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		<title>Fertility Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alcohol abuse and drugs adversely affect the quality and quantity of sperm, reduce testosterone production and has contributed to erectile dysfunction. Drug abuse would reduce the density and the ability of sperm movement and increase the number of abnormal sperm. Moreover, it can lead to erectile dysfunction and loss of libido. Healthy living, adequate rest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alcohol abuse and drugs adversely affect the quality and quantity of sperm, reduce testosterone production and has contributed to erectile dysfunction. Drug abuse would reduce the density and the ability of sperm movement and increase the number of abnormal sperm. Moreover, it can lead to erectile dysfunction and loss of libido.</p>
<p>Healthy living, adequate rest and minimize stress. Eat healthy foods and regular diet and adequate rest can minimize stress and will help the production of hormones that affect the development of sperm and testosterone production in the testes.</p>
<p>Avoid toxic materials. Avoid contact with toxic chemicals and avoid inhaling the smell of chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, paint, wood varnish, glue, and heavy metals. Consult with your doctor, any prescription drug that should be taken. Some prescription drugs for the treatment of a disease have the effect of slowing the production of sperm. Consult a physician before receiving a prescription drug. Chemotherapy or radiation therapy can cause temporary or permanent infertility. If you have to undergo this procedure, consult your doctor for the best solution.</p>
<p>Some information about <a href="http://health.infoniac.com/fertility/">fertility</a> can also be found on the Health.Infoniac.com. You can read the articles about <a href="http://health.infoniac.com/">health</a> and fertility of men and women. Here you are given the opportunity to post your article and can vote on the health articles in their website. So, if you want to get health news, health tips, latest health products, healthy food, diet, sexual health, birth control, etc &#8230; Visit Health.Infoniac.com immediately.</p>
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		<title>Mind Over Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In science fiction and phantasy, authors often play with the idea of telekinesis, the ability of the mind to move objects at a distance. This reflects the idea that the mind is the most powerful part of the body. In one sense, this is true. In the long run intelligence always prevails over brute force. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In science fiction and phantasy, authors often play with the idea of telekinesis, the ability of the mind to move objects at a distance. This reflects the idea that the mind is the most powerful part of the body. In one sense, this is true. In the long run intelligence always prevails over brute force. But, for the best results, the mind and the body must be working well together. It&#8217;s entirely possible that the mind may come up with brilliant ideas but the weakness of the body prevents their implementation. Equally, if the mind finds the body distasteful or unacceptable in some way, this is not going to end well. Classic examples of this are those who grow depressed about the way they look or their lack of physical success. In sexual terms, one of the most common causes of erectile dysfunction is performance anxiety. In general, this applies to anyone due to appear before an audience for a performance of some kind.</p>
<p>It can be stage fright, working in a restaurant or bar serving people, or standing in front of a camera and trying to smile. More intimately, the pressure to perform sexually for the pleasure of the one you love can steadily become terrifying. When you have had failures, the fears grow steadily worse. You try all the harder but the fear gets in the way. Most then start to avoid situations of intimacy. Unable to maintain confidence, they prefer to avoid further failures. This presents a problem when it comes to treatment because it affects the way in which men react to sexual stimulation. When lovers are relaxed, arousal comes naturally from the anticipation of success. When the fear of failure dominates, confidence dies and there is no emotional response to the sexual stimulation. Without the signal from the brain, there will be no erection even though one of the drugs has been taken. As a result, men who have serious anxiety problems need counseling and therapy to help them come to terms with their own fears. Only then can they build frail confidence to try again. With a willing partner and, possibly, a suitable drug, the slow process of turning sexual activity back into a pleasure can begin.</p>
<p>For these purposes, the use of <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/more-about-levitra/mind-over-matter.html">levitra</a> or one of the other erectile dysfunction drugs will be appropriate. Everything that can possibly be done to make success more likely should be done. This is completely the reverse of the successful lovers who experiment with <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">levitra</a> as a recreational drug. They want to find out whether the use of chemistry can make their current enjoyment even more powerful. With such people, the mind gets behind the body and pushes for success. With those suffering from performance anxiety, the mind must be convinced success is at least possible. Only then can success be achieved. If the first attempt proves a success, everything should probably be kept the same including the use of levitra. It cannot but help to have chemistry on your side, encouraging the brain that everything is possible.</p>
