Declining Sexual Potency -Roger Mason

If you watch te1evision you see the endless ads for herbal sexual potency enhancers such as Enzyte®. Newsletter doctors like Jonathan Wright also do this. Certainly readers of this newsletter were not stupid enough to call the 800 numbers and order.  Millions of people are obviously stupid enough, as these ads have been running for years, and TV time is very, very expensive. We won't waste time discussing such obvious fraud that promise to restore the sexual potency, performance, desire, and satisfaction you had in your 20's.  
 
We need to be honest with ourselves and realize our sexual desire is gradually replaced by other interests as we age. Sure, we should enjoy a satisfying sex life as we get older. To be obsessed with sex all through your life, however, isn't realistic, nor healthy. Then you get obsessive neurotics like Hugh Hefner and Pamela Anderson. As the years pass, Nature intended us to gradually replace our interest in sex and reproduction with other interests. All cultures go thru these changes. Primitive peoples go thru the same gradually declining interest in sex as the decades go on. In industrialized cultures sexual dysfunction is far more prevalent than in agrarian ones. In America there is an increasing a lack of ability to enjoy a happy sex life, and to enrich our marriages and relationships with intimacy. The answer obviously doesn't lie in listening to television ads for herbal concoctions. Sex is 10% biology and 90% psychology- this is some of the best advice you are ever going to hear about the matter. 10% biology and 90% psychology. Good sex depends on good health and good relationship. 
 
It is pretty easy to rule out the 10% physiology. Are you fit and healthy, and reasonably free from illness? Or are you overweight, out of shape, or on any prescription medications?  These are some major physical factors. There are two androgen hormones that do, in fact, affect our sexual desire, potency and performance. It is very easy to clinically determine if our levels are healthy so we can either rule them out or supplement them. Women are more more hormonally influenced than men and should pay particular attention to these. 
 
DHEA is a most important sex  and longevity hormone for both men and women. It falls from the time we are 30 or 40, until we are generally severely deficient by the time we're 70. If you are low, you can buy inexpensive 25 mg tablets (women would take just a half tablet since they need less)  and raise your DHEA levels safely, effectively, inexpensively without seeing a doctor. You are looking for a youthful level you had at the age of 30. Do not take DHEA unless you have tested your level either with a saliva test kit or by blood with a doctor. Testosterone is also a most important sex and longevity hormone for both men and women. Please read my Testosterone Is Your Friend. In men this falls gradually from the time we are about 50. In women this can either be too high or  low. Men can use 4 mg of testosterone enanthate sublingually (this contains 3 mg of actual testosterone). Another way is a half gram of 3% transdermal natural testosterone. A third way is 3 mg of natural testosterone in DMSO on thin skin (doctors cannot prescribe DMSO solutions.) Women can use 200 mcg of testosterone enanthate sublingually (this contains 150 mcg of actual testosterone). Another way is a quarter gram of 0.3% transdermal natural testosterone. A third way is 150 mcg of natural testosterone in DMSO on thin skin.You are looking for a youthful and not a high level. Do not use expensive patches, weak commercial gels, injections or oral testosterone  If your problem is psychological this column cannot help you. Sorry. Good relationship equals good sex. Over half of Americans marriages end in divorce now. Good health and good relationship equals good sexual intimacy.