February 2, 2024 • 22 mins
Erectile Dysfunction: Part 1.
Craig, Greg and Josh discuss the silent struggle with erectile dysfunction that many face, revealing how stress and hormonal imbalances intertwine with our overall well-being. The episode digs deep into the root causes of ED, from the harmful effects of cortisol on our weight and hormones to the critical importance of diet and self-talk, exposing the flaws in the quick-fix mentality that too often dominates Western medicine.
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Champion bachelors Craig and Greg present a myriad
of topics centering onrelationships and addictions in
the positive lights ofexperience, strength and hope.
Both have struggled with thestrongholds of addiction and
with relationships that wentawry, and both have emerged on
the other side stronger, wiserand better prepared to become
what they once set out to be.
(00:54):
You're listening to thesolution.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Welcome to the solution.
I'm your host, craig Dahlin,sitting here with my co-host,
greg Carter and Josh Goading,and we're getting ready to have
us a heck of a show tonight, andso welcome, men.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Welcome, hello, yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We're having a great show tonight.
We're going to be talking aboutED.
It's not ed, but it's EDerectile dysfunction.
It's ED is in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
God, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We hope not, hey Well .
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Show on the door.
Show on the door.
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well we got three guys in a building.
We don't I'm not reallychecking out ED, but yeah, but
we're going to be talking aboutED tonight, solution people, and
this is going to be a good one.
So, guys, let's just start thisright off.
We're going to, we're going tomake this a two part show.
You know, we were talking aboutthis earlier and we looked at
(02:03):
all the info on it and wethought, hey, man, we got, we
got two shows here, possiblythree, but we're going to bust
it down into two.
So we're going to talk tonightabout when it starts, when you
notice that erectile dysfunctionhit you, and then we're going
to talk about, well, basically,what happens after that.
A little bit.
It's about a four part deal.
(02:23):
We're going to hit about twoparts tonight of it, but there's
a lot of info.
There's a lot of info.
So we're going to talk slow,we're going to, we're going to.
We're going to go over thesepoints two, three, four times,
because I think they're thatimportant and I think the
rectile dysfunction is somethingthat's really set into our
culture, it's really taken holdand it's not good, you know, and
(02:50):
there's reasons why this ishappening and Western medicine
says well, the answer is in alittle blue pill, or it's in a
pill.
Well, maybe it is, maybe itisn't.
I do know, though, that itstarts with low testosterone.
(03:11):
They say Of course, I believethat.
But how does the lowtestosterone get there?
You know, there's various waysthey're going to say one way
they're going to say well, asyou age it says in the books as
you age, you get you.
Obviously you do you start todevelop low testosterone levels.
(03:32):
They just say as you age.
Well, there's many of otherschools of thought too.
They say that does not have tobe that way.
Okay.
Then they'll say well, how doyou keep up your testosterone
levels?
How do you keep them high?
Well, us three guys hit sittinghere right here, we know a
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little something more than that,and others do too, but I'm just
saying I think the answer, Ithink the answer is possibly
it's not about testosteronelevels, but it's about do we
have too much cortisol in ourbody?
You know how's cortisol made,guys.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Stress that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Stress, yeah, and that's a fat.
When your cortisol levels raise, that's a fat producing hormone
.
A lot of people don't know thatcortisol is a fat producing
hormone.
See somebody sit aroundstressed, walking on eggshells
for a period of time.
During that period of time,they're probably going to gain
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some weight, gain a few pounds.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Right, you know , and the reason for being and
it was I was developed a longtime ago when a person got
stressed if they were beingattacked by a wild animal.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You, your body, to respond to that stress, to
protect the body.
This is there as a protection.
Actually, cortisol is yeah, soit didn't start as an enemy and
it doesn't have to be an enemyif we learn how to handle our
stress levels Right.
We've kind of gotten away fromthat.
Yes, and that's.
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That's a bad thing when you getaway from handling your stress
levels, because I mean, you know, we're all just like one big
Mac away from you know whateverkilling over, you know you know,
the big thing is is is is ourdiet in the United States.
It's not the best, poor diet.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Poor diet.
I'm only medically obese.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, but you know, there's technically yeah and
there's, you know, there's thesecities.
There's just so much going on.
You well, you look at the media, you look at television.
What do they try to pump at us?
You know, crime, crime, crime,death, death, death.
All this stuff, what does it do?
It raises everybody's stresslevels.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Resulting in everybody having too much
cortisol in their body, which,in men, it lowers their
testosterone level.
