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For mens health erectile dysfunction is one of the most difficult problems. Failures in the sexual life of mens health are more often called impotence. However, this is not quite true. Doctors consider impotence to be in which a man under any circumstances is unable to perform sexual act, which fortunately occurs not too often. But incidentally or occasionally emerging problems with erection should be called erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction in mens health may be caused by several kinds of reasons – endocrine, medication, local, neurological and cardiovascular. All this belongs to an organic form of erectile dysfunction, when it is due to some change or disorder in the body. A psychological form of the erectile dysfunction is met much more often, when the normal sexual life is interfered only neuropsychiatric features of a man. In addition, almost always there is added a psychological component to problems with erectile dysfunction, caused by organic causes, which may surface after removing the root causes. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction in mens health include primarily hypogonadism – a lack of function of sexual glands and low generation of the male hormone testosterone. Besides problems with erection in this state a man notices that his voice becomes high pitched, stopping of hair growth on face and body, the deposition of fat in the chest, thighs, buttocks. As a rule uch changes occur at severe disorders of the hormonal system of the human body, and in these cases there is always a need in an endocrinologist’s help. Fortunately, these diseases are relatively rare. Another endocrinological cause of erectile problems in mens health may be a pituitary tumor, one of the most important glands of a human body, which is located in the brain. If such a umor secretes a hormone called prolactin, no other changes in the body, except persistent erectile dysfunction, will not be observed. In this case for diagnostics it is necessary not only to examine he hormonal status of a man, but also perform a CT scan of the brain. To be continued…
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