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		<title>How to live your life and enjoy great sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two conflicting sayings, &#8220;Nothing in life is free&#8221; and &#8220;The best things in life are free&#8221;. Truth can be only one, isn&#8217;t it? More often than not, there is a price tag attached to the choices you make, but not all prices have to be paid in money. For example, you can find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are two conflicting sayings, &#8220;Nothing in life is free&#8221; and &#8220;The best things in life are free&#8221;. Truth can be only one, isn&#8217;t it? More often than not, there is a price tag attached to the choices you make, but not all prices have to be paid in money. For example, you can find joy in a relationship, the emotional capacity for love coming as a free gift when you get the body. This is not to deny there may be costs to love, but a successful relationship is priceless. However, to keep a relationship stable and successful usually requires a reasonably consistent level of sexual performance. Adult couples expect to be able to enjoy their time together in bed. Erectile dysfunction threatens this happiness and so requires treatment. Modern science has provided pills to be taken but this can overlook the reasons for the erectile dysfunction.</p>
<p>There are many things that have very dramatic effects. As people grow up, they are surrounded by role models and, to fit in, they often copy what they see others doing. This is wonderful if everyone around children eats healthy food in small portions. But the reality is that most people eat junk food in excessive portions. Adults who carry excessive weight are more likely to contract type 2 diabetes. This causes damage to the nervous system and usually causes erectile dysfunction. Obesity is also linked with high blood pressure and heart disease so sexual activity may become physically difficult if not dangerous. Those who are overweight may also not be considered attractive. This can make it challenging to find partners. How much food you eat is a choice. The decision to eat less can be made. You can also make a commitment to exercise. Why does all this matter?</p>
<p>A recent piece of informal research found there is a link between cities with cooking styles using large quantities of fat and the number of prescriptions written for <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/a">levitra</a> and the other drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction. In northern cities which have active campaigns to force restaurants to abandon the use of trans fats and to put calorie counts on the menus, few prescriptions are written. If older people find sex more difficult, <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">levitra</a> is available to ensure those over sixty can carry on enjoying life to the full. Indeed, men over seventy in clinical trials have a more than satisfactory experience using cialis. The moral is clear. Those who make good lifestyle decisions get happiness &#8211; something that comes free.</p>
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		<title>What is in the pipeline for reform of health care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Administration is taking over facing an unprecedented economic crisis. The country is already deep in debt and proposes to spend billions more to help prevent a long-lasting recession. Looking overseas, the war in Iraq still has eighteen months to run and there is no end to the war in Afghanistan in sight. So [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new Administration is taking over facing an unprecedented economic crisis. The country is already deep in debt and proposes to spend billions more to help prevent a long-lasting recession. Looking overseas, the war in Iraq still has eighteen months to run and there is no end to the war in Afghanistan in sight. So some would argue this is not a good time to start proposing major changes to the health care system. The last time this was tried under the Clinton Administration, the economy was doing well and the momentum for change was lost. Trying it again now is inviting a battle over the legislation when the country would be better served if its leader was focussed on the economic problems. Well, the nay-sayers would be wrong. This is the right time to talk about it again.</p>
<p>According to the latest figures, it is estimated that out of a population of about 305 million, some 45 million people in the US do not have health care cover. They are entirely dependent on the emergency rooms and the public hospital system subsidized by local, state and federal bodies. Why are so many people without insurance? The answer is, as everyone is all too painfully aware, that the premiums have been rising faster than inflation for the last five years and more. Now that unemployment is rising at a fast rate, more people will be unable to afford the instalment payments. The Administration&#8217;s own estimate is that someone is driven into bankruptcy every thirty seconds. If fewer people pay their health plan premiums, the premiums must rise for everyone else. Treatments remain expensive and have to be paid for. If the hospitals cannot collect any money from their uninsured patients, the costs for all the insured must rise. Businesses are now passing on these increased costs to the members of their health plans. In effect, this is a pay cut. That is why this Administration wants to see a more fair system with affordable care and cover for everyone.</p>