Now, men have testosterone andwe have estrogen.
Women have testosterone andthey have estrogen, but it just
happens to be they have.
They have a lot more estrogenthan they do testosterone.
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We have a lot more testosteronethan we, than we do estrogen,
and if we're at the correctlevels, we have 10 times more
testosterone in us than a womandoes, and a woman has 10 times
more estrogen in them than a mandoes.
Just to give you an idea alittle illustration there.
So that's what we're looking at.
I don't think we're looking ata this epidemic where the
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testosterone is getting wipedout.
I think we're looking at asituation where the um Cortisol
levels are just driving too highbecause of stress.
Yes, the end result is a call alimp rhymes with ick you know
right, okay, yep Flaccid.
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That's a way Flaccid yeahthat's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Flaccid, that's probably better way, not like
flaccid, flaccid.
Flaccid, that's probably abetter way of putting it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It is, but unable to enlarge, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Unable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And well, let's Greg talk about.
You know one of the solutionsto this in Cedar Rapids.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh yes, there's a clinic up there.
What they do.
They do laser techniques wherethey go around, you know,
treating the outside of yourorgan, the male organ, with
shots of laser and it's supposedto break up the, like, the
little plaque that's inside theblood vessels and veins inside a
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man's genitalia, you know, yeah, and that'll promote more blood
flow because, like, like arethe rest of our veins and
arteries, that can clog withplaque.
Yep, that can clog with plaquedown below too.
Absolutely yes.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, there's an instrument called the Phoenix.
That's been advertised for what?
A year or two, or three, Idon't know, yeah, yeah, I've
heard of it, that's somethingyou can use on your apparatus
too, and it blows out the pipes,yeah, you know.
And safe, wow.
Well, that's actually somethingyou can buy and use at home.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, it'd have to be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, so, and it really has some, just a many
many good reviews, Just imagineloose plaque being on the move
and going into your heart there,I don't know.
Well, I don't know how all thatworks, totally.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But hey, at least you wouldn't have ED.
Yeah, you don't have to worryabout that, right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right, you die doing what you love.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, yep, you're cleared for takeoff, but I mean
you know, right there, thatsounds like a real, real
possible solution.
It does.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It does.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Shoot it with a laser .
This is the future.
Yeah, oops.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And blew it off.
Yeah, and also exercise.
Yes, you can reverse a lot ofthat stuff.
You know you can.
Just a good old cardio workout,you know, every, every,
whatever other day for a goodbit of time, and you're going to
lose some weight.
Your body's going to get muchbetter.
Things start to react better.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know what are some other ideas?
Because I think we're right now.
We're working off the premisethat cortisol is just it's too
high, yes, in our bodies, andwhat that does is, when we get
stressed, that hormone cortisolis released into our body and we
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get too high levels of that.
That's not good.
No, it raises, you know, we endup gaining weight, among other
things, and it's just not good.
But I think that is possiblythe million dollar word here.
I know this whole subject, thiswhole conversation, has some
famous words in it, and to thosewords that are famous within
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this conversation to me areobviously ED and testosterone.
It's cortisol.
Cortisol is a big, big word inthis conversation.
Yes, there'll be some morecoming out and we'll point them
out, but we're all about gettingto the bottom of it, because,
you know, some people shy awayfrom him.
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The thing that I noticed that'sbeen shyed away of the most of
and I don't want to sound likeI'm beating my drum, but the
words have been shyed away themost from his cortisol.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, you're very subtle when we're brought up.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You don't do you.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
No, no, no.
You just hear lifestyle change.
You know you'd never hear whyyou make the lifestyle change.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
To help lower the cortisol, because, as a result
of the high cortisol, you know,there's all kinds of
psychological factors.
One would be, obviously,relationship problems that
affects intimacy and that wouldmake you a little depressed.
You know, right, that's one ofthem that lowers your
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self-esteem.
Right, that would be one thatwould affect your, you know,
erections, ability to geterections After a while you're
going to start feeling guiltybecause you're going to remember
your past performances or notbeing able to perform in
difference, you know, usuallydeals with your, you or your
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partner's disinterest.
That stage fright, you know,reluctant to initiate sexual
contact, because that's veryimportant too, the initial to
initiate the sexual contact.
You know what I mean.
It's stage fright they callthat.
Yeah, yeah.
That'd be stage fright Like, ohmy God, I'm going to take my
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clothes off.
