Fructose, Heart Disease and Erectile Dysfunction
A carb is a carb, right? Well, maybe in terms of their calories content,
but, in reality, there are actually "good carbs" and "bad carbs". In fact,
fructose might better be characterized as "consummate evil carbs" instead.
One of the reasons is that fructose will quickly lead you down the road of heart
disease and erectile dysfunction. You middle aged guys: meet thy enemy.
I have already covered
How Fructose Defeats Weight Loss. Now
it time to look at what it does to your arteries and penis while it fattens you
up like a pig for the slaughter. Studies on both humans and animals show
that fructose consumption increases triglycerides and LDL (bad cholesterol) and
decreases HDL (good cholesterol). [1] All of these are major risk factors for
heart disease and will eventually clog up the arteries supplying blood to your
penis.
Fructose also raises uric acid levels in the body, another risk factor for heart
disease and cardiovascular issues. Some researchers do not consider uric acid to
be an independent risk factor for heart disease. But there are many, many
studies which show uric acid is linked to heart disease: science just
cannot decide if it is a chicken or egg sort of thing. This had been established by so many studies that I
recommend you simply look up this
Medscape Link on Uric Acid and Heart Disease. This summary clearly states
that "raised serum uric acid in both men and women was associated with
significantly higher risk of all-cause, CV disease, and ischemic heart disease
mortality". One well-known JAMA study concluded "Our data suggest that increased
serum uric acid levels are independently and significantly associated with risk
of cardiovascular mortality." [2] In other words, uric acid is a Natural Born
Killer. (NOTE: One large study did not find uric acid to be related
to heart disease was an examination of the famed Framington data. [3])
Do you know the foods and drinks that increase erection-boosting
Nitric Oxide? Check out the
Peak Erectile Strength Diet where I show
you how to dramatically and naturally improve your erectile strength.
But I ask the question, "Does it really matter how fructose is going to maim,
kill and destroy?" The important thing is that it does and then to avoid
it. Consider this experiment [4] where they took 40 sexually mature rats
and fed them a 10% fructose solution in order to induce hyperlipidemia.
That's a fancy word for the nasty condition that plagues those in modern
societies where they're lipid profile, i.e. the various cholesterol readings,
are completely out of whack. In other words, researcher know that fructose
is a great way to induce the nastiest of all cardiovascular environments and yet
so many of us consume fructose in great quantities with no fear?
I think a better name for fructose would be Pure Penis Poison: it is simply
that bad. Of course, if you just have the small amount that is in fruits,
you are very unlikely to have an issue. But if you are consuming
significantly quantities through table sugar and corn syrup, half of which is
digested into fructose, you will
undoubtedly greatly increase your likelihood of
Metabolic Syndrome, a common
risk factor tied into the epidemics of cardiovascular disease and erectile
dysfunction that affect so many men middle aged and beyond. [5]
Part of reason for fructose's destructive force is that it is almost entirely
metabolized in the liver, where it is easily converted to artery-killing
triglycerides. Just as bad, the liver requires large amounts to Nitric
Oxide to form the uric acid and so the body can easily become depleted of Nitric
Oxide. And I don't need to tell Peak Testosterone readers that Nitric
Oxide is the stuff of erections: you don't want to do anything that will
tamper with this all-important chemical.
And that's why I say fructose is Pure Penis Poison: it simultaneously helps
clog your arteries, thus leading to long term impotence, all the while it is
robbing your tissues of Nitric Oxide, potentially leading to an immediate loss
of erectile strength.
Does it get any uglier than that for your sex life?
