A new “study” or evidence has been circulating that herbal supplement users, which includes men who use herbal male enhancement supplements that are so often discussed in this blog on natural alternatives to drugs like Cialis and Viagra, do not often heed the indications that are cited on the back label as a guide of how much to take, and how often per day.  I must say, I’ve been guilty of this myself, especially when taking vitamins. 

Often I will only take half of a dose that is recommended to save money, or I simply forget to take half of it.  Or, maybe, but not nearly as often, I will inadvertently take more than the recommended dosage, or evidence-based amount that is most effective in most people, but that rarely happens because I’m more toward the forgetful side than anything else! 

Apparently I’m not the only one either, who doesn’t follow the manufacturer or individual herbalist indications on the label of an herbal supplement, because reportedly nearly half of all supplement takers do not adhere to the recommended dosage.  And, get this (what a shock), women were more likely than men to follow the usage instructions on these supplements.  

But everyone does say that women are more attuned to detail and more likely to follow instructions, right?  It’s like the old adage goes, men will never stop and ask for directions, but women will, because they’re both indisposed to wasting time, and not afraid to be proven wrong. 

But, I guess that really doesn’t apply here, because men just don’t like to follow directions, or they lack the capacity to pay attention to directions such as these.  It really is just another one of the differences between the sexes.  It’s like agent Dale Cooper said in Twin Peaks, ”in the grand design, men and women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.”  One of my favorite sayings of all times!    

Men with diabetes may be suffering a somewhat unexpected side effect of the blood sugar and insuling resistence disorder.  Men with diabetes may have damaged sperm, which can render them infertile and unable to reproduce with their female partners in some cases. 

The studies on men’s sperm involved healthy men without diabetes and men with type-1 diabetes and came to the conclusion that not only do men with diabetes produce less semen during ejaculation, but also tend to have damaged sperm at a higher, statistically significant rate than men without this type of diabetes. 

Damaged sperm can not only affect male fertility, but it has also been linked to couples that have miscarriages althought the exact cause for this is not known currently.  The study was only on men with type-1 diabetes which is mostly hereditary in nature, and has not yet been done that I know of, on men with type-2 diabetes, which is fairly common these days unfortunately.  Type-2 diabetes is on-set, meaning it’s not genetic but rather is usually caused by lifestyle choices such as obesity, bad diet habits and lack of physical activity. 

I’m not sure how true this is, who can ever be sure that what they read in gossip rags or online gossip websites is true, but supposedly, Spanish female amore, Enrique Iglesias, the son of famed Hispanic singer Julio Iglesias, of which I have bad memories of listening to as a child, claims that his penis is small, or at least he thinks it is small, and would like if it were bigger.  Even if it were true, he does have one of the most sought after women, Ana Kournikova, so that guy’s doing something right!

In the cited interview where Iglesias says he wishes he had a larger penis, he supposedly joked that he wished his penis were larger, and that he thinks it is far, far too small.  Iglesias has a reputation of joking around though, because his publicists recently had to do a little damage control when word got around that he was “divorced” from Ana Kournikova (although they’ve never officially said they were married, mind you), when he jokingly told reporters he was  single man again.

Not sure why you’d kid around about losing a woman like the beautiful Ana Kournikova, but something possessed him to kid!  Maybe if Enrique was serious, he could get some benefits from penis enlargement exercises or a good penile enlargement supplement. 

Anyways, if there is a moral to this story, it’s that even famous, good looking men have insecurities about their penis size and about how good they are in bed, so it’s not just us ordinary, average guys that worry about this stuff.  I guess money doesn’t buy security in all areas of life, now does it?  You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape sexual insecurities!  (For those of you that don’t know, his biggest hit is “You can run you can hide, but you can’t escape my love”)

Recent research has found that men’s minds tend to deteriorate in capacity for memory and cognitive responses more with age than a woman’s mind typically does, at least statistically speaking.  But are the test results really viable as evidence that men’s minds truly to age at a faster rate than woman’s, so to speak? 

Since women do live longer than men on average, the test results have been called biased and skewed, and even have come up with a mixed bag of results, including, you guessed it, the exact opposite truth, that men’s minds age slower and deteriorate slower than a woman’s.  So which is it? 

We may never know, but the current research does suggest that a woman’s mind, who is more intuned to memory, while a man’s mind is typically more analytical and better at things like math skills, is much more apt to outlive a man’s mind in terms of sharpness and memory, as well as mental focus.  Men, this means you better be taking one of the best multivitamins for men if you want to take the negative attention of your  mind!

Although mental performance and “agility” at performing certain tasks that required cognition and focus, showed a decline in both men and women with age in these tests, men did show a statistically significant higher level of deterioration in brain sharpness and cognition, so these tests do seem to conclude that men may have more of a reason to be concerned with taking proactive steps in anti aging and keeping their mind and body healthy, since women seem to have a leg up in this category!   