And for what Is it going to?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
work this time or not .
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Right, right, I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
So all that together createsstress, which happens to be one
of the symptoms of psychologicalcauses of ED.
But all of those that I justread stresses the grandfather of
them all, right, yeah, becausethat the godfather, because
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that's all of those will in aturn create stress, right, right
.
And then that's not even amention of pornography addiction
, because, like that, rightthere there's, you know, courses
, as mentioned earlier we talkedabout that in another show
causes, unrealistic expectationsabout sex itself or sexual
partners.
You know, yeah, that's like aguy that I knew several years
(12:58):
ago.
He's no longer with us, but hewould always go to the strip
tease clubs and, in effect, isdating, you know he.
He went to some high-end striptease club and so he would
compare all the ladies he woulddate With how these high-end
girls would look like.
And it was.
They just don't really lookgood.
And I had to tell him.
I said you're, you're dating,you're looking to somebody to
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date.
You'll want to Date somebodywho looks like a dancer and
prances around like a dancer.
You know that, you know, sortof messes up a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, he couldn't figure that one out.
No, no, he couldn't figure thatout?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, and of course the usual.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I think this girl likes me.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, I think this answer likes me keep whipping
out the money.
She's gonna like you all right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, she was smiling at him yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
She definitely loves you, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, she definitely cares, right, yeah, oh yeah,
it's a great place to go to pickup chicks.
I Know they love you when theylook at you and smile.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You stayed with us this far and that shows
commitment, proving you possessthe trait required to obtain the
solution.
Now let's rejoin the showalready in progress.
Obviously, right now thisfunction isn't really important
issue to people because, youknow us.
It can undermine Intimateconnections and makes people
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think the person doesn't lovethem or that they're, you know,
no longer Right viable as acouple, or so it's.
It's deep, you know emotion,it's emotional issue.
Touchy, a touchy issue.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, and it's one that can really pull somebody
down the rabbit hole to can it?
Yes, if you're not honest aboutit right away, because, heck,
it's probably just there's,there's solutions to it, you
know.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But I think it can often be a symptom of an
emotional dysfunction.
So, yeah, we're saying, whenthere's problems in the
relationship, then it can.
It can be symbolized or it cancome up as that, as as a
rectangle, this function.
That's just sort of like onewarning sign.
Let's say right of of you knowmaybe some resolved issues in
the relationship where, ifyou're so so, a emotional
(15:26):
blockage translates into aBlockage of sexuality.
So we it's all kind ofinterrelated, I think.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I Agree a hundred percent.
I mean what?
What if you have a bad mindsetabout things in life?
I Mean every these thought, thethoughts that come into our
mind and leave.
They're going directly, they'regoing to or through our body,
and they're you mean, that's theway we talk to ourselves, the
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way we do different things.
I mean our body takes thesethings on.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I would think diet plays a big, big part.
Oh god.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, so much that what they talk about the high
fruit toast corn syrup, a lot offoods have that in the oh Nasty
stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, and I was talking about that
earlier the the Metabox syndromeit's.
Yeah, you know that that whenhigh fruit toast corn syrup came
into being in the United States, it was the mid 60s and and
then at the same time, well,after World War two, you know,
they did all of thepreservatives and on the meals
that they would send aroundeverybody in the World War two.
And then that's thepre-packaged stuff, that's the
(16:32):
meals ready to eat.
Yeah, the meals ready to eat,very ready to throw in the
microwave.
They are full of nasty stuffthat preserves them.
Yes, you know, and there thegrocery stores are full of that
stuff.
Yes, and that's what's goinginto our body and you know how
you can imagine what that'sdoing to people.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, chickens are coming home to roost my late.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
My late mother she used to like watching that show.
The biggest loser, yeah, and itwas really funny, because this
guy was went into this Potentialclients house on the show
because here I can look throughyour coverage.
I need to get rid of some foodand he's just started grabbing.
You could hear cellophanecrunching.
He goes why are you throwingall this away?
You're not even looking at it.
He goes if it's in a package,if it's in cellophane or plastic
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bag, he goes there's loadedwith preservatives.
We're getting rid of that.
I already know that.
Yeah, it just started takingthem and throwing them away.
Yeah, and I thought that was sofunny that he didn't have to
look at it.
He already knew it was badbecause it was packaged.
He knew package.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, he knew.
Yeah, if somebody would just goon, you know you could take
your.
