Erectile dysfunction complications and solutions

March 23, 2016

Erectile dysfunction complications and solutions: What is Erectile Dysfunction or ED?

Being called impotent can be very embarrassing and that is why erectile dysfunction complications solutions must be found.

Being called impotent can be very embarrassing but the pain of living with that state of impotency is even much greater than just being embarrassed. Many may just feel this from a distance but the actual victims of this situation (erectile dysfunction complications) are the ones that understand the magnitude of the problem. Therefore what really is erectile dysfunction complications or ED as it is commonly known? Erectile dysfunction complications can therefore be defined as the state of being unable repeatedly to get an erection that is firm enough to sustain a sexual intercourse. Besides that erectile dysfunction or impotency can also be used to mean other complications that are likely to interfere with sexual intercourse and reproduction including sexual urge and problems of orgasm and ejaculation.

According to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, any damage caused to the nerves, arteries, smooth muscles and fibrous tissues that are normally instigated as a result of a disease, is the most common cause of erectile penile dysfunction. It is important also to note that health conditions like diabetes, kidney problems, chronic alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, atherosclerosis, vascular disease and neurologic disease are the major culprits and accounts for about 70 percent of all known erectile dysfunction cases. And even though this condition can attack anybody, available statistics indicate that about 35% – 50% of men who are struggling with diabetes are most affected by this condition ED.

Erectile dysfunction complications and solutions: Causes of ED?

Before any action is taken to this problem, it is only reasonable that we get to the root cause of the problem. That way we will be addressing the problem from a very informed position and solution finding will not take long since we shall have already known the cause. According to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, President and also the founder of the establishment, defects preventing an appropriate erectile tissue response are likely to interfere with one’s reproductive capability. Erection of the penis is a hemodynamic action that tissue of the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum. It is important to note that this tissue are very important and they consists of smooth muscle, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and nerves that interact in order to enhance and maintain an accessory blood supply causing erection. Given the need for the blood flow during this response, it is clear that vascular insufficiency can decrease erectile capability.

From the experts point of view it is believed that the vascular insufficiency is likely to be a common pathology of erectile dysfunction. And for that reason available statistics indicates that up to 80% of all cases of erectile dysfunction can be attributed insufficient or reduced blood flow which is also associated with some underlying vascular disease. Over the years and in a bid to finding lasting solution to this, a lot has been done including the use of pharmacological methods available for the treatment of erectile dysfunction including the use of vasodilators like Viagra and Cialis. Nonetheless the challenge with vasodilators is that they are only able to induce temporal responses and therefore may not be very effective for many patients due to the underlying endothelial damages. Besides that it is also important to note that these medications can also have serious side-effect including bringing health complications like heart attack, stroke and sometimes may even course premature death. Finally with those complications experts are of the opinion that the best treatment of erectile dysfunction complications can therefore be done using Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) procedures. These are effective in the sense that they address tissues defects or vascular disease aspects of erectile dysfunction. Therefore such applications are likely to provide much longer term therapy and may even provide a more permanent treatment solution to this problem.

Erectile dysfunction complications and solutions: The relationship between ED and Diabetes

Erectile dysfunction is significantly common in men who have diabetes which damages nerves and blood vessels. Erectile dysfunction can also be linked to other conditions common in men who have diabetes, such as high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. ED is three times more common in patients with diabetes mellitus. ED in diabetes strongly correlates with the level of glucose control, duration of disease and diabetic complications. Besides diabetes the following are also some of the possible reasons that may cause one to have erectile dysfunction:

Emotional or psychological causes including Depression, Stress, anxiety or other mental health conditions
Heart disease, High blood pressure, neurological disease
Low testosterone levels in men
Medications such as antidepressants, antihistamines and medications to treat high blood pressure, pain or prostate cancer.
Metabolic syndrome (a condition involving increased blood pressure, high insulin levels, body fat around the waist and high cholesterol
Obesity and chronic inflammation,
Parkinson’s disease, Multiple sclerosis disease
Peyronie’s disease (development of scar tissue)
Surgeries or injuries that affect the pelvic area or spinal cord
Tobacco; Alcoholism and misuse of other drug abuse

Finally we are going to continue exploring various treatment solutions in our next article and we want to encourage you to keep on the link and be the first to know. Doctor Akoury and her team of experts will be very helpful to us in understanding how PRP, Stem cell procedures work. This is one discussion you don’t want to miss. Therefore invite a friend and let us find solution to erectile dysfunction complications together. But in the meantime, if you have any concern about this problem, you can consult with doctor Dalal Akoury anytime any day for a one on one discussion.