Gee, I thought this was only applicable in my relationship, but I guess a lot of couples are experiencing the “work spouse” phenomena, thanks to an increasing work force of married couples, and the pressure to maintain two incomes and have the man and woman out in the work force at desk jobs. 

It’s increasingly common for men and women to grow closer to their coworkers, and many times that coworker may be of the opposite sex.  Uh-oh, this sounds like grounds for an affair or something, right?  Not necessarily, although nine times out of ten it seems affairs outside of a marriage or a relationship do start in the workplace of the person having the affair. 

Many times these relationships between men and women at the office are purely platonic and do not offer any threat to a pre-existing relationship, although it certainly could be perceived by more jealous partners as such.  Men and women alike are reporting that they have a work place husband or wife jokingly. 

A person who they can talk to openly, can go on joint ventures with in the work place on common projects, and can pick at and even criticize just like they can do with their real spouse. 

The only time it becomes dangerous, of course, is when romantic feelings start to develop, so ladies and men, it’s important to not let the tired excuse of always being too tired for sex come into a relationship, because this is when problems can start to happen, when a married couple or parts of a married couple or exclusive partnership feel sexually shafted or unwanted, which can many times result when one or both partners tend to turn down sex or never initiate it due to being exhausted, an increasing problem in today’s workaholic mentality and busy lifestyles. 

This is why workplace romances can tend to blossom, because many people spend more time with other people at work than they do with their spouses.  It’s in our genetics to be loved and wanted, and also to be sexually fulfilled and to feel as though our partners want us in a sexual, sensual way.  Sometimes it’s sad, but true!

I’m not sure if this new pill is also supposed to help with a woman’s PMS as well, but there is a new birth control pill poised for FDA approval that is going to come out to market soon that proposes to stop a woman’s period cycle (menstrual cycle) indefinitely, or as long as she is on the pill.  Many women who cannot stand to have their periods may rejoice, but I ask, is this really a healthy thing or not?

It seems to me that women’s periods are meant to happen for a reason, and taking a pill to stop the period seems, well, unnatural at best I guess.  The pill does indicate that it will stop a woman’s menstrual bleeding, but did not indicate whether it stops the moodiness that tends to go along with the period, otherwise known as PMS, the time when men want to stay away from their spouses and girlfriends because they are afraid they might inadvertently p them off.

The name of the new women’s pill is Lybrel, supposedly named for liberating women from the inconvenience of having their monthly period and accompanying bleeding, and is by drug company Wyeth.  Supposedly though, women can already exercise the no period option even on regular birth control pills, simply by skipping their inactive sugar pills at the end of the active hormone pills cycle, and going straight to more hormone pills for the next cycle, thereby avoiding the bleeding cycle, but this new Lybrel product will advertise especially for skipping the period, something the gynecologists say is an increasing demand among women for various reasons.

Most researchers conclude that monthly menstrual bleeding, while a biological fact, is not necessary, and in fact leads to health problems for some women including anemia and other health issues, but other gynecologists do believe that continuously suppressing the period is not good, and women who practice this should at least take a rest from it and make their body menstruate at least once every 12 weeks, which is a lot better than the typical menstruation cycle, which happens once every 21 to 28 days today. 

Uh-oh, this news could now be the new excuse for wives and girlfriends across the country to start withholding sex in order to get their mate to do things they want them to do around the house or stop laying around and watching TV every spare moment they have and get to working on some project!

The latest research in the sexual arena indicates that excess sexual energy is many times translated into “projects” or a harder work ethic, because the person, whether male or female, has to take their unfulfilled sexual energy and channel it in different directions in their life to both get that gratification that they’re not getting in bed as well as to work off nervous energy, which is often how sexual frustration really does play out in life.

So, what is “not getting enough sex” considered to be these days?  According to this study, or at least hypothesis, if you’re getting sexual satisfaction once or less per week, your sexual energies may have elsewhere to be directed, it is said. 

Men notoriously havea  lot of this sexual energy, and tend to really need somewhere else to channel it if they do not get the much needed sexual release when they need it.  So if the sex is not coming around frequently enough, they may instead work hours of overtime, or take on extra projects and things around the house or on the job, or even side jobs, to work off the extra energy they have to burn, so to speak. 

Basically not in so many words, one of the supplements talked about on the website, Deer Antler Plus, would not want to be taken by a man who is not getting sex enough, because it builds up such intense orgasms, and multiple at that, that it may actually build too much up, making for too much sexual energy if a man does not have a sexual outlet often enough. 

Does sexual energy that is unreleased always translate into productivity?  No.  In fact, many times infrequent sex can damage a relationship because sexual frustration can result in hostile feelings toward one’s partner on both sides, which definitely doesn’t help things both in the bedroom and outside of it. 

Erectile Dysfunction.  It’s a very common physically materialized condition that scores of men suffer from.  But is erectile dysfunction really all a physical affliction, or is it also contributed to by the power of the mind, or psychosomatically induced? 

Well, many experts agree that while erectile dysfunction can certainly be brought about by physical conditions such as chronic diabetes, terminal illnesses, certain medications, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune and nervous system diseases, and spinal cord injuries, to name a few, it can also be worsened by anxiety over the condition itself. 