If you would just go on a nicesalad, grit some green salad,
some green lettuce, some nicegreen lettuce, and chop up a
carrot in there, throw the onion, whatever you want to do,
tomato, whatever.
If you just did that, you like,you know, half of the week.
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Yeah, because of the amazingchange it has on the body.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Amazing, and they're so.
Our bodies can change reallyquick if it gets fed the right
stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, and even frozen vegetables won't lose its
nutrients.
It keeps the majority of mything done this kick lately to
where?
But is it?
Birds eye makes it there's ahave these small bags of mixed
vegetables that you canmicrowave it right in the bag.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Which is very handy you can just microwave it, so
sometimes that's my meals.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, you're right, I mean frozen
vegetables.
We can.
There's all that.
There's a good access we haveto getting the good food.
We just have to.
Our problem is, well, I canspeak of my problem once in a
while.
You know you, this is a goodidea to eat what you, what you
should eat before you eat whatyou want to eat, right?
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Yeah Well, I quite, quite oftenwill reverse that around I'll
eat what I want to eat before Ieat what I should eat.
But by the time I get to what I, what I should eat, I'm full of
eating what I want to eat.
Yeah, and that's bad, that's abad move.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, I hear you eat my salad at the end of
the meal.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I told my mom ago well, the salad will help clean
you out.
And actually one of theEuropean countries, that's their
tradition to serve the salad atthe end of the meal for their
last.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Really, yeah, for that reason, for that reason,
that's neat, yeah, so you startoff with dessert then.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It'd be nice, wouldn't it?
Yeah, that's a good point, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But yeah, but you know I, everything's down there,
right there, it's at the middleof yours.
Well, it's at your waist.
I mean, if you here's what youdo, here's some good exercises
that are great to do.
They call them Kegels.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know we're sit ups, do just, you'll get the
fire burning in the belly.
Yeah, if you get the fireburning in the belly, work your
core and lose some weight downthere.
If a person does that, they'reprobably going to be good to go.
They're going to be a long wayand go in and help in themselves
.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, what are the Kegels have to do with?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
the Kegels.
They're.
They're an exercise you do andit's in direct.
You're exercising that areathere, getting those muscles
down there working, and we'regoing to that way.
But I think that it's an easything to do.
Maybe just to you know, buy thepills.
(20:28):
But what I'm saying is I go outand buy the pills if you want,
but be ready to just be workingon the other things at the same
time.
It's not cheap right?
No, and you can wean yourselfoff of the pills and then,
before you know it, you know,the unit is ready to roll.
Yeah, and mom and mom is happy.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, I want to rock rock rock.
Yeah, I want to rock rock.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So reducing stress, is that the?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
idea to reduce stress Just overall.
You know, if you reduce, stressis brought on and then, once
stress is brought on, then youget the cortisol, and cortisol
is a big.
It will kind of wipe out yourtestosterone level yeah, it will
.
And people nowadays there's alot of people they'll stress and
they'll stay stressing.
(21:22):
Now, like during, maybe, covid,that was a lot of stress.
Who was throwing that stress atus TV News?
Oh yeah, they had people therewas.
So people were dumping down alot of cortisol.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And you know that's.
It's just, it's crazy what theydo.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, drug use alcohol use and drug addiction.
That can be a big part of thework that was functioned to.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh, absolutely so, addiction addiction.
Now you're, right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's the Shakespeare said.
You know, it increases thedesire but decreases the ability
, or something like that.
Yeah, meaning alcohol.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
No, you're right.
Hard on the circulation too.
Yeah yeah, party, and it isjust regular partying is hard on
the circulation.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I see it is, and that's why a good exercise, a
good cardio exercise, is greatfor your circulation Right.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah yeah.
Sit in a sauna bath or a steamroom once in a while, if you
have access to one.
Yeah yeah.
Sweat the murals out, yeah yeah.
Yeah absolutely yeah, drinksome beetroot juice right.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Hey, I'm a big advocate for that.
I am too.
You get the powder.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You get the you can get a powder mix.
You can get a powder mix.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
actually has some flavor, yeah, yeah but I think,
yeah, just kind of live yourlife in a mindset of that, I'm
going to try to control myanxieties.
Yeah, you know that way, to tryto control the cortisol that
gets down.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So just give up, women.
I think it's the best way togive up women.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Can't do that, right, yeah, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Listener, we thank you for being here with us and
be ready for the next one?
For sure, Because we're goingto be locked and loaded on that
one and we're going to betalking more about ED.
So with that I say good night,fellas.