Erectile dysfunction complications and solutions: What is Erectile Dysfunction or ED?

Addiction In The Family Of Senator Ted Cruz

March 22, 2016

Addiction In Senator Cruz Family: Ted Cruz Shares Story Of His Sister’s Addiction

The Republican presidential nominee candidate Ted Cruz was thought to be a bright boy even during his early childhood, so it doesn’t come as strange that he grew up to become a person his family could be proud of. Cruz has great intellect and a decisive personality, which led him to one success after another – Harvard Law, the Senate of the United States and now a presidential candidate. Unfortunately, life is not always pink, which is something Ted Cruz learned the hard way in 2011 when his half-sister Miriam passed away from a drug overdose.

The senator shared this sad story at the forum on heroin epidemic an addiction held in New Hampshire this February. Miriam, the daughter from the first marriage of the senator’s father, Rafael Cruz, was nine years older than him.

‘We used to spend summers together when we were kids. Even though she was older than me, we often played together. She let me pull on her hair and I would to that nonstop. She was a very charming and beautiful woman’, said Cruz.

However, Miriam didn’t handle their fat their parents are divorced easily.

‘I remember her always being angry at everyone. She was mad at my dad for divorcing her mom and often turned her rage to everyone. She was mad at the world, at God’.

This caused Miriam to go through some rather turbulent teenage years. As Cruz stated, she partied and she partied hard. It wasn’t even uncommon to steal his allowance in order to buy alcohol and drugs. It got worse when she married a man who had violence issues and was constantly in and out of jail. Not even having a son, who was named Joseph, was motivating enough for her to battle the addiction.

‘She became a single mom a couple of years after Joey was born. Unfortunately, she got into a car accident, after which she got addicted to painkillers. Not long has passed until she moved on to even worse drugs’, the Senator continued his story.

A ‘helping hand’ on her path to hard addiction was Michael Gunning, Miriam’s boyfriend at the time. They met in a rehab center in Philadelphia. The moment they got out, they started using various drugs. In order to get the money to buy them, Miriam started shoplifting, which got her behind bars more than a couple of times. These are just some of the troubles addiction can get people into. They will be widely covered at Awaremed Network’s Integrative Addiction Conference for which you can register HERE.

In the meantime, everything was going well for Ted Cruz. In 1997, he managed to join a respectable law firm in Washington D.C. and was on his way to success. However, he always found time to keep tabs on his sister and her son. This is why he and his father decided to drive to Philadelphia one day to try to make an intervention, leaving all their valuable stuff back at Washington in order to avoid any potential bad stuff happening at the shady motel Miriam was living in.

Unfortunately, the talk didn’t help too much, so the senator knew what he had to do. He decided to max out his credit hard to help his nephew and soon Joey was sent to a military boarding school. Cruz believed this will help Joey get some order in his life and set him on the right path.

In the senator’s book ‘A time for truth’, it was mentioned that Miriam was aware she was not in a great situation to support her son and was thankful that Ted is getting him through school. Although he left the school only after a year, Joey and his mom reconciled their differences and started living together again. Miriam showed some real signs of wanting to progress and battle with addiction prior to this happening. She even decided to go into a rehab center. Everything had seemed back on its course, it was Joey that found Miriam dead one day in January 2011.

‘We just got a call one day, telling us that Miriam is gone’, remembers Mr. Cruz.

The Republican president candidate is very aware of this problem, which is exactly why he chose to share his experience in New Hampshire, place famous for its drug problems. There’s another addiction story in Mr. Cruz’s family, this one with a different outcome than Miriam.

Rafael Cruz was an abusive drinker and this was the reason behind him leaving Miriam’s mother, as well as leaving Ted and his mom for some time. Religion is what helped Rafael turn his life around and make this a happy story.

“My father hasn’t had a drink for 40 years now. There are addiction stories with happy endings”, stated Cruz.

The senator is right. In order for people to fight the problems with any kind of addiction, they will need a strong will and motivation, as well as great help from family and friends. Awaremed Network is organizing Integrative Addiction Conference. You can find more details and sign up for the conference here.

Abnormal Sexual Behaviors And Their Treatment

March 21, 2016

Dealing with sexual disorder

Abnormal sexual behaviors or alternatively called ‘Paraphilias’. According to DSM paraphilias all have in common distressing and repetitive sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors. These fantasies, urges, or behaviors must occur for a significant period of time and must interfere with either satisfactory sexual relations or everyday functioning if the diagnosis is to be made. There is also a sense of distress within these individuals. In other words, they typically recognize the symptoms as negatively impacting their life but feel as if they are unable to control them. There are plenty of behaviors when undertaken excessively they become abnormal, though there are therapy and rehabilitation solutions available to these issues, but it can only be done if a person seeks help which seldom happens.

