There is a direct correlation between obesity and erectile dysfunction because fat around the midsection leads to a decrease in testosterone, which decreases sexual performance, says Arthur Crowley, MD, a urologist. Learn more in this video.
Fat around the midsection tends to metabolise most of the fat in the other parts of the body, it tends to metabolize testosterone to an estrogen which basically will decrease the circling testosterone as well as lead to a decrease in sexual performance.
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