It's been great talking.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Great talking.
Good night, y'all Good night.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This concludes this episode of the Solution.
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Champion bachelors Craig and Greg present a myriad
of topics centering onrelationships and addictions in
the positive lights ofexperience, strength and hope.
Both have struggled with thestrongholds of addiction and
with relationships that wentawry, and both have emerged on
the other side stronger, wiserand better prepared to become
what they once set out to be.
(00:54):
You're listening to thesolution.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Welcome to the solution.
I'm your host, craig Dahlin,sitting here with my co-host,
greg Carter and Josh Goading,and we're getting ready to have
us a heck of a show tonight, andso welcome, men.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Welcome, hello, yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We're having a great show tonight.
We're going to be talking aboutED.
It's not ed, but it's EDerectile dysfunction.
It's ED is in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
God, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We hope not, hey Well .
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Show on the door.
Show on the door.
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well we got three guys in a building.
We don't I'm not reallychecking out ED, but yeah, but
we're going to be talking aboutED tonight, solution people, and
this is going to be a good one.
So, guys, let's just start thisright off.
We're going to, we're going tomake this a two part show.
You know, we were talking aboutthis earlier and we looked at
(02:03):
all the info on it and wethought, hey, man, we got, we
got two shows here, possiblythree, but we're going to bust
it down into two.
So we're going to talk tonightabout when it starts, when you
notice that erectile dysfunctionhit you, and then we're going
to talk about, well, basically,what happens after that.
A little bit.
It's about a four part deal.
(02:23):
We're going to hit about twoparts tonight of it, but there's
a lot of info.
There's a lot of info.
So we're going to talk slow,we're going to, we're going to.
We're going to go over thesepoints two, three, four times,
because I think they're thatimportant and I think the
rectile dysfunction is somethingthat's really set into our
culture, it's really taken holdand it's not good, you know, and
(02:50):
there's reasons why this ishappening and Western medicine
says well, the answer is in alittle blue pill, or it's in a
pill.
Well, maybe it is, maybe itisn't.
I do know, though, that itstarts with low testosterone.
(03:11):
They say Of course, I believethat.
But how does the lowtestosterone get there?
You know, there's various waysthey're going to say one way
they're going to say well, asyou age it says in the books as
you age, you get you.
Obviously you do you start todevelop low testosterone levels.
(03:32):
They just say as you age.
Well, there's many of otherschools of thought too.
They say that does not have tobe that way.
Okay.
Then they'll say well, how doyou keep up your testosterone
levels?
How do you keep them high?
Well, us three guys hit sittinghere right here, we know a
(03:53):
little something more than that,and others do too, but I'm just
saying I think the answer, Ithink the answer is possibly
it's not about testosteronelevels, but it's about do we
have too much cortisol in ourbody?
You know how's cortisol made,guys.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Stress that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Stress, yeah, and that's a fat.
When your cortisol levels raise, that's a fat producing hormone
.
A lot of people don't know thatcortisol is a fat producing
hormone.
See somebody sit aroundstressed, walking on eggshells
for a period of time.
During that period of time,they're probably going to gain
(04:37):
some weight, gain a few pounds.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Right, you know , and the reason for being and
it was I was developed a longtime ago when a person got
stressed if they were beingattacked by a wild animal.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You, your body, to respond to that stress, to
protect the body.
This is there as a protection.
Actually, cortisol is yeah, soit didn't start as an enemy and
it doesn't have to be an enemyif we learn how to handle our
stress levels Right.
We've kind of gotten away fromthat.
Yes, and that's.
(05:15):
That's a bad thing when you getaway from handling your stress
levels, because I mean, you know, we're all just like one big
Mac away from you know whateverkilling over, you know you know,
the big thing is is is is ourdiet in the United States.
It's not the best, poor diet.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Poor diet.
I'm only medically obese.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, but you know, there's technically yeah and
there's, you know, there's thesecities.
There's just so much going on.
You well, you look at the media, you look at television.
What do they try to pump at us?
You know, crime, crime, crime,death, death, death.
All this stuff, what does it do?
It raises everybody's stresslevels.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Resulting in everybody having too much
cortisol in their body, which,in men, it lowers their
testosterone level.
Now, men have testosterone andwe have estrogen.
Women have testosterone andthey have estrogen, but it just
happens to be they have.
They have a lot more estrogenthan they do testosterone.
