Don’t let the stupid title fool you…..we’ve got a serious issue on our hands!

Viagra:

Pfizer’s little diamond shaped wonder drug!

The fastest selling drug in history!

I heard this statistic years ago, and it still amazes me. Erectile dysfunction isn’t exactly something that comes up at during the usual lunchtime convo with coworkers, for obvious reasons, but pharmaceuticals for sexual performance have become a big moneymaking industry.

How much money?

In 1998, Viagra sold $259 million in only two months

In the year 2005……$1.6 BILLION

And this is only one drug. The competition isn’t doing so bad either……Cialis sales in 2007 were $1.26 billion.

Do you know how many millions of prescriptions that is?

Sperm counts in males in the 1950′s used to be around 125 million per ejaculation.

In 2008, the average sperm count is around 1/6 of that…….a measily 20 million

Keep in mind, this is one of the best measurements of overall health. The only things mother nature cares about is you reproducing! I think with that statistic you’ll understand why couples can try so long to get pregnant and have such poor results. Give it a few years, and sperm counts will be so low that birth control won’t even be an issue…..

If the average American couple does get pregnant, the chances of having a child without a major complication or birth defect is still 1 in 2.

Wow!

we can split the atom, fly in space, perouse the ocean floor in submarines, but soon enough we won’t even be able to reproduce because the population if the US is so shamefully unhealthy!

Men today have to take pills to get an erection so they can deliver their sperm which are in insufficient numbers to start with.

Back to our topic:

Why would someone need a pill to stimulate their sexual machinery?

It comes down to hormonal pathways.

Stress hormones (mainly cortisol) are always produced first, if necessary. This has proven useful in the past, because if you were in danger as a caveman, you wouldn’t be thinking of sex, you need to get out of danger first. The body ramps up stress hormones to get you out of sticky situations…..you can have sex later.

We don’t have bears chasing us around today, but we do have financial problems, job stress, nutritional stress, physical stress, etc.

If you add all these stressors up in the average american……it’s the equivalent of being chased around by a tiger all day everyday! That’s what your body thinks anyway.

A significant portion of the population lives in a state of pregnenelone steal.

This happens when your body “steals” pregnenelone, the mother hormone, and steals it to make stress hormones instead of DHEA, estrogen, testosterone.

So ask yourself men……..what unnecessary stressors do I have in my life?

It may save you from an embarrassing situation in the future *wink*