(June 3, 2015 at 1:43 pm)emjay Wrote:(June 3, 2015 at 1:27 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Basically, anything that is bad for your cardiovascular system is not good for sex. A man needs to have good blood flow to the penis to get and maintain an erection. So anything that interferes with that is mucking up your sex life.
For women, the situation is different. A woman can still have sex. But it very likely reduces a woman's ability to experience orgasms.
People very often have a mistaken idea that doing unhealthy things simply lessens the length of one's life. But it actually affects the quality of one's life before one dies. It is rather more like aging faster than normal, not eliminating the decline from age. One declines prematurely with an unhealthy lifestyle. If what you want is a high quality of life as long as possible, but without the decline of age, you need to live a fairly healthy lifestyle and then commit suicide before you get old. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to be killed accidentally, like by being run over by a bus.
Yeah, my condition is quite probably caused by lack of blood flow. It's still undiagnosed after nearly two years but I do go to the hospital every few months for an ultrasound and thankfully at the moment it seems stable. Let's just say if the trend continues I could die as a woman as my testosterone levels are dropping. Are you a doctor?
As to your other point I fully agree... now
No, I am not a doctor. But I am someone who generally looks before he leaps, and so I have avoided quite a few bad things that many people fall into. (It is better to learn from other people's mistakes, than to make the mistakes for oneself.) I want to live a good life, and I have done pretty well so far. Eventually, though, age will catch up with me, if nothing else gets me first.
As I get older, compared with other men my age, I keep looking better and better. Of course, I am looking worse than when I was younger, but I am deteriorating much slower than most. I could easily pass for being a decade younger than I am, and most people seem genuinely surprised if I tell them my actual age. They would find a claim of a decade younger more believable.
I have already had more good years than quite a few people have in their entire lives. And I expect to have many more good years, though obviously something bad can happen at any moment. As I age, of course, the chances of something bad happening increases.
Obviously, I cannot take complete credit for my situation. I have been lucky, too. But I also have avoided doing too many stupid things that tend to fuck up one's life. I recommend thinking longterm for one's choices. I get some exercise, and try to eat reasonably healthy foods. Fortunately, I enjoy hiking, which helps with the exercise, though I also lift weights for upper body strength, which I do not enjoy. But it does not take a lot of time lifting weights to make a difference, and I am not trying to become extremely muscular. I just want to be healthy and capable of doing things that I want to do. It makes my arms look better, too, but that is just a bonus, not my main motivation.
My wife was so impressed with the results I got from lifting weights for about 15 minutes, three days a week, that she started doing it, too. Her arms look better, and she is able to do more things than before, without getting sore. She sometimes has to travel for her job, and she used to sometimes get sore dealing with her luggage for her trips. She no longer has that problem. She even carried her own luggage up some flights of stairs at an old hotel that lacks an elevator, and it was no problem for her.
The key is repetition, not trying to lift the most one can. I have no idea what the maximum weight is that I can lift. The weights I lift are easy on the first lift, but on the 25th lift, it is no longer easy. This also means I am less likely to hurt myself with my weights, as I never lift anything that is extremely heavy.
I did not originally intend to go so far with this digression.
Also, Aroura is right, that you can get improvement if you quit smoking. It is likely that you will recover a bit of what you have lost, and will be able to have better sex in the near future (months, or maybe a year) if you quit smoking. You can do an online search to verify this, or just ask your doctor. Which matters more to you, smoking or better sex? Think about that every time you want a cigarette, and it might help you quit.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