Serial infidelity or the urge to have multiple extra marital affairs is one of the earliest signs of presenting paraphilias. During this, a person is driven by the desire of having sex with a number of people without considering the emotional harm they do to themselves or others. These behaviors could escalate to having multiple one-night stands. While its considered normal for people to have one night stand once in a while or mistakenly getting caught in a moment and having sex. Generally speaking there is no FDA approved drug that can treat these kinds of addictions but related symptoms such as anxiety, depression and frustration are completely treatable which reduce the severity of disorder.

Sex is considered a private act for majority of people, but having a repetitive uncanny desire of having sex with multiple partners at the same time is a form of sexual abnormality. Sex normally occurs between people who have developed some kind of attraction and affection towards each other or somehow they know each other through some source but people having abnormal sexual behaviors crave for sex with anonymous partners or simply strangers. These individuals also spend a significant amount of time in planning these activities, at time the mere imagination of involving in sexual activities with a stranger or multiple partners become sources of satisfaction and gratification for these individuals.

Escort/prostitution addiction is another major abnormal sexual behavior that progresses as the disorder gains severity. Individuals addicted to escorts could not help control the urge of going to prostitutes for sexual gratification. On the other hand, they can practice those sexual acts like sadistic and masochistic acts with prostitutes easily but it is very unlikely that their permanent partner (spouse/girlfriend) would be willing to get involved in these risky acts. Their urge for this sadistic sexual gratification keeps them bounded to escort addiction. People addicted to escorts generally practice unsafe sex and thus falls prey to sexually transmitted diseases as they lack a sense of self harm.

Persistent use of pornography and addiction to masturbation is one of the most common sexual addictions, a person suffering this addiction lack a sense of control over their sexual needs that are fulfilled by pornography. Sexual Boundary Problems occur when a person fails to recognize that who should be seen in a sexual way and who should not. They have no respect for social barriers and norms’ regarding sexual behaviors and what is considered appropriate and what’s not. Addiction to port can progress towards Cybersex, cybersex Addiction or Abuse where an individual gets involved in sexual practices with people over internet. This kind of addiction involves phone sex, sex through text messages (sexting), and sex over video calls with people sitting miles apart.

People addicted to sex often get involved with exhibitionism and voyeurism. Exhibitionism is the act of exposing those parts of one’s body that are not normally exposed – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks in a public or a semi private gathering. The practice may arise from a yearning or obligation to expose themselves in such a manner to groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers for their amusement or gain sexual attention or satisfaction. Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered being of a private nature. In voyeurism, observer mostly do not interact with the subject being observed and it merely involves only seeing them but many times it involves filming or photographs to be used afterwards for abnormal sexual gains.

Sexual harassment, molestation and rape are the extreme form of abnormal sexual behavior. All of these are considered sexual offences as well. Not every sex addict comes as far as committing these offences but a great majority of sex offenders are sex addicts. All of these acts involve a non-consenting child, adult or even an aged individual, who is forced to have intercourse or other related sexual activities with the offender in a totally inhumane manner.

When a person is seen with all of the above or few of these abnormal behaviors, it is mandatory that these addictions should be treated for their own good and for the safety of those around them. Unfortunately there is no drug that can treat these forms of addiction due to a lack of generalization of symptoms, but there are a number of psycho-therapy options available for such individuals. Some options include:

Individual therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic therapy
Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Group therapy
Couple’s counseling or Marriage counseling.
12-step recovery.
Inpatient therapy

If you are interested in learning about these therapy options in detail, follow the link below and get registered with us.
http://www.awaremednetwork.com/integrativeaddictionconference/
We are organizing an international conference that deal with every form of addiction and focuses on their solutions through integrative approach. If by any means you are related to someone in need of help or you are a professional psychologist, counselor or a medical expert you can join us by following simple steps of registration and help us bring change in traditional methods of treatment available for all sorts of addiction.

Blood sugar imbalances meets with low carbs diets

March 20, 2016

Blood sugar imbalances meets with low carbs diets: To prevent chronic ailments

When blood sugar imbalances meets with low carbs diets such foods have no place on the table.