<p>This means a halfway house. The current Administration would probably prefer to move to a single payer system of <a href="http://www.getaffordablehealthinsurance.net/">health insurance</a> immediately, but there is too much invested in the current private insurance market. So the government is proposing a state-based system for all those without private insurance, allowing those with insurance policies to change over if they wish. Health care coverage for children is already here. The budget has $634 billion earmarked for preventative medicine and the provision of more affordable services. This is going to put a lot of pressure on private <a href="http://www.getaffordablehealthinsurance.net/reform-of-health-care.html">health insurance</a> companies to respond with their own cost-cutting measures. Failure to stay competitive with a growing efficiency in public provision could lead down the slippery slope into a single payer system. That this is the standard model in most of the rest of the world, does not make it right for the US. Or does it? We can only wait and see what happens.</p>
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		<title>Canaries in the mines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has always been dangerous to work in mines. The roof may fall in and there are risks of flooding and explosion. Over the years, miners found that keeping canaries in the mines was a good early warning system. The birds were likely to die if there was a gas build up and this gave [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has always been dangerous to work in mines. The roof may fall in and there are risks of flooding and explosion. Over the years, miners found that keeping canaries in the mines was a good early warning system. The birds were likely to die if there was a gas build up and this gave the men time to leave before there was an explosion. In every aspect of life, early warning systems are the key to survival. The more warning there is, the greater the number of people who can be saved. So it is with sexual health. Problems can be the first sign of more serious diseases or disorders. In women, a loss of libido can be a symptom of thyroid disease. Erectile dysfunction can be a symptom of cardiovascular disease.</p>
<p>If you watch movies or TV series, it&#8217;s unusual for the scripts to deal with relationships in trouble because of sexual difficulties. The mainstream media has the same problem as most people. Everyone finds it embarrassing and humiliating to talk publicly about sexual failure. Indeed, the improvement in treatments has made it more difficult. When men can buy pills over the internet without a prescription, no-one need know there were failures in the bedroom. Reputations must be maintained. As to women, most would like treatment but find many doctors patronizing and dismissive. Their problems remain hidden. Yet this desire for privacy from both genders is unwise. There is clear research evidence that people who regularly engage in satisfying sex live longer, cope well with stress, have a better immune system and enjoy a better quality of life. Getting treatment is the better option no matter embarrassing it may be to ask for help.</p>
<p>The cause of erectile dysfunction is easy to state. The arteries feeding blood into the penis fail to dilate. These arteries are one-quarter the diameter of the coronary arteries. If the small arteries are in trouble, the larger arteries may follow suit in about four to five years time. At this point, there is an irony. <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/canaries-in-the-mines.html">Cialis</a> and the other drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction dilate the arteries and are also approved by the FDA for the treatment of poor artery performance in the chest. Innocently taking these drugs will delay the onset of high blood pressure and heart disease, but it will not prevent it. The arrival of erectile dysfunction is your canary in the mine. All doctors have received an advisory note that anyone over the age of 40 years coming in for a consult should be treated as a heart patient until there is evidence to the contrary. There are a good range of treatments to reverse the build up of plaque in the arteries. They start with a healthy diet and physical exercise, and then move into the drug cabinet. It is common sense to have a full physical check up if you have erectile dysfunction. Taking early action to avoid heart disease is worth it in the long term. In the short term, you can <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">buy cialis</a> as a treatment for the erectile dysfunction. That will keep things going in the bedroom while the rest of your body recovers.</p>
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		<title>Basic facts about analgesics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all you have to understand what are analgesics. Simply put and analgesic medication is a painkiller, meaning its primary intention and use is to eliminate symptoms of pain. Usually this is achieved in two ways. The first way is to block the pain signals transferred to the brain through the means of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all you have to understand what are analgesics. Simply put and analgesic medication is a painkiller, meaning its primary intention and use is to eliminate symptoms of pain. Usually this is achieved in two ways. The first way is to block the pain signals transferred to the brain through the means of the nervous system. And the second one is making the brain interpret pain signals differently from what is common. Generally there are two types of analgesic medications: narcotics and non-narcotics.</p>
<p>Besides these two types of analgesics there are also other medications like aspirin and particular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) that are commonly included and used as painkillers, but in fact they;re not. They provide some pain relieving effects but their primary purpose is elimination of inflammations, so including them to the class of analgesics is wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Non-narcotics</strong></p>