(06:19):
We have a lot more testosteronethan we, than we do estrogen,
and if we're at the correctlevels, we have 10 times more
testosterone in us than a womandoes, and a woman has 10 times
more estrogen in them than a mandoes.
Just to give you an idea alittle illustration there.
So that's what we're looking at.
I don't think we're looking ata this epidemic where the
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testosterone is getting wipedout.
I think we're looking at asituation where the um Cortisol
levels are just driving too highbecause of stress.
Yes, the end result is a call alimp rhymes with ick you know
right, okay, yep Flaccid.
(07:07):
That's a way Flaccid yeahthat's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Flaccid, that's probably better way, not like
flaccid, flaccid.
Flaccid, that's probably abetter way of putting it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It is, but unable to enlarge, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Unable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And well, let's Greg talk about.
You know one of the solutionsto this in Cedar Rapids.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh yes, there's a clinic up there.
What they do.
They do laser techniques wherethey go around, you know,
treating the outside of yourorgan, the male organ, with
shots of laser and it's supposedto break up the, like, the
little plaque that's inside theblood vessels and veins inside a
(07:54):
man's genitalia, you know, yeah, and that'll promote more blood
flow because, like, like arethe rest of our veins and
arteries, that can clog withplaque.
Yep, that can clog with plaquedown below too.
Absolutely yes.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, there's an instrument called the Phoenix.
That's been advertised for what?
A year or two, or three, Idon't know, yeah, yeah, I've
heard of it, that's somethingyou can use on your apparatus
too, and it blows out the pipes,yeah, you know.
And safe, wow.
Well, that's actually somethingyou can buy and use at home.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, it'd have to be safe.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, so, and it really has some, just a many
many good reviews, Just imagineloose plaque being on the move
and going into your heart there,I don't know.
Well, I don't know how all thatworks, totally.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But hey, at least you wouldn't have ED.
Yeah, you don't have to worryabout that, right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right, you die doing what you love.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, yep, you're cleared for takeoff, but I mean
you know, right there, thatsounds like a real, real
possible solution.
It does.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It does.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Shoot it with a laser .
This is the future.
Yeah, oops.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And blew it off.
Yeah, and also exercise.
Yes, you can reverse a lot ofthat stuff.
You know you can.
Just a good old cardio workout,you know, every, every,
whatever other day for a goodbit of time, and you're going to
lose some weight.
Your body's going to get muchbetter.
Things start to react better.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know what are some other ideas?
Because I think we're right now.
We're working off the premisethat cortisol is just it's too
high, yes, in our bodies, andwhat that does is, when we get
stressed, that hormone cortisolis released into our body and we
(09:58):
get too high levels of that.
That's not good.
No, it raises, you know, we endup gaining weight, among other
things, and it's just not good.
But I think that is possiblythe million dollar word here.
I know this whole subject, thiswhole conversation, has some
famous words in it, and to thosewords that are famous within
(10:21):
this conversation to me areobviously ED and testosterone.
It's cortisol.
Cortisol is a big, big word inthis conversation.
Yes, there'll be some morecoming out and we'll point them
out, but we're all about gettingto the bottom of it, because,
you know, some people shy awayfrom him.
(10:43):
The thing that I noticed that'sbeen shyed away of the most of
and I don't want to sound likeI'm beating my drum, but the
words have been shyed away themost from his cortisol.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, you're very subtle when we're brought up.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You don't do you.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
No, no, no.
You just hear lifestyle change.
You know you'd never hear whyyou make the lifestyle change.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
To help lower the cortisol, because, as a result
of the high cortisol, you know,there's all kinds of
psychological factors.
One would be, obviously,relationship problems that
affects intimacy and that wouldmake you a little depressed.
You know, right, that's one ofthem that lowers your
(11:28):
self-esteem.
Right, that would be one thatwould affect your, you know,
erections, ability to geterections After a while you're
going to start feeling guiltybecause you're going to remember
your past performances or notbeing able to perform in
difference, you know, usuallydeals with your, you or your
(11:49):
partner's disinterest.
That stage fright, you know,reluctant to initiate sexual
contact, because that's veryimportant too, the initial to
initiate the sexual contact.
You know what I mean.
It's stage fright they callthat.
Yeah, yeah.
That'd be stage fright Like, ohmy God, I'm going to take my
(12:10):
clothes off.
And for what Is it going to?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
work this time or not .
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Right, right, I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
So all that together createsstress, which happens to be one
of the symptoms of psychologicalcauses of ED.
