Pharmacist Greg McKettrick, RPh, at StanleyRX on the East Coast, has developed an amazing protocol for men’s sexual wellness and health and function, including nitric oxide, and this is something you can talk to your urologists about.
Sexual Health can be a sensitive topic, but this blog may really benefit any older men who may be struggling with their sexual performance.
Nitric Oxide is considered an essential gas in our bodies in our systems. It maintains blood flow and circulatory functions, which means it also affects your respiratory function, cognitive function, cardiac function, and helps our immune system.
Nitric Oxide also plays an integral role in erectile function. Typically, around the age of 40, our bodies really stop producing nearly as much of this gas and our levels drop about 50% of what we had when we were younger.
There is a continual decline so most people will drop another 10% per decade, and that is actually complicated by environmental factors such as pollution, diet, and particularly medications that can really reduce the body's capacity to produce nitric oxide.
Greg treats an enormous amount of the population for erectile dysfunction for men's health and sexual wellness, and for women’s for sexual wellness as well. They started using the Berkeley Life nitric oxide products and they came out with a super easy test strip for people to test their nitric oxide levels. The test takes about 15 seconds and is one of the simplest diagnostic tools he has ever seen, but absolutely practical because it tells you immediately what your levels are. It benefits everybody if you correct the nitric oxide levels.
In addition to benefiting sexual wellness, it can contribute to your overall immune health. If you've done any reading about Covid-19 recently, you have probably seen where they are using nitric oxide for treatment of active covid patients and for patients that have the post-covid syndrome.
If you think about how the coronavirus attacks the respiratory system, building up that circulatory function and respiratory function is going to help, and then building the immune system is going to help as well.
It's really an incredible product and absolutely essential to our systems. It touches practically every metabolic function in our body.
After men turn 40-ish, their sexual health starts to decline, and then medications for erectile dysfunction specifically may not work as well. A lot of the most commonly prescribed medications for erectile dysfunction (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, Stendra) function by blocking an enzyme in our body that breaks down nitric oxide, so if you have a normal or relatively normal level of nitric oxide, and then you block the breakdown, that causes a surge in nitric oxide, which in turn causes increased blood flow. That's what really supports the capacity to maintain the erection, and in addition to that, it maintains the health of the genital urinary system. Keeping that blood flow active prevents atrophy in the blood vessels and the endothelial tissue - absolutely critical.
So, for a lot of men who have tried some of these medications, it's very common that they'll be put on a Viagra or something similar and it will work for a while, but after a few years, it’s just not doing what it used to do for them.
There have been a lot of men who are able to get a much better response simply by correcting their nitric oxide levels and for women too.
I hope this was really helpful for you. Nitric oxide is an essential gas in our bodies, and it is something that is definitely worth looking into for our everyday health, our sexual health, our heart health, immune health, and more!
We have free test strips here at The Remedy Pharm and we have the supplement here as well. If you think this might be helpful for you, definitely give us a call. We have a professional standing by to help you with your health and wellness journey. Or stop by our store to get tested as early as today!
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Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwk1mpoy-AU
