DAdams91982
10-15-2004, 11:11 PM
I
pulled this off of AnabolicMinds... I thought it was definately interesting.
Testosterone Rises with
Treatment for ED
Thu 14 October, 2004 21:25
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who use Viagra or Cialis for
erectile dysfunction (ED) have increases in levels of testosterone, Italian researchers report.
"We are now
demonstrating the sexual and hormonal effect of two popular oral treatments for ED," Dr. Emmanuele A. Jannini from
University of L'Aquila told Reuters Health. "Both were efficacious and able to increase testosterone levels after 3
months of treatment."
Jannini team studied 74 men with erectile dysfunction and found that free and total
testosterone levels rose, overall, by about 50% after treatment.
The testosterone increases were more marked in
the group that took Cialis than in the Viagra group, although the drugs were equally effective in restoring sexual
potency, the investigators report in the medical journal.
The frequency of full sexual intercourse was also
higher with Cialis (known chemically as tadalafil), despite the use of identical numbers of pills per month, the
researchers note, "strongly suggesting that the greater normalization of hormonal values in tadalafil-treated
patients was due to the higher number of sexual acts."
The higher frequency of sex "can be considered as an
important benefit of tadalafil and a cost-effective advantage" for couples, the investigators suggest.
"For a
man in a stable couple relationship, tadalafil is to be preferred," Jannini commented.
In this setting, the drug
can be taken twice a week to allow spontaneous sexual activity. "From a psycho-sexological point of view, this may
help the patient to considered himself 'cured' and not simply 'treated' for the symptom," he concluded.
SOURCE: Clinical Endocrinology, September 2004.
Adams
pulled this off of AnabolicMinds... I thought it was definately interesting.
Testosterone Rises with
Treatment for ED
Thu 14 October, 2004 21:25
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who use Viagra or Cialis for
erectile dysfunction (ED) have increases in levels of testosterone, Italian researchers report.
"We are now
demonstrating the sexual and hormonal effect of two popular oral treatments for ED," Dr. Emmanuele A. Jannini from
University of L'Aquila told Reuters Health. "Both were efficacious and able to increase testosterone levels after 3
months of treatment."
Jannini team studied 74 men with erectile dysfunction and found that free and total
testosterone levels rose, overall, by about 50% after treatment.
The testosterone increases were more marked in
the group that took Cialis than in the Viagra group, although the drugs were equally effective in restoring sexual
potency, the investigators report in the medical journal.
The frequency of full sexual intercourse was also
higher with Cialis (known chemically as tadalafil), despite the use of identical numbers of pills per month, the
researchers note, "strongly suggesting that the greater normalization of hormonal values in tadalafil-treated
patients was due to the higher number of sexual acts."
The higher frequency of sex "can be considered as an
important benefit of tadalafil and a cost-effective advantage" for couples, the investigators suggest.
"For a
man in a stable couple relationship, tadalafil is to be preferred," Jannini commented.
In this setting, the drug
can be taken twice a week to allow spontaneous sexual activity. "From a psycho-sexological point of view, this may
help the patient to considered himself 'cured' and not simply 'treated' for the symptom," he concluded.
SOURCE: Clinical Endocrinology, September 2004.
Adams