But all of those that I justread stresses the grandfather of
them all, right, yeah, becausethat the godfather, because
(12:36):
that's all of those will in aturn create stress, right, right
.
And then that's not even amention of pornography addiction
, because, like that, rightthere there's, you know, courses
, as mentioned earlier we talkedabout that in another show
causes, unrealistic expectationsabout sex itself or sexual
partners.
You know, yeah, that's like aguy that I knew several years
(12:58):
ago.
He's no longer with us, but hewould always go to the strip
tease clubs and, in effect, isdating, you know he.
He went to some high-end striptease club and so he would
compare all the ladies he woulddate With how these high-end
girls would look like.
And it was.
They just don't really lookgood.
And I had to tell him.
I said you're, you're dating,you're looking to somebody to
(13:23):
date.
You'll want to Date somebodywho looks like a dancer and
prances around like a dancer.
You know that, you know, sortof messes up a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, he couldn't figure that one out.
No, no, he couldn't figure thatout?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, and of course the usual.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I think this girl likes me.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, I think this answer likes me keep whipping
out the money.
She's gonna like you all right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, she was smiling at him yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
She definitely loves you, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, she definitely cares, right, yeah, oh yeah,
it's a great place to go to pickup chicks.
I Know they love you when theylook at you and smile.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You stayed with us this far and that shows
commitment, proving you possessthe trait required to obtain the
solution.
Now let's rejoin the showalready in progress.
Obviously, right now thisfunction isn't really important
issue to people because, youknow us.
It can undermine Intimateconnections and makes people
(14:34):
think the person doesn't lovethem or that they're, you know,
no longer Right viable as acouple, or so it's.
It's deep, you know emotion,it's emotional issue.
Touchy, a touchy issue.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, and it's one that can really pull somebody
down the rabbit hole to can it?
Yes, if you're not honest aboutit right away, because, heck,
it's probably just there's,there's solutions to it, you
know.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But I think it can often be a symptom of an
emotional dysfunction.
So, yeah, we're saying, whenthere's problems in the
relationship, then it can.
It can be symbolized or it cancome up as that, as as a
rectangle, this function.
That's just sort of like onewarning sign.
Let's say right of of you knowmaybe some resolved issues in
the relationship where, ifyou're so so, a emotional
(15:26):
blockage translates into aBlockage of sexuality.
So we it's all kind ofinterrelated, I think.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I Agree a hundred percent.
I mean what?
What if you have a bad mindsetabout things in life?
I Mean every these thought, thethoughts that come into our
mind and leave.
They're going directly, they'regoing to or through our body,
and they're you mean, that's theway we talk to ourselves, the
(15:54):
way we do different things.
I mean our body takes thesethings on.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I would think diet plays a big, big part.
Oh god.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, so much that what they talk about the high
fruit toast corn syrup, a lot offoods have that in the oh Nasty
stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, well, yeah, and I was talking about that
earlier the the Metabox syndromeit's.
Yeah, you know that that whenhigh fruit toast corn syrup came
into being in the United States, it was the mid 60s and and
then at the same time, well,after World War two, you know,
they did all of thepreservatives and on the meals
that they would send aroundeverybody in the World War two.
And then that's thepre-packaged stuff, that's the
(16:32):
meals ready to eat.
Yeah, the meals ready to eat,very ready to throw in the
microwave.
They are full of nasty stuffthat preserves them.
Yes, you know, and there thegrocery stores are full of that
stuff.
Yes, and that's what's goinginto our body and you know how
you can imagine what that'sdoing to people.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, chickens are coming home to roost my late.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
My late mother she used to like watching that show.
The biggest loser, yeah, and itwas really funny, because this
guy was went into this Potentialclients house on the show
because here I can look throughyour coverage.
I need to get rid of some foodand he's just started grabbing.
You could hear cellophanecrunching.
He goes why are you throwingall this away?
You're not even looking at it.
He goes if it's in a package,if it's in cellophane or plastic
(17:18):
bag, he goes there's loadedwith preservatives.
We're getting rid of that.
I already know that.
Yeah, it just started takingthem and throwing them away.
Yeah, and I thought that was sofunny that he didn't have to
look at it.
He already knew it was badbecause it was packaged.
He knew package.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, he knew.
Yeah, if somebody would just goon, you know you could take
your.
If you would just go on a nicesalad, grit some green salad,
some green lettuce, some nicegreen lettuce, and chop up a
carrot in there, throw the onion, whatever you want to do,
tomato, whatever.