Think of impotence, partial impotence, and other forms and degrees of erectile dysfunction almost as depression, which is an emotional state of mind.  Sure, depression can be caused or contributed to by medications or physical ailments, but it is exacerbated by anxiety and uncertainty caused by the condition itself. 

I know this sounds repetitive, but it really is a case of a vicious cycle that can deteriorate further with added anxiety.  Once a man experiences erectile dysfunction, his mind many times can be his own worst enemy.  After the first experience with impotence or incomplete ejaculation or other types of dysfunctional occurrences, many men find that their thoughts turn to fear about sexual performance failure every time they are about to have sex with a partner. 

This fear alone can make sexual dysfunction worse, as it can paralyze the senses and the will to have a normal erection because sexual arousal begins in the brain, and negative thoughts, fear and anxiety can interfere with this first vital point of sexual arousasl. 

The sexual arousal begins with a thought, sight, taste, touch or smell which sets off an emotional response tied to sexual desire for a man, which then sends the consequential nerve impulses to the penis, and then causes the penis spongy chambers to fill with blood, and the penis to become erect and full which can be helped along by some natural male sexual enhancement supplements. 

Any disruption in the process can result in any level of erectile dysfunction. 

A Urologist who is famous for treating very high profile men in his career, has died at the ripe ol’ age of 92 years old.  His name was John K Lattimer, and his life and urology career has spanned such that he treated high ranking nazis during the Nuremburg trials for war crimes.  The man had a prolific career, as he was also an expert called on by the Kennedy family to determine how Kennedy was killed, and was also considered a ballistics expert and a foremost authority on the killing of ex president Lincoln.

So, if you don’t know what a urologist is, it is a doctor that specializes in both the male and female urinary tract, but is mostly known as a male doctor, because they also principally specialize in the male reproductive system. 

A urologist is usually consulted in cases of possible prostate cancer, and is often consulted in cases where a man has difficulty urinating, which is often a sign of prostate cancer or declining prostate health, which is one of the bigger health issues a man faces today, especially since it is said that eventually, if something else does not kill a man, prostate cancer will, because the prostate will eventually begin to deteriorate and become cancerous as a man ages. 

Again, I’m no medical expert, that’s all hearsay!  But I’d kind of believe it, because of the delicate nature of the prostate gland and the possibility of cancer lurking can be very imminent since it is a gland that is susceptible to issue in old age in men.  It might be wise to take a complete supplement for men’s prostate health, to ensure you can keep it in peak operating condition for as long as possible though.

Well, John K Lattimer appears to have had a very illustrious career, and a long and prosperous life, so sometimes when someone dies at such a ripe old age, it is almost like a celebration of the life they did have, rather than a somber funereal attitude, and I think that’s just great! 

We discussed phalloplasty the last post, which is male penis enlargement surgery that men who wish to enlarge their penises have, or sometimes men that feel they have a deformity in the way their penis looks or behaves may also have performed.  Primarily, phalloplasty is an elective surgery that men who wish to have larger penises have.

We talked last time also how we feel the surgery still has a long way to go before it is perfected and can be considered a safe way to enlarge the penis and enhance the man’s sex life without complications, we’d rather tell a guy to perform penis enlargement exercises and do natural methods before this, but anyways, on to what we were talking about before.

Here’s generally how phalloplasty works:

1.  Penis legthening.  This can be performed on a guy who wants to lengthen the size of his penis.  It can be performed in conjunction with penis widening also, but many times a skin graft would be used. 

Skin grafts are usually a synthetic skin graft such as Alloderm or some other sort of synthetic skin-like material which is often also used in reconstructive surgery.  It’s safe, so that’s good. 

Usually a device is inserted into the penis to get it to achieve the length desired.  I believe this is usually made of some type of body-safe plastic as well, and is inserted through an incision into the penis.  I know, ouch.

2.  Penis widening.  This ones a little more interesting, and perhaps the more complicated of the two.  Instead of lengthening the penis, this is where the actual girth of the penis is increased through artificial means. 

Penis widening is done through fat grafts that are inserted into the penis to achieve the “fatness” of the penis desired. Many men can enjoy up to a fifty percent increase in their penile girth when the penis is erect, and anywhere from five percent to thirty percent noticeably visible increase in the girth when the penis is in a flacid state. 

Pretty impressive I’d say, but again, it’s cutting into the penis, which to me just isn’t a pretty thought.  If you’re thinking about enlarging your penis through penile enhancement surgery make sure you go to a specialist who only specializes in penis surgery and has been doing it for years. 

You really want to make sure you’re not getting a cut rate deal when it comes to this delicate surgery.  Size Genetics is a complete system complete with exercises and a penis enlarging device as well as pills to increase blood flow to the penis that produces measurable and visible results, naturally.  You may want to take a look at that one.  VigRX is another natural product you may want to look into as well that increases the size of your penis.  See VigRX review.