my Garmin watch, sex with my girlfriend only gets my heart rate into the mid 90s, the same as a walk around the block. The significance of that data is up for interpretation, but I'm skeptical that sex is really a significant cardio activity.

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.

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