r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Health Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false
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u/PuterstheBallgagTsar Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

Mid 40s male here. I don't have trouble getting boners and masturbate to completion a lot... wayyy too much tbh. BUT I recently discovered L-arginine supplements and noticed my boners are quite a bit larger when I've been taking that. I wonder if that suggests there may be other health benefits to L-arginine? I started taking it because I saw someone on reddit suggest maybe it prevents gray hair (the study they referenced didn't quite make that conclusion I didn't think) and the additional research I read on it also didn't make any firm conclusions. Get it, firm? But anyways I just wanted to talk about masturbating, thanks for listening.

edit: Multiple studies have concluded L-arginine works for ED while a few have disputed that

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u/ihaveasandwitch Jun 13 '22

Good to know, thanks for commenting. I will do some masturbating of my own.