How Can I Prevent Erectile Dysfunction?

How Can I Prevent Erectile Dysfunction? (0:47)

Eating a diet that's good for heart health is also good for a man's sexual health and can prevent erectile dysfunction. In this video, Erik Goluboff, MD, a urologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, explains.

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What I tell my patients when they ask what diet should I do to help my prostate or help my sexual functioning? I always tell them that a heart healthy diet is a prostate and a male sexual healthy diet, so you can prevent cordial vascular disease through diet, through social habits like not smoking probably you can prevent some what erectile dysfunction.

You can't prevent erectile dysfunction with medication. Medications can help erectile dysfunction get better on a temporary one off basis but there's non that will prevent it from happening.