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How do you know if your ED is due to stress?

In the last episode, I talked about performance anxiety, and what you need to do with performance anxiety.

Which is using CBT, which is cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as low dose Cialis, and also box breathing.

But now it's like, well, you have ED.

How do you know if it's stress induced?

Because it's due to stress due to worry, which is a little bit separate than anxiety and depression.

So let's cover a little bit about that and why you need to know.

Stay all the way to the end, because you're going to be surprised at what you can do to actually control the stress that is inhibiting your erection.

First, what is the characteristic of a stress induced ED.

It's typically present with a distinct pattern that help differentiate from physical causes of ED.

So if somebody is stressed and it's causing erection problem, they may still find they're waking up with erection in the morning and having even nighttime wood but having difficulty with erection when they normally have sex.

So the ability to have morning erection indicate that you have intact blood flow and nerve system working, but the problem is related to the autonomic imbalance during awakened or conscious sexual activity.

So what I'm trying to say is that chronic stress create a destructive cycle in your erection, because stress can trigger sexual dysfunction and make ED worse over time.

What is chronic stress?

Chronic stress is having stress that's over than three months.

Most of us have stress, stress from work, relationship, money problem and just a lot of input nowadays that we didn't have before.

So the symptoms of chronic stress shows up as lack of sleep, high blood pressure, emotional fatigue, or just overall physical health problem that just keep coming back and all which can affect your erection.

The psychological component become reinforcing, because your stress lead to ED, and then ED make you more self conscious, which then causes more stress, which then causes performance anxiety as well.

So this is recognized as the vicious sex stress cycle that can perpetuate ED even if the original stressor is removed.

We talked about CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, at the last episode, but today I want to kind of focus on a stress induced and how it really affect your erection.

So just very briefly, I'm not going to dive deep into it, though it's one of the things I love to talk about, because I love to talk about complex hormone system.

But Now, if you're waking up with morning erection, then and most likely that you may have stress induced ED.

And also, if this let's talk about how chronic stress decreases your erection.

correlate with some life stressors like the timing of your ED often correlate with some type of chronic stress, such as work pressure, relationship issue, financial When you are stressed, it activates the sympathetic concern.

But the good part is, this is where you they all the way to the end here.

The good part is that you can address nervous system, which override the parasympathetic nervous stress.

I know I keep saying, Well, okay, well, doing therapy like I did last time, but you can address stress by your lifestyle.

What can you do to decrease stress that will system.

The sympathetic nervous system is a fight or flight, and promote more the parasympathetic activity?

That's through breathing technique that I talked about, that's through exercise, that's through medication.

That's how you kind of reverse the parasympathetic to the sympathetic, so you can parasympathetic system is the breathe and relax.

So relax the mind, relax the body.

You can literally do this on your own.

So when you actually do this, you can actually also parasympathetic erection, once the parasympathetic nervous increase your testosterone as well.

So you need to know that you can break the cycle of chronic stress inducing ED to "Okay.

I'm going to break the cycle.

I am going to activate my system is turned on, is erection.

Sympathetic a nervous parasympathetic nervous system, decrease the sympathetic nervous system through stress reduction such as exercise, sleep, breathing and meditation." And meditation could be just using system turn on, no erection because it worked through your phone, putting the app on there so the apps called Calm that you can use.

It's totally free that will help you with several mechanism is that when you are chronically stressed, it slowing your mind down, and all you need to do is about five minutes a day, along with box breathing for five minutes a day, and then regular exercise, such as three times a week, disrupt your hormone, decrease your testosterone, increase your about 30 minutes of just walking or any activity, pickleball, tennis, golf.

So just know that you can lower your stress and may not need to do therapy.

But I do want you to give you cortisol, which is your stress hormone.

And cortisol, directly information to differentiate between whether your ED is stress induced or physical induced as well.

And that if you leave it too long, it's going to become performance anxiety, and itself, also affect erection and also arousal as well.

Make you're going to have like two double whammy of stress induced ED along with performance anxiety as well.

So I can't tell you the interplay with stress and ED and performance anxiety, sense, if you're stressed, you're not going to be in the and this will really worsen your erection and that you have the power and the ability to break this vicious cycle through the strategy that I discussed today.

So I feel that sometimes it is easier to treat the physical mood to do anything.

You're not in the mood to do anything, then component of ED and more challenging to address stress, the performance anxiety, because oftentimes, it's not something you're not going to get an erection.

It also cause nerve you see, it's something you feel.

And oftentimes we don't know that we're chronically stressed.

But we now live in the world of constant disruption of the phone and social media and imbalances as well.

And on top of that, it also affects your multiple commitments that is unlike any other time at this point.

And more people are anxious now than before, and so we're living kind of under kind of a chronic level of stress all vascular system, because when you're stressed, you tend to the time.

And know that men, if you're having ED, and you're noticing you're having morning erection, it's most likely stress induced ED.

So first of all, I will recommend, and whether it's physical cause of ED or psychological cause of ED, have vasoconstriction, which is constriction of the blood if you have ED, go at least get some blood work first.

Get some blood work with your doctor, starting with like a CBC, a chemistry 14, get your testosterone level check, total vessels.

And when you have constriction of the blood and free, and get your prolactin level check, get your cholesterol check, get your blood pressure measure, just rule out that you're not a diabetic, you don't have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and also check your vessel, then less blood flow to the penis.

And because when hormones level as well.

These are all covered through insurance as well that can be easily ordered, and then address your stress with, okay, are you overweight?

Like, how do you you're stressed, the way that our body is programmed from the know you're overweight?

Well, step up the scale and calculate your BMI.

If you're overweight, then you probably need to work on watching your diet, eating the Mediterranean diet, and also combining that with 30 minutes of exercise three times a week, dinosaur days.

So when you're stressed, the blood flow will and combining that with meditation.

So you have the tools to do that, and you don't have to guess, and you don't have to resort to taking Viagra or Cialis first off.

If you tend to go towards your lung, your heart, and your legs and start out early with these strategies here, you yourself can reverse your ED, you start early, right?

With anything like your car.

If you first hear the sound, your car doesn't sound your arms.

You can run away from danger, and it doesn't go to right, or the engine lights start coming on, you want to take it to the mechanic to get it fixed early, right?

You don't want to wait until the car die in the street and then take it to the mechanic.

Same thing with your ED, if you have ED, you your penis, because you're trying to run away from danger, know, start early, because the earlier you can start, the easier it is to address, the more reversible it's going to be, and you're going to get a lot more out of it.

Because if you continue to take ED medication for years on end, the not gonna think about having time to have intercourse or cause of why you have ED in the first place never been addressed.

It's like putting band aid in a bleeding wound.

The wound is still infected, still bleeding.

You're just covering it up with the band aid, and then years later you'll procreate.

So that makes sense.

So it can also affect the find out, Well, the medication isn't working, and by that time, it's going to be a lot harder to overcome and treat your ED on your own.

So I'm telling you that you do have the power to do endothelium, which is the lining of the blood vessels.

Because that, that's where I feel passionate about, is to give you evidence based tools and strategy that you can start right now if you have ED.

So I hope that you find this valuable mean the world to me, stress causes inflammation.

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Start early, and if you're taking medication right now, should probably evaluate what penis muscle need nitric oxide.

So when you have less nitric you need to do at this point.

And I will see you in the next episode.

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