The medicated men have a higher risk of impotence

It is known that men with chronic health problems such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol are more likely to develop erectile dysfunction (ED) than healthy men the same age.

But researchers who studied 37,700 men in a large health plan in California found that those who drank three or more drugs had higher rates of ED, according to findings published in the British Journal of Urology International.

"The data suggest that some characteristics of men with multiple medications may predispose them to suffer," said researcher Steven Jacobsen, Department of Research and Evaluation Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

Overall, 16 percent of men who drank no more than two drugs showed moderate, which means that they sometimes had problems getting or maintaining an erection. That compares to 20 percent of men who consumed three to five drugs, 25 percent of men with six to nine drugs and 31 percent of those who drank at least 10 drugs.

It is not surprising that ED was more common in older men, weight, smoking or had health problems like diabetes or hypertension. But even when researchers took into account that, having multiple medications was still linked with increased risk of ED.

The findings were based on questionnaires given to 37,712 men between 45 and 69 years. Overall, 29 percent reported suffering from moderate or severe erectile dysfunction.

More than half of the men used drugs over the last three years. As expected, men with high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes or depression tended to take more drugs.

Men who drank three to five drugs were 15 percent more likely to suffer than those with less medication, while the probability was doubled among those men who used 10 or more medications.

But the findings do not indicate that drugs themselves are to blame, said Jacobsen.

"We try to control underlying conditions, but we could not take fully into account aspects such as gravity," he told Reuters Health in an email.

But he also said that it was possible, for example, that drugs could contribute to a worsening of ED through interactions with other drugs, although there was no way to know for sure from the findings.

Jacobsen added that although men with erectile dysfunction should not stop taking your medication without first talking to your doctor, could call for a possible reduction of dose or try an alternative treatment.

The eyes are large blooming love

For a candlelight dinner, suffused with light and sound in the background are the perfect opportunity to bring out a love? It 'just a matter of atmosphere or is there something else? According to a study at Stony Brook University in New York published in Social Cognitive Affective.

Neuroscience intimacy and darkness play an important role that goes beyond romance and has deep roots in the neurophysiological development of empathy and attraction love: mutual eye contact that occurs between two lovers in these conditions is in fact enhanced pupillary dilation from each other because that increases sexual excitement and little light that lets you see just the face of the other / herself or his table, while everything else remains distant, blurred in the twilight. And the eyes of the beloved / to seem better than ever, as the women knew of the '500 that, to be more attractive, used eye drops of belladonna, a name that speaks volumes about the effect that causes a dilated pupil .

Pupillary dilatation - If we take the same photo of a woman only to the computer and change the diameter of her pupils will become a more attractive if the picture is exactly the same. The pupillary dilation, however, is not simply the external manifestation of an internal process more complex: American researchers have in fact evaluated with fMRI what happens in the brains of two lovers and have found that activate brain areas involved in the mechanisms of compensation (area ventral tegmental area, dorsal striatum), maternal attachment and friendship (globus pallidus), sexual (posterior hypothalamus) as well as the substantia nigra, raphe nucleus, thalamus, insular cortex and anterior cingulate and back and all have common pleasure hormone, dopamine. Guardacaso the same neurotransmitter that dilates the pupils ...

MEN AND WOMEN - A study a few years ago the University of Toronto said that this is especially true for males, while women would be attracted mainly by men with eyes of medium width. Their attention to men, however, changes depending on the ovulatory period in which they are located. Another Norwegian study showed that the University of Tromso in the face of stimuli that have some sexual significance of a woman pupil size increases significantly only in the fertile phase of the cycle and especially in the face image of the beloved, but that does not happens if you use the pill. At the first appointment, therefore, it might be useful to bring a pupillometer to control the interest that we have raised. But beware that it is not a nearsighted person, because his eyes may deceive you, because they are naturally dilated.