Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What well-nigh dietary approaches for sexuality sexual dysfunction?
“The megacosm and promotion of ‘female sexual dysfunction’ [as a mental disorder] is a textbook specimen of disease mongering by the pharmaceutical industry,” harkening when to the first edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Transmission of Mental Disorders, psychiatry’s diagnosis manual, which listed frigidity as a mental disorder, withal with homosexuality. The latest manifestation is “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” a disease invented by drug companies. When Prozac was well-nigh to go off patent, for example, “the visitor sponsored the megacosm of the condition premenstrual dysphoric disorder, depicted as a increasingly serious form of premenstrual syndrome,” and used this new so-called mental illness to market a drug tabbed Sarafem, “which was simply repackaged Prozac” in a pink capsule. “The condition previously known as shyness was condition-branded as social uneasiness disorder, designed to provide a marketing whet for Paxil…”
“There are certainly women who are troubled by low libido, but there is no reliable scientific vestige that hypoactive sexual desire disorder is a real medical condition.” And, women can get diagnosed with it plane with a normal libido. “A woman who is highly interested in sex, just not with her current partner, can still qualify for a diagnosis”—and the drug. Plane a “woman who is happy with her sex life may still qualify for a diagnosis of hypoactive sexual desire disorder if her partner is dissatisfied…”
“The story began in 2009 when [drug company] Boehringer Ingelheim first unromantic for clearance of flibanserin, a failed antidepressant, to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder in premenopausal women.” There was a problem, though. It didn’t work. The using was resubmitted without increasingly study and was rejected again, as was the appeal. But, in 2015, the FDA tried the drug. “What changed? Nothing well-nigh efficacy. The resubmission included no new goody data.” The drug didn’t work any better. What reverted is that the visitor that bought the drug “helped launch a new sponsorship group, Plane the Score.” The fake grassroots group lobbied “journalists, women’s groups, Congress, and the FDA” for approval, employing “the feminism treatise to push for…approval on grounds of equality (men have their drugs; we want ours), when feminism in in fact a reason to object to flibanserin. How can it be feminist for doctors to tell women what’s normal and prescribe pills to tenancy their sexual desire?” But, “within 48 hours of FDA approval, flibanserin was sold…for well-nigh $1 billion in cash. Very satisfying.” Very satisfying for the drug company, “but what well-nigh the women who take flibanserin,” now sold as Addyi? Not much. The drug just doesn’t work as advertised.
It may stimulate monkeys to groom each other more, but when researchers dug up the unpublished data well-nigh the drug, any clinical goody was found to be “marginal, with statistically and clinically significant wrongheaded [side] effects.” Indeed, “besides being ineffective in many women, flibanserin is a dangerous drug.” Combining it with swig “can cause dangerous hypotension and syncope [fainting]—problems so serious that the FDA put a woebegone box warning, its most serious safety alert, on the label,” which, unfortunately, whimsically anyone reads. In fact, “even without alcohol, flibanserin can cause severe drops in thoroughbred pressure levels and sudden prolonged unconsciousness.” Now, these types of serious side effects “might be winning in a cancer drug, but they are entirely unacceptable in a drug given to healthy women for an invented condition.”
Are there any unscratched and natural solutions? There are a lot of studies on nutrition and men’s sexual health, but what well-nigh women’s? As I discuss in my video Flashback Friday: Are Apples the Best Supplies for a Largest Sex Life in Women?, research indicates that women with upper cholesterol levels report wizened sexual function wideness a number of dimensions. This could explain why a increasingly plant-based diet, rich in a variety of whole plant foods, “might be constructive in ameliorating sexual function issues in women,” as it does in men—indeed, increasingly whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruit, and less meat, dairy, and sugar have been associated with a reduced risk of erectile dysfunction—because the torso and physiology of sexual responses are unquestionably quite similar between men and women. As you can see unelevated and at 4:21 in my video, using fancy MRI techniques, you can measure clitoral engorgement within minutes of exposure to an erotic video.
And, we now know that lubrication is all well-nigh thoroughbred flow, too. “Within the sexually unhallowed vagina,” the hydrostatic pressure from all the spare pelvic thoroughbred spritz forces fluid “to leak onto the surface wall of the vagina as the vaginal lubrication.” How can we modernize thoroughbred flow? Well, the flavonoid phytonutrients in cocoa can help unshut up arteries, increasing pulse wave width without drinking cocoa for four days, peaking at well-nigh 90 minutes without consumption, as you can see unelevated and at 4:54 in my video.
So, can that Valentine’s Day chocolate make a difference? Women who eat chocolate do tend to have higher sexuality sexual function alphabetize scores compared to those who don’t eat chocolate, but the effect disappeared once age was taken into account. “Despite all the potential biological mechanisms supporting a role for chocolate as an aphrodisiac food,” the study failed to show a benefit. One would seem that chocolate could modernize thoroughbred flow, but remember that was with cocoa powder. Maybe the fat and sugar in chocolate counteract the benefits. What are some whole supplies sources of flavonoids? As you can see unelevated and at 5:35 in my video, onions have a lot. Indeed, fresh onion juice enhances copulatory behavior—in rats. For those of us less interested in “increasing the percentage of ejaculating rats” and looking for something other than onion juice for our hot date, how well-nigh an apple?
There was “not a study addressing the potential correlation between daily world consumption and women’s sexual function” until…now. Women were split into two groups, either regular daily world consumers or those consuming less than an world a day. The result? The hundreds of world eaters in the study scored significantly higher on the sexuality sexual function index.
Note that the researchers only included women who ate unpeeled apples, considering the phytonutrients are well-matured in the peel, so we don’t know if there’s a link with peeled apples. And, this was only an observational study, so “further studies will be necessary to clarify…the relationship between world intake and sexuality sexuality…However, the present data can indulge the minutiae of future research for identifying new compounds and supplies supplements to use in sexuality sexuality recovery.” Okay…or you can just try eating an apple.
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