The other area in life where low carbs diet is very significant is in the management of imbalances of blood sugar. Previously we saw that the consumption of sugar beyond the moderate levels is hazardous to human health and that is why blood sugar control is very important in the management of weight. And by so doing a lot of benefits come along including the prevention of most chronic ailment like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and all other complications that comes with weight related problems including Alzheimer’s disease just to mention but a few. The information in this article is meant for helping you to be ready at all times. Remember that we appreciate that sugar is sweet and therefore ours is not to scare you in any way, the intension is to inform you of the possible consequences for remedial and timely action. Therefore if you are suspecting that your blood sugar is always raises, then that is a serious indication of a pending chronic problem that need immediate treatment. Persons with such experiences are at an exponentially higher risk for a collection of diseases already mentioned. If timely action is not taken the victim is more likely to experience premature death from these diseases as well and therefore you need to schedule for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury for further professional guidance before things get out of hands.

Doctor Akoury MD, President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, is reiterating that in order to avoid this calamity, it is highly recommended that anyone who is consistently experiencing high blood sugar should consider reducing their carbohydrate intake significantly since that will bring that number down quickly, more so if you’re relatively sedentary. Besides that, low carb diets are also very helpful in reactive hypoglycemia. This is a condition where by blood sugar drops too low after consumption of a meal and it is associated with symptoms like dizziness, anxiety, shakiness, hunger, and just being in a state of confusion. This issue can be made worse by caffeine and stress, and it is mostly common with people struggling with adrenal issues.

A common cause of this reaction is when a meal too high in easily absorbed carbohydrates is consumed, and blood sugar rises rapidly, leading to a release of insulin. The insulin released then causes a subsequent drop in blood sugar. The consequences of this drop can sometimes go too low or happen quite rapidly (all over sudden) thereby leading to the hypoglycemic symptoms. From an expert point of view, if therefore you are that person who feed mostly on food loaded with lots of sugar or you are just fond of consuming high carbs, low fat diet etc.., they you may be most likely suffer from blood sugar swings and this can effectively generate to hypoglycemia symptoms. Under such circumstances, it is only advisable that you reduce from high to low carbs and increase fat in your meals to help in keeping your sugar levels steady. Nonetheless, in the event that you’re already feeding on a very low carbohydrate diet, then just some little adjustment like a bit of healthy carbs at each meal will just be enough to help normalize your blood sugar too. In all these, take note that it is very important that you consider your current dietary habits before dropping your carbs any lower meaning that if in any case you’re not very sure where you stand on this issue, then it may be necessary that you consult further from your physician or diet expert.

Blood sugar imbalances meets with low carbs diets: The reasons why we need to be careful with sugar and starch

Our quest of understanding low carbs will not be complete if we don’t tackle on some of the reasons why we must be careful with sugar and starch. There is no doubt that all digestible carbohydrates after consumption are broken down into simple sugars mainly in the intestines. These sugars are then re-absorbed into the blood through a process which in turn raises the blood glucose levels. And because of this increases the production of the hormone insulin is made possible besides our fat keeping hormone. The formation of insulin in the pancreas by and large prevents fat burning and instead stores the surplus nutrients in fat cells. In just a little while this may result in a perceived shortage of nutrients in the blood thereby creating the feeling of hunger and craving for something sweet. It therefore goes without saying that at such point people will often go for food again and again to certify the craving, and vicious cycle continues leading to weight gain. That then explains why we need to be careful with the tow element but contrary to that, a low intake of carbs will give you lower, more stable blood glucose and lower amounts of insulin. The impact of that is that it increases the release of fat from your fat stores and increases the fat burning. Under normal circumstances, this will lead to fat loss, more so around the belly in abdominally obese individuals.

Like in all other applications people use, there is bound to be some initial side effects and low carbs is not left out. Because the body is accustomed to certain lifestyle when that is interfered with, it will have to make some adjustment and during that period of stoppage of using sugar and starch the following are likely to happen in the first few weeks of adjustment:

Dizziness
Fatigue
Headache
Irritability
Heart palpitations

The good news about these side effects is that they are short lived because as the body adapts to new environment the fat burning process also increases. However you can also take lots of fluids to help you minimize the pain of such effects. Putting a little extra salt in your food can also be used as a temporary measure of reducing any unforeseen pain. Doing this is very important because carbs rich foods have the potential of increasing the water retention in the body. It therefore means that the moment you stop using high carbs foods, you are likely to lose a lot of water through the kidneys which may cause dehydration and lack of salt within the first weeks as the body gets used to the new feeding system. And because of the fear of going through some of these side effects, some people often choose to progressively decrease their intake of carbs through the weeks. However for the majority dealing with all the side effects and getting started into low carbs straight way is most popular. This way they are able to remove sugar and starch while at the sometime scaling down their weight just within a very short period of time.