<p>Of all over-the-counter, non-narcotic painkillers the most popular is definitely acetaminophen. It is found in over 600 drugs, combined with other active elements for example in cold, flu or sinus infection medications. It is also available as a stand-alone drug. So when using it make sure you are not exceeding the dosage by combining it with drugs that contain acetaminophen, because an increased intake of this substance may damage your liver.</p>
<p><strong>Narcotics</strong></p>
<p>There are two main types of narcotic painkillers: opiates and opioids (substances derived from opiates). Opiates are the active chemicals that are contained in opium (the infamous liquid of white color that is extracted from the unripe seeds in poppies).</p>
<p>Opiates were previously widely used in medicine prior to the creation of effective opioids. But apart from analgesics effects the opiates provided, there were numerous side-effects that are very common for narcotics: delirium, hallucinations, loss of orientation, etc. This is why the use of painkillers in early days was quite limited and the effectiveness was traded for a certain price.</p>
<p>Opioids are considered any substance that affect the opioid receptors in the CNS (central nervous system) or gastointestinal tract. Opioids are usually divided into four main groups:</p>
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<li>Endogenous opioid peptides (substances produced within the human body such as endorphins, enkephalins, dynorphins)</li>
<li>Opium alkaloids (thebaine, morphine, codeine)</li>
<li>Partially-synthetic opioids (heroin, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, nicomorphine)</li>
<li>Fully synthetic opioids (demerol, <a href="http://www.tramadolbliss.com/blog/?p=11">tramadol</a>, methadone, propoxyphene, buprenorphine, butorphanol)</li>
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<p>Opioids are applied as highly effective painkillers in cases of chronic or severe pain (for example, <a href="http://www.tramadolbliss.com/">tramadol</a> is known as the most effective medication is case of chronic pain). In contrast to opitates, opioids don&#8217;t have the negative narcotic side-effects and also don&#8217;t exhibit an upper limit in dosage. If increased gradually (especially in cases of chronic pain) the dosage of opioids used can be that high that it would be fatal for a person if taking any other medications with such concentration.</p>
<p>There are numerous discussions on the addictive nature of opioids, with many doctors claiming that they can form a habit over the long term. This is true, and as with any habit there may be withdrawal effects taking place in case the treatment is ceased immediately. However, when using opioids you have to weight all the pros and cons especially when you&#8217;re dealing with chronic pain, like in the case of arthritis. Is addiction such a high price for a relief when you&#8217;re constantly tortured by pain? It&#8217;s up to you to decide.</p>
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		<title>Will success in Connecticut encourage other states?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you look these days, it&#8217;s all bad news. More unemployment, more foreclosures, and more instability in life for simple people. This month has seen President Obama sign the new Stimulus Package into law, but that is somehow a bit distant. New laws may sound great, but it takes so long before we all get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wherever you look these days, it&#8217;s all bad news. More unemployment, more foreclosures, and more instability in life for simple people. This month has seen President Obama sign the new Stimulus Package into law, but that is somehow a bit distant. New laws may sound great, but it takes so long before we all get to see any results. That means state laws are more interesting. If they get passed, their effect usually is more direct and immediate. So what is happening in Connecticut? Well, there&#8217;s a bill going through the process aimed at reducing car insurance premiums for city residents &#8211; something that should be popular with everyone except the insurance companies and their shareholders. The plan is simple. All insurance companies licensed to sell policies have been allowed to use credit histories as part of their risk management scoring system to decide whether to write car and home insurance policies. They have never been allowed to reject business just because the applicant has a low credit score, but it has always been a significant factor. The Governor and Attorney General both believe the time has come to remove credit histories as a factor in the decision. The economy is weakening into what looks like a major recession. As more people are laid off, credit scores will fall. This means rising premiums at a time when people can least afford them.</p>
<p>Consumer groups argue that using credit history is unfair because many of the &#8220;defaults&#8221; that appear on these histories are the result of predatory terms operated by credit card and other lenders. Even the most minor and technical of infringements can result in retrospective penalties designed to boost the lender&#8217;s profits. Such blemishes are not truly representative of a person&#8217;s overall responsibility in managing debt. Indeed, the use of histories by a wide range of individuals and organizations increases consumer distress as they are increasingly denied access to credit and other services. The insurance industry counters with the report from the Federal Trade Commission 2007 which accepted credit scores for insurance risk management as an effective tool. Many consumers pay less because they have good scores. Which is better &#8211; that the risk is divided equally among all policy holders or that those who represent the greatest risk pay more? Politically, can states insist that all the most creditworthy people pay more?</p>