If you just did that, you like,you know, half of the week.
(17:54):
Yeah, because of the amazingchange it has on the body.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Amazing, and they're so.
Our bodies can change reallyquick if it gets fed the right
stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, and even frozen vegetables won't lose its
nutrients.
It keeps the majority of mything done this kick lately to
where?
But is it?
Birds eye makes it there's ahave these small bags of mixed
vegetables that you canmicrowave it right in the bag.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Which is very handy you can just microwave it, so
sometimes that's my meals.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, you're right, I mean frozen
vegetables.
We can.
There's all that.
There's a good access we haveto getting the good food.
We just have to.
Our problem is, well, I canspeak of my problem once in a
while.
You know you, this is a goodidea to eat what you, what you
should eat before you eat whatyou want to eat, right?
(18:49):
Yeah Well, I quite, quite oftenwill reverse that around I'll
eat what I want to eat before Ieat what I should eat.
But by the time I get to what I, what I should eat, I'm full of
eating what I want to eat.
Yeah, and that's bad, that's abad move.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, I hear you eat my salad at the end of
the meal.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I told my mom ago well, the salad will help clean
you out.
And actually one of theEuropean countries, that's their
tradition to serve the salad atthe end of the meal for their
last.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Really, yeah, for that reason, for that reason,
that's neat, yeah, so you startoff with dessert then.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It'd be nice, wouldn't it?
Yeah, that's a good point, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But yeah, but you know I, everything's down there,
right there, it's at the middleof yours.
Well, it's at your waist.
I mean, if you here's what youdo, here's some good exercises
that are great to do.
They call them Kegels.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know we're sit ups, do just, you'll get the
fire burning in the belly.
Yeah, if you get the fireburning in the belly, work your
core and lose some weight downthere.
If a person does that, they'reprobably going to be good to go.
They're going to be a long wayand go in and help in themselves
.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, what are the Kegels have to do with?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
the Kegels.
They're.
They're an exercise you do andit's in direct.
You're exercising that areathere, getting those muscles
down there working, and we'regoing to that way.
But I think that it's an easything to do.
Maybe just to you know, buy thepills.
(20:28):
But what I'm saying is I go outand buy the pills if you want,
but be ready to just be workingon the other things at the same
time.
It's not cheap right?
No, and you can wean yourselfoff of the pills and then,
before you know it, you know,the unit is ready to roll.
Yeah, and mom and mom is happy.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, I want to rock rock rock.
Yeah, I want to rock rock.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So reducing stress, is that the?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
idea to reduce stress Just overall.
You know, if you reduce, stressis brought on and then, once
stress is brought on, then youget the cortisol, and cortisol
is a big.
It will kind of wipe out yourtestosterone level yeah, it will
.
And people nowadays there's alot of people they'll stress and
they'll stay stressing.
(21:22):
Now, like during, maybe, covid,that was a lot of stress.
Who was throwing that stress atus TV News?
Oh yeah, they had people therewas.
So people were dumping down alot of cortisol.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And you know that's.
It's just, it's crazy what theydo.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, drug use alcohol use and drug addiction.
That can be a big part of thework that was functioned to.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh, absolutely so, addiction addiction.
Now you're, right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's the Shakespeare said.
You know, it increases thedesire but decreases the ability
, or something like that.
Yeah, meaning alcohol.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
No, you're right.
Hard on the circulation too.
Yeah yeah, party, and it isjust regular partying is hard on
the circulation.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I see it is, and that's why a good exercise, a
good cardio exercise, is greatfor your circulation Right.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah yeah.
Sit in a sauna bath or a steamroom once in a while, if you
have access to one.
Yeah yeah.
Sweat the murals out, yeah yeah.
Yeah absolutely yeah, drinksome beetroot juice right.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Hey, I'm a big advocate for that.
I am too.
You get the powder.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You get the you can get a powder mix.
You can get a powder mix.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
actually has some flavor, yeah, yeah but I think,
yeah, just kind of live yourlife in a mindset of that, I'm
going to try to control myanxieties.
Yeah, you know that way, to tryto control the cortisol that
gets down.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So just give up, women.
I think it's the best way togive up women.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Can't do that, right, yeah, can't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Listener, we thank you for being here with us and
be ready for the next one?
For sure, Because we're goingto be locked and loaded on that
one and we're going to betalking more about ED.
So with that I say good night,fellas.
It's been great talking.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Great talking.
Good night, y'all Good night.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
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