Blood sugar imbalances meets with low carbs diets: To prevent chronic ailments

When Does Sexuality Begin?

March 19, 2016

Stages of the beginning of sexuality

beginning of sexuality There had been times when sex and sexuality were one of the least discussed topics, they were more like taboos. But nowadays it’s perfectly normal to discuss them; these are still fairly personal but no more considered as forbidden knowledge. The terms Sexuality and sexual orientation are sometimes alternatively used for each other and to a great extant its well justified. Sexuality is about understanding your personal sexual feelings and attractions towards others while sexual orientation is exploring your sexuality and placing yourself in pre-defined categories such as heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality. There is no definite age at which sexuality begins as there are multiple environmental and social factors that are responsible for it. Biological and socially the age of beginning depends upon Gender, hormonal balance, ethnicity, family values, substance and drug use, socioeconomic makeup, religious beliefs, cultural views about sex, women liberation etc.

It’s not justified to say that sexuality only begins when a child starts understanding its environment because we all are sexual beings, even an infant have a different overall body structure and organs distinctly a male or a female or sometimes both, these factors through some extant can predict a child’s sexual orientation. On the other hand young children are usually curious about their bodies, between ages zero to five, it is considered normal for them to touch their own body parts and also ask questions about related topics.

Gender plays a very important role in the onset of sexuality. It refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that are assigned to men and women in any given society There are defined gender roles and expectation in every society that how men and women should behave. There are cultures where it is alright for men to talk about sex whether women are expected to stay silent on these matters. They cannot be assertive about their sexual preference and orientation; simply they are not given enough liberation to express their sexual desires.

The hormonal theory of sexuality and gender identity explains in detail that, exposure to certain hormones at early stages of development plays a very important role in fetal sex differentiation, such exposure also has a strong influence on the sexual orientation and or gender identity that emerges later in the adult. Differences in brain structure that come about from chemical messengers and genes interacting on developing brain cells are believed to be the basis of sex differences in countless behaviors, including sexual orientation. Prenatal factors that affect or interfere with the interaction of these hormones on the developing brain can influence later sex-typed behavior in children. On the other hand hormonal production and balance biologically determines the increased awareness of sexual behaviors in children. Usually children start facing hormonal changes after the age of ten that greatly impacts their attitude towards sex and sexuality.

Socioeconomic and environmental issues have long been discussed as key role players in the onset of sexuality in children. Within sound socio economic settings, children are more exposed to facilities such as internet, magazines, sex educations guides and most importantly social media at an early age. Also in cultural settings where public show of affection is culturally accepted, children possess early beginning of sexuality. They have more references to real life so they could understand their own desires in a much better way as compared to those children who do not have access to our basic information systems and facilities. The trends of proper sex education in a culture can enhance the rates of children getting involved in sexual habits at an early age. On the other hand educated families tend to be more open about sex and sex education with their children. The question “what is the appropriate age?” for discussing such personal and sensitive topics with children has haunted parents and psychologists for a long time, but now it’s an established fact that healthy sex education can greatly reduce the risk of children developing aberrant sexual habits due to wrong information from wrong sources.

In societies where children can have easy access to drugs and other similar substances, it has been seen that sexual behavioral abnormalities and early understanding of sexual practices occur as one of the many side effects of these drugs. The concept of normal and abnormal habits is totally relevant to the age of a child. There are practices that are considered for a child five years of age but the same practices are normal for a child around ten years of age.

One more important parameter in determining the commencement of sexuality is religious practices. Religious practices often forbid extra marital sex, and private habits like masturbation. From a psychological perspective it is perfectly normal a child to have inappropriate thoughts and touching their own body parts but these same practices are at time forbidden, when these practices are strictly followed, children are kept socially isolated from being getting indulged in such activities that can delay social inception of sexuality.

In conclusion, the commencement of sexuality can not only be based one or few factors, it’s a complex process which has equal involvement of biological processes and social and environmental practices around the individuals. Sexuality cannot be generalized, every individual is unique and so are their experiences towards life, there are multiple encounters that shape the sexual orientation of a child. Even once decided and sorted out, there are significant chances that a person’s sexuality can change over the period of time. These intricate matters still need a lot of discussion to answer more complex questions related to this basic knowledge. For this purpose we have arranged Integrative Addiction Conference which focuses on more sensitive issues of human sexuality and addiction. It is a great opportunity for health professionals. Students, psychologists, policy makers and every related field experts to join this platform and help build an integrated system for the solution of current problems related to above mentioned issues.

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