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Erectile dysfunction shortens life
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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A research team at the state research university in Oxford has stated that a man's life expectancy is linked to the functioning of his penis. As scientists have noted, various types of erectile dysfunctions cause disruption of the cardiovascular system, which in turn affects a man's well-being and can cause a heart attack, stroke, and premature death.
Scientists came to such conclusions after conducting a series of experiments. American researchers are sure that the life expectancy of a man depends on the functioning of the male genital organ. During their research, scientists found that poor erection, impotence and other, even minor, disorders of the genital organ affect the work of the heart and lead to failures in the work of the entire cardiovascular system. As a result, even at a young age, men can develop life-threatening diseases such as heart attack or stroke.
In addition, according to the scientific group, various troubles in this area provoke a man to lack self-confidence, while failures on the love front can even cause severe depression. Any erectile dysfunction can cause isolation, detachment from the female sex, especially in an intimate way. Scientists emphasize that the earlier a man has problems with male health, the greater the likelihood of depressive disorders, in addition, the more a man thinks about his problem, the more he worries, and the more his general condition suffers.
Currently, in many countries, men experience some kind of dysfunction of the penis; in the United States alone, about 18 million men suffer from a lack of desire for sexual intimacy with women, and more than 9 million of them already have problems with the heart and blood vessels.
Based on the research, experts recommend that all men pay more attention to their health, and if any problems arise in their sexual life, they should not hesitate to seek qualified medical help, because their lives ultimately depend on it.
Men really should take better care of their own health, because in Australia, Dr. Jenny Graves said that men on our planet can be considered an endangered species and in a few million years they will simply disappear as a biological species. Dr. Graves made her conclusions after studying the properties of the male sex chromosome and it turned out to be extremely weak and vulnerable.
Any negative impact on it can affect the existence of men on earth. Graves also noted that the female chromosome has healthier genes, of which there are at least a thousand. Previously, the male sex chromosome had the same number of healthy genes, but over the course of human existence, for a number of reasons, Y-genes began to weaken and today there are less than a hundred of them in the chromosome.
It turns out that after some time, fewer and fewer boys will be born, while the number of girls will rapidly increase. According to the scientist, there is only one Y chromosome, and it is not able to correct the situation, i.e. the extinction of men on the planet is inevitable.
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