Doug Egge

Yeah, probably longer.

Yeah.

Yeah, see when Viagra first hit the market.

Because it's been around maybe 30?

At least.

Okay, so it's been around for a little while.

That was the first one.

Well, so here's how they work.

And what's cool, what's interesting, sometimes Western medicine stumbles upon like a legit breakthrough.

And when I say stumble, it's because it's literally what happens.

They were investigating compounds that would prevent an enzyme or inhibit an enzyme that degrades what's known as nitric oxide.

So nitric oxide has a lot of functions in the body.

but one of which is to dilate your blood vessels.

It relaxes your blood vessels and opens them up.

And so they, scientists are like, hey, if we can boost nitric oxide by inhibiting this enzyme called PDE5, then this should lower blood pressure.

Because what they were trying to do is find a blood pressure medication.

And so when they did the studies on it, it lowered blood pressure a little bit.

It wasn't like a significant amount.

So it really wouldn't probably have been a blockbuster for blood pressure at all.

But one of the side effects was the subjects had erections and they would report back like, man, I'm getting these great erections.