How ED Causes Premature Death

It’s been long known that men suffering from ED are at a higher risk of dying younger. And there are two associated risk factors that may explain that:

1) Low testosterone
2) Cardiovascular disease

But which risk factor is it that actually causes men to die so young?

A new study published in the Endocrine Society finally has the answer for this question and a possible way of preventing early death if you suffer from ED.

Two of the most common causes of ED are cardiovascular disease and low testosterone. Men with cardiovascular disease can obviously die early, and some studies also show that men with low testosterone also do.

The researchers wanted to find out how ED, cardiovascular disease, and testosterone levels contribute to early death, and whether it was testosterone or cardiovascular disease that increased men’s risk of dying early.

They identified 1,913 participants in the European Male Ageing Study whose information on hormones and health outcomes were available.

They observed these men for an average of 12.4 years during which 25 percent of them died.

Men with low testosterone, who also exhibited sexual dysfunction, were more likely to die than those with normal testosterone and no sexual dysfunction.

To be more precise, men who had erectile dysfunction, poor morning erections, and a low libido were 1.8 times more likely to die than men who had no sexual dysfunction at all.

Men who had only erectile dysfunction were 1.4 times more likely to die than those who had no sexual dysfunction.

In other words, the more serious the sexual dysfunction, the more likely the men were to die early.

But was the main contributor to this early death low testosterone or cardiovascular disease?

Free testosterone, which is the type of testosterone your body uses most easily, was lower in the men who died.

This suggests low testosterone plays a crucial role in the early deaths.

But when they looked at the men with normal testosterone alone, they still found that sexual dysfunction increased their risk of dying early by 51 percent.

In other words, while low testosterone sometimes is the main cause, sexual dysfunction can easily occur in men with normal testosterone and therefore it increases their risk of premature death, primarily because of cardiovascular disease.

This study shows that ED can be an early indication of cardiovascular disease, regardless of whether men have low testosterone or not.

Thankfully it’s easy to heal erectile dysfunction quickly using simple home exercises explained here…

And if you have cardiovascular disease, it’ important to clear out your heart cholesterol by cutting out this one ingredient explained here…