"Low Levels of this nutrient may cause your penis to let you down"
Lacking enough of the sunshine vitamin might snuff out the
lights on your bedroom game. New research from Italy suggests that low
levels of vitamin D may increase your risk of erectile dysfunction.
When researchers tested 143 men with varying degrees of erectile
dysfunction, they found that nearly half of them were coming up deficient in D,
and only one in five had optimal levels of the nutrient. What’s more, men with
severe cases of ED had vitamin D levels that were about 24 percent
lower than those of men with mild forms of the condition.
Insufficient levels of D may spur the production of free
radicals called superoxide ions, according to study author Alessandra Barassi,
M.D., and her research team. These free radicals deplete your nitric oxide, a
molecule that helps your blood vessels function properly. The result: It makes
it hard to, well, get hard.
“Nitric oxide causes the blood vessels to relax, which increases
the blood flow and causes an erection under normal circumstances,” says Larry
Lipshultz, M.D., a Men’s Health urology advisor. Without the necessary
amounts of nitric acid, though, your blood vessels may not relax enough to
allow for an erection.
If you suffer from ED, ask your doctor to check your vitamin D levels. For ED patients with low levels, the study recommends
taking supplements to get back to the optimal level of 30 ng/mL or above.
As for men with normal erectile functioning, Dr. Barassi says
she’s currently studying whether vitamin D supplementation may act as a preventive measure to delay ED.
Source: http://www.menshealth.com/, http://www.health.harvard.edu/.
Importance Steps to Increase
your sexual Vitamin
1.
Take time to take a stroll or walk out, the abnormal erectile
functioning can be addressed if most working class corporate men find time to
walk out or stroll more. The day time sitting in the office all through and
driving or been driven on long hours affect erection. So it will be advisable
that sometime men should take time off to walk around.
2.
Be friendly with Fruits: It is very important that instead of
investing on alcoholic drinks you invest more on fruits and good nuts. Although
red wine is good if taking appropriately, but close relationship with beer and
other strong drink should be avoided if you still want to be relevant in the
bedroom.
3.
The color
of your skin. Melanin is the substance in skin that
makes it dark. It “competes” for UVB with the
substance in the skin that kick-starts the body’s vitamin D production. As a
result, dark-skinned people tend to require more UVB exposure
than light-skinned people to generate the same amount of vitamin D.
4.
The temperature of your skin. Warm skin is a more efficient producer of vitamin D than cool
skin. So, on a sunny, hot summer day, you’ll make more vitamin D than on a
cool one.
5.
Your weight. Fat tissue sops up vitamin D, so it’s been proposed that it
might be a vitamin D rainy-day fund: a source of the vitamin when intake is low
or production is reduced. But studies have also shown that being obese is
correlated with low vitamin D levels and that being overweight may affect the
bioavailability of vitamin D.
6.
Your age. Compared with younger people, older people have lower levels of
the substance in the skin that UVB light
converts into the vitamin D precursor, and there’s experimental evidence that
older people are less efficient vitamin D producers than younger people. Yet
the National Center for Health Statistics data on vitamin D levels fly in the
face of the conventional wisdom that vitamin D inadequacy is a big problem
among older people. They don’t show a major drop-off in levels between
middle-aged people and older folks.