<p>The bill also proposes to remove the current territorial rating system that imposes higher premiums on city rather than rural drivers. The plan would call for equal treatment so that no matter where the car is garaged and driven, the same basic premium will be paid. <a href="http://www.findyourautoinsurance.com/">Auto insurance</a> is a for-profit business so there will always be arguments that the market will decide what represents a fair premium. With a recession looming, everyone wants <a href="http://www.findyourautoinsurance.com/success-in-connecticut.html">cheap auto insurance</a>. If this bill passes in Connecticut, perhaps other states will follow suit and make the US a more affordable place for drivers.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, levitra) from an online pharmacy. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/levitra-fda.html">levitra</a>) from an <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">online pharmacy</a>. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than perfect performance. There are many possible reasons for this from simple tiredness to an excess of alcohol or street drugs. So you have to decide when the quality of your erections falls and justifies some effort to get treatment. This decision has to be taken against a backdrop where erectile dysfunction medications have moved from a prescription only drug to a lifestyle choice. Many couples now take one or more of these drugs as an experiment or to enhance an already pleasurable experience. Instead of medicine, this is recreational.</p>
<p>The constant use of drugs may not be in your interests in this instance. Although the main drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction (viagra, cialis and levitra) are very safe and effective in all but the exceptional cases, the fact of erectile dysfunction, particularly in men over the age of 40 years, may be a first symptom of more serious medical problems. Even though you may not have any other symptoms, you will be safer if you have a full medical check-up. Why safer, you ask. The way your body produces an erection relies on the walls of the arteries leading into the penis dilating when you are sexually stimulated. This allows more blood to flow into the penis and inflates it into an erection. If something prevents the arteries from dilating, there is no erection. These arteries are about one-quarter the diameter of the primary arteries leading to the heart but, putting it simply, arteries are arteries.</p>
<p>If you have a problem with the narrow ones now, you may have a problem with the wider ones in about four or five years time. There are many reasons why the arteries may not dilate but the more worrying involve a hardening process when platelets are deposited from the blood. Left untreated, this leads to arteriosclerosis and potentially serious heart problems. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved. This is a vital first warning symptom and a quick intervention with a change of lifestyle and treatment can restore health to the blood vessels and relieve the problem of erectile dysfunction. Leave it too long before you get treatment and there is no effective cure. The best you can hope for is treatment to prevent the situation from getting worse. This is not to say that drugs like cialis will not work. They will dilate the arteries during the early stages of arteriosclerosis. But there will come a point when the damage is too great and cialis will stop working. So the moral of this story is to get your doctor to check you out before you buy cialis online. Self-treatment in this instance is not a wise move.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals in Washington unanimously found that the leading tobacco companies were guilty of fraud because of the way they&#8217;ve chosen to advertise their brands of cigarettes. For too long, consumers have been seeing the magic words, &#8220;low tar&#8221;, &#8220;mild&#8221; or &#8220;light&#8221; on the packaging and exterior ads. This suggests that these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US Court of Appeals in Washington unanimously found that the leading tobacco companies were guilty of fraud because of the way they&#8217;ve chosen to advertise their brands of cigarettes. For too long, consumers have been seeing the magic words, &#8220;low tar&#8221;, &#8220;mild&#8221; or &#8220;light&#8221; on the packaging and exterior ads. This suggests that these cigarettes are somehow safer than &#8220;ordinary&#8221; cigarettes. In reality, all versions are equally dangerous because the nicotine is not only addictive, but also causes cancers and other potentially terminal diseases. To make the fraud more serious, the manufacturers privately agreed among themselves not to compare the safety of the different brands. They even agreed to lie about the dangers of second-hand smoke even though passive smoking is recognized as equally dangerous in other countries. You may ask why this is relevant to an article on erectile dysfunction. The answer is that one of the less well known effects of nicotine is to constrict the arteries. No matter how fit and healthy the smoker, every cigarette raises the blood pressure because the heart must work harder to keep the blood circulating.</p>
