Mark Young
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It actually shifts the sympathetic nervous system.
And when the sympathetic nervous system is triggered in the brain, the body's first response at a millisecond level is nitric oxide release.
Ah, okay.
Nitric oxide, we all know.
Body's natural vasodilator.
Things start happening.
Right.
One of the things that people don't realize is as we age, particularly in women, and our cardiovascular health is such a bigger problem for women than it is men.
Yeah.
Which is completely backwards from everything we were brought up to believe.
I know.
Because we think of dad having a heart attack, not mom.
Right.
Right.
And especially because estrogen is one of the body's primary vasodilators.
And as women are postmenopausal,
it actually, that vasodilation becomes either worse.
For most men, the truth is, is this nitric oxide production and the vasodilation and the early signs of heart issues normally starts in the form of ED.
Wow.
It's the most visible sign that you'd have a circulatory problem.