A New Health Meter

0
1993
Rating :
(0 Votes )

You may be surprised by what a certain body part is saying about your health.

As an acupuncturist we were trained to consider the whole
person when working on a particular problem.
We ask lots of questions and look at rather strange parts of the body,
like the tongue for example, in determining a person’s health. In women we ask a lot of questions and can
gain a lot of information about their health by inquiring about her
menses. But in men, we have the penis–and
thank god for that. But in having a
penis we have to constantly worry about how well it is functioning. It is true that Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is
on the rise, but is it really a problem with our penises themselves, or like a
woman’s period, are our penises really just little, or excuse me, large and
monolithic health meters that are trying to tell us something about our underlying
health? More times than not it is the
latter, believe me.

To drive this point home further I will share with you a
story that my father told to me. My
father recently underwent a liver transplant operation and was surrounded by
other men in the same situation. In
getting to know one man at the hospital it became known that this man hadn’t
had an erection for many years since becoming ill. Sure enough the first thing that this man
came to realize when waking up in the recovery room after his transplant was
that he had the fullest erection he could have ever dreamed of. Good for that guy! So, that guy didn’t have a problem with his
penis, but rather a problem with his health!
In this case, it was a new liver that did the trick, but most of the
time it is much more subtle. This is a
concept that we need to embrace. Far too
often we try and override the basic necessity of good health by taking little
blue pills. They can be good in a pinch,
but it is no way to live.

Unfortunately, there is no one thing that causes ED. In fact, there are probably too many to
count. However, the biggest contributing
factor that I see in my practice is due to side effects of medications. Blood pressure medications can make erections
nearly impossible at times. High blood
sugar and Diabetes is another quick path to ED.
Hormone imbalance due to hormone replacement therapy can eventually lead
to ED as well because it alters the interaction between the hormone and the receptor. Depression is another good example of why a
man might come down with ED. Whatever
the reason for the ED, the goal should be to find out how to fix the
problem. We as a society need to demand
that our bodies remain functional without all the added medication. In doing so we will avoid many of the current
health problems, fix many of the health concerns where they start and of course
have better erections as a result! The
answers are out there. And given the opportunity I would love to tell you about
them.

Richard JaramilloRichard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com,
a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children.
RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents
“Make Life Happen…Again!”

SHARE
Previous articleA New (Better!) Kind of Happiness
Next articleA Cut Above the Rest
Richard “RJ” Jaramillo, is the Founder of SingleDad.com, a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting and specifically for the newly divorced, re-married, widowed and single Father with children. RJ is self employed, entrepreneur living in San Diego and a father of three children. The mission of SingleDad is to help the community of Single Parents “Make Life Happen…Again!”