Dr. George Papanicolaou
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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The Dr. Hyman Show · Erectile Dysfunction: The Warning Signs You Shouldn’t Ignore · 11 Nov 2024
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A lot of things do get better. Erections may or may not get better. Testosterone can definitely have an impact on erectile dysfunction. It impacts the 5-phosphodiesterase we talked about earlier, and it also can have an impact on nitric oxide. And that can result in improved erections. And you ask me, why do we see this drop-off in testosterone?
Well, there's this natural drop-off in testosterone as men age. So after the age of 30, you're losing about 1% per year And over time, that's going to drop you pretty low. But that's not going to do it all by itself.
Here's the older guys that don't have raging testosterone. Those are the guys that have sleep apnea, they drink too much alcohol, they have diabetes, they haven't learned how to manage their stress. Did I mention sleep apnea?
Yeah, I did. But that's a very important one. And so those are things that as you age, begin to impact your body's ability to make testosterone.
And the smaller your...
Absolutely.
Mark... It goes back to one of the books you wrote called Eat Fat, Get Thin. So now I'm going to tell you this. The name of the book can now be, the one that I'll write will be Eat Fat, Get Hard.
So, yes, fat, because fat actually, we've talked about this before, has cholesterol in it, cholesterol is not a bad guy, cholesterol is a really important foundational molecule for building hormones and one of them is testosterone. So eating good healthy fat is going to allow you to have that precursor molecule to maintain high levels of testosterone as long as you're doing everything else right.
sleeping well, managing stress, and limiting your alcohol use.
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