<p>If the arteries leading into the penis will not dilate properly, there will be no erection. Simple fact, isn&#8217;t it? Smokers are significantly more likely to experience erectile dysfunction than non-smokers. But there is a further issue. The arteries in the penis are only a fraction the size of the arteries that pass through the lungs to the heart. The damage to the blood vessels that first appears as erectile dysfunction can turn into angina and heart disease as time passes. Arteries are arteries no matter which part of the body they pass through. So if the muscle walls are hardening in one part, this will spread to other parts. Indeed, research shows that smokers are more likely to have heart diseases. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved. This is a vital first warning symptom and a quick intervention with a change of lifestyle and treatment can restore health to the blood vessels and relieve the problem of erectile dysfunction. So the moral of this story is to get your doctor to check you out before you <a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/where-to-buy.html">buy levitra</a> or something else. Self-treatment in this instance is not a wise move.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.levitraguidance.com/">Levitra</a> is not only approved as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. The FDA has also approved its use as a treatment for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, i.e. to reduce the blood pressure in the arteries passing through the lungs by dilating the arterial walls. But here comes the problem. Once the arteries start to harden, they will continue to do so unless you quit smoking. The first symptom is loss of sexual function. Then come all the heart diseases you know. If you quit smoking early enough, start to eat a healthy diet and exercise, the arteries will return to normal, your sex life will be great and you will enjoy a healthy old age. But nicotine is an addictive substance. It&#8217;s hard to quit. This leaves the middle course. Those who cannot quit use levitra. This restores sexual function in most men for a reasonable number of years and delays the onset of heart disease. But this is only a delay and it forgets the other problem. If you are still smoking, the cancer may get you before the heart disease. So the best, all-round advice is to quit smoking &#8211; ignoring all misleading labelling and marketing that some cigarettes are safer than others. No matter what it takes, give it up and enjoy a good quality of life including sexual activity into retirement.</p>
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		<title>The placebo effect</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the centuries, it became obvious to those who tried to use some medication that if the patient believed strongly enough that the treatment would be effective, there was often an improvement. The mind is a powerful health resource when it comes to producing effective treatments. At the rise of mankind, shamen and witch doctors [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the centuries, it became obvious to those who tried to use some medication that if the patient believed strongly enough that the treatment would be effective, there was often an improvement. The mind is a powerful health resource when it comes to producing effective treatments. At the rise of mankind, shamen and witch doctors performed rituals to give themselves more credibility. In more modern times, doctors rely on their status and a bedside manner designed to induce deference in the patient. So the individual&#8217;s reputation and word-of-mouth recommendation for the treatment &#8220;sells&#8221; the service and the medications. This is not confined to the more obvious medical conditions but also applies to aphrodisiacs. Whenever men and women have wanted additional sexual pleasure, they have often turned to local experts for something to increase desire. Yet, along with many other &#8220;social&#8221; conditions, sexual performance has been redefined as a medical matter and there are now teams of experts with remedies tested through clinical trials waiting for patients to emerge.</p>
<p>This is not to deny that erectile dysfunction undermines self-confidence and, if not remedied, may cause depression. But men have been quick to embrace the idea that pills can be a cure for all their problems. The pharmaceutical industry has become very profitable as a result. However, there is a critical difference between the classical aphrodisiac and modern medication. There is no evidence that any of the usual aphrodisiacs have any beneficial effect on the human body. The good results almost inevitably come from the placebo effect. The couple so strongly want to believe that eating this food, drinking that concoction or rubbing on that ointment will produce good results, they end up enjoying themselves. Even if the product fails, they are often embarrassed and will not ask for their money back. So the myths of success are born. But modern medication now has the backing of science. The drugs are PDE5 inhibitors and there are wonderfully technical explanations of how they work their magic. At one level, this is the modern equivalent of the shamen dancing round a fire waving an animal skull around, but the clinical trials produce scientific evidence of success. The men who take this medication do get erections.</p>
<p>Recently, there was a piece of comparative research to decide which of the three drugs currently available to treat erectile dysfunction produced the best results. The answer confirms a simple truth. The majority of men prefer <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/">cialis</a> in both versions. As the &#8220;weekend pill&#8221;, the word-of-mouth is strong that there is thirty-six hours of sexual activity available. Men who start with this drug are usually so pleased, it never occurs to them to try either of the other two. Now that a once-daily version of <a href="http://www.36hour-strong.com/articles/placebo-effect.html">cialis</a> is available, men can return to their youth with sexual responsiveness on demand 24/7. Issues of convenience and effectiveness sell the drug and have converted it into the brand leader in many national markets. The fact that all three drugs are based on the same chemistry and have very similar levels of effectiveness and safety counts for little. Men are sold by the reality they really can go for the whole weekend. Once sold, the placebo effect improves the performance enabled by the chemistry. The mind and the body make a great team when they work together well.</p>
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