What Effects Sexual Performance?

It is perhaps impossible for most of you to imagine that the incidence of men suffering from erectile or sexual malfunctioning is widespread. While studies show that around 40% men are affected by it, the real figure could be even higher since most men would prefer not to come up with the truth. There could be several reasons for this including emotional factors like stress and depression to factors like advancing age accompanied by reduction of testosterone levels. Other causes include some lifestyle habits like smoking, drinking and many of the recreational drugs.

Anything that causes a bottleneck to the blood flow to the penis region, can cause problems with erections. It is now known that erection can not be possible unless there is good amount of blood flow to the penis.

Smoking is one of the major causes that have lead to a substantial drop in the number of erections that take place while you are asleep. This drop in nightly erections gives an important signal that there is an underlying problem and that enough blood is not flowing for normal erection to occur. Wanton smoking is the cause for this, so says the Lahey Hitchcock Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts. It is also proved that interim short term stopping from smoking even for a day can do wonders to nocturnal erections.

Plus, the semen quality of teenagers who smoke heavily would get adversely affected. Additionally the sperm quality gets further diluted. This drastically reduces their chance of becoming a father as well as increases the chance of having offspring with genetic disorders due to faulty DNA imbibed from either parent.

Men who drink regularly and heavily are more likely to get affected with sexual problems than men who drink not that often and this is according to studies done on this topic. This is because alcohol is a suppressant and it affects male libido negatively which makes it harder for you to achieve and maintain an erection.

Thus to enjoy a rewarding sex life, choose a healthy lifestyle. If you adopt a balanced diet plan with moderate exercising, you could see a dramatic change in your sex drive and overall improvement in health. Today there are good herbal aphrodisiacs available which boosts your sex energy by increasing blood flow to the penile area and treats erectile dysfunction.